Dogs may be man’s best friend, but according to the CDC over 4.5 million people are the victims of a dog bite every year. In 2009, 885,000 victims had injuries serious enough that they needed medical attention and 35,000 of those required surgery by a plastic surgeon. This was once again the case when authorities…
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It seems there is always a new dangerous drug on the horizon. This time the newest drug is posing as bath salts, say police. Yes, bath salts. While it seems humorous that someone would try to get high off bath salts the result is far from amusing. Most recently when a man got high on…
Recently, a study in the journal Pediatrics found that approximately 20,000 children are taken to emergency rooms each year for sledding accidents. Many sustain injuries involving blunt force trauma to the head. But Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI, is seeking to prevent such injuries this winter by offering helmets to kids brought to its…
The Post-Standard reports that a robot at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York (NY), is helping a disabled woman relearn how to walk. In 2009, the 45-year-old woman was partially paralyzed after falling down a flight of stairs. The damage she sustained to her spinal cord during the fall left her unable to walk,…