An 18-month-old boy who fell about 14 feet this morning from a window at a house on Jamie Lane in East Falmouth is in serious condition, according to a spokesman for the Falmouth Fire Department. The child was medflighted from Falmouth ...Read More
Three members of a family were returning home from a wedding yesterday when the driver lost control of a sport utility vehicle on a rotary in Bourne and crashed into a tree, killing one passenger and injuring another, State Police ...Read More
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri - Brad Pitt and his siblings have given $1 million to help open a new pediatric cancer center that will be named for their mother. Pitt and his siblings' families, Doug and Lisa Pitt and Rob and Julie Neal, ...Read More
He had climbed Mount Everest and Mount McKinley, won the respect of colleagues at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and was known for his drive for excellence. On Thursday, Dr. John Mislow and his climbing partner died while scaling Alaska's Mount ...Read More
A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a car in West Sussex. Emergency teams were called to the accident scene on the A27 between Slindon and Arundel on Saturday afternoon, Sussex Police said. The driver of the Volvo involved was taken to ...Read More
Susan Wilson died when her car was in collision with a bus A woman from Cambridgeshire who died when her vehicle was in collision with a double-decker bus has been named. Susan Wilson, 47, from Drayton, Bretton, was driving a blue ...Read More
A woman was killed and 13 people injured yesterday in a horror smash involving a car and a double-decker bus. Several people were trapped on the bus, operated by First Eastern Counties, and had to be cut free. The accident happened on ...Read More
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is in critical condition after she was found with a cord around her neck following an accident, according to media reports on Monday. Exodus Tyson was playing near some exercise ...Read More
Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is on life support and in very critical condition after her brother found her hanging Monday morning from a treadmill cord in their Phoenix home, police said. While the girl's mother was cleaning in the house, Tyson's ...Read More
May 20, 2009 -- People with Down syndrome hold the key to a new generation of cancer drugs, researchers say. Solid tumors are very rare in people with Down syndrome. Why? The answer almost certainly lies among the 231 extra genes ...Read More
WASHINGTON – Like a general whose direct attacks aren't working, scientists are now trying to outflank the HIV/AIDS virus. Unsuccessful at developing vaccines that the cause the body's natural immune system to battle the virus, researchers are testing inserting a gene ...Read More
A major investigation has begun on Merseyside after a seven-month-old baby girl died from "serious head injuries". The child was admitted to hospital following an incident at a house on Dentons Green Lane, St Helens, but died two days later on ...Read More
May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Medicare and Social Security, the twomain safety nets for American retirees, will account for morethan 17 percent of the nation’s output by 2083 if leftunchecked, the programs’ trustees said yesterday. The declining financial health of the two ...Read More
Annie Duke was delighted to be in Boston last night, if only because Joan Rivers wasn't. The New Hampshire-bred poker pro, who was here to host Children's Hospital Boston's annual Texas Hold 'Em Tournament, told us she'll not forget - ...Read More
A 12-year-old boy was killed and his twin brother was burned this morning in a fire in their Southwest Philadelphia rowhome, officials said. The injured boy was reported in critical condition at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The boys' parents and older ...Read More
CHICAGO — Chicago police say a 6-year-old boy died after an overhead garage door fell, striking him on the back. Authorities said late Saturday that they're uncertain how the door fell or where the boy was when it struck him. The accident ...Read More
CHICAGO - Chicago police say a 6-year-old boy has diedafter an overhead garage door fell, striking him on the back. Authorities said late Saturday that they're uncertain how thedoor fell or where the boy was when it struck him. The accidenthappened ...Read More
Chuck star Zachary Levi reveals to E! exclusively that NBC will not renew or cancel beloved spy dramedy Chuck for at least another week. Cast and crew had originally expected to hear before Monday's planned NBC "infront" presentation to advertisers. When ...Read More
Elliot Simms, 15, a Year 10 student at the high-performing Sandringham School in St Albans, Hertfordshire, died on Wednesday after being discovered on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a 14-year-old who is in the same year as Elliot, was taken to hospital on Wednesday ...Read More
Patients wait at a hospital Wednesday in Mexico City. The swine flu outbreak began in Mexico. Federal health officials warned the 22-month-old boy's death would not be the last in the United States as cases of the H1N1 virus, mounted at ...Read More
Powerful disease-tracking tools, including those currently monitoring the spread of swine flu across the world, were once reserved for officials at the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. No longer. Today, anyone can see the spread of diseases ...Read More
