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Friday, Florida authorities reported that a
19-year-old boy had committed suicide by drug overdose in front of a
live streaming camera. Moreover, they added that some of the people who were
viewing the live video on the Internet had even encouraged him to kill himself.
Abraham Biggs Jr.’s body was found Wednesday in the bedroom
of his home in Pembroke Pines, Florida, the autopsy having showed that the
cause of death had been a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine,
which is a drug given to people suffering from anxiety and insomnia, the
Broward County Medical Examiner's...
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Avastin, Genentech’s best-selling drug, increases the risk of people developing blood clots, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For the study, researchers looked at data from roughly 8,000 cancer patients who participated in 15 clinical trials of the life-extending cancer medicine Avastin. The findings showed that high and low doses of the drug augmented risk of blood cloth equally. An estimated 12 percent of patients taking Avastin developed blood clots in the veins. This figure is approximately 30 percent higher than in other cancer...
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“Hannah Montana” star Cody Linley may have made it to the
“Dancing with the Stars” semifinal on Tuesday, but the big night was also his
last on the ABC show, as he and his partner Julianne Hough will not be among
the three finalist pairs competing in next week’s grand finale.
However, the actor’s elimination comes as no surprise, as he
came in last for the third consecutive week. Thus, unable to collect enough
viewer votes so as to remain in the competition, the teenage heartthrob had no
choice but to leave “Dancing with the Stars.”
Just a couple of days before his 19th...
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The young woman who was in the center of the scandal which ended with the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer stepped forward and gave her side of the story in an interview with People magazine. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, a 23-yer-old girl who was working as a high-end escort, told People that she was informed by the FBI agents that one of her clients is under investigation. She later realized that it was Gov. Spitzer when she saw him resign on TV. Spitzer’s resignation came a few days after details about the fact that he used the services of Emperors Club VIP, where Dupre worked...
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More than 5 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease,
a condition that causes a progressive loss of memory and mental faculties. The number,
however, is expected to grow in the coming years as the baby boom generation
ages. By 2050, about 16 million people are forecast to have Alzheimer’s. Given
the circumstances, scientists are trying to find ways to prevent the disease. Having
a healthy lifestyle appears to significantly reduce such risk, but people need
more than that.
Gingko biloba was believed the best solution for preventing
Alzheimer’s disease, but a new study comes...
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