Saturday, February 18, 2017

Slaughterhouse nightmare: father's throat slashed with bull saw and other top stories.

  • Slaughterhouse nightmare: father's throat slashed with bull saw

    CASINO mother-of-three Gemma Brett is fundraising for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service after a horrific workplace accident at a slaughterhouse nearly took her fiance's life. Adam Paget, 33, was using a hand held Kent electric saw to slice beef at The Northern Co-operative Meat Company on Thursday, December 15, when the tool malfunctioned. It's said the nine inch blade "kicked back", slashing Mr Paget from his lip to his collar bone; missing the main artery which supplies his brain ..
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  • Disadvantaged women more likely to have heart attacks than poor men

    Disadvantaged women more likely to have heart attacks than poor men
    Disadvantaged women are 25 per cent more likely to have a heart attack than their male counterparts, a study has found, and the perception of heart disease as a male problem may be partly to blame.Academics from the George Institute for Global Health found the risk of heart disease was higher across the board for those with a lower socioeconomic status but that the increased risk was higher again for women. Heart attacks are wrongly perceived as a men's issue.  Photo: Getty Images The res..
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  • Gut feeling: the swallowable gut sensor that could replace a colonoscopy

    Gut feeling: the swallowable gut sensor that could replace a colonoscopy
    It's a Monday morning and I am seated at a table with five other people and just one familiar face.We all have a piece of paper in front of us. On mine is written "P01". I have also been fasting – no food or water – since 10 o'clock the previous night. I am thirsty and desperate for a coffee. The swallowable gut sensor being developed by Dr Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, director of the Centre for Advanced Electronics and Sensors at RMIT University. Photo: RMIT University As well as my P01 class..
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  • New Medical Implant 'Superhemophobic' Material Will Repel Blood To Avoid Rejection

    New Medical Implant 'Superhemophobic' Material Will Repel Blood To Avoid Rejection
    A new “Superhemophobic” medical implant material being developed at Colorado State University will help prevent “rejection” and other complications arising from medical implants by actually repelling blood away from them, according to a new report published in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. One of the biggest and most longstanding issues with medical implants is the possibility of rejection, in which the body “attacks the artificial valve or device, causing complications to an alrea..
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  • MRI scans could spare 25% of men from prostate biopsies

    MRI scans could spare 25% of men from prostate biopsies
    Friday January 20 2017 MRI scans can assess the prostate's shape and health "Every man with suspected prostate cancer should have an MRI scan," The Guardian reports. That is the conclusion of a study looking at how well MRI scans compare with the current practice of biopsies; removing sections of prostate tissue for analysis. Disadvantages of prostate biopsies include the fact that they can lead to a small risk of side effects, some of which can be..
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  • Researchers uncover mechanism of resistance used by triple negative breast cancer - News

    Researchers uncover mechanism of resistance used by triple negative breast cancer - News
    Breast cancer cells are evasive, finding ways to bypass drugs designed to stop their unchecked growth. In a new study, researchers uncovered a mechanism of resistance used by a particularly aggressive breast cancer type, and revealed a possible drug combination that could stop cancer growth and also help to prevent resistance. In the journal Cancer Discovery, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and colleagues report findings of just how triple negative breast cancer cells are..
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  • Cigarettes Are Still Sublime

    Cigarettes Are Still Sublime
    Walking past a shivering old man huffing a hand-rolled cigarette, my 5-year-old daughter recently asked if I’d heard that smoking was a pointless pursuit. Those pungent clouds of blue smoke that fog my childhood memories—joyous scenes of adults laughing and puffing on cigarettes—were already redolent of death to her. So why, she wondered, would someone voluntarily increase their risk of dying for something that looked stupid and smelled awful? One might never hear them articulated—especially i..
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  • Singapore study explains what happens when we blink

    Singapore study explains what happens when we blink
    Blinking - everyone does it every few seconds, but why doesn't everything we see turn blurred or go dark every time we do?Blinking does more than keep our eyes wet - it actually helps keep our vision steady. Researchers have found that when we blink, our brain repositions our eyeballs to stay focused on what we're looking at.Scroll down for video  When we blink, our eyeballs roll back in their sockets and don't always return to the same spot when we reopen them. But this misalignment signals the..
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  • Woman is left blind in one eye after dermal filler injections caused her face to swell

    Woman is left blind in one eye after dermal filler injections caused her face to swell
    The reaction was so bad it left her blind in one eye and Carol said she contemplated taking her own life. Picture: Saving FaceCOSMETIC fillers are becoming more affordable and more accessible, but for one woman a simple procedure turned her world upside down.Carol Bryan visited her cosmetic surgeon to have dermal fillers in her face but it went horribly wrong, according to The Sun.Carol Bryan got facial fillers that went horribly wrong. Picture: Saving FaceSource:SuppliedShe was injected with tw..
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New speed camera on Perth freeway angers drivers .Tweed poll results will take a week .
Record grain harvest to soften GrainCorp's poor FY finish .Ban slapped on decorative alcohol-fuelled burners after more than 100 injuries .

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