A DESPERATE Turkish man has turned to police for protection against his wife who constantly demanded sex. The weary man claims he had been sleeping on his sofa for the past four years in an attempt to avoid his wife who has an insatiable appetite for sex. According to the AFP, the exhausted husband went …
TAMPA (Florida) – THE army officer’s wife who authorities say killed her teenage daughter and son because she was fed up with them talking back and being mouthy did not appear in court Saturday because she’s being treated at a hospital for an unknown condition. Authorities say Julie Powers Schenecker was taken to Tampa General …
While warming up for her third-round Australian Open match, Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova noticed a bouncy spot on the court. “It was a little bit strange,” she said. “I thought Nike had put some extra cushioning in my shoes!” The chair umpire came out to inspect the area and tried to bounce a ball …
HONG KONG – TWO people were in critical condition in a Hong Kong hospital suffering from H1N1 flu, health officials said on Friday, one and a half years after an outbreak that killed 80 people in the city. ‘A 21-year-old female is in critical condition after contracting H1N1 flu, a spokesman for Hong Kong’s Queen …
UNUSUALLY large numbers of people are falling ill with sore throats, the common cold, fever and diarrhoea – numbers large enough to classify the infections as an epidemic. Last week, polyclinics saw more than 20,000 patients with such problems – an indication that the infections have passed the epidemic threshold and are now spreading rapidly …
WELLINGTON – A NEW ZEALAND woman was temporarily partially paralysed by a ‘love bite’ on her neck from her amorous partner, doctors reported in the New Zealand Medical Journal. The 44-year-old woman went to the emergency department of Middlemore Hospital in Auckland last year after experiencing loss of movement in her left arm while watching …
WASHINGTON – A US woman was reunited on Thursday with doctors who gave her a new larynx and restored her ability to speak after a rare voicebox transplant surgery, only the second ever successfully performed. Ms Brenda Jensen, 52, a lifelong diabetes sufferer, lost her voice after she was hospitalised in 1998 for kidney failure. …
Brushing your teeth is important and can help prevent periodontal disease and gingivitis. We do it every day without thinking too much, but there are some important points to remember when brushing your teeth. Here are a few steps to help you brush your teeth the right way. 1) Get a good quality toothpaste and …
THE teen had gone to the Orchard Road clinic to get a scar on her thigh removed, and was told that photos had to be taken of her – without her underwear – before the operation. Now, the 17-year-old, a minor who cannot be named, is suing well-known consultant plastic surgeon Martin Huang and the …
New York – There’s a lot riding on Steve Jobs’ pancreas. After Apple’s CEO announced on Monday that he would be taking a medical leave of absence-his third-skittish investors sent the company’s stock tumbling. Those investors had every reason to be nervous. Apple’s public face has always been a very private soul. And the company …