Thursday, October 5, 2006 Former Sarasota dermatologist Michael Rosin is heading to prison to serve a 22-year prison sentence for defrauding Medicare by performing unnecessary surgeries on elderly Sarasota, Florida patients. On Rosin’s 56th birthday, in front of his family, Judge William Castagna sentinced him to 22 years in federal prison. The judge also ordered…
Waterloo Students Rentals: Questions Landlords Can And Cannot Ask
More On This Topic: Marc Ching Waterloo Students Rentals: Questions Landlords Can and Cannot Ask by Holida T. Most students are unclear as to the information landlords can request from students during the housing application process. As a result, many students are taken advantage of and their applications for Waterloo student rentals are judged based…
Woman survives being run over by a train in suicide attempt
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 A 56-year-old Israeli woman has been hospitalized after attempting to commit suicide by letting a high-speed passenger train run her over on Sunday. Security cameras caught the entire incident on tape. The video shows the woman walking onto train tracks in the city of Beit Yehoshua as a railroad worker and…
FDA says Coca-Cola’s Diet Coke Plus is misbranded
Thursday, December 25, 2008 The US Food and Drug Administration has written a warning letter to The Coca-Cola Company that Diet Coke Plus violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act‘s guidelines. The December 10 letter, signed by Roberta Wagner, director of the office of compliance at the Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition,…
U.S. actor Charlie Sheen questions 9/11 theories
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Charlie Sheen, appearing on cable television news network station CNN on March 24, questioned the credibility of the theory that 19 hijackers caused all of the destruction to the World Trade Center. Sheen said; “It seems to me like, you know, 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners…
Breast Augmentation Its Not About Vanity}
More On This Topic: Reduce Cheek Fat Breast Augmentation Its Not about Vanity by Mark Larson This year some 364,000 women will voluntarily lie on a Plastic Surgeons table in order to undergo Breast Augmentation Surgery. Their reasons for doing so may seem obvious, but in truth, there might well be 364,000 distinct arguments as…
eBay removes Canadian town’s listing of sperm whale carcass
Thursday, May 8, 2014 Citing violations of its policy regarding “Marine mammal items”, eBay terminated an online listing on Monday by the town of Cape St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, for a 40 ft (12 m) sperm whale carcass reportedly beached upon its shores about a week prior. With an initial asking price of…
Massachusetts to set up “village” for Katrina evacs
Wednesday, September 7, 2005 The US state of Massachusetts is turning a portion of Camp Edwards, an active Cape Cod military base, into a “village” for 2,500 evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, as part of Operation Helping Hand. The temporary shelter on the Massachusetts Military Reservation will have a population the size of Truro, Massachusetts and…
Grand National winning horse ‘Comply or Die’ dies, aged 17
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Comply or Die, the racehorse who won the 2008 Grand National has died at the age of 17. His death was announced by his former trainer, David Pipe. He died over at the weekend in Gloucestershire, where he had been staying with jockey Timmy Murphy. He was cremated on Monday and…
Why Do People Need Catheters In Minneapolis?
More On This Topic: Meraki Mv2 Camera byAlma Abell Medical Catheters in Minneapolis are tubes for delivering fluids, gases or medications to patients or for draining liquid like urine from the body. Examples are chest drainage tubes, vascular access devices and urinary catheters. Catheters are usually inserted into the blood vessel, duct or body cavity….