Lakers Bryant sidelined with injured wrist

2011-12-21T18:30:48Z

Los Angeles star Kobe Bryant will not play in the Lakers' final exhibition game against the Los Angeles Clippers because of a torn ligament in his right wrist.

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Gunman kills three, then himself, in Belgium attack

2011-12-13T09:00:19Z

LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead three people at a busy central square during a Christmas market in the Belgian city of Liege Tuesday and then killed himself, a justice official said.

More than 75 people were injured in the attack, some of them seriously, Liege's prosecutor told a news conference. As well as firing from a rifle, the gunman also t...

Explosions hit Nigeria's flashpoint Jos city: official

2011-12-10T16:30:09Z

Several people were injured by two bomb explosions in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Saturday, a state government official said.

"Two bombs have just exploded in Jos," Pam Ayuba, spokesman for the governor of Plateau state, told AFP by telephone.

"We are yet to establish the number of casualties, but reports I got said some people were injured."

He said the blast occurred in an area where Christian and Muslim...

Ex-policeman kills wife and child before taking own life

2011-12-09T07:30:27Z

Two Leicestershire teenagers are being treated for serious injuries on Friday after their father fatally stabbed their mother and sister before killing himself.

Tobias Day, a former police officer, killed his wife Samantha and their seven-year-old daughter Genevieve, and attacked his two other children Kimberly and Adam before taking his own life at their home in Melton Mowbray on Thursday aftern...

Reagan shooter says he is safe to release

2011-12-05T18:30:42Z

A lawyer for John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan in 1981, sought Monday to prove his client can be safely released 30 years after the attack.

Hinckley, 56, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of Reagan and three others, including White Ho...

St Jude advises doctors of heart lead problems

2011-11-29T17:00:52Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - St Jude Medical Inc has sent a letter to doctors advising them that its Riata leads that connect implanted defibrillators to the heart have a higher rate of insulation failures than previously reported.

Reuters Health) - Programs aimed at preventing knee injuries among soccer players take time to make any lasting impact on the way athletes move, according to a new study.

A warm-up program of stretching and strengthening that lasted three months had only a temporary benefit, while the improvements seen after a nine-month program persisted for months after the training ended.

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War vet's dance win gets accolades in high places

2011-11-23T16:30:27Z

A war veteran who suffered severe burns in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq won the admiration of US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Wednesday by dancing his way to victory in a TV show.

JR Martinez was crowned the new champion of ABC television's "Dancing...

Murray withdraws from ATP Tour Finals

2011-11-22T09:00:28Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Murray has withdrawn from the ATP World Tour Finals due to a groin injury, the Briton said on Tuesday.

The world number three required treatment on court during a straight-sets defeat by

Chargers' Dielman out for season after concussion

2011-11-16T16:31:06Z

The San Diego Chargers placed Pro Bowl offensive lineman Kris Dielman on injured reserve Wednesday, ending his season due to the concussion he suffered against the Jets on October 23.

Dielman, a left guard, had a seizure on the team flight home from the ga...

Beat route: 'Achy Breaky Heart' is loser in cardiac massage

2011-11-07T09:32:01Z

A millennium dance-floor hit, "Disco Science," is better than "Achy Breaky Heart" for helping victims of heart attacks but neither meets the grade for inclusion in first-aid guidelines, according to an unusual study.

Rhythmic music has been long been suggested as a tool for medical workers learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Healthcare workers in Britain were once advised to recall a quirky 195...

Yemen's military kills six militants in south: official

2011-10-27T12:00:27Z

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni government forces have killed six Islamist militant fighters in two towns, a local official said Thursday, part of efforts to drive the fighters out of three cities in the south of the country.

An air strike killed three militants and wounded six late on Wednesday in the coastal town of Shaqra, seized by Islamists in August, the official said.

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High school football player dies after head injury

2011-10-15T12:00:34Z

(Reuters) - A high school football player died after he suffered a head injury during a varsity game in central New York late on Friday, the schools said.

A lineman from the visiting Phoenix Central School District suffered a head injury in a collision in the third quarter of a game with Homer Central High School, south of Reuters) - Injury-prone New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro has been sidelined indefinitely with a concussion, the National Hockey League team said on Friday.

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11 injured in two Philippine blasts

2011-10-09T06:30:47Z

Two powerful explosions believed to be from home-made bombs ripped through a motel and a cock-fighting arena in the southern Philippines on Sunday, wounding 11 people, police said.

The first explosion at noon tore through the ground floor of the two-storey Red Palm inn in Zamboanga, a port city in the troubled southern island of Mindanao, where Islamist mi...

Djokovic pulls out of Shanghai Masters

2011-10-07T03:30:28Z

World number one Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from next week's Shanghai Masters after failing to recover from a troublesome back injury, according to organisers.

Djokovic apologised for the pull-out, which deprives Shanghai of another star name after Roger Federer decided to skip the tournament to rest and...

Sports-related brain injuries in youngsters soar, CDC says

2011-10-06T11:00:32Z

(Reuters) - Traumatic brain injuries in youth athletes climbed by 60 percent in the last decade, with young men injured playing football or biking accounting for most of the emergency room visits, data released on Thursday showed.

But one reason for the rise might be increased awareness of the dangers of head injuries, the Edna Kiplagat of Kenya withdrew from next month's New York Marathon on Wednesday with a left knee injury, handing Liliya Shobukhova the women's World Marathon Ma...

US hospital seeks to free Reagan shooter

2011-10-02T21:30:12Z

A US government mental hospital is seeking to eventually set free John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate ex-president Ronald Reagan in 1981, CNN reported on its website.

Hinckley, now 56, was committed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington in 1982 after he wa...

Talks delayed as violence flares in northern Kosovo

2011-09-27T17:30:29Z

EU-brokered talks between Belgrade and Pristina were delayed Tuesday after the latest surge of violence on the disputed Serbia-Kosovo border left four NATO troops and six Serb protesters wounded.

"Due t...

'Mass casualties' as plane crashes at US air show

2011-09-16T18:30:21Z

Dozens of people were injured and possibly some killed when a vintage aircraft crashed into the ground at an air show in the US state of Nevada, a spokesman and video images showed.

Initial reports suggested 60 people were injured, 30 of them seriously, after the crash at the MOSCOW (Reuters) - The sole member of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv ice hockey team to survive last week's air crash in western Russia died of his injuries on Monday, the medical center that treated him said.

Alexander Galimov, along wi...

France's Servat gets nod for rugby World Cup opener with Japan

2011-09-05T19:30:21Z

Toulouse hooker William Servat was named in France's XV for their opening World Cup clash with Japan in North Harbour next Saturday despite not having played since June 4.

The 32-year-old has been out of action since Toulouse's Fr...

Mumbai runway reopens after jet pulled out of mud

2011-09-05T03:30:15Z

Mumbai airport's main runway reopened for the first time in three days on Monday, after a Turkish Airlines jet skidded on landing in the Indian city and became stuck in mud.

Officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport said a t...

Turkish Airlines plane skids off runway at Mumbai

2011-09-02T03:30:29Z

A Turkish Airlines plane skidded off the runway after landing in the Indian city of Mumbai but no one was injured, officials said.

The Airbus A340 plane carrying 97 passengers and crew from Istanbul "veered o...

Opera tenor Licitra in hospital after accident

2011-08-29T07:30:27Z

MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Leading Italian opera tenor Salvatore Licitra, seen as an artistic heir to the late Luciano Pavarotti, is in serious condition with head injuries suffered in a Sicilian scooter accident, his publicist said Monday.

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Chelsea hopeful over Drogba's horror head injury

2011-08-27T18:30:21Z

Chelsea are hopeful Didier Drogba's head injury will be confirmed as nothing more serious than concussion after the Ivory Coast striker was taken to hospital during his side's 3-1 win over Norwich.

The Ivory Coast forward was stretchered off at Stamford Bridge on Saturday after a mid-air collis...

Drogba taken to hospital after head injury

2011-08-27T15:30:11Z

Didier Drogba was taken to hospital after suffering a horrific head injury in Chelsea's 3-1 win over 10-man Norwich on Saturday.

Drogba was knocked out in a collision with Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy and was carried off on a stretcher wearing what appeared to be a breathing aid after receiving treatment for seven ...

Robben ruled out of Bayern's Kaiserslautern game

2011-08-26T12:30:14Z

Dutch winger Arjen Robben has been ruled out of Bayern Munich's trip to Kaiserslautern on Saturday with a groin injury, his club announced on Friday.

"For now it's total rest," said Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes.

"I know from my own experience (a...

Passengers injured when bus flips on Pennsylvania Turnpike

2011-08-13T07:00:43Z

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Greyhound bus overturned on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early on Saturday, trapping one passenger inside the vehicle and injuring nearly two dozen others, Turnpike officials said...

Ankle braces may help teen basketball players

2011-08-12T09:30:21Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The ankle braces many basketball players strap on to prevent injuries may actually work, a study of high school players suggests.

Researchers found that of the nearly 1,500 basketball players they followed for a season, those who were assigned to wear ankle braces during practice and games were 68 percent less likely to suffer an ankle sprain or fracture.

Th...

Young athletes must take precautions in heat: doctors

2011-08-10T12:30:15Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As the season of two-a-day football workouts gets underway, young athletes need to be extra careful to drink plenty of water and to rest in between back-to-back sessions, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

An AAP committee notes in t...

Concussed Bayer goalkeeper suffers memory blank

2011-08-09T08:30:29Z

Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Fabian Giefer revealed Tuesday he can no longer remember what has happened to him in the last month after being concussed in a collision during last weekend's German league match.

The 21-year-old insists he has suffered a memory black-out since colliding with Mainz's Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting in the 84th-minute of hi...

Man trying to steal copper gets major shock, police say

2011-08-03T11:30:26Z

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A man allegedly trying to steal copper from a South Carolina power substation was shocked by 7,200 volts of electricity, burning him and cutting power to more than 3,000 homes, police said on Wednesday.

Phillip Real Mallorca's French winger Michael Pereira will be sidelined for one month due to a knee injury and will miss the start of the season, the Spanish club said Monday.

The 23-year-old picked up the injury during Real Mallorca's 2-2 friendly draw away to Dutch side Groningen on Sunday after coming off wor...

Nail bombs injure 42 protesters in Damascus: report

2011-07-31T07:30:15Z

AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 42 people were injured Sunday when Syrian forces threw nail bombs at a demonstration in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, where the army's ultra loyalist Fourth Division had deployed to subdue pro-democracy protests, two residents said.

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Driver swipes L.A. police cruisers, injures 4 officers

2011-07-30T13:30:13Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four Los Angeles police officers were injured on Saturday, one of them critically, when a 64 year-old woman who may have been asleep at the wheel struck their cruisers, police said.

The 2:20 a.m. crash in the city...

Non-head injuries may impact thinking skills: study

2011-07-28T15:00:17Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A blow to the head isn't the only injury that can make a football player a little slow and confused.

A sprained ankle or strained knee might also affect how athletes perform on a computer-based test of attention, memory, and reaction time generally used to manage concussions, according to new research.

That means trainers and team doctors should rely on talk...

Hernandez hospitalised after training injury

2011-07-27T15:30:33Z

Mexico striker Javier Hernandez was hospitalised after suffering concussion in a training ground incident on Manchester United's US tour, the English champions announced on Wednesday.

Hernandez, who hit 20 goals last season, was hurt when taking pa...

Man hurt as portable toilet explodes in Australia

2011-07-25T06:30:25Z

A man suffered life-threatening burns Monday after a portable toilet he was using exploded, apparently after he lit a cigarette.

The victim, who was taking part in a joint Australia-United States military exercise at the time, was rushed to hospital with burns to his head, face, arms, chest and airways after the incident at

Gervinho marks Arsenal debut with double

2011-07-23T15:30:22Z

Ivory Coast international Gervinho marked his Arsenal debut with both goals in a 2-1 win over Bundesliga side Cologne in a pre-season friendly on Saturday.

Gervinho, signed in the summer from French champions Lille, played just 29 minutes before he was substituted ...

China bus blaze 'kills 41'

2011-07-22T12:30:32Z

A fire on an overcrowded bus carrying flammable materials killed 41 passengers in central China on Friday, state television reported, in one of the country's worst road accidents this year.

The double-decker bus was taking people to southern Hunan province when it caught fire early on Friday morning on a highway, OSLO (Reuters) - Seven people have been killed and two are seriously injured after a blast rocked the center of Oslo, Norwegian police said on Friday.

"Seven people have died and two are seriously injured," Sveinung Sponheim, acting chief of police for Oslo, told a news conference.

Separately, a Reuters correspondent saw soldiers taking positions around centr...

Bomb caused Oslo explosion, two confirmed dead: report

2011-07-22T08:30:21Z

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police said that a bomb caused the explosion in central Oslo Friday, news agency NTB reported, quoting a police chief.

State broadcaster NRK radio said two people were now confirmed dead, raising the initial toll from one.

"So far I can confirm that we have received seven people at Lincolnshire killed five men and seriously injured another, police said on Thursday.

The blast occurred late Wednesday at an industrial estate in Boston.

"There was a rumour going round that it was some Polish nationals who have been brewing their own vodka, which is a bit of a problem round here at the moment," said local resident Ian N...

Guatemala Bus Fire

2011-01-04T14:01:53Z

An investigator inspects a charred city bus where five people died and 16 were injured in Guatemala City, Monday Jan. 3, 2011. The cause of the explosion is unknown. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Sweden Train Crash

2011-01-01T05:00:09Z

A X2000 train is seen after it crashed at the Central Station in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. One person was injured in the crash. (AP photo/Scanpix Sweden/Johan Nilsson) SWEDEN OUT

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CONCUSSIONS 2

2010-12-13T13:01:41Z

ADDS chart; graphic describes what happens to the brain of a football player to possibly cause a concussion

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Panthers Seahawks Football

2010-12-05T19:01:35Z

Seattle Seahawks' Mike Williams catches a pass during warm-ups prior to the start of an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 in Seattle. Williams left the game with an ankle injury on Seattle’s...

Iowa St Arnaud Football

2010-11-19T01:31:52Z

In this photo taken Nov. 13, 2010, Colorado's Patrick Mahnke, top center, and Nick Kasa, bottom, sack Iowa State's Austen Arnaud (4) as the ball is fo...

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