Topic: Injuries And Traumas
(Reuters) - Injury-prone New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro has been sidelined indefinitely with a concussion, the National Hockey League team said on Friday.DiPietro was injured during practice on Wednesday and, following tests on Thursday, there is no timetable for his return, ...
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 ...
World number one Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from next week's Shanghai Masters after failing to recover from a troublesome back injury, according to organisers.Djokovic apologised for the pull-out, which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 ...
(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 ...
Defending champion 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 Majors title.Race officials said that Kiplagat has been unable to fully recover from the knee ...
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 ...
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 to the tension the dialogue has been delayed until tomorrow (Wednesday)," an EU ...
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 ...
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 French victory over Montpellier in ...
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 team of engineers ...