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Amish mother dies after treating burns with home remedy

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A severely burned Amish woman, treated with home remedies for two days before her family called 911, died of the infected burns, a county coroner said on Thursday.Ella Miller, 32, was heating water for laundry over a wood fire ...

Boogaard's death caused by alcohol and drugs: examiner

TORONTO (Reuters) - The sudden death of New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard was ruled accidental and caused from a lethal combination of alcohol and painkillers, a U.S. medical examiner said on Friday.The 28-year-old NHL forward, known as "The Boogeyman," was found ...

Police inadvertently shoot dog attack victim

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman who had escaped without serious injury from a dog attack was accidentally shot by police while she hid from the animal behind a door, police said on Wednesday.Police in Berlin shot the dog dead, but a ...

German circus families in shootout over tent space

BERLIN (Reuters) - A shootout between two German circus families competing over tent space has left six people injured, police said on Tuesday.The disagreement came to a head on Monday evening as the families fired guns, used knives and attacked each other ...

Helicopter crashes in India killing 17 domestic tourists

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A helicopter packed with Indian tourists crashed Tuesday in mountains near the Chinese border and 17 people were killed, police said.The helicopter was carrying 23 people and caught fire as it was preparing to land in the northeastern ...

Another "Spider-man" actress sidelined by injury

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yet another performer in the trouble-plagued Broadway musical "Spider-man Turn Off the Dark" has been sidelined by an injury suffered on stage, a spokesman for the show said on Tuesday.Actress T.V. Carpio, who replaced Natalie Mendoza in the ...

Stretches before running have no impact on injury

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It makes no difference if you stretch or not before a run, because stretching won't affect your risk of injury, according to a study."There is a lot of controversy about this," Dr. Daniel Pereles, from George Washington ...

Stretches before running have no impact on injury: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - It makes no difference if you stretch or not before a run, because stretching won't affect your risk of injury, according to a study."There is a lot of controversy about this," Daniel Pereles, from George Washington University, ...

One dead, dozens hurt in Naples new year festivities

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - One person was killed, more than 70 injured, and fireworks set on fire dozens of piles of rubbish as the city of Naples rang in the new year.The southern city and its hinterland are traditionally the most explosive ...

ER transfer-time "rules" may not be useful

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Illinois hospitals often don't meet a state-mandated goal of transferring seriously injured patients to a more appropriate facility within two hours -- but patients don't appear to suffer as a result, a new study concludes. The findings ...