Frozen pension: the RAF veteran facing a chilling choice in Canada

Edit The Guardian 04 Jun 2016
At 90, Joe Lewis could return to the UK for his full state pension – without his sick wife who’s in care. Or he could sell his home to try and make ends meet. Joe Lewis faces an agonising decision ... The former flight sergeant now receives a UK basic state pension that is frozen at just £48 a week ... Lewis regularly makes the difficult journey to see her, but unfortunately he fell when visiting her in May 2015, breaking his femur ... ....

Overdoses lead to warnings about opioid painkillers such as Oxycontin, Fentanyl

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 04 Jun 2016
It gives him a reason to get out of bed and shave. It makes a change from a doctor's surgery. Even though he might not feel like going, David Johns turns up once a month at a bright Surfers Paradise cafe for a chronic pain support group meeting. No one's required to be at the top of their game for this occasion and Johns is a mess despite his painkillers ... Advertisement ...   ... you undergo surgery on your shattered femur after a car crash....

BMX World Cup Champ Corben Sharrah Earns Ticket To First Olympic Games (United States Olympic Committee)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. United States Olympic Committee). Print. By Craig Bohnert . June 03, 2016, 2.27 p.m. (ET) ... Sharrah's qualification became official Friday as the top-ranked man in the year-long BMX power rankings ... Sharrah suffered a broken right femur at the 2011 world championships when another rider crashed in front of him ... 'I've prayed a lot for this day and I've worked hard since I broke my femur,' he said after the race in March ... (noodl....

Sponge-Filled Wound-Blocking Syringe Saves Its Very First Life

Edit IFL Science 02 Jun 2016
A novel sponge-filled wound-plugging device approved for military use back in 2014 has just saved its first life in the field. A soldier shot in the leg spent several hours bleeding heavily, and due to the awkward nature of the injury, medical personnel couldn’t plug the hematological leak ... There was damage to the soldier’s femoral artery and vein, along with the femur; the tissue wound itself was fairly sizable ... ....

Melting Permafrost Is Turbocharging Climate Change In the magazine

Edit Newsweek 02 Jun 2016
Bill Wetzen built a good house ... The lake remained frozen most of the year, a picture-postcard view of interior Alaska, and Wetzen had his little slice of great northern paradise. But that was 15 years ago ... Of course he built it level ... Mammoth femurs and tusks jut out from its walls, and in one place, a tuft of grass, first buried some 20,000 years ago, dangles in the dark, still green with chlorophyll that never had a chance to degrade....

Freeport Man Indicted for Aggravated Vehicular Homicide on Southern State Parkway (Nassau County, NY)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. Nassau County, NY). MINEOLA, N.Y ... Jonathan Sobrane, 37, was arraigned this morning before Acting Supreme Court Justice Helene Gugerty and charged with ... The defendant pleaded not guilty and bail was set at $500,000 cash or bond. Sobrane is due back in court on June 20 ... A 23-year old female passenger in the passenger seat suffered massive lacerations to her head that left her skull exposed and a fractured femur ... (noodl. 33907487) ....

Study finds minimal risk for serious infection with “in the bone” prosthesis for patients for patients with amputations above the knee (AAOS - American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
A new studyin today's issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgeryfound minimal risk for severe infection with osseointegrated implants-a newer prosthetic system, press-fitted directly into the femur bone-that enables bone growth over a metal, robotic prosthetic limb in patients with above knee amputations ... tissue, or fracture of the femur bone....

Study finds minimal risk for serious infection with 'in bone' prosthesis

Edit Science Daily 01 Jun 2016
A new study found minimal risk for severe infection with osseointegrated implants -- a newer prosthetic system, press-fitted directly into the femur bone -- that enables bone growth over a metal, robotic prosthetic limb in patients with above knee amputations ... ....

The concept of species is flawed. So why is it so important to us?

Edit The Guardian 01 Jun 2016
When it comes to the fossil record, what is a species? And how is a ring of stalagmites made by Neanderthals challenging our identity as a species of Homo?. @mark_carnall ... Take, for example, Omura’s whale ... Twitter ... Twitter ... It’s a generalisation ... 2015), a new species of archosauromorph with knobs on the osteoderms (Heckert 2012) and a new species of ichthyosaur with a comparatively short humerus and femur (Lomax and Massare 2015) ... A. 2012 ... ....

Florida man jumps from overpass in attempt to elude cops

Edit Palm Beach Post 31 May 2016
The man, who was not identified, broke his femur and wrist before ......

Tradition of Honoring America’s Military Continues at Annual Sturgis Buffalo Chip® Freedom Celebration (Sturgis Buffalo Chip)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
(Source. Sturgis Buffalo Chip). We are compelled to offer our heartfelt respect to those who would lay down their lives for our freedom ... In recognition of our nation's valiant veterans, the Sturgis Buffalo Chip has set aside Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016 as its annual Freedom Celebration Day ... The Ride ... Ride Schedule. 9 a.m ... 11.30 a.m ... He went through nine months of vigorous rehabilitation of his two shattered femurs, wrist, and head injuries....

Man’s leg broken by falling tree branch in Bronx park

Edit New York Post 30 May 2016
The man suffered a broken femur and was taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition. ....

Biking Brits blow women’s ETU race apart (ITU - International Triathlon Union)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016
(Source. ITU - International Triathlon Union). By Erin Greene on 30/05/16 at 7.26 am. For the Elite Women, the gamble was the same as for the men. Places for Rio were already pretty much decided and so long as nothing dreadful happened, this race was ideally timed for a test of readiness ... But who of these top-class women would be in with a chance? ... It is nice also to see Ece Bakıcı TUR back inform after her fracture of the femur in Baku....
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