Court: Cellphone, tumor tied
Italy’s top court has ruled that a businessman developed a benign brain tumor because he held a cellphone to his ear for hours daily for his job and deserves worker’s compensation. Innocente Marcolini, whose face is partially paralyzed, argued that using his cell and portable phones six hours a day for 12 years while dealing […]
Sunscreen recall: Banana Boat spray-ons can catch on fire
Energizer Holdings, the maker of Banana Boat sunscreen, is recalling about 500,000 defective product bottles of spray on lotion after reports surfaces that a handful of people have actually CAUGHT ON FIRE after applying the product and coming in contact with an open flame. Makers of product think the problem is caused by UltraMist’s spray […]
Police Officer Joseph Olivieri fatally hit on LIE
A Nassau County highway police officer was struck and killed while investigating a car accident on the Long Island Expressway (LIE) in North Hills early on Thursday morning, police said. Police Officer Joseph Olivieri, 43, was a 13-year Nassau County veteran. He was fatally struck at about 5 a.m., as he was assisting the driver […]
Black SUV crashes into divider on LIE
At approx. 9am this morning a black SUV veered off of the LIE and crashed into two dividers just short of the service road. The car was traveling westbound on the Long Island Expressway a few exits short of Rt. 110 when it lost control of the car in the wet conditions and smashed into […]
4 Teens DEAD on Parkway – driver only had Permit
A 17-year-old driver lost control on the Southern State Parkway at 3:40am and slammed into several trees. Joseph Beer, of Richmond Hill, Queens, survived the crash that killed his four passengers after they were ejected rom the 2012 Subaru Impreza when it failed to negotiate a westbound curve on the parkway between exit 18 (eagle […]
Child airlifted to hospital after injury at beach park
An 18- month-old child, identified as Phillip Amico, was injured by a falling fence at a beach in Bayville monday afternoon and airlifted to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow where the boy was later pronounced dead at 4:02 a.m. The child was struck by a piece of fencing at Ransom Beach about 4:55pm, […]
ADHD drug (Adderall) can cause heart attack, stroke…even death.
Recently strengthened warnings on the attention-deficit drug, Adderall, indicate that it may cause psychological side effects and that misuse may lead to sudden death from heart attacks and strokes. In 2005, Health Canada (the equivalent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) banned Adderall after reviewing reports linking Adderall XR to 20 fatalities, 14 of […]
Texas Approves 85-MPH Speed Limit, Fastest In United States
The highest speed limit in the United States can now be found on a central Texas highway. Transportation officials in the state approved an 85-mile-per-hour speed limit along a 41-mile stretch of State Highway 130, which runs between suburbs of Austin and San Antonio. Under consideration since June, the speed limit had received criticism from […]
Play it SAFE on the side of the ROAD
Being stuck on the side of the road is frustrating. Pulling your car to the shoulder of the road when there is an emergency is proper procedure, but motorists and pedestrians should never consider themselves safe. Being mere inches or feet from the roadway is better than being broken down on the roadway, but it […]
INDOOR TANNING just as bad as cigarette smoking and arsenic
It’s tempting to try to get a little color before putting on summer tank tops, shorts, and bathing suits. But mounting evidence suggests that indoor tanning is a threat to your health – on par with cigarette smoking and exposure to arsenic. Since July of 2009, the World Health Organization has classified ultraviolet radiation from […]