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By admin • October 26th, 2008

A group of researcher from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore report that Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to die in U.S. emergency rooms after a trauma than white patients are. They found that 8.2 percent of blacks and 9.1 percent of Hispanics died in U.S. emergency rooms, compared with 5.7 percent of [...]

Driving or walking to the polls on Election Day is a longstanding political tradition in the United States, but new research suggests it might be more dangerous than you think.
After crunching traffic fatality numbers, researchers discovered that Americans were about 18 percent more likely to die in accidents during polling hours on presidential election days [...]

A newly published report from Australia’s Federal Health Department describes 104 cases of hallucinations and 62 cases of amnesia experienced by people taking zolpidem since marketing of the drug began there in 2000. The health department report also mentioned 16 cases of strange sleepwalking by people taking the medication.