July 11: The leaked toxicology report of Michael Jackson claims that the pop star had lethal levels of potent painkillers and drugs in his body at the time of his death, triggering suspicion that it may be a case of homicide.Jackson was on a diet of deadly cocktail potent enough to have killed a normal person instantly but his body had developed a tolerance due to the longtime use of huge doses, the...
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post-mortem examination has failed to determine how a 14-year-old boy died at a property in Kent.Officers were called to a property in Parrock Street, Gravesend, on Friday morning following the unexplained death of the teenager.A Kent Police spokeswoman said the tests carried out on Saturday found the cause of death inconclusive."Kent Police is awaiting the results of a toxicology report and investigations...
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COIMBATORE: The Fifth Indo-U.S. Emergency Medicine Summit 2009 will be held from October 30 to November 1 at the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research.The meet will cover a wide range of issues such as trauma, toxicology, emergency management, disaster medicine, haemorrhagic syndrome, treating snake bites, problems during pregnancy, cardiogenic shock, fever and rashes in children and treatment...
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Public Service Commission will conduct competitive examinations in November at Bangalore for recruitment to the posts of Assistant Director (Biology Section), Scientific Officer (Biology Section) and Scientific Officer (Toxicology Section) in the Forensic Science Laboratory, Home Department. The KPSC, in a release, said that the time-table has been put up on the notice boards of the Commission’s Head...
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Temperatures in Lakeland set five record highs, including Thursday, when the temperature reached 95 degrees, surpassing the record of 91 degrees for that day set in 1984, according to the National Weather Service.That day, Lakeland was recorded as the hottest place in the continental United States.On Halloween, the last day of the month, Lakeland also tied a 1994 record of 90 degrees.Winter Haven felt...
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Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) celebrated its foundation dayon Wednesday. The celebrations began with the 13th Prof SH Zaidi Oration.Ch.Mohan Rao, scientist, centre for cellular and molecular biology (CCMB),Hyderabad, while his oration entitled "small heat shock proteins in health anddisease", said, "molecular chaperones help proteins to obtain and maintain theirstructure and assembly...
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researchers with the Harvard Medical School were found poisoned after they took coffee from the office coffee-maker. Five of them were released from the hospital the same day. One was held overnight, Boston Herald said. The poisoning has been traced to sodium azide that had been mixed with the coffee.Though the incident took place in August last, reports are coming out only now, apparently after the...
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An Indo-US workshop on Nanotechnology, Applications and Implications would be held from November 10 to 12 at IICT in the city, in the backdrop of severe environmental and health concerns by nano-materials to the biological systems.The three-day workshop would bring biologists, chemists, physical scientists and engineers to discuss advances in nanomaterial synthesis, nanomaterial characterisation, nanomaterial...
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LAKELAND | A string of mostly unproven child abuse allegations against a Lakeland couple were made in the years preceding the death of their 5-month-old girl Sunday.Chauncey Gardner, 27, and Tivasha Logan, 25, were charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse Tuesday.Detectives said the couple, who lived as a family with five other children on Sunshine Drive in Lakeland, fed 5-month-old...
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city-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has made an additional investment of nearly Rs 14 crore to set up a new production facility for Influenza A H1N1 vaccine in the city.The company officials said mass production of the vaccine will begin only after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gives permission, following the completion of Phase I clinical trials.SII executive director Dr Suresh...
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