A healthy 31-year-old manarrived at an emergency room after having a seizure and collapsing. U.K. doctors say a cotton swab is to blame.
Author: Ashley May, USA TODAY
Happy 30th birthday, World Wide Web. Inventor outlines plan to combat hacking, hate speech
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is celebrating today, but also voicing concerns for the future of http, urls and html.
Photo of sad dad trying to sell donuts goes viral, and a sweet Twitter moment is born
After a son shared a photo of his discouraged dad in his new doughnut shop, people of Twitter decided to do something sweet.
#NationalNappingDay is here for you, this Monday after daylight saving time
The holiday, which is about as official as Pancake Day, is being met with lots of love this Monday after DST.
Unvaccinated child hits his head, gets tetanus. Two months and over $800K later, he recovers
A 6-year-old boy who didn’t receive childhood vaccinations nearly died after getting tetanus in Oregon’s first pediatric case of this kind indecades.
Vaccines don’t cause autism, yet another study finds
A new decade-long study of more than half a million people found that the measles vaccine does not increase the risk of autism.
Why people are throwing their Vans shoes and sharing videos on social media
The #VansChallenge might have you believing the popular shoes have cat-like reflexes.
Video of huge spider dragging opossum is nightmarish: ‘We couldn’t really believe what we were seeing’
Warning: Readers might find this disturbing. Michigan researchers believe this is the first time a tarantula was ever recorded preying on an opossum.
Texas lawmaker says he’s not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics’
Texas state representative Bill Zedler is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.
Having a baby? You won’t get a good night’s sleep for 6 years, study says
Not surprisingly, mothers reported losing the most sleep in a study of more than 4,600 German parents published in the journal Sleep.