A daily injection to the belly for pregnant women at risk of developing blood clots is ineffective, according to a study by researchers at the Ottawa Hospital.

A community group in Brandon, Man. is scrambling to find a cat that is roaming around the city with its head stuck inside a bird feeder. The cat can only see with one eye and cannot eat or drink with its head wedged in the feeder, according to the group Brandon and Area Lost Animals.

The loss and decline of animals is contributing to what appears to be the early days of the planet’s sixth mass biological extinction event, scientists warn. Since 1500, more than 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Populations of the remaining species show a 25 per cent average decline in abundance. The situation is similarly dire for invertebrate animal life, scientists …

A painkiller combined with a drug that stops the painkilling. In a what-will-they-come-up-with-next industry like “Big Pharma,” skepticism was sure to follow the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new pill. On Wednesday, the FDA approved Targiniq ER, a combination of the painkiller oxycodone and naloxone.

Scientists say they have confirmed that dinosaurs were once covered in feathers, in a breakthrough that could make Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg come out in goosebumps. The claim, by researchers from Ireland and Belgium who have studied extremely well-preserved dinosaur fossils from Kulinda in eastern Siberia, will not prompt a remake of the films just yet.

Hoverbikes aren’t yet ready for your daily commute, but in pushing to get closer to that point UK-based company Malloy Aeronautics has perhaps made the next-best thing: a drone version. Drone 3 is a functioning drone in its own right, but it’s also a 1/3-sized scale model of MA’s real, human-sized Hoverbike.

An Ottawa doctor whose clinic was at the centre of an infection scare has agreed never to practice medicine again after the College of Physicians and Surgeons found her unprofessional and incompetent. The College held a disciplinary hearing for Dr. Christiane Farazli on Thursday after dozens of patients also came forward to say that she had brutalized them during procedures, …

Surgeons in Mumbai removed 232 teeth from the mouth of Indian teen, Ashik Gavai, and it may just be a new world record. Gavai, 17, went to JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Monday with a swollen right jaw, according to The AFP. Doctors later learned the boy had complex odontoma, a condition in which “the various odontogenic tissues appear in …

The death, destruction and chaos from the Israeli-Gaza conflict has been captured in striking photos on the ground, but even astronauts can see the fighting as it unfolds. Alexander Gerst, a European astronaut working at the International Space Station, captured a photo of rocket fire and explosions apparently being exchanged between Israeli and Gaza as the ISS flew over the …

The mayor of a community just outside Montreal was killed following a wasp attack over the weekend. Lucie Roussel, the mayor of La Prairie, died Sunday of anaphylactic shock after being stung at least 15 times while on vacation.

A flight of Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, has disappeared from radar en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, Thursday. Contact with flight AH5017 was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline said, as quoted by Algeria’s state news agency. The passenger aircraft which had 110 passengers and six crew members on board was last seen at …