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OPP say the ‘Big Four’ were contributing factors in 78 per cent of road deaths investigated by provincial officers so far this year. The Big Four refers to the four main causes of motor vehicle collision deaths: distracted driving, speeding, impaired driving, and lack of occupant restraint.

A passenger aboard a plane flying from Dallas to Midland was taken to the hospital to be checked out after crews thought she was experiencing symptoms resembling Ebola.

Sarah Goldberg, who played Sarah Glass Camden on “7th Heaven,” died in her sleep Sept. 27 in Wisconsin. Her family suspected a heart attack, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. She was 40.

A magnitude 6.4 quake has hit China’s southwestern province of Yunnan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake’s epicentre was 163 km north-northwest of Yunjinghong and 10 km deep, the USGS said.

Jodie Foster has sold her Hollywood Hills home for $5 million – 16 months after she initially listed the abode.

Kano is a new kind of computer company, a startup that’s totally devoted to teaching a new generation about the craft of silicon. Its first product, a Raspberry Pi-based system so easy a child could build it, makes it easy to build a PC practically from scratch.

A quick brain scan may be able to pick up the early signs of dementia before symptoms start to appear. If the results of tests by researchers in Switzerland are confirmed, the procedure could become a standard add-on to scheduled brain scans.

The messaging service Twitter is suing the US government over America’s surveillance laws. It is part of the ongoing battle with federal agencies as the internet industry tries to portray itself as the champion of free speech.

1 in 10 emergency department (ED) patients required admission to hospital in 2013–2014, and they spent 4.7 times longer in the ED than those who were not admitted, reveals new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Of the 1 million patients admitted, 1 in 10 spent more than 28.4 hours in the ED first.

Authorities say a 4-year-old girl in Delaware passed out packets of heroin she found in her mother’s backpack to her day care mates, thinking they contained candy.

A new one-day survey suggests that too many hospital patients may be getting antibiotics, or getting the wrong ones. The study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control found that about half of patients were taking antibiotics and about half of those patients were receiving two or more of the drugs.