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Doctors vs Guns – which are more deadly? Doctors: (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. (B) “Accidental deaths” caused by Physicians per year: 120,000. (C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. Guns: (A) The...

James Topham Reuters March 7, 2011 Japan’s health ministry has halted the use of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA to prevent meningitis and pneumonia following the deaths of four children. The infants died shortly after receiving the vaccines and while it was unclear if there...

Climate Extremes: More than 100 birds collapse and die in record Australian heat (Hopetoun, Australia ~ January 7, 2010) South Coast, AUSTRALIA- More dead birds have been found on the South Coast after extreme temperatures in the region bringing the total of dead birds to more than 170. 116...