Police arrested Lindsay Lohan May 26, 2007 for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol after she crashed her 2005 Mercedes Convertible into a curb on Sunset Boulevard at 5.30 a.m. Lohan was taken to the hospital for minor chest pain.

After a masseuse found 28-year-old Heath Ledger unresponsive in his apartment in New York, she used his cell phone to call his friend, actress Mary Kate Olson, instead of calling 911.

Car crashes are scary, dangerous events, and they happen all too often. There are more than 120 million cars on the road in the U.S., and only half of those are legally registered. There are more than 6 million crashes every year, which results in more than 2.5 million injuries and 40,000 deaths.

Terrorist attacks are becoming increasingly more common abroad, and they pose a major threat to Americans on U.S. soil as well.

It is possible to wake from the dead, as reported by www.iol.co.za. In Angol, Chile, an 81-year-old man sat up in his coffin during his own wake, surprising his grieving relatives. The man asked for a glass of water and told his loved ones that he wasn’t in any pain, even though his body had been limp and cold. His family had believed he was dead after finding him and didn’t call the doctor, instead choosing to prepare him for burial. They immediately removed him from the coffin and brought him a glass of water.

Over-the-counter cough and cold medicine can seriously injure or kill children under the age of 2, according to an FDA statement released on January 17.

Over-the-counter cough and cold medicine can seriously injure or kill children under the age of 2, according to an FDA statement released on January 17. Medicines that can be deadly to young children include decongestants, expectorants, antihistamines and cough suppressants.

Here at Injury.com, we look at these incidents, scratch our heads, and can’t help but wonder what is going on with the police officers behind these questionable incidents. What do they do the morning before these incidents occur? What are they thinking? What produces that split-second decision to shock the heebie-jeebies out of someone? Check out this podcast for our vision of what happens the morning before a tasering incident.

 

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The latest in the worrisome saga of lead contamination in Chinese-manufactured children’s toys continues with this most recent development. Tricam Industries voluntarily recalled its toy wagons on Jan. 3 after discovering that surface paint on the children’s toys contains harmful amounts of lead.

The FDA announced that it is reviewing data from anemia drugs that have been linked to rapid tumor growth and shortened survival time in patients with certain types of cancer.