Ancient trans-Atlantic swarm brought locusts to the New World
Somewhere between three and five million years ago, a massive swarm of locusts took off from the west coast of Africa and made an unlikely voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to colonize the New World, says an international team of researchers. Using genetic evidence from more than 20 species of locusts, scientists from the Universities of Toronto, Arizona, Maryland, Cornell University and th...Ancient humans brought bottle gourds to the Americas from Asia
Thick-skinned bottle gourds widely used as containers by prehistoric peoples were likely brought to the Americas some 10,000 years ago by individuals who arrived from Asia, according to a new genetic comparison of modern bottle gourds with gourds found at archaeological sites in the Western Hemisphere. The finding solves a longstanding archaeological enigma by explaining how a domesticated varian...72 year old cheat, brought to book
A 72 year old man, languishing in a London hospital, purposefully//, for nearly three years without any actual need for medical assistance, has been ordered by the High court to leave the hospital. Mr X, as he is known, was given an eviction order which stipulated that he leave Finchley Memorial Hospital in north London within 14 days. Along with the order of eviction, he was also sla...Perpetrators of $20 Million Medicare Fraud, Brought To Book
Los Angeles: Five Fraudulent people were arrested after it became known that they had cheated the Medicare by more than $20 million in Medicare// payments, for superfluous tests that were not mandated and hence was never conducted. Federal prosecutors nailed Konstantin Grigoryan, 56, of Altadena, in charge of the illegal scheme from 1997 to 2005. He and four others are charged with th...New Breast Cancer Dictionary To Be Brought Out By French League Against Cancer
The French League Against Cancer has announced that it will be creating a new 'breast cancer dictionary' in order to bridge the gap that inadvertently// develops between a doctor and a patient due to the lack of understanding of complex medical terminology by the latter. This announcement was made at the European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-5), today. It is generally accepted that...