Frankie Davies 
This weekend, millions of people will watch in awe as the Australian Open champions drop to their knees in victory. To me, that’s not real tennis: it’s showbiz. Real tennis is played far away from Melbourne Park, on dusty red suburban courts where juniors, seniors and midweek ladies duke it out in epic battles. With … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say 93 Americans have died after cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic since 2009, with many of the recent deaths involving a procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift. The operation has grown in popularity recently and has led to deaths in other countries as well, including the … Read more
When Lise Lalonde found out she had advanced stage two breast cancer that had already spread to her lymph nodes last July, her life came to a standstill so she could undergo a rigorous but debilitating treatment plan. Three weeks later, Lalonde began to face physically and emotionally demanding rounds of chemotherapy for hours at … Read more
A weight loss surgeon who operated on the British girl who died after the treatment has claimed he “did nothing wrong”. Dr Serkan Bayil refuted allegations of mishandling the surgery on the unfortunate Morgan Ribeiro, aged 20, asserting that he committed no errors during the procedure. Morgan utilised her trust fund to finance gastric sleeve … Read more
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Walgreens has agreed to pay a $275,000 fine to settle allegations that some of its Vermont stores temporarily closed without notice, had untenable working conditions for pharmacists and made medication and vaccination errors during the coronavirus pandemic, the secretary of state announced. The Vermont Board of Pharmacy approved the fine as part … Read more
The World Health Organization is warning of an “alarming rise” of measles cases in Europe that is only accelerating. There were 42,200 measles cases across 41 WHO European Region member states in 2023 — up from 941 cases reported in all of 2022, according to WHO. The organization said in a release Wednesday that the … Read more
Incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl, 88, is moving to a regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit, as ordered by an Austrian court. Fritzl, who had now changed his name to one that’s not been made public, raped his daughter, holding her captive for 24 years, and fathered her seven children. He has been in a … Read more
HARTFORD, Conn. — Mislabeled cookies containing peanuts that were sold at Stew Leonard’s grocery stores in Connecticut were recalled this week after the death of a woman from New York City. Stew Leonard’s announced Tuesday that Vanilla Florentine Cookies sold in its stores in Danbury and Newington from Nov. 6 to Dec. 31 were being … Read more
After a nasty bout of Covid in 2020, I took up walking to get fit again at the age of 63. As Stephen Emms found (A moment that changed me: my husband and I split up – and I started walking 15,000 steps a day, 17 January), it proved exhilarating and addictive, driven by my … Read more
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Dawn Ericksen was struggling with an opioid addiction a dozen years ago when she got pregnant and realized she couldn’t keep herself safe, much less a baby. Working part-time, she couldn’t afford the hundreds of dollars she would need for an abortion and had to turn to a trusted friend to … Read more
