A businessman ended up in hospital for nearly a week after gorging on a 6.6lb bag of Haribo cola bottles left him with agonising stomach cramps and dangerously high blood pressure. Nathan Rimmington, 33, from South Yorkshire, ordered the bulk £18 bag to satisfy a late-night craving—but finished the entire thing in just three nights, consuming an estimated 10,461 calories …
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Chris Froome has been airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries in a crash during a training ride in France. The four-time Tour de France winner was taken to hospital by helicopter on Wednesday afternoon, according to a report from L’Equipe. Froome was training near Toulon, down the coast of southern France from his home in Monaco, when the incident …
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Once common in the 1800s and early 1900s, bromide salts were prescribed for headaches and anxiety, even accounting for 8% of psychiatric hospital admissions. After the US Food and Drug Administration phased out bromide products between 1975 and 1989, cases like this became almost extinct. Bromide accumulates in the body over time, triggering neurological, dermatological, and psychiatric symptoms. In this …
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A second person has died after eating a broccoli sandwich in Italy amid a toxic botulism outbreak that has left multiple people hospitalised. Last week, 52-year-old artist Luigi Di Sarno died after eating the panini from a food truck in the town of Diamante, in Calabria. Now, Tamara D’Acunto, 45, has also died, and more than a dozen people have been …
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