Tim Curry is revealing raw details about the near-fatal stroke he suffered in July 2012 that left him partially paralyzed. In his new memoir, “Vagabond,” the 79-year-old actor recounted experiencing the stroke, undergoing major brain surgery during which his skull was “smashed in,” and the long recovery that followed. Curry shared that he was having a massage … Read more
Talk about mist-ifying news. In addition to shortening life spans, decimating taste buds and filling lungs with black goo, vaping may also affect fetal skull development. Startling new research indicates that even without nicotine, in utero exposure to two primary ingredients in e-cigarettes can alter fetal development, specifically skull shape. E-cigarettes typically contain fewer chemicals … Read more
It’s a bone-a fide discovery. An international team of researchers says it has found evidence of ancient Egyptians performing experimental treatments or medical explorations of human cancer more than 4,000 years ago. “This is an extraordinary new perspective in our understanding of the history of medicine,” said Edgard Camarós, a paleopathologist at the University of … Read more
Filmmakers of the high-speed “Fast & Furious” franchise were ordered Friday to pay a $1 million fine after a stuntman broke his skull while filming the ninth installment. Joe Watts reported falling 25 feet head-first onto the concrete ground during a staged fight scene while filming “F9: The Fast Saga” in July 2019 at Warner … Read more
NEW YORK — On a recent Sunday afternoon, the divers arrived on a thin strip of sand at the furthest, watery edge of New York City. Air tanks strapped to their backs, they waded into the sea and descended into an environment far different from their usual terrestrial surroundings of concrete, traffic and trash-strewn sidewalks. … Read more
An international team of researchers has approximated the face of a woman whose 45,000-year-old remains were discovered more than 70 years ago. The severed skull of the Zlatý kůň woman — the oldest modern human to be genetically sequenced — was found buried in a cave system in the Czech Republic in 1950. Scientists created … Read more
A mom recalled the excruciating moment doctors had to break her baby son’s skull into pieces due to a rare birth defect. Brittany Bevans, 29, was told that her boy would have to have major surgery in order to save his eyesight and help with seizures. Louie was just five months old when he was … Read more
It was more of a scare package than a care package. An Alaska family got the fright of their lives when they opened a parcel from relatives in Australia and discovered a skull inside. Andrea Eastley — who grew up Down Under — currently lives in Alaska with her three young kids and the clan … Read more