Air Force grounds F-35A operations at training base after pilots suffered hypoxia

(credit: US Air Force) The US Air Force’s 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona today cancelled “local flying operations” for F-35A fighters after five incidents in which pilots “experienced hypoxia-like symptoms,” an Air Force spokesperson said in a statement. Hypoxia is a deficiency in oxygen reaching the body through the circulatory […]

Sex news – ever suffered a headache during orgasm? THIS could be why

Both women and men can experience headaches brought on by sexual excitement and orgasms, and they’re actually more common than you think, according to neurologist Isha Gupta, from IGEA Brain and Spine of New Jersey and New York  But no definite answer as to why they happen currently exists.  However, Sherry A. Ross, M.D., ob-gyn, […]

United Airlines passenger ‘suffered concussion, broken nose & lost teeth’ – lawyer

Published time: 13 Apr, 2017 17:25 David Dao, the passenger who was brutally removed from a United Airlines flight, suffered a “significant” concussion, a “serious” broken nose and lost two front teeth in the ordeal, according to his lawyer. Dao was dragged from a Louisville-bound flight by three Chicago aviation police officers Sunday after the […]

Dustin Johnson QUITS Masters: World No1 suffered back injury in freak accident last night

Johnson came to the Masters as a red-hot favourite having finished fourth last year and broken his major duck months later, winning the US Open. The 32-year-old has since claimed the world No1 spot but suffered a freak back injury on Wednesday night in the home his family have been renting near the course. And […]

A hedge fund with big-name backing has suffered another blow

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Folger Hill Asset Management, a hedge fund backed by Leucadia, has suffered another blow.  Rayne Gaisford, the director of risk management, left in recent weeks and plans to work in consulting, according to people familiar with the situation.  Gaisford’s departure marks at least the third in recent weeks at a senior level. The others are […]

The fight against Alzheimer’s has suffered a hammer blow, and now everyone is pinning their hopes on a new approach

AP/Alastair Grant A number of Alzheimer’s drugs have failed late-stage clinical trials in the past few months It’s prompting researchers and companies to start focusing on treating people when they’re pre-symptomatic Treating the disease once symptoms begin to show up, they argue, might be too late to have any real impact on the disease Alzheimer’s affects […]