The Medford pharmacy killings: A 15-year-old spotlight on Long Island's opioid crisis - Newsday
Rail-thin and hiding under a fake beard, a former Army intelligence analyst walked into a Medford pharmacy 15 years ago Friday, fatally shot all four people inside but stole neither the cash in the register nor the valuables on the dead. Instead, he stuffed his backpack with thousands of addictive painkillers and walked out.
Ticks are spreading Lyme disease across America, but we can beat them. Here’s how. - vox.com
Ticks are one of humanity’s most dastardly adversaries: tiny, at times nigh-invisible arthropods that burrow into your skin, leech your blood, and sometimes transfer debilitating disease before they vanish, without you ever knowing they were there. It can be only months or weeks later, when Lyme disease’s harrowing symptoms begin to take hold, that you realize the stealth attack even occurred.
'I buried my parents one day after the other' - Ebola mourners learn how to grieve safely - BBC
ShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAnne SoyBunia, DR CongoAmensisa Ifa / BBCNone of the usual crowds attend burials in this Bunia cemetery at the momentNyamurongo cemetery in Bunia, a city in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is the epicentre of the current Ebola outbreak, is much busier than usual. "Today is the sixth time I have come to the cemetery," says Joel Lonza Makumbu as he explains how the virus has devastated his family and community.
The Pacemaker Patch - Hackaday
A pacemaker is implanted to send signals that regulate a patient’s heartbeat, and to do that, you need power. That means they require battery changes, and when the device in question happens to be inside your chest, that means surgery.