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Fungus found in your nose, in the goop between your toes
Government researchers have just done the first genetic survey of all the fungi that live on our skin. Their findings?  They’re in your ears, they’re in your nose and, yes, they are in the goop between your toes.Humans are covered with hundreds of different types of fungus, the team at the National Institutes of Health found. What’s surprising is that one family covers most of our bodies, but our ...
    


Wed, 22 May 2013 22:41:51 GMT
Post-tornado peril: Victims could face deadly fungal infections
Doctors treating victims hurt badly in Monday’s devastating Moore, Okla., tornado should be alert for a rare but deadly complication of wind-whipped debris: fungal infections like those that killed five people after the Joplin, Mo., twister in 2011.That’s the word from government experts in fungal infections, who documented 13 serious cases of necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis -- terrible soft ti...
    


Wed, 22 May 2013 22:41:50 GMT
Doctors print up a splint for baby's blocked throat
The Youngstown, Ohio, baby turned blue again and again as his little airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his airway open and helping him breathe.Now 19-month-old Kaiba Gionfriddo is “into everything”,  says his mother, April Gionfriddo."Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hosp...
    


Wed, 22 May 2013 22:41:50 GMT
'Girls Gone Wild' founder calls jury 'retarded,' says they should be 'shot dead'
"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has some choice words for the jury who found him guilty of falsely imprisoning three women in his California home. They're "mentally retarded" "stupid idiots" who are "jealous" of him and should be "put in jail" or even "lined up and shot," or so Francis told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview."I want that jury to know that each and every one of you are me...
    


Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:30 GMT
Busted by butt-dial: 'This phone really called 911? Damn!'
Worried about the increasing ease with which law enforcement can access cellphones? How can you protect yourself? Step 1 would be: Don't call the cops when you're embarking on a petty crime spree. It's a lesson two men learned the hard way, thanks to a humble pocket dial to 911.The Fresno Police Department provided TODAY with a recording of a 911 call, made at approximately 11:30 p.m. PT on May 9....
    


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