New opioid use in older adults with COPD associated with increased risk of death. When St. Michael’s Hospital scientists looked specifically at more potent opioids, they found the risk for respiratory-related death was five times higher for new opioid users compared to non-opioid users. The study, published today in the European Respiratory Journal, raises safety concerns about new opioid use …

Celebrity bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman’s bail bonds company owes the state $35,500 for forfeited bonds, the state attorney general said. Attorney General Doug Chin said in a press release Wednesday that his office has filed petitions to enforce judgments against Da Kine Bail Bonds and Safety National Casualty Corporation “for forfeited bail bonds those companies failed to pay” to …

Researchers in rural Argentina found themselves in one misfortune to another in order to bring a new species of dinosaur in paleontology. Considering what they had to go through, it seems that the name is apt: Gualicho, the word for “curse.” Introducing Gualicho shinyae, a 450kg, bipedal theropod that featured a pair of short arms with two fingered claws on …

Pokémon Go launched to incredible fanfare this month. The numbers are blowing up and Nintendo is cool again. Pokémon Go, a smartphone version of the popular late 1990s video and trading card game, has become an omnipresent phenomenon since its release last week. To put it in perspective: The game will soon have more Android phone users than Twitter, and …

A new tentative deal between the provincial government and Ontario doctors has local physicians hoping for fewer restrictions going forward. Queen’s Park has reached a tentative four-year deal with Ontario’s doctors, including annual increases to the physician services budget. A statement announcing the deal with the Ontario Medical Association doesn’t include the amount of the increases.

A newly released affidavit shows the reason police say they shot a 37-yearold, black man dead in Baton Rouge last week. Officers were justified in their shooting of Alton Sterling during a confrontation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to a police report on the incident. That shooting resulted in Sterling’s death, which alongside the police-involved shooting of Philando Castile near …

New study from McMaster University shows lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient as lifting heavy weights fewer times.. Professor Stuart Phillips, lead author of the study said: ‘Fatigue is the great equalizer here. ‘Lift to the point of exhaustion and it doesn’t matter whether the weights are heavy or light.’ The new findings are the latest from a …

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has sent back its first picture of the planet since going into orbit around it last week. The image shows a section of the gas giant, along with three of its 67 moons: Io, Europa and Ganymede. The image was taken on July 10 at 10:30 am PDT. It was the first image captured after …

It’s fitting that Pokemon’s most significant evolutionary leap in its 20-year history is on a mobile platform, which mirrors its humble origins on the Game Boy. We’re going outside with Pokemon Go, catching Pokemon with friends, fighting over gyms, and making new friends along the way. “Pokémon GO” is an augmented reality game based on the venerable Pokémon video game …

A HYPERSONIC plane could be a reality in just four years, getting passengers anywhere in the world in just four hours. The new plane, which will combine the technology of a jet and a rocket to travel five times the speed of sound, will even allow Brits to travel to Australia in four hours. The first demonstrator engine could be …

The Ojibway Prairie Complex and surrounding area has been designated as an Important Amphibian and Reptile Area (IMPARA) by the Canadian Herpetological Society and Wildlife Preservation Canada. The designation recognizes the key role of specific natural areas in providing habitats for some of Canada’s most endangered wildlife: reptiles and amphibians.