The 2018 Australian Firefighters Calendar is here, in three varieties. One features rescue puppies, another features animals, and a third features just the firefighter beefcake. The calendar was established in 1993 and presently raises funds for the Children’s Hospital Foundation Burns Unit and regi

Out Australian actor/filmmaker Daniel Monks went being a quadriplegic lying in a hospital bed to competing for best actor in the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, his country’s version of the Academy Awards, in just a few short years. Monks, who became a quadriplegic as a resu

Former President Jimmy Carter is receiving hospice care at his home, the Carter Center announced 2/18/2023.. He made the decision after a series of short hospital stays, the center said in a statement. Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United Sta...

The 'Dance of the 41' changed the way that Mexico interpreted gender and sexuality forever. The number 13 is commonly considered unlucky, but in Mexico, the number 41 has been seen as taboo and avoided—at one point the Army left the number out of battalions, hotel and hospital rooms didn’t use it an

The prospect of space travel will feel much different after the Inspiration4 mission—the first orbital mission with an all-civilian crew—launches this fall. Once that happens, the history of human spaceflight will instantly be divided into two eras. There will have been the six decades after the fir

Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old: she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of

In Loving Memory: Toronto doctor, underwater photographer and athlete Lucas Murnaghan dies at 45. Dr. Lucas Murnaghan, who captured striking underwater photos, practised orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children and co-owned Canadian surfing shop Surf the Greats, has died. In a Ted Talk

The first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 932 people in West Africa, Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, has arrived in his homecountry on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Pajares, 75, was working for a non-governmental organization in Liberia and was repatriated along with his ...

Faces of Fairness: A Case for Marriage is the most recent installment in an ongoing Fairness multi-media project "Faces of Fairness" that brings greater visibility to the once hidden Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered community in West Virginia. The project also explores the numerous issues a...

This documerntary was produced in 2004 by CBS as part of "Witness", a documentary from CBS news. Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC 'Witness', 2004) On April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was first licensed for public use in the U.S. In the years afterwards 90 million Americans were vac...