Energy drinks have caused three Canadian teenagers to die and have had serious side effects on 35 other Canadians since 2003, Health Canada documents show.The three male teens, two 15-year-olds and an 18-year-old, died after drinking Red Bull, The Toronto Star reported. Red Bull also appears in more side-effect reports than any other similar product.Health Canada and the energy drink companies said side-effect reports show only a suspected connection between a product and side effect but no medi

The number of people with alcohol-induced psychiatric disorders is growing, particularly in men in their 60s.According to the National Health Insurance Corporation, the number of patients with mental illnesses brought on by excessive drinking has increased from 66,196 in 2007 to 78,357 in 2011 on the annual average of 4.3 percent. Men in their 60s had the highest prevalence rate of alcoholic mental disease with 583 per 100,000 people. About 64,000 men suffered from psychiatric disorder due to ex

The Organizing Committee of the 22nd World Energy Congress to be held in Daegu Oct. 13-17 next year announced Monday that it has appointed Daesung Group chairman Kim Young-hoon as its acting chairman.Organizers said that Kim, vice chairman of the WEC Daegu 2013 Organizing Committee, will succeed Kim Joong-kyum as acting chairman in accordance with its regulations, as Kim has stepped down as chairman of the committee as well as president and CEO of Korea Electric Power Corp. Kim Young-hoon was el

RIYADH (AFP) ― King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 89, has “successfully” undergone a new operation on his back, the royal cabinet announced Sunday.The operation, to correct “a ligamentary slackening in the upper back” of the elderly monarch, ended at dawn on Sunday, said a statement quoted by the official SPA news agency.The sovereign had already undergone a similar operation in October last year.In November 2010 he was operated on in New York for a slipped disc complicated by a blood clot that put

Lee Oi-soo, one of South Korea‘s most popular contemporary writers, was named on Monday as an honorary ambassador for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.The organizing committee for the 2018 Winter Games said Lee will be asked to share his wisdom as PyeongChang, a resort town some 180 km east of Seoul, prepares to stage the country’s first Winter Olympics.Kim Jin-sun, head of the organizing committee, said Lee had been a “mentor” for PyeongChang for all of its three bids for the Winter Olympic

Charlie Chaplin‘s iconic bowler hat and cane were auctioned off for $62,500 this weekend, as part of an auction which also includes a John Lennon nude drawing of himself and Yoko Ono.The hat and cane, trademark of Chaplin’s Little Tramp character, were in “remarkable condition” and had been estimated to go for between $40,000 and $60,000 at the sale by auction house Bonhams on Sunday. But when it went under the hammer, the sale price hit $62,500 the auctioneers said.Legend has it that Chaplin ca

Recently discovered photographs of Albert Einstein‘s brain made after his death show it was unlike those of most people, a U.S. researcher says.After Einstein died in 1955, his brain was removed and photographed but many of the photos were thought to be lost for more than 55 years.Fourteen were recently uncovered by the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Md., as part of a donation from the estate of Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who took the original photos, USA Today repo

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It might seem quite peculiar for a Russian pianist to specialize in Bach when indigenous powerhouses such as Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev rule the classical music scene. But to Vladimir Feltsman, it was natural. “Yes, Tchaikovsky is a great composer. But it was Bach that led me to music and sustained me all the way to here,” he said in his interview with The Korea Herald on Friday, a day before his “Sejong Soloists with Vladimir Feltsman,” held at Goyang Aramnuri.  “Those who do not k

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