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According to an investigation by Capital New York, computers with IP addresses from the New York Police Department headquarters were related to edits made on some Wikipedia pages for high-profile police incident victims. The IP addresses accessed Wikipedia entries for Sean Bell, Eric Garner and Amadou Diallo.

According to Capitals, it is not known that how many actual users did that since NYPD computers can access a variety of IP addresses available to the department. Earlier also, IP addresses from the 1 Police Plaza network were found editing potentially incriminating Wikipedia entries.

According to Capital New York, such addresses have been used for editing articles on stop-and-frisk and some police leaders.

Last night, Donna Davis was awakened by the sound of banging on her doors. She was horrified by what she saw after opening the door: a woman and two children, a boy and a girl, were covered in blood after being shot in their home across the road.

There was blood everywhere and Donna initially thought the injuries were caused by a car accident. She said the little boy was terrified and was half under the porch. He appeared to hide himself from someone. He was crying for help and according to Davis' mother-in-law, Linda Davis, the boy said that half of his ear was gone.

According to new evidence, Neanderthals in Europe used to wear eagle claws as jewelry. Eight talons from white-tailed eagles, together with four that had different notches and cut marks, have been identified by researchers. These have been identified from a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal cave in Croatia. According to them, claws were used to make a necklace or bracelet, which Neanderthals used to wear.

According to study authors, “Some have argued that Neandertals lacked symbolic ability or copied this behavior from modern humans. These remains clearly show that the Krapina Neandertals made jewelry well before the appearance of modern humans in Europe”.

The FDA has issued stricter recommendations on reusable medical devices in order to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant infections. These kind of infections occurred at Los Angeles hospitals.

According to the FDA, it has announced new recommendations for cleaning reusable medical devices like the duodenoscopes at the center of the ‘superbug’ infections. And the companies, which manufacture the scopes and other devices, will have to provide proof that the devices can be cleaned properly, prior to getting FDA approval.

According to the agency, manufacturers could conduct validation testing in order to prove that their cleaning and disinfection or sterilization instructions will help reduce microbial contamination properly.

A Texas mother is making efforts to prevent other families from going through the same pain she had to more than a year ago. Lynne Machado’s daughter Marlise Munoz was not removed from life support for more than two months after she was declared brain dead. Munoz was 14 week pregnant when she was hooked up to life support at a Fort Worth hospital after being declared brain dead.

“It was a very difficult journey to see our daughter on artificial support for 62 days when we knew she was dead. The hospital had confirmed that”, said Lynne Machado.

Machado stepped ahead to support introduction of ‘Marlise’s law’ at the Texas legislature. The bill intends removal of language from the state’s health code that forces doctors to not end artificial support for a pregnant patient.

Researchers are looking forward to an electronic sensor inside a pill, which could help diagnose diseases by examining gas in the intestines. According to Cell Press, gases are produced by gut microbes, which are thought to play a role in gastrointestinal diseases in some cases. The new gas sensor could help know more regarding the effect of these intestinal gases. This could lead to new treatments and diagnostic techniques.

As per Cell Press, the innovative pill contains a protective shell that encapsulates a gas sensor, which is a microprocessor and wireless transmitter; it helps in processing and transferring of the data. The pill also comprises a miniature battery.