Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 29 Oct 19

A US man has had a double dose of luck after winning $200,000 on his way to his final chemotherapy treatment.

Ronnie Foster from North Carolina said he stopped off en route to the clinic for some scratch lottery tickets, and was shocked to win the jackpot.

"I saw all those zeros and I froze," he told lottery officials.

"I was already happy because it was my last round of chemo...winning this made it my lucky day," Foster said.

all that beer and bratwurst has to have some effect - and scientists have now quantified the shocking environmental impact of Germany's annual Oktoberfest celebration.

And the news isn't good - apparently attendees at the 16-day event in Munich last year emitted 10 times more methane than the US city of Boston over the same period.

Researchers from the Munich Technical University walked around the perimeter of the celebration with special mobile sensors, attempting to measure the flatulent emissions of the thousands of revellers.

That's somewhat of an exaggeration - they actually said much of the whopping methane count was due to incomplete combustion in cooking and heating appliances.

However, a significant proportion - about 10% - was attributed to the burps and farts of the attendees, according to a paper submitted to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.