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  • Healthy heart ensures healthy kidney

    Scientists have shown that a lifestyle that encourages a healthy heart could also shield patients with chronic kidney diseases from kidney failure and premature death, says a study. The findings, appearing in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), suggest that patients with kidney diseases should be encouraged to improve their heart's health, reports Science Daily. Poor ...

  • 9-year-old girl tells McDonalds CEO to not trick kids into eating unhealthy food

    A 9-year-old girl took on the head of McDonald's Corp. on healthy eating during the fast-food chain's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday. Fourth-grader Hannah Robertson, who spoke up during the gathering's question-and-answer session, told the fast food mogul that it would be nice if he stopped trying to trick kids into wanting to eat junk food all the time, the New York Daily News ...

  • Kids with Type 2 diabetes at greater risk of developing heart kidney problems

    Children who develop Type 2 diabetes are at high risk to develop heart, kidney and eye problems faster and at a higher rate than people who acquire Type 2 diabetes as adults, a new study has found. "Once these kids have Type 2 diabetes, they seem to be at very high risk for early complications when compared to adults," Jane Lynch, M.D., professor of pediatric endocrinology in the School of ...

  • Haddin views cricket in new light despite Ashes anticipation following daughters cancer struggles

    Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has said that despite being back in the pursuit of the Ashes, he is viewing cricket in a new light following his daughter's battle with cancer. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, although the Ashes journey is the greatest adventure for an Australian cricketer and normally fills his mind for most of the time, however, Haddin had even considered retirement ...

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    Anthony Mason and Anne-Marie Greene speak with "Law and Order" actress, and now author, Elizabeth Rohm about making her private battle with infertility ...


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Chinatown [Blu-Ray]

Chinatown [Blu-Ray]

Roman Polanskis Chinatown is one of the great masterworks of 70s American cinema and an apex of the decades obsession with genre revisionism. Along with Coppolas The Godfather (1972), Altmans Nashville (1975), and Spielbergs Jaws (1975), whic ... ...

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    The FDA is investigating Tennessee pharmacy distributor Main Street Family Pharmacy after seven patients, in several states, were sickened with a potentially contaminated steroid. Anthony Mason ...

  • Watch Avoiding Memorial Day Weekend Health Hazards

    The long Memorial Day weekend kicks off the unofficial start of the summer but with that comes in seasonal hazards and here are some tips. To avoid the five most common dangers sunburns nothing ...

  • Kenya Pupils get cancer vaccine in Sh141m project

    NAIROBI, KENYA: On May 14, nine-year-old Mariam became the first girl in Kenya to receive a free vaccine against cervical cancer at her Central Primary School ...

  • Accolade worth the wait for top nurse

    IN FORTY-eight years, Sue Cowan was never recognised for her work on the Gold Coast - that was until she was recently named the city's premier nurse at an inaugural ceremony held in Southport.Mrs Cowan works in the neurology and cardiology units at the Gold Coast Hospital and said she could write a book about changes she has seen in the industry, reminiscing on a time when nurses were ...

  • Israeli Doctors Save Syrian Toddler

    JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli pediatric surgeons corrected congenital heart defects on a four-year-old Syrian girl at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on ...

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