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  • The Hangover actor engaged

    Actor Justin Bartha, who plays Doug, one of the four friends in the popular "The Hangover" film series, is reportedly engaged to fitness trainer Lia Smith. The movie star proposed to Smith early May. "They're the cutest couple. She was completely surprised by the whole thing," usmagazine.com quoted a source as saying. "The trip to Big Sur, the engagement, the ring, everything. So cute," the ...

  • Health Insurance in America Legalized Extortion

    Included in yesterday's mail were two ominous envelopes, one addressed to me, the other to my wife. They were from our health insurance company. Being that this is mid-May, I knew what the contents of the envelopes would be: one-page letters informing us what our insurance premiums are going to run in the coming year. With sweaty palms and racing heart, I began operating on the ...

  • Sport picture of the day David Beckham bows out in Paris

    At the point where David Beckham sees his number is up during the second half of PSG's Ligue 1 match against Brest, the former England midfielder becomes emotional, applauding the crowd as he is ...

  • Health Undersecretary opens workshop

    Manama, May 19 (BNA) - Ministry of Health Undersecretary, Dr. Ayesha Mubarak Bu Unq today opened the first specialized workshop on the prevention of wound infections, in the presence of approximately 100 doctors and nurses from vital sections of the Salmaniya Medical Complex. In her speech, health undersecretary affirmed providing high standard training, lectures, raising awareness and ...

  • Heart Health Monitored Using Paper-Thin Flexible Skin

    pulse as a diagnostic tool to monitor heart health. Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and no wider than a postage stamp. The flexible skin-like monitor, worn under an adhesive bandage on the wrist, is sensitive enough to help doctors detect stiff arteries and cardiovascular problems. The devices could one ...


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Night of the Creeps [DVD]

Night of the Creeps [DVD]

Cult auteur Fred Dekker, whose reputation is based entirely around a small handful of horror and science fiction films made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, likes to describe his directorial debut Night of the Creeps as a stew. The film is very much a reflection of ... ...

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  • Hospital Use Costs Not Increased By Massachusetts Health Care Reform

    Massachusetts' healthcare reform didn't result in substantially more hospital use or higher costs, according to data presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. The findings were true even among safety-net hospitals, which often have an open-door policy to accept patients regardless of the ability to pay. These ...

  • In Patients With Kidney Disease LDL Cholesterol Is A Poor Marker Of Heart Health

    cholesterol and heart attack risk was weaker for patients with very low kidney function than for patients with higher kidney function. 60 million people globally have chronic kidney ...

  • To Increase Bicycle Use Improve Public Health A Change In Cycle Track Policy Needed

    Bicycle engineering guidelines often used by state regulators to design bicycle facilities need to be overhauled to reflect current cyclists' preferences and safety data, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. They say that U.S. guidelines should be expanded to offer cyclists more riding options and call for endorsing cycle tracks - physically ...

  • Ayurveda comes up with an online personalized health regimen

    Usually, an Ayurveda session needs around six hours of interaction between the patient and the doctor, but with a busy work schedule and a hectic lifestyle, no one is interested in investing so much time, and as a shortcut treatment they go for some other alternative, which completes the things ...

  • N.C. Commissioner Goodwin Seeking Apology Over Health Official’s Remark

    North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is publicly calling for an apology from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services Secretary over a remark in which the health official allegedly held Commissioner Goodwin responsible for the state’s rejection of Medicaid expansion. According to press reports, when questioned by a local physician during a public ...

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