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  • Lindsay Lohan struggles in rehab

    It seems actress Lindsay Lohan is struggling in rehab after the doctors cut her off from Addreall. The 26-year-old actress is completing her 90-day stint at the Betty Ford Clinic in California. And her friends are worried that she is lacking energy, reports femalefirst.co.uk. A source said: "Lindsay just doesn't want to be there. She was forced to go to Betty Ford by the judge instead of going ...

  • Indo- Swiss bilateral meet held at Geneva

    Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad and Minister of Health Switzerland Alain Berset held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of World Health Assembly at Geneva with the aim of giving further impetus to cooperation in the field of healthcare. Speaking on the occasion, Azad said that friendship between India and Switzerland goes as back as Independence of India, ...

  • Victim of Miami face-chewing attack last year making progress doctors say

    Doctor Urmen Desai, left, talks to reporters as Dr. Wrood M. Kassira, center, and Dr. Renaud Saint-Vil, right, look on during a news conference in Miami, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The doctors gave an an update on the progress of Ronald Poppo, a homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami. The attack left Poppo blind, but the doctors say he's been ...

  • AGPMPN warms up for World Doctors’ Day

    The Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, an affiliate of the World Organisation of Family Doctors, is set to mark the 2013 World Doctor Day with a public ...

  • Six Bronx Doctors Receive Doctors’ Day Awards

    Six Bronx physicians were among 28 physicians honored today by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) with Doctors' Day awards for their leadership and commitment to advancing the mission of the public hospital system and providing the highest quality healthcare to New ...


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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Melvin Van Peebles' "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" was a watershed moment in the history of American cinema and the black movement. It was released less than a decade after the Civil Rights Movement had begun and almost twenty years before the Rodney King incident. Its violent and highly sexualized revenge tale of a macho black hustler fighting back against white oppression and winning ... ...

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  • A Tunisian man died of SARS-like virus after Mecca pilgrimage

    A Tunisian man died after a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and two adults children tested positive for SARS-like virus, health officials say. World Health Organization officials said Tuesday the 66-year-old Tunisian man was the second pilgrim to the Muslim holy city to be sickened with the SARS-like virus novel coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Tunisian man returned from a ...

  • New Brunswick discouraging new family doctors from practising medical residents

    New Brunswick is discouraging family physicians from practising in the province despite a growing need for care, a number of doctors in the Maritimes say.Medical residents from throughout the region have written an open letter expressing their concerns to Premier David Alward and Health Minister Hugh ...

  • Program to certify healthy meals at Denver-area restaurants

    About 40 Denver-area restaurants will offer dietitian-verified healthy meals under a new program being launched Wednesday by the University of Colorado's Anschutz Health and Wellness Center. The Healthy Dining in Colorado program builds on a national template that Healthy Dining, a nutritional consulting company, has undertaken by listing good-for-you options at participating restaurants on ...

  • N. Va. biotech has always been weak. How that could change.

    Biotech has never quite taken flight in Northern Virginia. Whether that's due to the lack of a big corporate anchor or blue-chip research university, the dearth of wet labs, the attraction of a stronger scene in Montgomery County or pure dumb happenstance is anyone's guess. But on this side of the D.C. suburbs, the life sciences are not thriving. The story of Virginia biotech right now ...

  • UTMB gets $5M to study health care for elderly

    Researchers at UTMB were awarded $4.9 million to study best practices for caring for elderly patients. The University of Texas Medical Branch has been awarded a $4.9 million grant to study how to care for and promote the health and well-being of elderly patients. All four of UTMB's schools will participate in the study. Dr. James Goodwin, director of UTMB's Sealy Center on Aging in ...

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