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Cleaner Air Equals Longer Life
The battle against pollution has been one of the biggest concerns over the past two decades. And...
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Two Enzymes Might Help Predict Ovarian Cancer Outcome
A woman’s chance of surviving ovarian cancer may be linked to levels of two proteins, US...
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Brain Swelling: The Cause Of Many Deaths On Mount Everest
Not avalanches, falling ice or lung problems seem to be the reasons for which many climbers on...
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Report Finds Government Nano-Risk Assessment Plan Faulty
The government’s plan for research on potential health and
environmental risks posed by the use of...
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Europeans Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
An article in the Nov. 19 online issue of the journal The
Lancet tells that story of a Colombian...
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First Stem Cells Trachea Transplant
An article in the British medical journal The Lancet
recently reported that physicians from four...
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DNA Damage May Predict Lung Cancer
Canadian scientists have conducted a study in proving that a genetic trait can be a reliable...
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Cancer Research Moves Forward: Scientists Decode Complete Cancer Genome
Using DNA sequencing, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis were able to identify the...
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Carnivorous Dinosaur Unearthed In Argentina Linked To Modern Birds
An international team of scientists from USA, Argentina and
Canada stumbled upon rare evidence of...
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Rice Professor: Granite Countertops Emit Dangerous Radon and Radiation
Rice University physics Professor W.J. Llope alleges that according to his yet unpublished...
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Famous Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey Passes Away
Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey, whose career spanned
more than seven worthy decades,...
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Write Down Everything You Eat, A Method To Lose More Weight
People writing down what they eat every day lose on average
twice as much weight as those who...
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Prolonged Exposure To Carbon Nanotubes May Increase Cancer Risk
Carbon nanotubes are as
promising as they are dangerous, scientists warned, associating the...
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Stem cell breakthrough promises “ethical” bio-replacements
No need to worry about the ethical implications of stem-cell research anymore: American scientists...
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New Discovery Reveals Tuberculosis Is 500,000-Years-Old
A new discovery made by the scientists from The University
of Texas at Austin
revealed that...
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EPA Proposes New Standards For Ozone Pollution
The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said that the
pollution standards adopted back in 1997...
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Movies
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Dennis Quaid Gets $750,000 Settlement From Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife agreed to a $750,000 settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in...
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Iconic Actor Paul Newman Died At 83
Charismatic and sublime, one of the greatest actors in Hollywood's history, Paul Newman, died at...
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Screen Legend Paul Newman Dead At 83
Unfortunately, the screen legend Paul Newman has lost the
battle with cancer. According to his...
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Without Don LaFontaine, Movie Trailers Will Never Sound The Same
The most famous
voice in the U.S.A. died Monday. Don LaFontaine, the man who popularized
the...
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Christina Applegate Cancer-Free After Double Mastectomy
In an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning
America", Christina Applegate said she is...
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Comedian Bernie Mac Fondly Remembered, Badly Missed
Comedian and actor Bernie Mac, whose untimely death on Aug. 9
has left fans, friends and...
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Legendary Actor Paul Newman Downplays Cancer Rumors
One of Hollywood’s
most popular figures, veteran Paul Newman on Tuesday denied rumors about...
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Update: Kung Fu Panda Knocks Zohan To The Second Place
The Dreamworks animation, “Kung Fu Panda” proved to
be more popular for the moviegoers than Adam...
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Kung Fu Panda Puts Some Fun Into Martial Arts
Like most animations, Kung Fu Panda is not completely free
of clichés, but it certainly is...
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Dennis Quaid Recalls 'Bloody' Baby Nightmare
It's been several months since Dennis Quaid's newborn twins almost died in a Los Angeles hospital...
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‘Married With Children’ Producer, Ron Leavitt, Dies at 60
Ron Leavitt, co-creator of hilarious, luckless show salesman Al Bundy died Sunday of lung cancer at...
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Suzanne Pleshette, 'Newhart's' wife, Died
American actress Suzanne Pleshette, best known for playing Emily Hartley on "The Bob Newhart...
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Specials
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Intel and GE Sign $250 Million Deal in Health Care Field
Two Giant US companies announced Thursday that they will team up to produce a line of...
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‘Magic’ Pill Found to Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk in Half
Researchers present at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida...
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The Necessity of PSA Test in Prostate Cancer Questioned Once Again
Two new studies appearing online in the March 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
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Get Rid of Extra Pounds! They Shorten Your Life!
British researchers at the University of Oxford, through a new study, have warned once again...
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“Breaking Bad” Returns for Second Season Tonight
When “Breaking Bad,” the AMC show that is scheduled to return for a second...
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Want to Lose Weight? It’s All about Calories!
When it comes to losing weight everyone is an expert. Everyone, and here I mean women, knows at...
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Financial Incentives, a Strong Reason to Quit Smoking
Would you quit smoking for money? A new study suggests that money may be a strong reason to...
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Willem J. Kolff, ‘Father Of The Artificial Organ’ Dies
Dr. Willem J. Kolff, the man behind the first artificial kidney and several other devices that...
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Multivitamins Benefit against Cancer Questioned Once Again
Multivitamins taken on daily basis don’t seem to lower the risk of developing cancer in...
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Actor James Whitmore Passed Away At The Age Of 87
Veteran Tony and Emmy award-winning actor James Whitmore died on Friday, at the age of...
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Justice Ginsburg Fights Terrible Disease
Pancreatic cancer, the terrible disease that kneeled actor Patrick Swayze last year, has recently...
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Pfizer Ends Phase III Trial Of Pancreatic Cancer Drug Axitinib
Pfizer Inc. halted a Phase III study of its experimental drug axitinib designed to cure advanced...
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First Commercially Cloned Puppy Arrives Home
A Florida couple missed their dead dog so much they paid $155000 to have it cloned and shipped to...
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Octuplets See The World At California Hospital
A California woman gave birth to the second set of live octuplets in the history of United States...
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Taiwan Bans Indoor Smoking
Taiwan on Sunday announced the decision to ban indoor smoking, becoming the 17th state in the...
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Quit Smoking Today!
What did your New Year’s resolutions include except losing weight and reducing debts? If you...
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Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Recurrence, Key Issues at the Breast Cancer Symposium
A hormone therapy for breast cancer can
reduce the chances of the disease spreading by a...
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Cancer – A Leader by 2010
The World Health Organization, in a report released this week, warned that new cancer cases and...
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Are Popular Asthma Drugs Safe? FDA Panel to Decide on Their Safety
A Food and Drug Administration panel of medical
experts is weighing whether to allow certain...
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Cancer To Become World’s Number One Killer By 2010
Cancer will become world’s number one killer by 2010, as the number of people in poorer countries...
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British government plans ban on open display of cigarettes
London - The British government Tuesday announced a ban on the open display of cigarettes in shops...
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Britney Spears Promises To Invade Our Lives...Again
Britney Spears announced on "Good Morning America" Tuesday, December 2, the dates for a...
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Quit Smoking To Prevent Cancer! Lung Cancer Incidence Higher In Smokers
There are some easy steps Americans can do in order to prevent cancer: avoid smoking, whether it be...
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Report: US Cancer Cases, Deaths Down For First Time In A Decade
For the first time in ten years, the number of men and women
in the US developing and
dying from...
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Stem Cell Transplant Method Is A Real Success
Stem cells have been always been regarded as stepping on the line of ethics, but those were the...
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Patient Receives New Windpipe Made From Owen Stem Cells
Some European doctors have performed the first trachea transplant using a woman’s own stem cells...
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Study: Cancer Drug Avastin Increases Blood Cloths Risk
Avastin, Genentech’s best-selling drug, increases the risk of people developing blood clots,...
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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance to Start a Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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Large Waist Equals Elevated Death Risk
Your weight doesn’t bother you very much because you think
it’s ok and because it seems to be just...
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Study: Lung Cancer Drug Tarceva Slows Progression of the Disease
Lung cancer drug Tarceva jointly developed by OSI
Pharmaceuticals Inc., Genentech Inc. and Roche...
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Health
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Most Americans Living in Areas with High Levels of Pollution
According to the American Lung Association’s State of Air 2009 report released on Wednesday,...
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Black Patients Less Likely to Get Appropriate Care for Lung Cancer
Racial disparities are still present in the American medical system when it comes to lung cancer....
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57 Percent of Nonsmoking New Yorkers Have High Levels of Nicotine in Their Blood
A study by New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene noted that 57 percent of...
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Acid Reflux Drugs Do Not Improve Asthma
A new study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treating...
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US Panel Backs Roche’s Avastin for Brain Cancer
A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Tuesday in favor of Roche...
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US Supreme Court throws out tobacco appeal
Washington - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out cigarette maker Philip Morris USA's appeal...
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Ventricular Reconstruction No Better Than Bypass Alone in Heart Failure
Ventricular reconstruction to improve symptoms in people with heart failure, a procedure often...
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Is PSA Test Really Important for Prostate Cancer Prevention?
Many studies have tried to find an answer to this question, but the majority of them ended in...
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Early Detection of a Second Breast Cancer Doubles Survival Chances
Early detection of a second breast cancer in a woman can cut her risk of dying in half, researchers...
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Lose Weight! Live Longer!
We know for a fact that obese people have a high risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and...
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FDA Wants Additional Data for Head and Neck Cancer Drug Erbitux
The Food and Drug Administration have declined to approve use of Erbitux as a first-line...
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It’s All About Calories
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center...
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Alcohol Consumption Tied to Cancer Risk in Women
Even moderate alcohol consumption appears to increase a woman’s risk of developing cancer,...
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Calcium May Lower Digestive Cancer Risk
People with the highest levels of calcium intake had significantly fewer cancers of the digestive...
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It’s High Time Children Were Strongly Protected Against the Flu’s Massive Attack
It appears that the flu caused the death of the 10-year-old Long Island, New York child. Cynthia...
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The American Heart Month – How’s Your Heart Doing?
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in both men and women, claiming the lives of nearly 1 million...
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Vitamin Pills Show Little Benefit in Reducing Heart Disease Risk
Multivitamins taken on daily basis don’t seem to lower the risk of developing heart...
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Smoking Bans in Restaurants, a New Attempt to Cut Smoking Rates
Why ban smoking in restaurants and other public places? Supporters of the proposed smoking ban in...
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Justice Ginsburg to Recover at Home after Cancer Surgery
The US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left hospital Friday, a week after she underwent...
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Lauderdale Jury Rules Smoker Died Because of Addiction
In what seems to be a defeat for the tobacco industry, a jury of three men and three women in...
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Multivitamins – Not a Solution to Prevent Diseases
Many people believe that taking vitamins regularly will help them prevent diseases, but this is...
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People Paid to Quit Smoking More Likely to Succeed
People who get paid to stop smoking are three times more likely to kick the habit for at least...
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Multivitamins Are Far From Bringing So Much Benefits
According to a new study, taking a multivitamin does not help you reduce your risk of developing...
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Multivitamins Are Not Associated with a Reduced Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women
Multivitamins failed in preventing cardiovascular disease or cancer in postmenopausal women,...
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Pancreatic Cancer, a Rare and Deadly Condition, Experts Say
Few people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but about 95 percent of those who suffer from...
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February 9 - The Day Smoking Died…in Boston
Starting today, many Bostonians will breathe healthier air thanks to a tobacco ban implemented by...
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February Is the Month That Encourages Heart Health
February 6th was National Wear Red Day, also known as Go Red for Women Day, when people were asked...
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Justice Ginsberg Plans Return To Court Soon After Surgery
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced her intention to be back at work for the...
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Justice Ginsburg Has Surgery To Remove Pancreatic Tumor
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Thursday at the Memorial...
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Let’s Wear Red – A Heart Disease Campaign
The Hearth Truth invites everyone to wear red today, in order to support the awareness campaign for...
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World
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Thousands attend funeral of former Argentine president Alfonsin
Buenos Aires - Several thousand people attended the funeral Thursday in Buenos Aires of...
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Former Argentine president Alfonsin dies at 82
Buenos Aires - Former Argentina president Raul Alfonsin, who led his country out of an era of...
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Spain detains four for killing Colombian drug lord
Madrid - Spanish police have detained four men in connection with the killing of Colombian...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth cancels state visit
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has taken the unusual step of cancelling a state visit...
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Cheers, warnings greet detention of Taiwan ex-president
Taipei - Many people in Taiwan on Wednesday welcomed the detainment of former President Chen...
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Saxophonist LeRoi Moore Passed Away
LeRoi Moore, saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, breathed his last breathe
Tuesday afternoon...
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Leroy Sievers, Journalist, Dies Of Colon Cancer At 53
Leroy Sievers, the journalist who worked at ABC News’
“Nightline” for 14 years and at CBS News for...
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House Overwhelmingly Votes in Favor of Tobacco Regulation
US House of representative on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted
for a bill that would give the Food...
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EPA Experts Describe the Effects of Global Warming
Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that greenhouse
gas emissions represented a...
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20th Century Medicine Giant Michael DeBakey Dies At 99
Heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, whose revolutionary heart transplants
and coronary bypass surgical...
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Connecticut: Hit-and-Run Victim Breathing Through Ventilator
On May 30, Angel Arce Torres, 78, from Hartford,
Connecticut
was run over by a car travelling on...
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Fritzl’s Daughter Gets to Know Her Family
Kerstin Fritzl, the 19- year-old girl of the Austrian Josef
Fritzl has recovered from her coma and...
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Smoking Loses Ground in the U.S.
The end of this bad habit seems to be near, as more and more
organizations set rules against...
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Power Outage Kills Woman Living in Iron Lung
Sometimes we hear about people who never give up. Even if
they encounter many obstacles in life,...
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Memorials for Rep. Julia Carson Commence Today
The body of Congresswoman Julia Carson was carried to the Indiana Statehouse with a horse-drawn...
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Rep. Julia Carson, First Black Congresswoman of Indianapolis, Dies
The first African American and first woman to represent the city of Indianapolis in Congress -...
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Representative Julia Carson Has Terminal Lung Cancer
Representative Julia Carson, of Indiana's 7th congressional district, has taken a medical leave and...
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Iraqi Shiite Leaders Reach Agreement
The powerful Shiite leaders
Moqtada al-Sadr and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim have reportedly agreed upon...
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Cancer, The Number 1 Cause Of Death In China
Increased levels of pollution have made cancer the number
one cause of death in China,
said a...
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People
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Stars turn out to unveil George Harrison's star
Los Angeles - Paul McCartney unveiled the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of his former Beatle...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fights Pancreatic Cancer
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced last week that was diagnosed with pancreatic...
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John Updike Never to be Forgotten
John Updike, the prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning author for fiction novels capturing the mood and...
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John Updike Passed Away
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction novels capturing the mood and emotions...
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Fellow Writers Remember Late US Novelist John Updike
Tributes to Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who died Tuesday after losing the battle with lung...
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer John Updike Died at 76
John Updike filed the literature with poetry, novels, short stories and literary criticism works....
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The World Is Facing a Great Loss: John Updike
John Updike’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, announced that Updike, who lived in Beverly Farms,...
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Mariska Hargitay Has Pneumotorax
Mariska Hargitay is an American actress you are certainly familiar with – or at least you...
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Michael Jackson’s Spokesman Says Singer Is In “Fine Health”
A spokesman for Michael Jackson denied in a statement released on Monday that his client was...
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UPDATE 1 – Jacko is OK!
Michael Jackson, the world-famous King of Pop, began his career at a young age, when he was part...
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Spokesman Denies Rumors About Jacko’s Health Issues
In a statement issued to Reuters, Michael Jackson’s spokesman Dr Tohme Tohme denied rumors...
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Rep for Michael Jackson Denies Illness
A spokesman for Michael Jackson denied all allegations with regard to the former King of...
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Michael Jackson Needs Lung Transplant, May Be Too Weak For Surgery
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has had numerous health issues along the years. Some of them,...
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Biographer Claims Michael Jackson Needs Lung Transplant
Michael Jackson’s biographer Ian Halperin has recently revealed that the artist was suffering...
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Michael Jackson Said To Be Very Ill
Pop star Michael Jackson reportedly has serious health problems and is in need of a lung...
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Amy Winehouse, Again Taken To Rehab
“They tried to make me go to rehab”...and they did. There’s no mystery as to where Amy Winehouse...
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Cinema’s Most Beautiful Blue Eyes Are Forever Shut: Paul Newman Dies
He was 83, but we thought he would always be around. After half of century of acting, directing and...
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Don LaFontaine, Voice Of Movie Trailers, Dies At 68
Don LaFontaine, whose voice we all know from most of Hollywood’s movie
trailers, died Monday at...
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Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist Died Tuesday
LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday afternoon after complications...
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Christina Applegate Says She’s 100 Percent Breast Cancer-Free
In an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning
America", Christina Applegate said she is...
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Famous US Heart Surgeon Dies at 99 Years of Age
Michael DeBakey has been considered by many one of the parents of cardiovascular surgery thanks to...
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Paul Newman Has Cancer, Friend Says
Paul Newman is alleged to have cancer in an advanced stage. An exclusive AP report claims that a...
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'Fifth Beatle' Neil Aspinall Dies In NY
Known to many people as the "Fifth Beatle," Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend and runner...
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Legendary Patients Rights Advocate Barbara Seaman Died
Female patients’ rights advocate Barbara Seaman, 72, has died of complications related to lung...
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Suzanne Pleshette Honored Posthumously
The Emmy-nominated actress Suzanne Pleshette was honored Thursday with a posthumous star on the...
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The Legendary Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies At 69
The U.S.
legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel died Friday after lengthy illnesses
aged 69,...
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Dennis Quaid's Twins Are Recovering from Drug Overdose
The two-week-old twins of actor Dennis Quaid, who were born via a gestational carrier on November...
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Country Music Veteran Hank Thompson Dies
Country singer Hank Thompson, a significant promoter of honky tonk swing, passed away Tuesday of...
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Robert Goulet Passes Away at 73
Broadway actor Robert Goulet passed away Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, aged 73. He had been...
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Music Legend Porter Wagoner Dies at 80
Porter Wagoner, a three-time Grammy winner and a member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame, died of...
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