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  • New colonoscope could revolutionize colorectal cancer screening

    A study featuring a new colonoscope that allows doctors to see more of the colon shows promise that could revolutionize colorectal cancer screening. Researchers compared both the adenoma miss rate using the new colonoscope with the miss rate of a traditional colonoscope. The miss rate for the new colonoscope was only 7.6 percent as compared to 41.7 percent for the traditional colonoscope, in ...

  • Berlusconis bunga bunga parties featured nuns and nurses but no sex

    The exotic dancer, who was at the center of Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial, revealed at her first court appearance that young women wore nun and nurse costumes to perform "sensual" dances at his "bunga bunga" parties. Karima El Mahroug said that she often received envelopes filled with notes of 500 euros from the former Italian prime minister, but asserted that the money was not in return for ...

  • Angelina Jolie to play own mum in new biopic

    Angelina Jolie, who recently got a double mastectomy and wants to get her ovaries removed next, is all set to portray the role of her own mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in 2007, in a new biopic. The biopic celebrating Bertrand's life will go into production in 2014 under Brad Pitt's company 'Plan B', the Daily Express reported. The 'Salt' star's mother was involved in ...

  • Darker skin also prone to skin cancer

    Fair skinned people are known to be at higher risk for skin cancer and other problems associated with too much exposure to the sun, but experts say people of color also are vulnerable to the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays emitted by the sun and indoor tanning beds. Darker skin has more pigment-making cells, which provide some inherent protection against UV rays, but not enough, said ...

  • Medical aid on sail - documenting the boat clinics of Assam

    What began as an impulse to help those in need of dire medical attention in isolated areas of Assam, where the mighty river Brahmaputra is both a lifeline and a curse, is today a unique mission to reach healthcare to almost a million people spread over 13 districts of the far-flung northeastern state. Unfolding the miseries of these people, who are beyond the pale of the state's healthcare ...

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The Debt

The Debt

A remake of a little-seen 2007 Israeli thriller, John Maddens The Debt is a cagey examination of the slippery nature of truth and the manner in which recorded history can distract us from the reality of what has actually happened. The story centers on three young Mossad agents who are sent ... ...

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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 ...

  • Promoting Chinese medical devices

    /enpproperty--> CEO's ambition to sell home-grown Kanghui equipment on world stage Yang Libo worked in a medical device unit of Johnson & Johnson for four years before becoming chief executive officer in 2005 of privately owned China Kanghui Holdings, a leading Chinese orthopedics implants company. Now his title is chief executive officer of Medtronic Kanghui Co, an independent ...

  • Nursing home workers suspended after son turns over hidden camera video

    Four employees of an Ontario long-term care facility have been suspended and two investigations have been launched, after a concerned man installed a hidden camera in his mother's room and captured shocking video of neglect and abuse. Camille Parent said he was horrified to see video of his 85-year-old mother being mistreated and neglected at St. Joseph's at Fleming long-term care ...

  • The school run is a health time bomb report warns at start of Walk to School Week

    Today's generation of schoolchildren are being set on a path towards future illness by parents who insist on driving them to school, according to a new report being released today to mark Walk to School ...

  • Health Ministry Lebanon has excellent health sector

    Lebanon has one of the most outstanding health sectors in the Arab world. The comments were made by Mohammad Abu Haidar, a representative for the caretaker health minister, during a conference at ...

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