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Farrah Fawcett dies: Son Redmond will attend funeral

Farrah Fawcett dies: Son Redmond will attend funeral

Jun. 26 | Yesterday, people around the world was shocked with the deaths of two of American icons: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Farrah Fawcett, the Charlie’s Angels star whose iconic blond hair and eye-popping smile made her among the biggest sex symbols...

Michael Jackson dead: The world waits for answers

Michael Jackson dead: The world waits for answers

Jun. 26 | It is expected today that the post-mortem examination will take place on the body of pop star Michael Jackson, who died in Los Angeles at the age of 50. Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm PDT (2126 GMT) after arriving at a Los Angeles hospital in...

Michael Jackson suffers cardiac arrest

Michael Jackson suffers cardiac arrest

Jun. 25 | Michael Jackson has been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest. Paramedics were seen administering CPR in the ambulance. The entertainment website TMZ reports that Jackson was picked up about 12:21 p.m. at a Holmby Hill...

E. coli alert: JBS Swift Beef recalls 41,000lbs of beef product

E. coli alert: JBS Swift Beef recalls 41,000lbs of beef product

Jun. 25 | The FDA have announced that JBS Swift Beef Co. of Greeley has recalled approximately 41,000 of their beef products due to E. coli contamination. The Colorado established company had to recall over 41,000 pounds of beef products from Florida, Arizona, California,...

Farrah Fawcett dies: Remembering an angel

Farrah Fawcett dies: Remembering an angel

Jun. 25 | Iconic Actress Farrah Fawcett has died in California today after a three-year-battle with anal cancer. She was 62. Fawcett was first diagnosed with anal cancer in late 2006. She passed away in a Los Angles hospital after being admitted earlier this week. Fawcett...

The Curious Case of Brooke Greenberg

The Curious Case of Brooke Greenberg

Jun. 25 | 16-year-old Brooke Greenberg has baffled scientists with her inability to age of being a toddler, perhaps bearing secrets to the process of aging. Scientist and doctors from all over the world are fascinated by the case of a sixteen year old girl who...

New cancer treatment being called a medical breakthrough

New cancer treatment being called a medical breakthrough

Jun. 25 | Being called the most significant cancer treatment breakthrough in a decade, a new way of treating cancer has shown “great promise” in its first clinical trial at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. The new drug called Olaparib – developed...

Mediterranean diet good for overall mortality rate

Mediterranean diet good for overall mortality rate

Jun. 24 | Various components of the Mediterranean diet add to its beneficial effect on overall mortality rate, according to new research published online on June 23 in BMJ. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Athens-Medical...

The popular Mediterranean diet helps to keep people alive longer

The popular Mediterranean diet helps to keep people alive longer

Jun. 24 | A new study published by the BMJ, says that foods in the popular Mediterranean diet help to keep people alive longer. The research team discovered key Mediterranean foods to promote health and a longer life are vegetables, fruits, nuts, pulses, and olive...

New devices give hope for heart failure patients

New devices give hope for heart failure patients

Jun. 24 | A large trial of implantable devices, called cardiac resynchronization therapy, that regulates heart rhythms in patients who have had heart attacks, showed a substantial decrease in deaths and reoccurring heart attacks compared to traditional implantable...