Jaci Dalenberg can be forgiven if she is a little extra doting on her three new granddaughters. After all, she had them all to herself for nearly eight months.
In a remarkable display of a mother’s love, the 56-year old Cleveland resident acted as a surrogate in carrying triplets for her daughter, Kim Coseno, who desperately wanted to start a family with her husband, Joe. Kim, 36, had a partial hysterectomy that doomed any chance of her having Read the rest of this entry »
THURSDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) — The cooling flavor of menthol cigarettes may make them more addictive and deadlier to smokers, a new study says.
“We previously found that menthol cigarette smokers take in more nicotine and carbon monoxide per cigarette. This study shows that menthol smokers also find it harder to quit, despite smoking fewer cigarettes per day,” study author Kunal Gandhi, a researcher in the division of addiction psychiatry Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan O'Neal, son charged in drugs case: prosecutors
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Actor Ryan O’Neal and his son have been charged with drug possession following a search at the star’s home in Malibu last month, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday.
The 67-year-old star of classic 1970s films “Love Story” and “Paper Moon” was hit with one count of felony possession of methamphetamine and is to be arraigned on November 13, the District Attorney’s Read the rest of this entry »
Temple University Health System said yesterday that it was studying how it could make its Northeastern Hospital more “cost effective,” but a nurses’ union believes the system is planning to “virtually close” the community hospital, and it already has scheduled a protest.
Bill Cruice, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), which represents registered nurses at Northeastern, said the hospital’s Read the rest of this entry »
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law, but the person who left her could face prosecution in the girl’s home state, Nebraska health officials said.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services said the girl is from Council Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Missouri River from Omaha. She was left at Creighton University Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon, and her case was Read the rest of this entry »
FAIRFIELD TWP. — Fitness Together, a personal training franchise, has opened a new studio at 3417 Princeton Road, Suite 111, in the Bridgewater Falls Shopping Center.
The fitness center offers customers one-on-one instruction with a personal trainer in a private setting. Franchising since 1996, Fitness Together has more than 425 operating studios, and opens approximately 10 new locations each month, said Kevin Betts, president of Fitness Read the rest of this entry »
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The utility of sex, according to an intriguing new theory of evolutionary biology, may be its ability to promote genes that play well with many other partners rather than those that shine with just one specific set of genes.
This idea of genetic mixability, described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Nov. 24, hits on the difficulty evolutionary biologists Read the rest of this entry »
Margao (PTI): Roberto Mendes da Silva’s fitness will be a major concern for Dempo as they prepare to take on Lebanon’s Safa club in the return leg tie of the AFC Cup semi-final in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
The Brazilian, who suffered a shoulder injury in the team’s last I-league match against Vasco, is yet to recover fully. As the team left for Hyderabad on Sunday, coach Armando Colaco kept his fingers crossed in hope that Da Silva would recover in Read the rest of this entry »
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