| Every cuppa counts
Everyone knows the Melbourne Cup brings the nation to a halt each November, but how many realise the significance of the thousands of cups raised across the country in the fourth week of May each year? The fourth Thursday in May is Australias Biggest Morning Tea, an event that also stops the nation for a few minutes, but whose result has a huge impact on the lives of local cancer patients and their communities. Each year more than 700 hosts in schools, businesses, social groups and clubs right across western NSW hold a morning tea to support The Cancer Council NSW in their mission to defeat cancer. Last year, around nine local hosts helped to raise over $5,200 from morning teas around the Canowindra, Gooloogong, Eugowra and Cudal areas. said Kate Schofield, Community Relations Coordinator for The Cancer Councils Western regional office.
Mistletoe as Cancer Treatment: Review Calls Evidence Weak
For many people, mistletoe conjures up images of Christmas holidays, but in parts of Europe, mistletoe extract is widely used as a therapy for cancer patients. However, a new review of studies finds only weak evidence that the treatment provides any benefit. .
Long Term Outlook Discussed in Wall Street Transcript Personal Care & Household Products Report
67 WALL STREET, New York - April 3, 2008 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Personal Care & Household Products issue, a report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 21-page feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with CEOs from 4 companies and 1 analyst. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online. .
Surgeon tapped to lead UT Health Science Center
The University of Pennsylvania medical school's chief of surgery was tapped Monday as the next president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. UT System regents named Dr. Larry Kaiser, a thoracic surgeon, the sole finalist for the job, ending a seven-month search. State law requires that the regents now wait 21 days before finalizing the appointment. "Dr. Kaiser is a distinguished physician and educator with outstanding credentials and a proven administrative track record," said Scott Caven Jr., chairman of the regents. "He should move the Health Science Center to a higher level of care, teaching and research." Kaiser, 55, would succeed Dr. James Willerson, who announced last fall he would resign once a successor is in place.
New Tory bill amounts to 'censorship': Sarah Polley
Oscar-nominee Sarah Polley, and other prominent members of the Canadian entertainment industry, appeared before the Senate Thursday afternoon to condemn a Conservative bill they say amounted to "censorship." Polley said Bill C-10 -- which would allow the government to refuse tax credits to film or television productions deemed offensive -- will drive filmmakers out of Canada. On Mike Duffy Live, Polley said that the bill's definition of "offensive" is "extremely vague and dangerous to be using." Conservatives issued a combative response - releasing a press release attacking Polley's left-wing political ties and suggesting that artists had no business telling "hard-working Canadians" how their tax dollars should be spent.
Duchess creator pushes pampering
Marla Steuer is on a mission to take the chore out of skin care. "We rush through the day, eating cereal over the sink, rushing through our skin regimen," says the creator of the Duchess Marden line, who will be in Charlotte on Saturday. "We need more self-nurturing, self-pampering." An encounter with rose water, a chemical-free distillate of rose petals, during a journey to Southeast Asia was life-changing, she says. When she first tried rose water, it was "reminiscent of that first sip of fresh-squeezed orange juice," she says. "I was so enthralled by it when it was explained to me: the ritual, the many wondrous properties that heal the skin." She shipped rose water back to the states and shared with family and friends. In 2005, she launched the luxury Duchess Marden line.
Fitness: Health fair holds special interest for high school senior
A lot of Sarah Bruce's friends get a little grossed out in science class when they're examining a real heart - or any other organ or major muscle, for that matter - and studying how it works. "I'm fascinated by all that," Bruce said with a laugh. Circumstances have taught her to appreciate the body's inner workings. A few years ago, Bruce underwent open-heart surgery to correct a malfunction in that oh-so-critical muscle. As soon as doctors gave her the OK, she was back on the soccer field. She made the VIS all-state second team and All-Metro second team last year playing for Saint Gertrude High School. A senior this year, she's in the starting lineup again for the all-girls school. A young woman like Bruce, who had her health and fitness threatened at an early age, is probably always going to be mindful of the choices she makes and how they affect her body.
Bay Area left vulnerable to tuberculosis epidemic
In a beautiful home filled with mementos of world travel, a 44-year-old Silicon Valley executive reluctantly picks up the telephone to tell several business contacts that he might have infected them with tuberculosis. In a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland, a new mother feels her life slipping away. She is losing her hearing, her feet are going numb and her face carries a rash from the toxic drugs being used to fight the drug-resistant bacteria in her lungs. Her body has dwindled to 87 pounds and she wonders: Would my husband and infant son be better off if I was dead? In Helena, Mont., the state's tuberculosis official takes an urgent call from the laboratory and feels her stomach knot. She has a patient with a potentially infectious, dangerous TB strain a case her state lacks the money and the medical resources to treat.
HAUTE LIST
THE proof is in the pudding. Zerene Pudding, to be exact. Hollywood hotties (far right) are hooked on the stuff - a gelatinous goo that's the brainchild of 25-year-old beauty entrepreneur Nicole Paxon. Paxon, daughter of HSN and Pax TV founder Bud Paxon, originally formulated Zerene Pudding and her makeup line, Nicole Paxon Cosmetics (at nicolepaxon.com), for people with severe skin issues like lupus, rashes and birthmarks. But now actresses from both the silver and small screens are using her line to get ready for their close-ups. Her quest for coverage started when she was diagnosed with lupus at 12. After chemotherapy and the extreme sun sensitivity and butterfly rashes associated with the disease, Paxon says she was on the hunt for the ideal concealer.
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