Month: May 2016

The importance of diet in controlling and avoiding diabetes was among the key topics examined at a conference in Regina Saturday. About 100,000 …
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A controversial Italian gynaecologist famed for helping women in their 60s to have children is under house arrest in Rome on suspicion of removing eggs from a patient's ovaries without her consent. Lawyers for Severino Antinori, who has been nicknamed the "grandmothers&039; obstetrician," dismissed the charges as absurd and claimed Saturday that their client had been the victim of attempted extortion. Antinori, 70, was arrested at Rome&039;s Fiumicino airport on Friday following a complaint filed by a 24-year-old woman who was treated for an ovarian cyst at the clinic, police said.

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"Grapefruit has been hailed as a popular diet food for many years because it is widely believed to boost weight loss," said Rumsey. "While a grapefruit …
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By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The former Iowa science teacher and McDonald's Corp "brand ambassador," who preached the virtues of walking and near-daily french fries in presentations to youth, is no longer visiting U.S. schools, the fast-food chain said on Friday. The program presented by John Cisna, author of the book "My McDonald&039;s Diet: How I lost 37 pounds in 90 days and became a viral media sensation," was sharply criticized by teachers, parents and public health advocates who accused McDonald&039;s of trying to hook youngsters on unhealthy food. Cisna&039;s program included a documentary and discussion guide edited by McDonald&039;s, which hired him in 2015 and provides him with a stipend for time and travel related to his speaking engagements.

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By Karen Lema and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) – The police force in Manila is so underfunded that officers say they have to buy their own bullets and it is not uncommon for funeral service cars to give cops a lift along to murder scenes because they have no vehicles of their own. Enter Rodrigo Duterte, who won this week's presidential election in the Philippines on a single-issue campaign of crushing crime, corruption and drug abuse. Duterte&039;s message, unpolished and peppered with profanities, tapped into popular alarm over a drug-fuelled jump in crime.

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Los Angeles, CA, May 13, 2016 –(PR.com)– The hCG diet protocol is a prime example of companies gaining an enormous internet presence without …
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(Reuters) – Belgian biotech firm Ablynx said on Thursday it used up more cash than it made in the first quarter, driven by higher external research and development costs. Cash burn is a closely watched figure for rising biotech companies that generate revenue only from development milestone payments, and not drug sales. The group, which makes treatments based on nanobodies, reported a net cash outflow of 2.5 million euros ($2.9 million) in the quarter and had remaining cash and cash equivalents of 233.7 million euros.
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