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  • Losing weight boosts memory in older women

    Weight loss could result in improved memory in older, overweight women, a new small study has suggested. Additionally, the study also showed that the women's brain activity actually changes in the regions of the brain vital for memory tasks after weight loss, the Huffington Post reported. Lead author Andreas Pettersson, M.D., a Ph.D. student at Umea University in Sweden, said in a statement ...

  • New drug offers new hope for AMD sufferers

    A new drug holds promise for those with age-related macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in older adults. A team of ophthalmologists at the University of Iowa has shown that the drug, Eylea, can ease leaking and vision problems for wet AMD patients. In a study involving 31 AMD patients at the UI Hospitals and Clinics, researchers report that half of the ...

  • MMR Booster Vaccine Does Not Appear To Worsen Disease Activity In Children With Juvenile Arthritis

    arthritis (JIA) who had undergone primary immunization, the use of a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) booster compared with no booster did not result in worse JIA disease activity, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. "Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common childhood rheumatic disease, with a prevalence between 16 and 150 per 100,000. Patients with JIA may be ...

  • British Olympic rowing champion Hosking retires aged 27

    Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...

  • High school seniors graduate

    Maureen Baker has waited 56 years to get her high school diploma, and has now finally crossed that dream off her bucket list.Baker has attended several high school reunions with her classmates from the 1950s, but felt like an outsider because she never finished school.On Wednesday, the 76-yearold Agassiz resident finally walked across a stage with two other seniors who enrolled at the same ...


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Maniac [Blu-Ray]

Maniac [Blu-Ray]

William Lustigs Maniac is as grisly and relentlessly single-minded as its title would suggest. An independently produced, low-budget guerilla cheapie destined for the grindhouses on 42nd Street, it stirred up a tornado of controversy wherever it went (starting with the Cannes Film Festival ... ...

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  • Plans revealed to help Ulster’s older people

    The Commissioner for Older People launches a corporate plan today that aims to tackle some of the most significant issues affecting Northern Ireland’s senior citizens. Entitled Hope, Confidence, Certainty, the document sets out several key areas that the commissioner and her office will prioritise over the next two years.Commissioner Claire Keatinge said: "This document sets out in ...

  • Convicted killer collects yearly $55G pension in jail

    A veteran Chicago fire lieutenant who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for beating his second wife to death has been receiving a pension check from the city that has amounted to $840,000 since his incarceration, MyFoxChicago.com reported. Eugene Ornstead, 76, applied for his firefighter's pension days after he committed the murder, the station reported. He is not eligible for parole ...

  • Is early retirement back Help for firms to create jobs for youngsters

    Companies which come up with schemes to boost employment levels, especially for youngsters, will be able to claim help with financing from the government from October. Social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher on Thursday published guidelines for grants to boost employment. The government has set aside €600m for job creation grants between now and 2015. Projects will be funded on a 50:50 ...

  • Medicare scam targeting seniors

    STOCKTON - Seniors in the region have been getting unsolicited phone calls recently from people claiming to be from Medicare and telling them that a new Medicare card is in the mail. If you get such a call, hang ...

  • Elderly people targeted by robber impersonating cop

    Elderly people around Auckland are being targeted in their homes by a robber passing himself off as a police officer. Police are investigating eight offences over the past few days around Auckland and the North Shore in which seven of the victims were elderly people challenged and robbed while at home. A woman was pushed to the ground and her car stolen when she arrived at work in Penrose ...

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