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  • DC comics win court case over Melbourne gyms Superman workout

    DC Comics has won a Federal Court case against a Melbourne gym over the term 'Superman Workout' which the company used to promote its products, allowing the fitness company to register 'superman workout' as a trademark. The gym Cheqout had had been using the phrase to describe its workout DVDs and video clips, but DC Comics challenged the trademark, saying Cheqout's consumers would think it was ...

  • Find how fit you are for your age

    A researcher at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine has demonstrated a technique to measure the health of human genetic material in relation to a patient's age. Dr. Gil Atzmon hopes that the dissemination of this technique that measures telomere length will lead to the development of a "genetic thermometer" to assess a patient's health in relation to other individuals of the same ...

  • Broken Heart How Splits Affect Your Health

    Dr. Travis Stork walked viewers through the physical ailments that can stem from a split, noting that people are more likely to get sick after a breakup. He also warned that those ailments can have major consequences. "You can actually have something called broken heart syndrome," he said. "People have died from a broken heart because of the stress placed on your heart after a ...

  • Mental health and gun owners

    A May 5 letter ("Gun laws won't stop criminals") from Greg Perrine of Reedsville was less than honest in replying to an earlier writer's view that "90 percent of Americans support the Manchin/Toomey plan for background checks on all gun-purchases." Perrine cited information from the "Buckeye Firearms Institute" to claim "90 percent of police ...

  • Hickenlooper shifts funds to cover health exchange

    On Wednesday, Colorado's health benefit exchange got a substantial number of participants. And on Thursday, it officially got its funding source. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1245, sponsored by Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, which gives to the exchange $23.5 million over the next two years that had been used to fund the soon-to-be-defunct Cover Colorado health insurance program. The ...


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Silver Bullet [DVD]

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was always one of the prolific novelist's slightest works, a short, readable-in-one-sitting novelette constructed as a series of 12 episodes in which a werewolf terrorizes a small American town, with each one corresponding to a month of the year. With a punchy, present-tense prose style and almost no characterization, the best thing about it were the gra ... ...

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  • Health council dissatisfied with reforms

    Saskatchewan has a better wait time for a type of heart surgery than the rest of the country, a progress report on health-care reforms shows.That good news was a rare bright spot in an annual progress report released Thursday by the Health Council of Canada, which found that reforms are not keeping pace with the needs of Canadians and that access to services varies widely from province to ...

  • California Puts Tentative Price on Health Policies Under New Law

    California, widely seen as a model for how individuals will buy health insurance under the new health care law, announced Thursday that 13 insurers had been chosen to sell policies through the insurance marketplace ...

  • California sees lower-than-expected prices for health insurance

    California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama - and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience "rate shock" once the law is fully implemented. On average, a person who chooses a mid-level plan can expect to pay around $321 a month, ...

  • TV Soap Characters Promoting Bad Health

    Leading characters in TV soaps are promoting unhealthy lifestyles with too much drinking, a poor diet and an almost total lack of exercise, according to an academic study. Several actors are portrayed drinking alcohol in at least a third of the scenes they appear in, while others are shown eating chips, cake and fry-ups. The two-week study by Liverpool John Moores University Business School ...

  • SportAccord must be voice for sport claims Lapasset as finally unveils Presidential election manifesto

    May 23 - Bernard Lapasset today finally unveiled the election manifesto he hopes will see him named as the new President of SportAccord, saying the organisation "must speak for sport" and reaffirm its values in society to bring it forward. The French International Rugby Board (IRB) chairman (pictured top), who led the successful campaign to reintroduce rugby to the Olympics when it ...

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