Archive for: October, 2011

Rory McIlroy Crowned Shanghai Masters Champion

Rory McIlroy Crowned Shanghai Masters Champion

Shanghai — Rory McIlroy, defending U.S. Open Champion, won the coveted Shanghai Masters Sunday in a sudden death play-off versus Anthony Kim of the United States.  Before the sudden death play-off, McIlroy had the chance to win the title with a birdie putt at the 18th hole but missed the shot by a few inches. […]

Broadway’s Spider-Man will lose Original Cast

Broadway’s Spider-Man will lose Original Cast

New York — Two original casts of Broadway’s Spider-Man will bid goodbye as their contract will expire next month as announced Friday by its producers. T.V. Carpio and Jennifer Damiano has been part of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark since November of last year. Jennifer Damiano plays the role of Mary Jane Watson, the love […]

Leptospirosis Cases in New Caledonia Linked with Climate Change

Leptospirosis Cases in New Caledonia Linked with Climate Change

A new study co-funded by the French Ministry of Research and Technology has been conducted by scientists in New Caledonia where annual cases of leptospirosis can reach as high as 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Leptospirosis is an endemic disease in many tropical and sub-tropical countries worldwide. It is considered to be very high. Scientists […]

Justine Timberlake’s Newest Movie Coming Soon

Justine Timberlake's Newest Movie Coming Soon

Los Angeles — Justine Timberlake is excited for the release of his upcoming movie “In Time” to be released Friday in theaters. The new movie will give the singer, dancer and now an actor as well a new path to movie stardom. But Timberlake always thinks he is still an ordinary man. It is a […]

Charlie Sheen Books a New TV sitcom

Charlie Sheen Books a New TV sitcom

Los Angeles — Charlie Sheen announced Thursday he will return to television in next year’s summer after being fired in his role in a TV sitcom, Two and a Half Men. After a turbulent year for Sheen, his role in the new sitcom Anger Management will be a good way for him to revive his […]

Chest X-Ray screening Ineffective against Lung Cancer

Chest X-Ray screening Ineffective against Lung Cancer

A new study conducted in the United States released its findings Wednesday saying that people who took chest X-ray screening for lung cancer don’t have higher survival rate as compared those who failed to have their chest X-ray screening. The new study is a follow-up of an earlier study that was already published in the […]

Recycled pacemakers from the U.S. to be donated to poor nations

Recycled pacemakers from the U.S. to be donated to poor nations

There is good news for people from developing countries who cannot afford to buy pacemakers. An agency from the United States has announced it can donate recycled pacemakers from the decreased owners to those who don’t have the means to buy any heart devices from developing countries. There are about 1-2 million people annually who […]

HPV vaccine helps prevent anal cancer

HPV vaccine helps prevent anal cancer

The result of a new international study has been released Wednesday saying that the vaccine used by women to prevent cervical cancer can be also used to prevent anal cancers for gay men. The vaccine which is used by women to protect themselves from sexually transmitting the disease HPV has also been shown with good […]

Faster medical diagnosis does not always translate to Effective Health Treatment

Faster medical diagnosis does not always translate to Effective Health Treatment

At this day and age, people live their lives at faster pace. Information can be accessed faster through the internet, and through modern technology, all works are less laborious. It is also true in the field of medicine where people want faster diagnosis. Patients are expecting technology tp provide speedy diagnosis for deadly and infectious […]

Dead Plastic Surgeon’s Estate Hit With More Than 20 Negligence Lawsuits

Judith Julian of Arizona has filed a negligence suit against the estate of Santa Fe plastic surgeon Daniel Ronel. In the suit Julian claims that the surgery center Ronel worked failed to recognize that Ronel was not competent to undertake the surgeries and failure to provide pre-operative and post-operative services. Julian claims that due to […]

Featured Press Releases

Photo Gallery

Log in