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Taste, nutritional value, availability, and the cost make it universally popular. Due to the taste, ease, and flexibility of cooking, egg preparations are favorite among bachelors and working couples. Egg is a traditional breakfast food and is consumed in different...

A former beauty queen from Argentina has died after complications from a cosmetic surgery to her buttocks. Solange Magnano, 38, died of a pulmonary embolism on Sunday three days following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires. The procedure involves solution injections...

The inherent desire of women to prove their superiority over Nature proved to be disastrous for a former beauty queen of Argentina. The 38-year old Magnano wanted to improve the shape of her derriere and opted for cosmetic surgery in...

Swine flu shots to start next week in public schools Saturday, November 28th 2009 The Health and Education departments will begin offering H1N1 vaccines, which protect against the swine flu virus, at the territory's public schools next week. The vaccine...

Physiotherapy is a system of treatment of disease and disability using physical agents like therapeutic exercise, manual therapy, massage, hydrotherapy (use of water) and electrotherapy (use of electric current). It is an important rehabilitative service that involves the assessment, maintenance,...

As a result, it said, it plans to recommend monitoring to determine whether residents of the island of Vieques, the site of decades of live fire and bombing exercises, have been exposed to harmful chemicals and at what levels. “Much...

Blood test to confirm cause of woman's death Carolyn Kissoon South Bureau Saturday, November 14th 2009 The woman who died at the San Fernando General Hospital while being treated for suspected influenza A/H1N1 ’swine flu’ virus, suffered a sudden blockage...

Cuban cancer drug undergoes rare U.S. trial For the first time since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba over a half-century ago, a drug developed by the Communist regime is going through clinical trials in the United States. The drug...

Good health is an asset. But at times unhealthy lifestyles can deteriorate its quality. Smoking is one such example. A common perception is that smoking causes lung cancer. But this is not all. It actually is also a cause of...