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Reports: Exiled Tunisian President in Coma After Stroke
By not in system - AOL NewsOusted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia after suffering a stroke, according to reports out of France and Tunisia. "He had a stroke, and his condition is serious," an unidentified friend of Ben Ali told Agence France-Presse, which said the 74-year-old went into a coma two days ago. A spokesman for Tunisia's transitional government, who would neither confirm nor deny the report, told AFP that Ben Ali's health would be discussed later today during a Cabinet meeting. But French journalist Nicolas Beau reported that Ben Ali was checked into ...
Kool Herc Hospitalized: 5 Facts on a Hip-Hop Founding Father [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsPioneering hip-hop artist Kool Herc has been hospitalized because of a serious illness, friends say, and lacks health insurance to cover his medical bills. The 55-year-old Herc (born Clive Campbell) is "very sick," according to Sirius XM's DJ Premier, though specifics about his condition have not been released. On his blog today, Premier has urged fans to make donations to Kool Herc via PayPal or regular mail. Surge Desk hopes Herc makes a full recovery soon, and we've got five facts about the man who changed the way we listen to music. 1. He's credited with inventing the breakbeat While ...
Can Celebrity Sickness Boost Public Health?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Celebrities: They're just like us. That's true of putting on pants (one leg at a time!), grocery store trips, drunken faux pas and also, more seriously, illness. Surprisingly, though, when the rich and famous get sick, their diagnoses might actually improve the health outcomes of their fans and followers. That's the conclusion out of the United Kingdom this week, after a research team at the Warwick Medical School evaluated the impact of reality-TV phenomenon Jade Goody's cervical cancer diagnosis and eventual death. Goody, who announced her diagnosis to the press in 2008, is a ...
ESPN Report Calls Foul on Stadium Food
By Dave Thier - AOL News(July 27) -- If you're taken out to the ballgame, you may want to stay with factory-sealed peanuts and Cracker Jack over anything prepared at the stadium. According to a recent ESPN report, America's sports stadiums have an abysmal record over food safety, and the millions of fans eating at them are running a risk of food-borne illness. A few highlights (actually, more like lowlights) from the report: At what is now Sun Life Stadium in Miami, one employee says that "several small insects" were mixed into frozen alcoholic beverages. Out of the 107 venues surveyed by ESPN, 28 percent had ...
You and Me and Cancer Makes Three
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMelinda, I wish you were correct. Junk science, you say – the study showing men will dump sick women with a six-fold greater frequency than women will dump sick men. ...
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