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  • Elderly woman killed in French floods

    FLASH floods in southwestern France have killed an elderly woman as the inundated grotto at the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes remains closed for a second ...

  • Implantable Defibrillators Benefit The Elderly Too

    The elderly may benefit from implantable cardioverter defibrillators as much as younger people, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a small battery-powered device placed under the skin of the chest which delivers electrical impulses to restore a normal heartbeat if it detects a dangerous abnormal ...

  • Preventing Vascular Calcification May Treat One Of The Main Symptoms Of Premature Aging Disease

    HGPS is a rare genetic disease that affects one in every 4-8 million births. The disease is caused by a spontaneous mutation in one of the two copies (alleles) of the gene LMNA, which codes for lamin A, a protein important for the integrity and function of the envelope surrounding the cell nucleus. The mutation causes incorrect processing of the messenger RNA for lamin proteins, resulting in the ...

  • Ballet dancer David Wall dies of cancer aged 67

    Dancer David Wall, famous for being the youngest principal male ballet dancer in the history of the Royal Ballet, has died of cancer aged ...

  • Swimmers under fire over posing with dying dolphin in Sanya

    Several swimmers lift a dying dolphin out of the water for a photo shoot on a beach in Sanya, Hainan province, on Sunday evening. Sha Xiaofeng / for China Daily Wildlife experts have criticized swimmers who posed for pictures with a dying dolphin on a South China beach, hampering the efforts of people trying to save the mammal. Photographs taken by witnesses in Sanya, a popular tourist ...


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Charade [DVD]

Charade [DVD]

Stanley Donens Charade may very well be the best (and funniest) Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made. I say that with the full knowledge that Donen was never pleased that his thriller-comedy was constantly compared to Hitch, but surely he saw it coming, especially given the inv ... ...

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  • One-in-5 employees age 45-74 must quit work for caregiving

    One-in-5 employees age 45-74 say they expect to take time off of work to care for a spouse, a parent or relative in the next five years, AARP officials say. An AARP report, "Keeping Up with the Times: Supporting Family Caregivers with Workplace Leave Policies," also said 1-in-4 retirees said they left the workforce earlier than planned to care for an ill spouse or other family ...

  • Elderly Vancouver man dragged by car after thief takes off with his jewelry

    Police are still searching for a suspect who robbed an elderly man and dragged him with a car for about a block. Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, a 61-year-old left a store on East Broadway after purchasing jewelry. He was walking north on Quebec Street when a suspect came up behind him, grabbed the bag of jewelry and ran into a waiting a ...

  • Children dying from encephalitis in India

    A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. Encephalitis has killed at least 118 children so far this year and authorities fear the death toll could reach about 1,000, said Dr R. N. Singh of the Encephalitis ...

  • YMCA offers to build operate four Lexington senior citizens centers

    As Lexington plans to build a new senior citizens center, the YMCA of Central Kentucky proposed on Tuesday a partnership in which the YMCA would build and operate four senior center facilities attached to YMCA locations in Fayette County.David Martorano, president and CEO of YMCA of Central Kentucky, told the Urban County Council's social services and community development committee that ...

  • Lexington woman is accused of leaving elderly man in filthy home

    A 73-year-old Lexington woman was jailed Tuesday because police say she left an elderly man under her care in a filthy home.Julia Polsgrove was charged with one count of knowingly abusing or neglecting an adult and was being held in the Fayette County Detention Center.The home on Kilkenny Court was littered with filth and animal feces and was condemned, city spokeswoman Susan Straub ...

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