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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie will legally be divorced on Friday in London. The 50-year-old pop star and the 40-year-old film director have already filled all the necessary papers so they could be legally separated as quickly as possible. Their case was listed on Thursday and a judge from the High Court's Family Division will look through it...
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 The second annual Forbes.com list of "Hollywood’s 10 Hottest Tots" placed Suri Cruise on the first place. Daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Suri leaves everyone with their mouths opened when she crosses the street hand-in-hand with mammy and daddy. The 2-year-old styled girl was chosen for first place according to media...
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 Playboy’s boss, Hugh Hefner broke up with his 28-year-old girlfriend, Holly Madison. The publisher said that he had been "down in the dumps" about the split. Holly Madison is one of “The Girls Next Door” star on E!, where she plays together with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt. In the sitcom, they all live in the Playboy...
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Fashion, glamour and intelligence. Come and find all these at Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List. What more could the women placed on the list want? Famous people’s wives have to be priced for something, don’t they? And their work to look better all the time needs to be awarded.Let’s take Carla Bruni, for example. Mystery...
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 Six major Hollywood film studios joined in the agreement to include antismoking public service announcements produced by the California Health and Human Services Agency on millions of DVDs of motion pictures that include scenes with tobacco use.The antismoking public service announcements will appear on all new movies rated G, PG or...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reportedly decided to break up after a marriage of seven years. The opinions about the reasons they had are divided between lots of sources. Some say that Guy has had enough of her flirting with some young artists, like Timberlake or Stuart Price and he just couldn’t bear to be “second...
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According to a New York Times report on Thursday, television
network NBC has settled a $105 million lawsuit filed by the family of a man who
supposedly committed suicide when faced with cameras for the TV show “To Catch
a Predator.”
An NBC spokeswoman, Jenny Tartikoff, said in a statement
that “the matter has...
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 Ray Charles’ children called Sunday for an investigation of
the late singer’s estate, including a profit-making company that manages rights
to his music and a charitable foundation he set up. The late entertainer’s
family blames longtime manager Joe Adams of mismanaging Charles’ estate and
trusts, and tarnishing his legacy by...
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 Fox Broadcasting refused to pay the fine gave by the Federal
Communication Commission for an episode of a reality television show distributed
by them, which included graphical sexual scenes, digitally obscured nudity and
scenes with strippers.
Fox Television is a division of News Corp. which is also the
owner of Dow Jones,...
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Kevin Federline forgot about all his parenting worries and
the bitterness of the ongoing child custody dispute with his former wife and
celebrated his 30th anniversary in Las
Vegas.
The birthday bash was held at the Caesars Palace’s
Pure Nightclub on Friday, and it was no unfamiliar spot for K-Fed, who
celebrated there...
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 The Madden brothers are very busy boys, actually. Besides
spending time with his fiancée, Nicole Richie and daughter, Harlow (that would
be Joel Madden, of course) and partying with Paris Hilton (we’re making reference
to Benji), the two opened a store.
The official opening of the DCMA Collective on Melrose took place on
Friday...
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 The much-waited for first
encounter between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston has been postponed, Now
Magazine reports.
They were expected to meet at the
pre-Oscar party on Saturday at the Warner’s Night Before Party at the Beverly
Hills Hotel. The two actresses have never met face to face since Jennifer and
Brad broke up...
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 Travis Barker, member of Blink
182, and Shanna Moakler, former Miss USA, have finally divorced,
according to TMZ.
The couple was on the verge of
breaking up almost two years ago, when Shanna Moakler filed for divorced in August
2006, but by March 2007, the former American beauty queen came running back to
her husband, with...
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 Setting: The lawns of the United Nations in New York. Time:
Wednesday night, just after celebrities were wiping their eyes after the
cancellation of the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Host: Madonna. Sponsor: Gucci. Goal:
Raising money for children in Malawi.
Story: In order to raise funds for UNICEF and her own
charity organization,...
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 Dr. Phil thought he might get lucky, but he met severe
criticism and reconsidered his position.
We’re talking about his TV shrinking show and his initiative
to bring pop queen/ emotional wreck Britney Spears in front of the cameras in
order, of course, to cure her and not to draw immense audience rates.
Dr. Phil McGraw visited...
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 Sullen Grinch may save theatre Christmas, as it appears from
the court decision ruled on Wednesday ordering that “Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch
Stole Christmas!” reopen on Broadway, despite the fact that the current
stagehand strike closed twenty plays and musicals.
State Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman ordered
that the green...
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 The lights were out in Broadway theatres Saturday after the stagehands'
union authorized a strike that hit the world- famous theatre district
just as it enters the busy holiday period.
The 11 am matinee of the musical Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole
Christmas was the first show hit by the strike, as stagehands at more
than 25 shows...
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 Harry Potter books, movies, video games – why not a Harry Potter theme park, complete with fun and magic?
When J. K. Rowling herself says the plans for the Harry Potter theme park are impressive, you can’t help but imagine thousands of children, accompanied by thousands of parents, visiting the magical place.
The...
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 An 8th grade female student and her family are suing a substitute teacher for showing “Brokeback Mountain” in class and allegedly causing the girl psychological distress.
The 12-year-old girl claims to have been deeply disturbed after watching “Brokeback Mountain,” a 2005 controversial and multi-award-nominated...
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 The Motion Picture Association of America has announced that movies will now be evaluated, in terms of protecting a younger audience from improper content, on a newly added criterion: portrayals of smoking.
Sexual and violent scenes and language have long been criteria for rating a film’s suitability for the impressionable minds...
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 Researchers stated on Wednesday that the commercials made to promote the fast food products are directly linked to the obese children. The research team proved that the forbiddance of such ads could reduce the number of overweight children with at least 18%.This banning also happened in countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland and the...
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 An international research team announced on Wednesday that a woman from Colombia has just received the first trachea transplant which was grown by seeding a donor organ with her stem cells as to prevent her body from rejecting it. The surgery was a total success and it was made back in June.The doctors used tissue from the woman’s own...
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 State officials from California want to cap the list of people registered in the health insurance system based on children of the poor working people. The authorities stated that this decision can come because of too many new clients who take upon the insurance health system. But advocates say that if the Healthy Families Program needs...
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 Federal officials announced on Thursday that one in four girls in the United States had their shot against cervical cancer. This is the government’s first study of vaccination rates for the Gardasil vaccine. This vaccine protects young girls and women against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus, or the HPV. The strains of this...
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 Peditricians called on ban on the cold medicinesand the over-the-counter coughs for young children, explaining that these could harm them. Still, a top government health official rejected the ban on Thursday even if the Food and Drug Administration also stated that they were a little concerned about those medicines since they have a lack...
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 Consumer Reports stated on Wednesday that some cereals made in the U.S. contain sugar in half of their entire percentage. Still, many of the companies which market the cereals put only the fair scores on nutritional value. The agency tracked 11 popular cereals which disobeyed the corresponding sugar value. Among them, Kellogg's Honey...
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 This year doctors recommend us to take the flu shots which are now available for any age, even for the ones age 18 and younger. Still, infants 6 months old and younger are totally forbidden to take the vaccine. All the adults have been under flu vaccine recommendation for years so they don’t pass it to the elderly, who are most likely to...
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that they will hold a public meeting about the chemical found in baby bottles and other products. The meeting will be held next month and the environmental groups say that the chemical, known as bisphenol A, could hurt little children and animals.Still, the U.S. Food and Drug...
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India and China, where 2.5
million child deaths were recorded in 2006, need to make 'significant
strides' in health-related services for children if the UN's millenium
development goals are to be met, a UNICEF report warned Tuesday.
UNICEF said that unless India, in particular, achieved 'major
improvements in health, nutrition,...
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 Fast-food restaurants use to deliver quick meals for kids. But what exactly could be found in these menus? Study shows that 90% of these meals have more than the calories recommended on a day for one child. Many of them are also full of salt and fats!After the study made by The Center for Science in the Public Interest, it was obvious...
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The painkiller paracetamol can cause health problems, if the dose is too high, experts say.
A healthy adult who takes more than 10 to 12 grams in one dose or more
than 7.5 grams a day for a longer period, risks liver damage, reports
the German Federation of German Apothecary Associations. The
recommended doses for children are...
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Shops in Australia's biggest
state will have to keep cigarettes out of sight of their customers
under new anti- smoking regulations, New South Wales Premier Morris
Iemma said Wednesday. 'Smoking is a one-way ticket to
misery,' Iemma said. 'There's only one reason why the tobacco companies
do this sort of glossy advertising in...
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 The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban for at least one year new fast-food restaurants in one of the town's poorest areas, this way taking measures against increasing obesity rates.If approved by Mayor Antonia Villaraigosa, the ordinance would put a one-year moratorium on construction of new fast-food eateries in a...
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 An increased risk of cancer seems to be caused by cell
phones usage. 3,000 employees were warned through a memo to limit their
children’s cell phone usage. Studies about the relation between cell phones and
brain cancer will be released by the World Health Organization in two years.
More detailed data will be put in an official...
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 Since the first test tube baby, more and more women desire to have children by IVF. In 1987 the science evolved so much that it could help in the birth of Louise Joy Brown. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe from Cambridge University helped in delivering baby Louise, who is now 30, on July 25, 1987, by Caesarean. The event served as hope...
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 The leader of an important cancer research institute
released a first-time warning to his faculty and staff on Wednesday regarding
the reduction of cell phone use because of the more likely risk of cancer it
may cause.
The notice issued by Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of
the University of
Pittsburgh Cancer
Institute, is...
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The National
Institutes of Health reported on Friday that, for the first time since 1991,
the number of pregnancies among teenagers increased in the US.
The report has
been carried out after an avalanche of famous teens, well thought of, gave
birth to babies. For instance, the TV star Jamie Lynn Spears, aged 17,...
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 The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention
offers advice on prevention of West Nile virus.
West Nile virus can be contacted by humans via
mosquito bites that caught the disease from infected birds.
Officials advise the public:
-to avoid mosquito-infected areas. These
include small pools of water that are not cleaned out,...
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 Officials at a Corpus
Christi hospital announced that they intend to make an
autopsy on a newborn in order to conclude whether an overdose of the blood
thinner heparin may have been one of the reasons for the infant’s death.
Two members of the Christus Spohn Hospital South’s pharmacy
personnel have renounced voluntarily, in...
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Even if doctors are still trying to determine the cause of the death of Esmin Green, her case remains a symbol of a health-care system that has failed. Green was received and admitted at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn on June 18 and on June 19 she died in the waiting room in front of the psychiatric room. She waited for almost 24...
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 An environmental California
watchdog group declared on Monday that excessive quantities of lead were found
in several brands of artificial turf. The group warned some of the most important
turf manufacturers and traders that they will be sued in case the products are
not recalled or reformulated.
Unacceptably high lead levels were...
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The Food and Drug Administration recently asserted that
mercury in fillings might be harmful to pregnant women, fetuses, children, people
who are sensitive to mercury exposure and to those who have a weakened immune
system.
"Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic
effects on the nervous systems of...
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 The mercury in dental fillings may have
toxic effects on pregnant women, young children and fetuses, the Food and Drug
Administration said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit. The FDA’s
response came as part of a settlement with several consumer advocacy groups,
including Moms Against Mercury, that filled a lawsuit claiming...
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 A tobacco bill is waiting for approval in the U.S. Congress
that would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration the power to control tobacco.
The proposed legislation would prohibit cigarettes flavoured
with strawberry, chocolate and a number of other fruit, candy and spice
flavorings. Those flavorings have...
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 Contaminated dry dog food was the cause of an outbreak of
Salmonella infections affecting people in 19 states, public health officials
reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These findings point out that although it is somehow
surprising, dry...
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There 2,3 million teenagers using pots at
least once a month in the U.S.A.
Although the figure sounds alarming, it is actually encouraging, because it shows
a 25% decrease since 2001, according to the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention. Used since prehistory, marijuana, also known as cannabis, has
gained in popularity in...
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Chinese officials compelled health care providers to report all cases of the disease caused by Enterovirus71, which has sickened more than 15,799 children and killed 28 others across the country, as the Associated Press informs. The reports must be done in 24 hours from the moment new sickening cases have been recorded.
The alarming...
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 Six times more children in the U.S. than in the U.K. are prescribed anti-psychotic medicines, according to a study made in the U.K., which is to be released Monday in the May edition of the journal Pediatrics.
It is not that important that in the U.S. the rate is higher, but that it’s going up on both sides of the Atlantic....
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 Epilepsy, a frequent affection nowadays, is
a chronic neurological disorder that has recurrent unprovoked seizures as
manifestation. A team of researchers from the University College London has made
a clinical test with the purpose of finding a new technique for reducing the
number of seizures children suffering of this disease have,...
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Eastern China is overpowered by Enterovirus 71 infections. Twelve children were killed and 1200 sickened in Fuyang, a city in Anhui province. The virus is considered to have the capacity to spread very fast. According to Reuters, the outbreak took place in March and it is propagating to a neighboring province, Henan. All the infected...
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 The 2006 mumps outbreak in the US has affected also those who got the second booster shot, introduced in 1990. This came as a surprise for many experts, as it was widely believed that the second shot would boost immunity to a high level and for a longer period of time.In the 2006 outbreak, nearly 7,000 got the mumps, most of them in the...
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Abuse and neglect of children under age 1 are more of a problem in the United States than previously estimated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Thursday that around 1 in 43 U.S. infants are abused or neglected, those most at risk being newborns."We certainly were distressed," says Ileana...
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 It seems like Janet Jackson isn't the only one suffering from flu. Hong Kong authorities ordered the closing of primary schools and kindergartens for two weeks to prevent further spread of an already worrying flu outbreak. Over half a million children are to stay at home, bringing back memories of the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory...
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 The parents of a 9-year-old girl will receive money from a federal
fund that compensates people injured by vaccines, after their daughter started
to behave oddly and was eventually diagnosed with autism, following several
childhood shots.
"Suddenly my daughter was no longer there," said
Terry Poling, the girl's...
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 A kindergarten boy’s condition has been stabilized at St.
Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Marshfield. The boy had been exposed to a high
level of chlorine at a swimming pool in Wausau, where he was attending water
safety training together with 40 other children.
After 30 minutes spent in the water, all children suddenly
became...
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 A report issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
shows that cribs, high chairs, walkers and other nursery products were linked
to 66,400 injuries that sent children in hospitals in 2006, The Wall Street
Journal informs.
CPSC says there were 241 nursery products deaths in children
under five from 2002 to 2004. About 40...
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 The United States’ Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announced on Friday that the flu season worsened, as the
disease reached no less than 49 states and had killed already 22 children. On
Thursday the United States’
Food and Drug Administration said that it should completely change the flu
vaccine mix for next year, as the...
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 For the first time a team of
researchers analyzed the relation between salty foods and nutritional problems
in children and discovered that salt-rich diets could be linked to obesity. It has
always been known that high concentrations of salt in the food people eat leads
to thirst and to the bodies’ tendency to retain more water...
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 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s missions of promoting
the nation’s agriculture and also testing it for safety are being questioned after
the largest beef recall made by Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. last week.
Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who chairs the
House subcommittee responsible for the USDA's...
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 It seems that Botox is toxic,
after all!
According to a governmental
warning, the popular anti-wrinkle drug and other two similar products have been
linked to dangerous symptoms of botulism in some cases. In some situations a
few children even died because of these problems.
So, because of these serious concerns,
the Food and...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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 The U. S. Food and Drug
Administration has approved Schering-Plough's Asmanex Twisthaler, an inhaled
steroid created to prevent asthma attacks in children of 4-11 years old, reported the Associated Press. The approved
dose is 110 micrograms, half the dosage approved in March 2005 for adults and
children aged 12 or older. It is...
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 A new research study found that baby shampoos,
lotions and powders contain chemicals that might cause reproductive and
endocrine abnormalities to infants. The chemicals, called phthalates, are found
in baby cosmetics, as well as in toys, vinyl flooring, shower curtains and
medical supplies. They are used by the manufacturers for...
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 Just about two week before
Valentine’s Day, a child’s heart stopped. A life was taken without anybody’s
fault. In fact, everybody did what they could to help Marquis Popp, the
13-year-old teenager that passed away on Saturday. They even gave him a new
heart, but it seems that sometimes man’s power is simply useless. The boy...
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 Nowadays, women don’t want to
admit anymore that they are humans and that with time wrinkles appear on their
once perfect faces. They started to use many new techniques (or technologies,
why not?) that appear all day everyday, Botox was discovered, all kind of
lotions and creams are being marketed and so on… Nowadays, youth...
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 The number of adults seeking medical help for cannabis
addiction has risen by 50% since Labour downgraded the drug, health authority
figures show.
Over 16,500 adults sought treatment for cannabis use in
England in 2006/7 compared with 11,057 two years earlier when the drug moved
from Class B to C.
Currently 500 adults and...
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 Scientists have discovered a pair of genetic mutations that
markedly boost a child’s risk of autism, according to research published
Thursday.
The mutations — missing or duplicated snippets of DNA on
chromosome 16 — may raise a the risk of autism at least 100 times, the study
says.
Although the genetic errors are implicated in...
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 An experimental vaccine appears to protect newborns from
meningococcal disease, a major cause of meningitis.
Babies under 1 year are especially vulnerable to
meningococcal disease. Infants this age have the highest rates of infection but
aren't protected by an existing vaccine, which is approved only for children
over 2.
Though...
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 According to doctors, atopic disease, which includes eczema,
asthma and food allergies, may be delayed or even prevented in high-risk
infants if they are exclusively breast-fed for at least four months or fed
infant formula without cow milk protein?
That's the conclusion of a new clinical report from the
American Academy of...
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 The federal officials have asked doctors and state health agencies to be more careful when they diagnose children because many of the kids aged under 5 can now be infected with the Haemophilus influenzae type B. This can happen because of a vaccine shortage which could only be resolved next year. Haemophilus influenzae type B is a...
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 Researchers in the United States said on Friday that babies who are born four months before the flu season are at a higher percentage of developing asthma. Scientists stated that 30% of these babies might develop respiratory problems because the common infections they could get during the cold season are easily linked to asthma.Dr. Tina...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 New exercise guidelines were released by the U.S. government on Tuesday. The exercise guidelines advice adults to take a break from their usual work for 2 ½ hours a week and do exercise. Also children are advised to run and play for about an hour a day. The guidelines were released after important studies on health benefits from regular...
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 Residents in Norristown are now in danger of getting infected with the West Nile virus brought by the mosquitoes in the area. The virus is really brought by some birds but after these birds die, the mosquitoes collect their blood and then infect the people.The Montgomery County health department issued on Friday a report asking the...
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 President George W. Bush signed into law on Wednesday a global AIDS bill that authorizes more American spending to fight AIDS pandemic, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide. Despite the fact that the amount of money which is on the verge of being allocated for that purpose is higher than he had initially wanted, Bush enthusiastically...
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