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LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co. said today it is putting limits on the calorie, fat and sugar it will allow in packaged foods it markets to children using the faces of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.The move comes amid...

Four more people at Christchurch's Princess Margaret Hospital are infected with the deadly bug which has killed three people since September 29, tests have revealed.Up to 60 staff and patients of the hospital's Ward 3A were tested...

Students and community share hair and compassion 
Daily Vidette - Oct 08 6:29 PM
For nine years now the Locks of Love non-profit organization has assisted financially disadvantaged children under the age of 18 who suffer from long-term medial hair loss. While this organization is by no means unfamiliar to many, its popularity has been increasing since its start in December 1997 and has now produced as many as 2,000 hair pieces to date.Save to My Web

Staying in the eye of the Storm 
The Columbian - Oct 06 11:05 AM
It started with a moment of spontaneous and honest emotion, accelerating quickly into a weekly tradition. Skyview football coach Steve Kizer stood before his crouched players in the end zone, the scoreboard reflecting the Storm’s 49-0 season-opening win over Fort Vancouver.Save to My Web

Ironwood making case as state’s best 
The Arizona Republic - Oct 10 1:09 AM
There’s no doubt that Glendale Ironwood is the state’s best high school volleyball team. Ironwood’s championship victories at the Mesa Westwood Tournament of Champions and the Phoenix Goldwater Volleyball Festival proved so.Save to My Web

A decision on the Medical Protection Society's application to be heard during a judicial review into the awarding by the Auckland region's three health boards of laboratory testing contracts to Labtests has been reserved.The group...

A decade after her diagnosis, Janette Howard, wife of the Australian PM, has revealed publicly for the first time her battle against cervical cancer. Until yesterday she had not disclosed which cancer she had suffered. Her husband...

The first deaths from infectious disease attributed to global warming have occurred in Britain, official figures suggest.Cases of legionnaires' disease, the bacterial lung infection which kills more than one in ten of those it...

Hospital patients most at risk from an outbreak of a flesh-eating bug that killed three people have been cleared.A trio of patients at Christchurch's Princess Margaret Hospital have died in the last two weeks after being infected...

Families severely affected by pneumococcal disease will join a march to Parliament tomorrow to give a message to Health Minister Pete Hodgson.As part of a campaign by the Meningitis Trust, the group is demanding the pneumococcal...

You must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss. But the way you kiss reveals a lot about the kind of person you are.University research in Britain into how people relate to each other suggests the social minefield that is cheek-to-cheek...

More than 60 per cent of retail outlets break the rules on cigarette displays, a new study has found.And the worst culprits are in areas with a higher proportion of children.The survey of almost 300 stores and retail outlets...