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  • Tippi Hedren accuses Hitchcock of sexual harassment in memoir

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    Hitchcock died in 1980 at age 80. Hedren, 86, recalled Hitchcock making unwanted advances during her grueling six-month shoot for “The Birds” in 1962, including one encounter while riding back to her hotel with the filmmaker in his limousine. The breaking point, she wrote, came in 1964 during production of Hedren's second Hitchcock film, “Marnie,”…

  • Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan enters rehab for drug abuse

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    Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Chaka Khan has postponed all performances for this month after checking herself into a drug addiction rehabilitation program, her representatives said in a message posted on her website. The treatment was described only as “an addiction rehabilitation and aftercare program” that would require her to “postpone all dates scheduled for the…

  • Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan enters rehab for drug abuse

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    Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Chaka Khan has postponed all performances for this month after checking herself into a drug addiction rehabilitation program, her representatives said in a message posted on her website. The treatment was described only as “an addiction rehabilitation and aftercare program” that would require her to “postpone all dates scheduled for the…

  • Thumb suckers less prone to allergies: New Zealand study

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    Infants who suck their thumbs or bite their nails appear less prone to allergies as adults, New Zealand researchers have found. Researchers then followed up by giving them allergy skin prick tests when they were aged 13 and 32. The allergy level fell to 31 percent for children who did both.

  • FDA approves Shire’s keenly-watched eye drug

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    (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Shire Plc's lifitegrast eye drops for treating signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, allowing the company to bring to market its most important pipeline medicine. Lifitegrast, which will be marketed as Xiidra in the United States, is expected to launch in the third…

  • Jailed U.S. soldier Manning attempted suicide last week: lawyers

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    Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier imprisoned for leaking classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, attempted to commit suicide last week, her lawyers said on Monday. “Last week, Chelsea made a decision to end her life,” attorneys Chase Strangio, Vincent Ward and Nancy Hollander said in a joint statement. The statement confirms earlier media reports that…