Tag: hollywood
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Grammy-winning singer Chaka Khan enters rehab for drug abuse
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…
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Brazilian mines produce world’s priciest gems under fire
By Adriana Brasileiro SÃO JOSÉ DA BATALHA, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rare neon blue Paraiba tourmalines have adorned jewelry worn on the red carpet by Hollywood actresses Emily Blunt and Salma Hayek and U.S. singer Taylor Swift. Tourmaline miners toil deep in miles of haphazardly built, unsafe tunnels at risk of collapse, breathing dust that can…
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Prince recovering after emergency plane landing due to flu: report
Singer Prince was released from an Illinois hospital on Friday after he was hospitalized with the flu following an emergency plane landing, celebrity news outlet TMZ said. A representative for the singer told TMZ that Prince had performed in Atlanta on Thursday despite not feeling well from the flu, and felt worse after boarding a…
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Prince recovering after emergency plane landing due to flu: report
Singer Prince was released from an Illinois hospital on Friday after he was hospitalized with the flu following an emergency plane landing, celebrity news outlet TMZ said. A representative for the singer told TMZ that Prince had performed in Atlanta on Thursday despite not feeling well from the flu, and felt worse after boarding a…
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Many older black women miss out on targeted breast cancer drug
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older black women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive breast cancer are less likely than their white peers to receive targeted therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin), a U.S. study suggests. When researchers examined data from Medicare, the U.S. health program for people over age 65, they found just…