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  • Heart failure ups risk of male menopause 4 fold

    Heart failure accelerates the aging process and brings on early andropausal syndrome (AS), a new study has found. According to the research presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2013, AS, also referred to as male "menopause", was four times more common in men with heart failure. As men get older they are more likely to suffer from andropausal syndrome (AS), also called "menopause", androgen ...

  • Washington bridge collapse spotlights Californias aging bridges

    California in recent decades has spent billions retrofitting its bridges for earthquakes, but in the wake of Thursday's bridge collapse in Washington state, critics say the Golden State is still lagging behind most other states in the quality of its bridges.Thousands of bridges in California are classified as "structurally deficient" by federal transportation authorities, meaning ...

  • Patriotic performance inspires audience of seniors veterans

    DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Los Primeros Elementary School second-graders Tabitha Thomassen (left), Kimberly Willard, Dylan Rosenthal and Ava Townsend wave their flags while singing on Thursday as students present a patriotic musical at First Baptist Church in Camarillo. Camarillo second-graders serenaded seniors at a musical assembly to kick off Memorial Day festivities at First ...

  • $20m aged-care home for Muswellbrook

    See your ad here Little Company of Mary, the company that runs Calvary Mater Hospital, has announced it will buy 3.4hectares of Muswellbrook Council's Brennan Park land to build a 92-place aged-care community.The new complex will include 60 hostel and nursing home places and 32 independent living units.The announcement is also set to solve a problem facing Hunter New England Health about ...

  • Seniors remain in hospital after attack in Wetaskiwin-area home

    Marion (left) and Dawne Gilchrist are shown in this 2011 family photo celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. The couple was assaulted and robbed by an intruder at their Wetaskiwin-area rural property on May ...


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Movie Review

Marvin's Room

"Marvin's Room" is about people who should be close, but aren't. The movie's central relationships are both characterized by physical and emotional distance: a pair of estranged sisters who haven't heard from each other in twenty years, and a mother/son relationship that is strained to the point of breaking. The sisters are Bessie (Diane Keaton) and Lee (Meryl Streep). Twenty years ago, their fath ... ...

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  • Single mother with fluctuating income keeps retirement goals in sight

    Lydia is 52 and single with two children, age 16 and 21.They live in suburban Toronto, where the older child is in fourth-year university.Two and a half years ago, Lydia was laid off from the job she worked at for 20 years. After her severance pay ran out, she worked off and on in a number of temporary assignments as an executive ...

  • Anthony Hilton Byrne’s right on pension funds – bigger is better

    To Birmingham for an interesting speech from Liam Byrne - he who as a member of the Labour Government Treasury team famously left the note after the 2010 election warning the incoming Chancellor there was no money ...

  • Proposal before OMERS would require employees to work longer to get full pension

    Ontario municipal pension fund giant OMERS has received a proposal from some of its employer members to increase the amount of time it would take for workers in the plan to gain a full pension from 35 years to 38 years.The proposal will be voted on at the end of June, but would require significant backing from union representatives at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System to be ...

  • Corpus Christi couple embody Older Americans Month theme with compassion for patients

    Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Wayne Atzenhoffer, a volunteer at Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline, gets Tina Peña a cup of coffee while she gets an infusion at the Cancer Center on Tuesday. Since 1994 the couple has volunteered at Christus Spohn Hospital ...

  • Florida teen in underage sex case rejects plea agreement

    A female Florida high school senior accused of having sex with her underage girlfriend has rejected a plea agreement, attorneys said. Kaitlyn Hunt, who is 18 and attends Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Fla., is charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years old. If convicted, she could be sentenced to 15 years in prison and registered as a sex ...

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