Kanye West Teaming Up With Vogue Italia [ Bus1nessN3wz ]

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25. Oktober 2013 – 17:00

How Kim Kardashian and Kanye West will find the time to plan a wedding, we do not know.

Just last night we learned that West is hard at work on yet another art project to debut in 2014.

“We just [figured] out a new project for next year,” Vogue Italia Editor-in-Chief Franca Sozzani teased on the red carpet before she was  honored for her humanitarian work by the Dream For Future Africa Foundation at Spago in Beverly Hills. “It’s about Africa, art and music. He’s more than music. He’s not only about music.”

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Sozzani had been with West earlier in the day to discuss their collaboration. There wasn’t much talk about his proposal extravaganza. “I just saw the pictures of the kid,” Sozzani said, referring to baby North. “He’s proud of the kid and happy for the engagement.”

While Kimye was attracting a lot of the spotlight last night, Sozzani’s rare appearance in Los Angeles had all the fashionistas buzzing.

“She is so important to our industry,” model-actress Amber Valetta saod. “I don’t think people realize, because she’s so humble and quiet, how much she’s really changes and had an impact on pop culture…She has inspired so many great artists to do great work.”

“We wanted to come out and support Franca, who has been a good friend of Kanye’s,” Kardashian told me. “She’s stunning. She looks like a Dolce & Gabbana ad, a classic beauty.”

Rachel Zoe added, “It’s a huge deal. I don’t know the last time she was in L.A…She is one of the chicest women in the world. She’s one of my idols. I’m pretty excited.”

VIDEO: Exclusive footage of Kim and Kanye’s engagement

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Celeb Halloween Costumes: What Olivia Munn, Josh Lucas and More Will Wear for the Scary Holiday [ Bus1nessN3wz ]

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25. Oktober 2013 – 16:01

Halloween is just around the corner and some of our favorite celebs are already looking to what they might wear for the fright night festivities!

We caught up with Josh Lucas, Karlie Kloss, Olivia Munn and Anthony Mackie at the Montblanc Madison Avenue boutique opening in New York City to get the scoop on their costume plans.

Josh Lucas reminisced on one of his best costumes in years’ past: “Years ago I won best costume as Matthew McConaughey. And the reason why is because I literally had a toothbrush and a pair of shorts on and multiple people got in arguments with me for not recognizing him because they thought I was him. I literally painted a six-pack of abs on and I won best costume.”

This Halloween, Lucas’ costume will be family-oriented (he welcomed son Noah with wife Jessica Ciencin Henriquez in 2012).

“Well, this year, my little one-year-old wants to go as a lion,” he said. “So I think like a lion, sort of like the Lion King family or something would be great.”

Some celebs are repeat costume offenders: actor Anthony Mackie spilled that he would be the Tin Man this year, as he has been for many Halloweens. 

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Supermodel Karlie Kloss—who attended the event in a black top and printed skirt combo shared her Halloween-away-from-home plans with us: “I’ll be in Brazil over Halloween,” Kloss said. “It’s summer down there and I don’t know how festive they get, so I’ll have to pack a Halloween costume in my suitcase.”

The model already has an idea of what get-up could be suitcase friendly.

“Well, an easy one is [to] just be a football player. Put on a big jersey, put on some big pads, sort of do some black marks,” she said. “I always throw something together at the last minute.”

Meanwhile, Olivia Munn—wearing a white Viktor & Rolf frock with strappy Armani heels—might be going in Julie Andrews garb this year.

“I actually just talked to my best guy friend the other day and I said that if one year we get our schedules together we should go as Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins and then I’d be Mary Poppins, because I love that movie,” Munn said.

—Reporting by Jennifer Cooper

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‘Charmed’ Netflix Success Prompts CBS Reboot [ Bus1nessN3wz ]

Witch drama finds new life after fans binge-watch online

Netflix has proven powerful once more: its second-most-binged show, Charmed, has been given a second life on a new network.

The witch drama originally ran on the WB from 1998-2006 but it will fly over to CBS for a brand-new reboot, Vulture reports. The first run starred Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan (who replaced Doherty in Season Four) and was produced by Aaron Spelling of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame.

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CBS is currently in the early stages of returning the show to the air, reports Vulture. Party of Five creator Chris Keyser and partner Sydney Sidner will deliver a pilot script that will potentially set the new season. Charmed continues to have an avid fanbase from which they can mine ideas; the franchise has spawned a mobile video game and graphic novels.

Netflix famously revived Arrested Development to the delight of its cult fanbase; it seems the Charmed devotees have made their presence felt just as strongly on the streaming site, which boasts over 40 million subscribers worldwide. The company has a goldmine of data regarding which programs people are watching and what will make for a success. This reboot also follows a current upswing in reworked shows; NBC recently announced that they are planning a reboot of Murder She Wrote.

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Herbal remedy can’t be recommended – STLtoday.com [ Bus1nessN3wz ]

Dear Dr. Roach • I am a woman who just turned 75, and I have a chronic dry cough. I visited my pulmonary doctor, and he diagnosed bronchiectasis. There is no cure, but there are herbal products, such as Creseton. They claim to have a 90 percent cure rate, which is better than no cure at all. Can you give me any suggestions or have you heard about the herbal products? — P.N.

Answer • Bronchiectasis is an uncommon lung condition in North America. It is a reaction to previous infection with a scarring process in the small airways. It is similar to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It’s more common in women and certain ethnic groups, or in conjunction with conditions like cystic fibrosis or alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. There is no way to reverse the scarring in the lungs once it occurs, but exacerbation of the disease can be both treated and sometimes prevented with antibiotics.

I looked up Creseton, and the company reported good results from its own, unpublished study. I can’t recommend the product on the basis of what the maker reported. I would like to believe it, but if something sounds too good to be true, it might be.

Dear Dr. Roach • I recently read that many doctors and nurses have low-frequency hearing loss, resulting in a falsely elevated blood pressure measurement compared with an automated blood pressure machine. Please comment. — P.I.

Answer • Accurately measuring blood pressure is very important, and there are several concerns. For the best accuracy, the blood pressure should be taken seated, with a manual mercury device using a properly sized cuff, three times, and the average recorded (as I learned years ago: thanks, Dr. William Elliott). Only very advanced automated models, costing up to thousands of dollars, can approach the accuracy of a trained clinician.

I couldn’t find the news piece you read, but it makes some sense. Health-care providers aren’t immune to losing hearing as we get older, and hearing loss can lead to inaccuracy in blood pressure measurement. Hearing loss can mean an error of several points.

There is abundant evidence that in the vast majority of cases, home and inexpensive office machines are not as accurate as humans.

Dear Dr. Roach • There is much controversy circulating about the healthiest choices available today for butter and margarine spreads made with canola oil, coconut oil, flaxseed oil, grapeseed oil and olive oil.

There are so many choices that it is almost mind-boggling to the average consumer. I keep receiving emails from friends and relatives with articles that state margarine was developed to fatten up turkeys, and when that did not fly, it was marketed to people as a healthy substitute for butter. Yet, I read labels on products claiming much lower saturated fat than real butter contains.

Many articles forwarded to me have a product to sell, and so their claims are used push these products, whether valid or not. — M.P.

Answer • Today’s margarine is not the margarine of the 1950s. Margarines with plant sterols and stanols (sold as Benecol and Smart Balance) reduce LDL cholesterol, although it’s not clear whether they reduce the risk of heart disease. The main advice I give is to completely avoid trans-saturated fatty acids (on food labels as “trans fat”). Most food companies have received that message, and it’s easy to find high-quality margarine. The vast preponderance of the evidence is that margarines are healthier for you than butter.

That doesn’t mean you can’t have butter occasionally. We all make choices that affect our health. The harm you do from a little butter is small. Too much isn’t harmless, though.

Dr. Keith Roach is a physician at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital.Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, Fla. 32853-6475.

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Can Herbal Remedies Treat Back Pain? – American News Report [ Bus1nessN3wz ]

If your back is killing you but you’re afraid of surgery and worried about getting hooked on prescription painkillers, a Florida researcher says a topical herbal remedy may be a better alternative.

In a commentary published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Charles Hennekens, MD, a senior academic advisor at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, says an ointment made with capsaicin, wintergreen oil and peppermint oil can provide pain relief with few side effects.

Capsaicin , the active compound in cayenne pepper, strikes the first blow in Hennekens’s double-fisted herbal remedy. Capsaicin acts as a powerful local stimulant that, with repeated applications to the skin, reduces the body’s sensitivity to pain.

Peppermint and wintergreen oils deliver the knockout blow to lower back pain. The essential oil from wintergreen leaves contains about 98% methyl salicylate, a compound similar to the pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin. In addition, the combination of both oils may enhance the effects of each individually, enabling the use of lower doses that reduce the risk of side effects.

“If these alternative medications were equivalent or superior to the existing therapies, their lower risks may favor their more widespread use,” said Hennekens.

In the U.S., low back pain affects eight out of 10 people at some point during their lives. Treatment varies depending on the degree of the pain and includes ice packs, exercise, prescription drugs, injections, and in some cases, surgery. Hennekens says drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors (COXIBS), offer only limited benefits for the treatment of low back pain and have both cardiovascular and gastrointestinal side effects.

Hennekens and his colleagues say healthcare providers should compare the benefits and risks of potentially promising and safer alternative treatments to conventional therapies.

“Dr. Hennekens and his colleagues are raising important issues about the efficacy and safety of different treatments for this common clinical problem,” said David J. Bjorkman, MD, a gastroenterologist and dean and executive director of medical affairs in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.

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Can Herbal Remedies Treat Back Pain? – American News Report [ Bus1nessN3wz ]

If your back is killing you but you’re afraid of surgery and worried about getting hooked on prescription painkillers, a Florida researcher says a topical herbal remedy may be a better alternative.

In a commentary published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Charles Hennekens, MD, a senior academic advisor at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, says an ointment made with capsaicin, wintergreen oil and peppermint oil can provide pain relief with few side effects.

Capsaicin , the active compound in cayenne pepper, strikes the first blow in Hennekens’s double-fisted herbal remedy. Capsaicin acts as a powerful local stimulant that, with repeated applications to the skin, reduces the body’s sensitivity to pain.

Peppermint and wintergreen oils deliver the knockout blow to lower back pain. The essential oil from wintergreen leaves contains about 98% methyl salicylate, a compound similar to the pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin. In addition, the combination of both oils may enhance the effects of each individually, enabling the use of lower doses that reduce the risk of side effects.

“If these alternative medications were equivalent or superior to the existing therapies, their lower risks may favor their more widespread use,” said Hennekens.

In the U.S., low back pain affects eight out of 10 people at some point during their lives. Treatment varies depending on the degree of the pain and includes ice packs, exercise, prescription drugs, injections, and in some cases, surgery. Hennekens says drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors (COXIBS), offer only limited benefits for the treatment of low back pain and have both cardiovascular and gastrointestinal side effects.

Hennekens and his colleagues say healthcare providers should compare the benefits and risks of potentially promising and safer alternative treatments to conventional therapies.

“Dr. Hennekens and his colleagues are raising important issues about the efficacy and safety of different treatments for this common clinical problem,” said David J. Bjorkman, MD, a gastroenterologist and dean and executive director of medical affairs in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine.

Tags: back pain, capsaicin, peppermint, wintergeeen

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