12Dec/12

Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds passed away peacefully at UW Hospital in Madison on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, with his family beside him. He was a post-heart transplant patient who contracted a fungal pneumonia,…

12Dec/12

India mourns 'godfather of world music' – The Australian


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India mourns ‘godfather of world music’
The Australian
The “godfather of world music” and three-time Grammy Award winner was to have faced-off against his sitar musician daughter Anoushka for a fourth award in February, but died in San Diego’s Scripps Memorial Hospital yesterday of respiratory and heart
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12Dec/12

US doctors defeat leukemia with modified HIV

NEW YORK, Dec 12 — US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia by pioneering the use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV virus. After fighting her disease with chemotherapy for almost two years and suffering two relapses, the young girl “faced grim prospects,” doctors at Children’s Hospital …