Sunday, 24 August 2008

Annie Lennox - Annie Lennox In Recovery After Back Operation

Annie Lennox is recuperating from spinal surgery afterward a back spasm forced her to leave an Aids conference early.

The late Eurhythmics singer had been flown home base from the International Aids conference in Mexico after suffering the injury merely has undergone a successful operation, her representative has confirmed.

"The operation [to release an impinged nerve] went as planned, and Annie is now recuperating at home," aforesaid Roger Widynowski.

"Annie would like to send her thanks and appreciation to all who have sent their well wishes in the past few days."

The vocalist, 53, had explained on her web log last workweek that the injury had given her "more pain than I've ever experienced in my life" and made her left foot "totally numb".

And after being wheeling off the woodworking plane upon her return to the UK, the Aberdeen-born star wrote: "A first I must say!"

She went on: "Felt a bit wish Elizabeth Taylor? Am today sitting up in bed with my left foot like a dead pisces, freezing and numb".

A retrospective album, due for spill on September 15th, has now been postponed until Spring 2009, her management confirmed.

"Some of my plans and schemes have had to be put on hold because there is not lots I can do if I can't walk right," Lennox added.





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Thursday, 14 August 2008

Big Brother - Competition Hots Up As Bb Divide Falls

Warnings of gamesmanship are as overabundant as ever in the Big Brother house.

The biggest claim of the day came from Lisa, wHO said she believed the "game players" were potential to come to the fore as the final approaches.

All is not what it seems in the house, or so it might appear from a quick look at the lesbian antics of Sara and Rex's girlfriend Nicole.

Their kiss, "so not intimate" as it was placed in the house's big ashtray, attracted raised eyebrows from Rex who told Nicole "you wanted to do that so much".

The pair go on to get on well, even if they feel isolated from other housemates.

"We don't have any other friends," Rex told his girlfriend, before ambiguously replying "mm-hmm" to her prompting that they do have friends in the house.

At least the fall of the heaven/hell divide, which lasted for 29 days, has cheered housemates up. But Lisa, who was once in the tactically strong position of having her possess partner Mario in the house with her, corpse suspicious of the intentions of some housemates as the final approaches.

"It's leaving to startle cranking up now" she said.

"I don't think it's going to be glad, happy house for everybody. Maybe it will, just I'm not so sure.

"There are too many free-enterprise game players here Big Brother, and we ar about to meet them".





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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Aegera Initiates A Fifth Phase 1 And 2 Clinical Trial For AEG35156

�Aegera Therapeutics Inc. is pleased
to announce the dosing of the first patient in a fifth part phase 1 and 2
clinical oncology study of AEG35156, a second generation antisense
therapeutical targeting XIAP, a