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Several Bath locations feature in comedian Arthur Smith's Comedy Club, whose second programme in the series is on television tonight. The series, which is on ITV 1 West and Westcountry at 11pm for another five weeks, is on a mission to seek silliness across the west country. Viewers can see the comedian stripping down to his boxer shorts to film a scene in Bath Spa and there are also performances from comics at Moles Club Comedy Cavern. Arthur Smith hit the big time after the success of...

By Lois M. Collins Deseret News Janine Ottley's first visit to an acupuncturist was an act of desperation. She was on a cruise to Mexico when a killer headache struck, threatening to destroy her vacation. She figured it was worth a try. "I got off the table and didn't have a headache any more," she says. "It didn't seem possible." These days, regular visits are part of her survival strategy. Long plagued by headaches, pain, infections and fibromyalgia, she was a veteran of the search for...

By Emily Dugan One of radio's funniest shows is to return, but who can possibly replace the late Humphrey Lyttelton? The search is on, but the field is wide open, as Emily Dugan reports Just as the nation had become resigned to the idea that the nonsensical radio quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue would never again be heard on the airwaves, hope of a return for the popular series is on the horizon. Recording was cancelled this year after the death of its much- loved chairman, Humphrey...

By Mason, Mark For years I thought it was just me and my friends. Merrily we dotted our conversations with random facts -- Carlsberg Special Brew was invented for Winston Churchill, the M2 is the only British motorway that connects with no other motorway, a Rubik's Cube has more combinations than light travels inches in a century. . . Never did we stop to think that this trait might actually say anything about us. But then along came Schott's Miscellany, Does Anything Eat Wasps? and QI. All...

By KAWANZA NEWSON Connie Ferentz first noticed the pain and numbness in her toes shortly after ending chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer last December. It didn't bother her much during the day, although the pain began to wake her at night. The 58-year-old Glendale nurse knew things would progressively worsen and sought to do something fast. Within a month, Ferentz found herself inside a dimly lighted room in the radiation oncology unit at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, listening to...

By Tan Choe Choe ABOUT 300,000 Malaysians are `trembling' their way to health. TAN CHOE CHOE checks out the Waitankung phenomenon. You've probably seen them in a park or garden around your neighbourhood - a group of people, generally elderly, shaking their hands or feet as if partaking in some ritual. If they sport beige or brown pants with collared white tees, then you're spot on - they are Waitankung practitioners. It is hard to give a literal translation of "Waitankung", but it loosely...

By Alexander, Jeffrey A Weiner, Bryan J; Shortell, Stephen M; Baker, Laurence C Abstract. The authors examined how the association between quality improvement (QI) implementation in hospitals and hospital clinical quality is moderated by hospital organizational and environmental context. The authors used Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis of 1,784 community hospitals to model seven quality indicators as a function of four measures of QI implementation and a variety of control...

By John RuwitchHONG KONG -- Wong Fei-hung squirms nervously as the doctor starts to insert stainless steel needles into his back and lifeless legs.He hasn't been able to walk since sustaining a spine injury, but the acupuncture treatments are helping. Before, he couldn't even stand.Once the last of the 17 special acupuncture pins is delicately twisted into his skin, Fei-hung, who shares a name with the cool kung-fu master of Hong Kong movie fame, looks more at ease."Fei-hung likes...

Chinese Medicine is an ancient system of health care that has undergone continual development over the centuries as illnesses and their causes have evolved. It has an unbroken tradition going back to the third century BC. In China, unlike in western societies, it is not considered an alternative therapy but is used in hospitals alongside modern medicine. Chinese medicine includes all oriental traditions emerging from south-east Asia that have their origins in China - practitioners may...