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8 Tuesday 28 March 2006 HOME LOCAL WORLD BUSINESS SPORT WHAT'S ON COMMENT LETTERS CARTOONS HOROSCOPE CLASSIFIEDS ADVERTISE ARCHIVES Marathon effort for charity By REBECCA TORR A BAHRAIN runner will attempt the gruelling Paris Marathon next month to raise money for cancer research.

St Christopher's Junior School French teacher Olga Garland will be one of 35,000 runners when she takes part in the 42.195km Paris Marathon on April 9.

This is Ms Garland's second marathon; her debut was at the Bahrain Road Runners 27th Bahrain Full Marathon held last year.

"I have been preparing for the marathon since October, but I only got accepted at the beginning of this month," said the 32-year-old Fenchwoman, who has been in Bahrain since March 2000.

"I had to go through an agency in England to enter the race, because the normal entry route was full, so it's quite popular.

"The Paris Marathon is also celebrating its 30th anniversary, so it's a big event." Ms Garland decided to raise the money for Cancer Research UK in honour of her close friend Pilar Barahona, who died last June after a four-year battle against the disease.

"I was with Pilar the last year she had the disease.

She was really keen on a new treatment that was coming and that's why I want to raise money for research," explained Mrs Garland.

"Personally it helps me grieve, that's the selfish part, but it also raises awareness about t...

... The acquisition will not include Mentor's urisheath (male external catheter) business in the UK, which is in accordance with the undertakings given by Coloplast to the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in 2002.With the contemplated acquisition Coloplast will achieve a broader portfolio in the growing catheter market and will become a leading global supplier of a range of urology devices to hospitals, urology wards and primary care providers.

Coloplast has the ambition to use this new platform to grow in the expanding urology device market.

Upon closing of the deal, the combined annualised gross sales of Coloplast's urology and continence care products is estimated at around DKK 3 billion (USD 0.5 billion) corresponding to approximately 37% of group sales.The contemplated acquisition also gives Coloplast an important expansion of its business in the US market, taking annualised sales of Coloplast's urology and continence care products in this market to around DKK 700M (USD 115M) and substantially increasing its US sales force.Coloplast's CEO, Sten Scheibye, says:"This acquisition would significantly increase the scope of our continence care division in line with our strategy; it would allow us to provide a broad range of products to our customers.

In addition it would give us a stronger base in the US and would bring long-term value creation and benefits to all our stakeholders.

The transaction would clearly be a very important step towards realisi...

... article template Brighton - This cupboard is filled with healthy choices by Joyce Cassin 03.27.06 Victoria’s Cupboard owner Ingrid Bronfman has much to offer people who are concerned with making healthy choices, and her most recent offering is the service of a blood analyst.

Melody Prinzen is a trained Blood Analyst who, through live and dried blood samples, can discern a person’s health concerns.

Melody looks at the formation and consistency of the live blood, notes the number and shape of red and white blood cells, platelets, the presence of bacteria, and even parasites.“I’m looking for a wide variety of things such as hormonal problems and anemia,” said Melody.

Dried blood samples can indicate illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and liver problems but Melody does not diagnose her clients.

If she feels there are some indicators of more serious illness, she will suggest people visit their doctor, but for the more common health complaints, Melody will suggest various herbal remedies, as well as eating healthy foods, exercising and otherwise leading a healthy lifestyle.For every complaint, Melody will provide a healing recommendation such as milk thistle or white oak bark for joint stress.“I’d rather see you get better with one or two products than have to take 15 or 20, so I try to find the best remedy for all of your complaints,” said Melody.

“We’re all about preventative medicine.

We’d rather fix the problem now instead...