Hospital food is going from gruel to gourmet.

Hospital food is going from gruel to gourmet.

Hospital food, like airplane food, is the kind of institutional food we love to hate.

But the days of jello cups and puddles of grayish gravy are numbered.

A lot of people — from deep-pocketed foodies to fast-food lovers to locavores — aren’t standing for barely edible hospital food anymore.

At one end of the spectrum, some hospitals are going extreme gourmet. And

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A SCOTTISH autism research centre has been given a £1 million boost by a businesswoman turned philanthropist whose late son had the condition.

Dame Stephanie Shirley, who made her fortune in the computer industry, has pledged the cash to the Patrick Wild Centre at Edinburgh University.

The German-born former businesswoman’s son Giles suffered from autism and epilepsy, and the donation will go towards creating a state-of-the-art imaging suite which will enable scientists to study autism in new ways.

The Shirley Foundation is one of the top grant-giving foundations in the UK, with over £50m worth of grants awarded.

Dame Stephanie said: “Research has moved beyond looking at its [autism’s] consequences to examine how biology, genetics and behaviour all link together.

We are all children of society and so should give something back to the world our children will live in

“Results cannot be guaranteed but my hope is that this imaging suite will attract more quality researchers to focus on autism.”

The Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities brings together university specialists who want to develop and test new treatments, having pinpointed how genetic changes cause the illness.

It was set up last year following donations to the university by graduate Dr Alfred Wild, and Gus Alusi and Reem Waines, a London-based couple whose six-year-old son, Kenz has Fragile X Syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, and the most common known genetic cause of autism spectrum disorders.

The centre is named in memory of Dr Wild’s brother Patrick, who was severely autistic.

Dr Andrew Stanfield, consultant psychiatrist and co-director of the centre, said: “We are incredibly grateful to Dame Stephanie for this generous gift which we hope will play a part in developing better treatments for people with autism and related disorders.”

Dame Stephanie, who is in her late 70s, started the business technology group, Freelance Programmers, which eventually became Steria, with just £6, at her dining room table in 1962.

It sold computer software, and she called herself Steve to deflect attention from the fact she was a woman. She initially only

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As I start my tenure as editor in chief of Diabetes Care, I would like to emphasize that I am extremely honored to have been chosen for this position, and I take the responsibility of continuing the success of the journal very seriously. The success of Diabetes Care has clearly been due to the hard work, dedication, vision, and expertise of the outstanding editors and associate editors who have preceded me in this role. Past editors in chief have included Jay S. Skyler (1978–1982, the founding editor), F. John Service (1983–1987), David C. Robbins (1988–1991), Allen L. Drash (1992–1996), Charles M. Clark, Jr. (1997–2001), Mayer B. Davidson (2002–2006), and Vivian A. Fonseca (2007–2011). Actually, I a

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Let the fun begin!

Now in her fourth month of motherhood son Xander Dane was born in September January Jones is having a blast with her baby boy.

Hes wonderful. Every day he changes drastically hes getting really fun and giggly now, and I can play with him, the Mad Men actress, 34, told PEOPLE during the shows party for the TCA press tour on Saturday in Pasadena, Calif .

Hes not just a little bundle. Hes taking shape, which is really amazing to watch.

But in addition to all the fun and games, welcoming her first child has also forced Jones to put the brakes on life in the fast lane at least temporarily.

Since I had the baby, [I] wont be able to take off to the Middle East with the baby, she jokes.

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For centuries, gossip has been dismissed as salacious, idle chatter that can damage reputations and erode trust. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests rumor-mongering can have positive outcomes such as helping us police bad behavior, prevent exploitation and lower stress. “Gossip gets a bad rap, but we’re finding evidence that it plays a critical role in the maintenance of social order,” said UC Berkeley social psychologist Robb Willer, a coauthor of the study published in this month’s online issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The study also found that gossip can be therapeutic.

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Sun salutation is not specifically a yoga posture, but instead is a series of movements which are typically done at the start of any yoga session, and are designed to increase flexibility and prepare the body for exercise. To perform sun salutations, start by standing tall in the center of your exercise mat with your feet planted firmly on the ground. Let your arms relax by your sides, and stretch your head towards the sky. Take a deep breath, and as you do so, create an arc with your arm, raising them over your head. As you exhale your breath, slowly bend from the waist, and drop your arms to the ground.

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SIR Elton John has signed a deal to publish “the very personal story” of how Aids affected his life.

Love is the Cure: Ending The Global Aids Epidemic, will include his memories of friends including Queen frontman Freddie Mercury who died of an Aids-related illness in 1991.

Sir Elton John Money raised will go to his charity Aids foundation.       

No one making a religious pilgrimage to Catholic shrines in this scenic yet hardscrabble stretch of New York’s Mohawk Valley is going to mistake it for Italy. Yet starting next year, the region can boast of being the home of two of the Roman Catholic Church’s newest saints.

The Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian, spent most of her life here during the 17th century. About 200 years later and 40 miles to the west, the Blessed Mother Marianne Cope began a religious life that focused on providing medical care in central New York and the Hawaiian islands.

On Dec. 20, Pope Benedict XVI certified miracles attributed to the two women, the final step toward sainthood.

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