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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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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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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Apple’s new iPhone 4S includes a personal assistant, Siri, that responds to user queries.

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Apple’s new iPhone 4S includes a personal assistant, Siri, that responds to user queries.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re out to get you.

That could be the motto this week for abortion rights groups that immediately sprang into battle mode when it was discovered that Siri, Apple’s new artificially intelligent personal assistant, wasn’t so, well, intelligent when it came to abortion.

It turns out, however, that it was all much ado about not so much.

True, Siri does fail to find multiple abortion providers in large cities like Washington and New York City.

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Victoria Beckham isnt the only Spice Girl alum entering the fashion world.

Emma Baby Spice Bunton has teamed up with UK retailer Argos to create a 99-piece kids collection, which will debut in early 2012.

As a mum myself Im forever searching for fun and fashionable clothes for my boys, that are comfortable and practical too — clothes they really want to wear, Bunton, 35, told British Vogue.

[And] working with Argos has given me the opportunity to create exactly that. Im

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Gangtok, Nov. 11: The Sikkim State AIDS Control Society will hold soccer tournaments and music contests as part of a campaign to generate awareness on HIV and drug abuse.

The Society launched the campaign, Red Fest, here today with the hope that it would be able to spread the message through football and music, two popular interests of the Sikkim youths.

“The goal of Red Fest is to spread awareness on the perils of HIV-AIDS and drug use and we aim to capitalise on music and sports to attract youths to our activities. Read more…

Kolkata, Nov 4 In the wake of a incident in a Bengal hospital where a woman was allegedly swabbed with carbolic acid instead of antiseptic, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has demanded a complete investigation into the incident leading to the reported death of a neo-natal baby and submission of Action Taken Report from the state government within 15 days.One Sikha Bibi was admitted to the Lalbag hospital in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on Sunday where she gave birth to a baby boy. During the delivery, it was alleged that the medical staff swabbed her with carbolic acid instead of antiseptic resulting in burn injuries on her body and death of the newborn.

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