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In line with National Iced Tea Day, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q is offering free tea refills on Sunday. Although the promotion doesn't make any mention of the wacky holiday, Bill Miller suggests that the promotion is just a tasty way to beat the Texas heat.

Researchers have used the antibacterial properties of tea tree oil to create a bioactive coating that keeps bacteria away from medical devices. The findings may help to stave off millions of infections per year. The more we use antibiotics, the less ...

WESTPORT — On the island of Koro in Fiji, the simple life, the use of herbal remedies, and the daily call to tea has stuck with Carissa Wills-DeMello. The Westport native spent 27 months as a Peace Corps community health worker in a remote island ...

Delaware County Democrats elected Colleen Guiney as their new leader this week. She was the so-called compromise candidate between warring factions of local Democrats who are finally gaining an edge in the longtime GOP stronghold. Guiney. Guiney.

Delaware County Democrats elected Colleen Guiney as their new leader this week. She was the so-called compromise candidate between warring factions of local Democrats who are finally gaining an edge in the longtime GOP stronghold. Guiney. Guiney.

In part one of Billboard Pride's "Spillin' the Tea" video series, Shea Couleé, Ginger Minj, Miz Cracker, Jasmine Masters, Eureka O'Hara and Tammie Brown discuss the future of drag and the importance of supporting local queens.

Samples of the milk tea that killed a teahouse owner and his customer in Sampaloc, Manila last week tested negative for four poisonous substances, Health Secretary Janette Garin said yesterday. According to Garin, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to detect cyanide, arsenic, nitrate and nitrite in the milk tea samples submitted by the Manila Police District. “But it does not mean ...

What happens when a tea plantation closes?

TWG Tea, the world’s finest luxury tea brand, celebrates the transient beauty of cherry blossoms with a delicately fragrant blend, evoking Kyoto’s most celebrated and anticipated season.

Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Tea workers of Duncans Industries Ltd. (DIL), which has 16 estates in north Bengal, have proposed to go on a strike on April 16, demanding regular wages and optimal living conditions while 25-30 percent of its workers are reportedly migrating to other gardens. "Since last few months, over 25,000 regular workers and several other contractual workers in DIL are not getting ...

//       AFTER the Department of Health found that the milk tea that killed two people was not laced with any toxic substance, members of the joint agencies inspected anew on Monday the now shuttered establishment in Manila.   Members of the DOH, Food and Drug Administration and Manila Police's scene of the crime operatives opened the ErgoCha tea house along Bustillos Street in Sampaloc to get ...

MANILA (1st UPDATE) – A sample of the milk tea which caused the deaths of two people in Manila last week tested negative for toxic substances, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.

TROY — The second annual Victorian Tea in Troy event was held at Russell Sage College on Sunday. The event is a fundraiser for the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region. The event is the second largest fundraiser for the YWCA GCR, behind the Resourceful Women's Luncheon, which the YWCA GCR will hold Sept. 30. The YWCA GCR, which started in 1883, gives support to homeless single women and homeless ...

MANILA - Lloyd Abrigo, the son of a teahouse owner tagged in milk tea deaths in Manila, went back to Ergo Cha House and ordered their helper to ''clean'' the evidence after learning that his father died of poisoning on April 9.

The Home Ministry has alleged that Greenpeace is hurting the Indian tea industry, which employs 35 lakh workers and earned $ 644 million from exports last year, by projecting abroad that homegrown lea...

      The alleged food poisoning incident that left two persons dead and sent another to the hospital after they drank milk tea sold at a small store in Manila prompted health and sanitation officials to work overtime during the weekend, with one probe checking whether the beverage was laced with cyanide.   READ: Milk tea kills 2 in Manila in 3 minutes; police can't say what happened   The ...

With or without a complaint from the victims of an alleged food poisoning, police yesterday said that they would still continue with their investigation on the questioned milk tea ingredients to avoid an outbreak from spreading. According to SPO2 Jonathan Bautista, should results from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) show that the Hokkaido-flavored milk tea concocted by ErgoCha Milk Tea ...

A herbal tea with blueberry as its base has attracted the attention of medical researchers at the Menzies Institute for its potential to reduce insulin dependence in diabetics.

The ErgoCha Milk Tea Shop on Bustillos Street in Sampaloc, Manila has no sanitary violation prior to the fatal incident on Thursday.   Milagros Valenzuela, district sanitary officer of Manila, said that ErgoCha has been in existence for six years already, and it was only on Thursday when customer Suzaine Dagohoy and owner William Abrigo had died, that her office has recorded an untoward incident ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is focused on determining whether the milk tea, which left two people dead in Manila, contained cyanide substance. "Right now our tests are focused on cyanide, given how fast the effect of the substance was to the victims," said FDA officer in charge Nick Lutero in a phone interview. "Food poisoning per se usually doesn't have such fast effect on people. If ...