IT'S ALL THOSE MEDS, Y'ALL • "Britney Spears' new album should have been called 'Catatonic.' Spies say the pop tart looked vacant at her 27th-birthday party/Circus album release bash at Tenjune. In fact, her empty, wide-eyed stare as she was pushed and prodded throughout the club prompted more than a few revelers to whisper, 'She's so out of it!'"

HAS AIDS BEEN CURED? • "An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said. While researchers - and the doctors themselves - caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide." CONTINUED »

Jennifer Lopez, friend and relative of a plethora of Scientologists, defended the religion in a recent interview — but she's totally not a member of the cult. She just holds the same beliefs, hopes to school her children in Scientology lessons and thinks it's a great way of life. Got it?

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful. So in a sense, yeah, you do call on it. No [I don't consider myself a Scientologist]. I wouldn't have a problem saying it because I know what it is. I have no problems with it and it really actually bothers me that people have such a negative feeling towards it.

J.Lo went on to tell about a nervous breakdown she had a few years ago on the set of Enough: "Right away they want to give you pills. But I have never liked the idea of pills and kept saying no to that. … I've still never been to a shrink. I'm not a shrinky person." So you don't believe in medicine or shrinks. Hmm. If it walks like a duck…

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The National Federation of Medical Colleges and the Order of Medical Professionals of Rome, two groups of leading Italian medical professionals, are protesting American hospital serials like Grey's Anatomy, ER and House, which they say are "teaching viewers inaccurate views on medicine."

The groups are asking Italy's top broadcasters to no longer air the programs, calling them "misinformation." The groups are asking nothing of the Italian public, which is apparently using Scrubs to diagnose itself.