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Doctors believe a man's excessive iced tea drinking -- about a gallon daily -- is what caused his previously unexplained kidney failure last year.

Brooks Hays LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 2 (UPI) -- As a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights, black tea consumed in high quantities may cause serious kidney damage.

In just seven years, TWG Tea has gone from three employees to 3,000, from one salon in Singapore to 44, stretching across 15 countries. Last year, TWG became the first international tea company to open tea salons and retail boutiques in China.

After a 56-year-old man experienced kidney failure, his doctors discovered that his habit of drinking excessive amounts of iced tea every day was likely the culprit, according to a new report of his case. The man's kidney function has not recovered, and he remains on dialysis, said Dr. Alejandra Mena-Gutierrez, of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who treated the patient and wrote the ...

The North American Tea Championship (NATC) selected the 16 best, premium hot teas from the fall 2014 harvest. The evaluation -- the only independent and professionally-judged tea competition in North America -- was held Feb. 26-27 in Las Vegas. All of the teas are available in the marketplace.

An Arkansas man's affinity for iced tea appears to have backfired

Since 2009, the Sea Tea Improv comedy troupe has entertained Hartford audiences with shows at City Steam Brewery, HartBeat Ensemble's Carriage House Theater, Billings Forge, Real Art Ways and other venues around the city.

Transparency Market Research has recently published a research document titled “Tea Market - Global Industry Analysis, Trend, Size, Share and Forecast, 2014 - 2020.”

[caption id="attachment_258018" align="alignleft" width="307"] This May 21, 2007 file photo shows a glass of iced tea in Concord, N.H. Doctors have traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day. They ruled out several potential causes before stumbling on a reason for the 56-year-old Arkansas man's kidney problems. He said he ...

NEW YORK – Doctors traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day. They ruled out several potential causes before stumbling on a reason for the 56-year-old man's kidney problems.

NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors traced an Arkansas man's kidney failure to an unusual cause — his habit of drinking a gallon of iced tea each day.

April 1 (Reuters) - Tea prices in Bangladesh fell sharplyfor a fourth week running at Tuesday's weekly auction, amidtepid demand from local buyers despite dwindling supplies amidpolitical unrest. Tea supplies were higher at the last auction

Cotton on has reinstated tea and meal breaks at his distribution centre in New Zealand, following controvery around the company's implemention of the new tea break law.

Pitt Meadows Museum Society volunteers at the 2014 heritage reunion tea. If this is April, then it must be time for an annual; general meeting and a tea.

An increasing number of b-school graduates are exploring tea-based services and products for businesses and some of them have tasted success too.