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China lead pollution poisons 160 children: report
Sat,3 Mar 2012 08:26 PM PST
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Lead emission from factories and the natural environment in China's manufacturing heart of Guangdong has poisoned 160 children, Xinhua said on Sunday in the country's latest case of unfettered industrial toxins. Children from Dongtang town in Renhua country were found to have "elevated" levels of lead in their blood after inhaling lead-contaminated air and eating food tainted with lead, Xinhua said. Th e natural level of lead in Dongtang is also higher than usual as the town sits on a lead-zinc ore belt which raises the lead content in the soil, Xinhua said. ... Full Story | Top |
BP's $7.8 billion deal may speed payments for U.S. spill
Sat,3 Mar 2012 06:06 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The estimated $7.8 billion deal struck by BP Plc with businesses and individuals suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could speed up payments to thousands of claimants and offers lawyers a potential windfall in legal fees. London-based BP announced the deal on Friday with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, or PSC, which represents condominium owners, fishermen, hoteliers, restaurateurs and others who say their livelihoods were damaged by the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and subsequent oil spill. ...
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BP's $7.8 billion deal may speed payments for U.S. spill
Sat,3 Mar 2012 03:32 PM PST
Reuters - NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The estimated $7.8 billion deal struck by BP Plc with businesses and individuals suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could speed up payments to thousands of claimants and offers lawyers a potential windfall in legal fees. London-based BP announced the deal on Friday with the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, or PSC, which represents condominium owners, fishermen, hoteliers, restaurateurs and others who say their livelihoods were damaged by the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and subsequent oil spill. ...
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India's Dr. Reddy's get U.S. nod for schizophrenia capsules
Sat,3 Mar 2012 02:53 AM PST
Reuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. said on Saturday it has received a U.S. drug regulator approval for the generic version of Geodon capsules, that are used to treat schizophrenia. The Geodon brand, made by Pfizer, had sales of about $1.34 billion in the U.S. in 2011, the Indian drug maker said in a statement. (Reporting by Kaustubh Kulkarni in MUMBAI; writing by Siddesh Mayenkar; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani) Full Story | Top |
Venezuela publishes photos of Chavez with Fidel
Fri,2 Mar 2012 07:51 PM PST
Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela published photographs on Friday of President Hugo Chavez chatting with Cuba's Fidel Castro and walking in a hospital as he recovers from cancer surgery on the Communist-led island. Stung by criticism it has shrouded the 57-year-old Chavez's condition in secrecy and put out misleading information in the past, Venezuela's government insists he is recovering quickly and will be ready to contest a presidential election on October 7. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama calls student as contraception fight turns nasty
Fri,2 Mar 2012 06:28 PM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called a law student on Friday to express his support after she was branded a "slut" by controversial right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh for her outspoken support of Obama's new policy on contraception coverage. Sandra Fluke, a 30-year old student and women's rights activist at Georgetown University in Washington, has been caught in the middle of a contentious election-year fight between Obama and Republicans over the policy, which requires health insurance plans to cover contraception. ...
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Meaning-based therapy may aid terminal patients
Fri,2 Mar 2012 06:03 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Psychotherapy focused on spirituality and finding meaning may help improve quality of life and well-being in terminally ill cancer patients, suggests a new study from a large cancer treatment center. The talk therapy sessions only seemed to provide a short-term benefit -- though researchers said that was reasonable given that many of the study participants were near the end of their lives, with progressively worsening disease. ... Full Story | Top |
Unnecessary cancer treatment in men on the rise
Fri,2 Mar 2012 05:53 PM PST
Reuters - By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new review of U.S. data on prostate cancer finds that despite established guidelines, a growing number of men who should not be getting aggressive treatment are getting it anyway. Men with low-risk tumors and a life-expectancy of less than 10 years -- for instance, men in their 80s or 90s -- are not candidates for so-called curative therapies like radiation or prostate surgery because there's little evidence it would benefit them. ... Full Story | Top |
Too few ICU beds may up patient deaths
Fri,2 Mar 2012 05:48 PM PST
Reuters - By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A shortage of beds in hospital intensive care units may mean that more seriously ill patients die, according to a study from France. Researchers focused on 10 hospitals in western France, where there's a known shortage of ICU beds. They found that of 1,332 patients referred to the hospitals' ICUs over three months, almost 15 percent were turned away (at least temporarily) because there were no open beds. And those patients had a higher risk of dying than patients who got into the ICU right away. ... Full Story | Top |
Disney closes controversial fat-fighting exhibit
Fri,2 Mar 2012 04:42 PM PST
Reuters - ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Obesity experts on Friday applauded Walt Disney World for shuttering a new attraction that drew fierce criticism for its potential to shame overweight children and misrepresent the causes of the global obesity crisis. "I think they (Disney) likely subscribed to that common misconception that this is something we should just be able to push away from the table and cure," said Ottawa bariatric surgeon Yoni Freedhoff, whose blog post sparked a public outcry over the attraction at Walt Disney Co's world-famous Florida theme park. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama calls student as contraception fight turns nasty
Fri,2 Mar 2012 03:48 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called a law student on Friday to express his support after she was branded a "slut" by controversial right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh for her outspoken support of Obama's new policy on contraception coverage. Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University in Washington, has been caught in the middle of a contentious election-year fight between Obama and Republicans over the policy, which requires health insurance plans to cover contraception. ...
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States slash birth control subsidies as federal debate rages
Fri,2 Mar 2012 02:45 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Even as a national debate rages over contraception insurance, tens of thousands of low-income women and teenagers across the United States have lost access to subsidized birth control as states slash and restructure family planning funds. Montana and New Jersey have eliminated altogether their state family planning programs. New Hampshire cut its funding by 57 percent and five other states made more modest program trims. But the biggest impact, by far, has been in Texas. State lawmakers last fall cut family-planning funds by two-thirds, or nearly $74 million over two years. ... Full Story | Top |
TSX slides to 10-day low on oil, gold
Fri,2 Mar 2012 01:58 PM PST
Reuters -  TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian stocks hit a 10-day low on Friday as resource issues slumped on weaker oil and gold prices and as optimism over progress in Europe's debt crisis faded after Spain set a deficit target bigger than allowed by the euro zone's new fiscal pact. Six of the TSX's 10 main sectors were lower, led by the heavyweight materials and energy groups, which both slid more than 1 percent. "Oil is reversing course a little this week so that's driving a little bit of the weakness in the TSX," said Craig Fehr, Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, Missouri. U.S. ...
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Robotic surgeries costlier but safer: study
Fri,2 Mar 2012 01:54 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients who undergo robot-assisted surgeries on the kidneys or prostate have shorter hospital stays, a lower risk of getting a blood transfusion or dying, and a significantly higher bill compared to those who get older surgical procedures, a new study finds. The analysis compared robotic surgery with two other techniques for performing the same sorts of surgery, and found that direct costs can run up to several thousand dollars higher for the robotic version. ... Full Story | Top |
I would not have survived in Baba Amro: MSF surgeon
Fri,2 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PST
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - For two weeks French surgeon Jacques Bares watched civilians die in a candle-lit operating room from wounds which would have been easily treatable in peacetime, while mortar rounds rained down on the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Beres, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, worked alongside Syrian surgeons in a makeshift hospital near the Baba Amro neighborhood where journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed by shellfire on February 22. Rebels withdrew from the district on Thursday after being pounded by shell and mortar fire for weeks. ... Full Story | Top |
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