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On-screen boozing tied to kids' binge drinking
Sun,4 Mar 2012 10:17 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How much drinking kids and teens had seen in recent movies was linked to the chances they overdid it on alcohol themselves in a new study from six European countries. Researchers said that movies and television may make kids see drinking as mature and cool, but that studies so far -- including the new report -- don't definitively prove that causes them to take up alcohol. ... Full Story | Top |
Weighing the benefits of balance training
Sun,4 Mar 2012 09:09 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dick Sandhaus, a healthy and fit 62-year old, says he never gave his balance a thought until he lost it. A wicked sprained ankle was the result. Now he practices balancing for a few minutes each day and urges his fellow baby boomers to do the same. "Rocking toes to heels and quadriceps stretches are things anybody can do if they have a floor," said Sandhaus, a self-described ex-hippie who dispenses fitness tips on his website, BetterCheaperSlower. "If you put yourself in instability it gives you instant awareness of what balance is about," he explained. ... Full Story | Top |
India's Lupin gets U.S. nod for schizophrenia capsules
Sun,4 Mar 2012 08:24 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - India's Lupin Ltd has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for the generic version of Geodon capsules used to treat schizophrenia, the drugmaker said on Monday. The Geodon brand, owned by Pfizer Inc, had annual sales of $1.35 billion in the United States in 2011, Lupin said in a statement. (Reporting by Kaustubh Kulkarni in MUMBAI; Editing by Rajesh Pandathil) Full Story | Top |
Robotic surgeries costlier but safer: study
Sun,4 Mar 2012 06:13 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Patients who have robot-assisted surgeries on their kidneys or prostate have shorter hospital stays and a lower risk of having a blood transfusion or dying -- but the bill is significantly higher, a study found. The analysis, which appeared in the Journal of Urology, compared increasingly common robotic surgery with two other techniques for the same surgery and found that direct costs can be up to several thousand dollars higher for the robotic type. ... Full Story | Top |
Rush Limbaugh loses another sponsor over Sandra Fluke remarks
Sun,4 Mar 2012 05:01 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 4 (TheWrap.com) - Online florist ProFlowers said Sunday it had suspended advertising on Rush Limbaugh's radio program because his comments about Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke "went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company." ProFlowers posted the comment Sunday on its Facebook page. That's the seventh advertiser to pull its ads from the conservative talk show host's program in the wake of comments he made about law student Fluke, who testified about birth control policy. ... Full Story | Top |
Rush Limbaugh loses another sponsor over Sandra Fluke remarks
Sun,4 Mar 2012 03:13 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 4 (TheWrap.com) - Online florist ProFlowers said Sunday it had suspended advertising on Rush Limbaugh's radio program because his comments about Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke "went beyond political discourse to a personal attack and do not reflect our values as a company." ProFlowers posted the comment Sunday on its Facebook page. That's the seventh advertiser to pull its ads from the conservative talk show host's program in the wake of comments he made about law student Fluke, who testified about birth control policy. ... Full Story | Top |
Ron Paul unimpressed with Limbaugh apology
Sun,4 Mar 2012 12:30 PM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul expressed doubt on Sunday that conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh truly meant it when he apologized for calling a law student a "slut" over her support for President Barack Obama's new policy on insurance coverage of contraceptives. "I don't think he's very apologetic. He's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements off his program. It was his bottom line that he was concerned about," Paul told the CBS program "Face the Nation." "Yes, I think he should have apologized. ...
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Chavez faces more cancer treatment before Venezuela vote
Sun,4 Mar 2012 11:32 AM PST
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said he will need radiation treatment for cancer in the run-up to Venezuela's October presidential poll, though he insisted there was no metastasis after the removal of another tumor. "I will live! I will overcome!" the 57-year-old socialist leader said in a televised meeting with some cabinet colleagues from Cuba, where he underwent an operation six days ago for a recurrence of the cancer that first struck him last year. ...
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Abbott developing quicker test for orthopedic infections
Sun,4 Mar 2012 04:10 AM PST
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Infection poses one of the most serious risks to patients getting a hip or knee replaced, and a major U.S. drugmaker is developing a test to quickly identify the pathogens responsible so doctors can treat problems sooner. Abbott Diagnostics Group, a unit of Abbott Laboratories, is working with privately held Genetics Laboratory Inc, whose expertise is in orthopedics, to develop the test. ... Full Story | Top |
Abbott developing quicker test for orthopedic infections
Sun,4 Mar 2012 04:09 AM PST
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Infection poses one of the most serious risks to patients getting a hip or knee replaced, and a major U.S. drugmaker is developing a test to quickly identify the pathogens responsible so doctors can treat problems sooner. Abbott Diagnostics Group, a unit of Abbott Laboratories, is working with privately held Genetics Laboratory Inc, whose expertise is in orthopedics, to develop the test. ... Full Story | Top |
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 |
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