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U.S. charges JetBlue pilot for midair meltdown
Wed,28 Mar 2012 10:49 PM PDT
Reuters -  AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. authorities filed criminal charges on Wednesday against a JetBlue Airways pilot who witnesses said yelled incoherently about religion and the 2001 hijack attacks and pounded on a locked cockpit door before passengers subdued him in a midair uproar. Flight 191 was diverted to Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday, following what authorities described as erratic behavior by Capt. Clayton Frederick Osbon, who allegedly ran through the cabin before passengers tackled him in the galley. A flight attendant suffered bruised ribs, officials said. ...
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Insight: In bounty seasons, Saints among NFL's most violent
Wed,28 Mar 2012 10:25 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - In a 2011 season in which the New Orleans Saints rewarded players for injuring opponents in a "pay-for-pain" bounty scheme, the team was among the most violent in the National Football League, a Reuters analysis shows. The Saints were second in the NFL with 17 regular-season defensive flags for violating rules intended to protect players from being hurt, just behind the Oakland Raiders' 18. The league averaged nine per team. The Raiders have a long, proud tradition of aggressive rule-breaking. ...
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New UK cancer fund to bridge drug development gap
Wed,28 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A new 50 million pounds ($80 million) fund, backed by Britain's leading cancer charity and European money, has been created to help bridge the funding gap between cancer drug discovery and early clinical development. The CRT Pioneer Fund is the third novel drug research funding vehicle unveiled in the last 10 days, following a 200 million pounds investment fund from Wellcome Trust, and a $200 million tie-up between GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and Index Ventures. ... Full Story | Top |
Is it the end for Gingrich, or just a new course?
Wed,28 Mar 2012 04:53 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich visited a zoo in Maryland on Tuesday, and admired the howls of endangered red wolves ("Four wolves make quite a noise," the Republican presidential hopeful noted in a Twitter message). Meanwhile, to some Republicans, his campaign seemed to be going to the dogs. Hours later came reports that Gingrich had fired his campaign manager and his cash-strapped campaign had laid off a significant portion of its full-time staff. ...
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U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot
Wed,28 Mar 2012 04:48 PM PDT
Reuters - AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Authorities filed criminal charges on Wednesday against a JetBlue pilot who screamed over the radio, pounded on the door of the cockpit and was tackled by passengers during a chaotic flight from New York forced to make an emergency landing in Texas. Flight 191 was diverted to Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday, following what federal authorities described as erratic behavior by captain Clayton Frederick Osbon, who passengers said was restrained after he pounded on the locked cockpit door. A U.S. ...
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Chelsea Therapeutics hypotension drug rejected by U.S. FDA
Wed,28 Mar 2012 04:39 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd said U.S. health regulators rejected its hypotension capsule Northera and sought an additional trial to support the efficacy of the drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended that the trial be designed to show the drug was effective over two to three months. The FDA also made a preliminary recommendation to include a black-box warning -- signifying serious or life-threatening risks -- related to supine hypertension. Chelsea said it would request a meeting with the FDA to address the agency's recommendations. ... Full Story | Top |
White House: no contingency plan if healthcare law rejected
Wed,28 Mar 2012 04:32 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that it was not working on contingency plans for President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, in the event that the Supreme Court struck down all or part of the sweeping reforms. After three days of landmark Supreme Court hearings that raised doubts about the law's fate, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the administration remains confident that the 2010 reform measure would be upheld when justices issue their ruling toward the end of June. "There is no contingency plan that's in place. ... Full Story | Top |
Poll: Idea of healthcare overhaul gets wide support
Wed,28 Mar 2012 03:52 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system remains popular even though Americans are not enamored with the law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. The poll found that 44 percent of respondents favor the law, and that an additional 21 percent oppose it because it doesn't go far enough - for a total of 65 percent. The rest, 35 percent, said they oppose the law and major changes to healthcare generally. "People still very much hunger for something to fix the healthcare system," said Ipsos pollster Chris ...
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Obama lawyer asks Supreme Court to save healthcare law
Wed,28 Mar 2012 07:24 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top courtroom lawyer made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the Supreme Court to save President Barack Obama's healthcare law, capping three days of historic arguments that left it unclear how the nine justices would rule. Having peppered lawyers for and against the law with questions for more than six hours over the three days, the justices withdrew to their chambers to begin up to three months of deliberation expected to yield a decision by late June. ...
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Changes in insurance tied to more ER visits
Wed,28 Mar 2012 03:29 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who either gained or lost their health insurance took more trips to the emergency room than those who had a stable insurance status, in a new study. The findings are troubling when considering the 32 million Americans expected to become newly-insured under President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law. But the results also suggest that the number of ER visits even out as a person remains either insured or uninsured for more than a year. "Eventually, you'd suspect that their (ER) utilization would go down. So it could just be a short-term surge," said Dr. ...
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Weight loss, exercise improve mobility in diabetes
Wed,28 Mar 2012 03:16 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Losing weight and improving fitness may ward off some of the mobility problems that older overweight people with type 2 diabetes often face, according to a new study. The lifestyle changes helped mobile people stay that way and eased severe mobility problems in others, at least over the short term. Lead author W. Jack Rejeski from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said the trends show the importance of encouraging people to get their weight down and exercise sooner, rather than waiting until they develop problems getting around. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. investors urge "going concern" warning reform
Wed,28 Mar 2012 02:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Regulators need to crack down on auditors who fail to warn investors and the public before corporations fail, investors told the main watchdog for U.S. auditors on Wednesday. Most big companies bailed out by the government in the 2007-2009 financial crisis had clean bills of health from their auditors and no auditors have been disciplined over this, investors told the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board at a meeting in Washington. ...
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Hospital pay incentives fail to help patients: study
Wed,28 Mar 2012 02:08 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve the health outcomes of patients, according to a large, long-term study. The study could lead to a re-examination of financial incentives in healthcare, as policymakers seek ways to reward results rather than paying doctors and other providers for each service they provide, such as a diagnostic test. Such an incentive program for hospitals is a key provision of the U.S. healthcare overhaul law that is being challenged this week before the Supreme Court. ...
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Complicated link between diet drinks, health: study
Wed,28 Mar 2012 01:41 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Studies have hinted that diet-soda lovers could face higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, but new findings suggest that overall diet may be what matters most in the end. Several studies have found that people who regularly down diet soda are more likely than people who don't to have certain risk factors for those chronic diseases -- like high blood pressure and high blood sugar. And one recent study became the first to link the beverages to the risk of actual heart attacks and strokes (see Reuters Health story of February 17, 2012). ... Full Story | Top |
Quality of life tied to lung cancer survival
Wed,28 Mar 2012 01:38 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The way lung cancer patients feel around the time they're diagnosed may be related to how long they survive -- even after taking into account objective measures of the disease, a new study suggests. Researchers found that newly-diagnosed lung cancer patients who rated their quality of life higher generally lived longer with the disease: typically surviving nearly six years, versus less than two years among patients who'd reported a poor quality of life. ... Full Story | Top |
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