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Isn't it "marvelous"? Obama seeks to define Romney for voters
Fri,6 Apr 2012 11:25 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama criticized Mitt Romney by name this week for embracing a controversial Republican budget proposal, he worded his attack carefully and with bite. "(Romney) said that he's 'very supportive' of this new budget, and he even called it 'marvelous' -- which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget," Obama said during a speech on Tuesday, before adding: "It's a word you don't often hear generally. ...
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Jet Blue meltdown pilot has detention hearing waived
Fri,6 Apr 2012 06:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - A JetBlue pilot who apparently suffered a midair mental meltdown last month and was charged with interfering with a commercial flight will not have to face a court hearing on Monday, a magistrate judge ruled on Friday. Clayton Osbon, 49, has been in custody since March 27 when he was subdued by passengers after screaming and pounding on the cockpit door during a flight from New York to Las Vegas. The co-pilot of Flight 191 was forced to make an emergency landing in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. ...
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Advocates for mentally ill erred in lawsuit: court
Fri,6 Apr 2012 03:47 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York nonprofit that advocates for the mentally ill cannot sue on their behalf for better housing because of how the organization is structured, a court said on Friday. The decision by a federal appeals court sweeps aside a trial judge's finding that the State of New York discriminated against thousands of people living in adult homes. The case must now begin anew, possibly with the Justice Department taking the lead, the court said. Disability Advocates Inc brought the case on behalf of people with mental illness, following a model that is common in U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Novo Nordisk says diabetes drug Victoza superior to Merck rival
Fri,6 Apr 2012 01:37 PM PDT
Reuters - COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said on Friday it had received a product label update for diabetes drug Victoza to include data showing superior efficacy when compared with rival drug Januvia from Merck. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would update the product label for Victoza to include data showing superior blood sugar control and weight reduction when compared with Januvia, Novo Nordisk said in a statement. The label update from the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Female skiers likelier to injure non-dominant knee
Fri,6 Apr 2012 01:26 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women skiers are more likely than men to injure a knee while skiing, and a new study shows they are about twice as likely to have that injury occur to their non-dominant leg, often the left one. The study did not go so far as to explain these inequalities, but Dr. Robert Johnson, a sports medicine physician at the University of Vermont College of Medicine said it could be caused "by a whole herd of issues." "Anatomy, strength patterns, muscle patterns, wider pelvis...it all adds up. It's not just one factor," said Johnson, who was not involved in the research. ... Full Story | Top |
Emotional issues may follow motor problems in kids
Fri,6 Apr 2012 12:51 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests the way kids with severe coordination problems see themselves may influence their emotional wellbeing later in life. Coordination issues -- sometimes diagnosed as developmental coordination disorder (DCD) -- prevent people from accomplishing everyday tasks, such as using scissors or buttoning their shirts. The disorder can lead to frustration at school, at home and on the playground. ... Full Story | Top |
ISS urges Illumina holders to reject Roche proposals
Fri,6 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A major shareholders advisory service on Friday urged holders of U.S. gene sequencing company Illumina to vote against rejected suitor Roche Holdings AG's proxy contest to expand Illumina's board and fill it with its own nominees. Institutional Shareholders Services advised Illumina shareholders to reject proposals from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, and agreed with Illumina's board that the Swiss pharmaceutical's offer to take over the San Diego-based company is inadequate. ... Full Story | Top |
Suicide rates rising among Canadian girls
Fri,6 Apr 2012 11:46 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study finds suicide rates for female teens and preteens in Canada rose over the past few decades while the overall number of kids who took their own lives was dropping. Researchers with Canada's public health agency also noted a change in the youngsters' favored methods of suicide -- from guns or poisons, to suffocation by strangulation -- though they can't say why. "Our message is that all suicide is a tragedy and the trend is very disturbing," said the study's lead author, Robin Skinner, an epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada in Ottawa. ... Full Story | Top |
Crackdown on prescription pain killers widens to Walgreens
Fri,6 Apr 2012 11:29 AM PDT
Reuters - BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said on Friday it is inspecting six Walgreens Co pharmacies and its distribution center in Florida, after the agency noticed a jump in purchases of the highly addictive pain killer oxycodone. The DEA issued inspection warrants on Wednesday to Walgreens' distribution center in Jupiter and to retail stores in Hudson, Port Richey, Oviedo, Fort Myers and two stores in Fort Pierce, said Mia Ro, a spokeswoman for the DEA in Miami. Under the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
"Shaken Baby Syndrome" used in defense of Trayvon Martin's killer
Fri,6 Apr 2012 09:24 AM PDT
Reuters -  SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - "Shaken Baby Syndrome" was cited on Friday in the defense of George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Florida, man who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, in a case that has sparked a widespread public outcry. Hal Uhrig, a lawyer and former Gainesville, Florida, police officer who recently joined Zimmerman's defense team, cited in a TV interview the brain damage that can seriously injure or kill an infant. ...
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South Africa takes TB battle to mine shafts
Fri,6 Apr 2012 06:09 AM PDT
Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is shifting its lines in the battle against tuberculosis to mines, where lung-attacking dust, crowded working conditions and a pan-African workforce make the industry a focal point for spreading the disease. Drug resistant TB strains, associated with cramped urban conditions, are spreading among miners, who have infection rates about three times higher than the general population, according to South African officials. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama seeks to defuse healthcare fight with appeals court
Fri,6 Apr 2012 04:47 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. courts have authority to decide whether President Barack Obama's healthcare law is valid under the Constitution, his attorney general told a federal court on Thursday in a further bid to defuse a controversy Obama ignited earlier this week. After Obama appeared to question the role of the courts in reviewing the two-year-old law, which seeks to expand healthcare coverage to 30 million-plus uninsured Americans, a conservative Texas judge on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the administration to explain itself. ...
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South Africa takes TB battle to mine shafts
Fri,6 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT
Reuters -  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is shifting its lines in the battle against tuberculosis to mines, where lung-attacking dust, crowded working conditions and a pan-African workforce make the industry a focal point for spreading the disease. Drug resistant TB strains, associated with cramped urban conditions, are spreading among miners, who have infection rates about three times higher than the general population, according to South African officials. ...
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Fake drugs hard to spot amid 1,800 UK wholesalers
Thu,5 Apr 2012 09:29 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Stamping out trade in counterfeit drugs like Roche's Avastin is an uphill fight for regulators, whose task is complicated by the presence of thousands of small wholesalers across Europe. In Britain alone - the transit point for a second fake batch of the cancer drug uncovered in the U.S. market - there are around 1,800 licensed wholesalers, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). ...
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Reflective Chavez weeps at Mass in Venezuela
Thu,5 Apr 2012 08:05 PM PDT
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass on Thursday after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba. Very little is known about the 57-year-old socialist leader's condition, including even what type of cancer he has. Chavez has undergone three operations in less than a year, and received two sessions of radiation treatment. He says the latest surgery was successful, that he is recovering well and will be fit to win a new six-year term at an election in October. ...
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