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Today's Reuters Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Investigation underway into N.J. train derailment, chemical leak Little progress in U.S. "fiscal cliff" talks Obama aides seek to counter Republican charges on "fiscal cliff" Wood stoves, extreme cold blight air at Alaska's "North Pole" Grand jury probing meningitis-linked pharmacy: newspaper

Investigation underway into N.J. train derailment, chemical leak  Saturday, Dec 01, 2012 11:56 AM PST PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Federal transportation investigators have begun interviewing the crew of a train that was carrying hazardous materials when it derailed on a railroad bridge in New Jersey, officials said on Saturday. ... Full Story	Top
Little progress in U.S. "fiscal cliff" talks  Saturday, Dec 01, 2012 09:06 AM PST HATFIELD, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - With barely a month left before the "fiscal cliff," Republicans and Democrats remained far apart on Friday in talks to avoid the across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts that threaten to throw the country back into recession. While President Barack Obama visited a Pennsylvania toy factory to muster public support for tax hikes on the rich, portraying Republicans as scrooges at Christmas time, his primary adversary in negotiations, Republican House Speaker John Boehner, continued to describe the situation as a stalemate. ... Full Story	Top
Obama aides seek to counter Republican charges on "fiscal cliff"  Saturday, Dec 01, 2012 09:06 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration sought to counter Republican charges on Friday that President Barack Obama's plan to avoid a year-end "fiscal cliff" is light on spending cuts and too reliant on tax increases. Administration officials said the overall plan, offered to Republicans on Thursday and quickly rejected by them, would achieve $4.5 trillion in savings to the government. This includes around $1 trillion in cuts already enacted into law and would set up an "expedited process" to spirit through Congress some of the most comprehensive legislation in decades. ... Full Story	Top
Wood stoves, extreme cold blight air at Alaska's "North Pole"  Saturday, Dec 01, 2012 08:10 AM PST ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Santa may need more than Rudolph's bright nose to get through the grimy North Pole atmosphere. North Pole, Alaska - the Fairbanks suburb, not the spot at the top of the globe - has posted some of the nation's worst air-quality readings in recent days, thanks to high levels of wood smoke streaming into stagnant cold air. ... Full Story	Top
Grand jury probing meningitis-linked pharmacy: newspaper  Saturday, Dec 01, 2012 06:51 AM PST BOSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury is investigating the compounding pharmacy at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, the Boston Globe reported on Saturday. The grand jury has begun issuing subpoenas to people who worked for the New England Compounding Center, which closed after investigators determined it had produced the tainted injectible steroid that has killed 36 people, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed people who formerly worked for the company. ... Full Story	Top

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