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Factbox: Key players in the Olympus scandal
Mon,28 Nov 2011 11:19 PM PST
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Following are some facts on key people in the accounting scandal engulfing Japan's Olympus Corp, which has admitted to hiding losses from investors for two decades. MICHAEL WOODFORD The Liverpool-born 51-year-old had worked for the Olympus group for 30 years before being promoted to president in April this year, making headlines as one of only a handful of foreigners to head a major Japanese company. ... Full Story | Top |
AIDS fund cuts will hit Southern Africa hard
Mon,28 Nov 2011 10:24 PM PST
Reuters -  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African countries, hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are likely to be most affected over the next three years as funding from one of the world's biggest donors dries up, a coalition of AIDS activists said on Monday. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria called off its next funding round after failing to secure the minimum $13 billion needed to fund its programmes. The fund said earlier this month it was cutting new grants for countries battling the diseases. ...
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Many parents request delays in vaccine schedule
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:49 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than three quarters of pediatricians said they sometimes or often get asked by parents to use an "alternative" vaccination schedule that strays from national recommendations, according to a new survey of Washington State doctors. And while almost all of them agreed with the current vaccination schedule for babies and young kids, and would follow it for their own child, most pediatricians were willing to give in to parents' wishes to delay vaccines for infections like chicken pox, hepatitis B and measles. ... Full Story | Top |
Life-saving transfer of heart patients lagging
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:48 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A quick transfer from one hospital to another with more sophisticated facilities can be a lifesaver for heart attack patients -- but quick transfers are a rarity in the U.S., researchers said Monday. In a nationwide study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, they found nine out of ten patients end up waiting longer than recommended before being transferred to a hospital that can provide optimal care. ... Full Story | Top |
Fewer babies get chicken pox when kids are vaccinated
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:46 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even though babies under one year old are too young to get the chicken pox vaccine, far fewer of them got the itchy rash after the U.S. started routinely vaccinating older children in 1995, according to a new study. Researchers said that infants are now largely protected against chicken pox if their older siblings and daycare peers have been vaccinated, due to "herd immunity" -- the idea that if enough people are immune to a disease, it won't be able to spread. ... Full Story | Top |
Laptop Wi-Fi said to nuke sperm, but caveats abound
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:45 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The digital age has left men's nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections. In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a few drops under a laptop connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi and then hit download. Four hours later, the semen was, eh, well-done. ...
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One in 10 stent patients readmitted within a month
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:39 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One out of every 10 people who get a stent inserted to open up blocked arteries ends up back in the hospital within 30 days, suggests a new study that also found the readmitted patients are more likely to die in the next year. Readmission rates are now publicly reported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and are one performance measure used to determine how well a hospital is doing at treating its heart patients. ... Full Story | Top |
Americans tepid about libraries, favor Obama over Bush
Mon,28 Nov 2011 01:46 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many Americans don't use libraries, favor locally sourced food and would choose President Barack Obama over his predecessor George W. Bush if the two were vying in a presidential election. A new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll showed Obama ahead of Bush by 40 to 31 percent in a hypothetical race but 40 percent of the key independent voters, who are often said to decide elections, chose neither. Nearly 30 percent of 1,033 adults in the nationwide poll conducted last month said they tried to buy only locally sourced foods, while nearly half said they do so when convenient. ... Full Story | Top |
AIDS fund cuts will hit Southern Africa hard
Mon,28 Nov 2011 01:34 PM PST
Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African countries, hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are likely to be most affected over the next three years as funding from one of the world's biggest donors dries up, a coalition of AIDS activists said on Monday. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria called off its next funding round after failing to secure the minimum $13 billion needed to fund its programs. The fund said earlier this month it was cutting new grants for countries battling the diseases. ... Full Story | Top |
Merge to launch cloud-based product in Q1, shares up
Mon,28 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Merge Healthcare said it would launch its new cloud-based platform in the first quarter of 2012, sending the medical device maker's shares up 22 percent. The company unveiled its image-sharing product -- Merge Honeycomb -- at the Radiological Society of North America conference in Chicago. The company also announced its first application in the cloud that would allow free sharing of medical images from any web-enabled device. Shares of Merge, which rose as high as $5.40, later pared some of the gains to trade up 12 percent at $4.99 on Monday on Nasdaq. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: New link emerges between Japan's Olympus and veteran
Mon,28 Nov 2011 07:35 AM PST
Reuters -  TOKYO/HONG KONG (Reuters)- Documents unearthed by Reuters show a new link between Japan's Olympus Corp and a veteran banker at the center of an accounting scandal engulfing the firm, as attention focuses on the role he played in the company's deal-making. The Japanese banker, Akio Nakagawa, is already known to have worked for an obscure, boutique U.S. financial firm that won a massive $687 million advisory fee from Olympus relating to its purchase of British medical equipment firm Gyrus in 2008. ...
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When fitness takes a happy holiday
Mon,28 Nov 2011 07:25 AM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's the season when yoga classes are canceled and gyms go on holiday schedules, so to avoid the fitness consequences of all those Christmas parties, experts suggest making a workout plan and sticking to it. "I tell my clients to make sure they have a routine in their back pocket," said Colorado-based fitness instructor Stacey Lei Krauss, "something equipment-free that can be done in a small space, especially if you don't have easy access to a gym over the holidays. ...
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Britons worry profits to trump services in hospital deal
Mon,28 Nov 2011 05:39 AM PST
Reuters -  HUNTINGDON, England (Reuters) - Maggie Blight has only praise for the local state-funded hospital where she got her hernia fixed last year. "I couldn't fault it. It was excellent," the 67-year-old family worker said of the care she received at Hinchingbrooke hospital in Huntingdon, 60 miles (100 km) northeast of London. Now she is worried, not for her own health, but for that of the debt-laden hospital, which is the first in more than 60 years to be transferred to a private company from the state system under a contract approved on November 10. ...
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Britons worry profits to trump services in hospital deal
Mon,28 Nov 2011 05:35 AM PST
Reuters -  HUNTINGDON, England (Reuters) - Maggie Blight has only praise for the local state-funded hospital where she got her hernia fixed last year. "I couldn't fault it. It was excellent," the 67-year-old family worker said of the care she received at Hinchingbrooke hospital in Huntingdon, 60 miles northeast of London. Now she is worried, not for her own health, but for that of the debt-laden hospital, which is the first in more than 60 years to be transferred to a private company from the state system under a contract approved on November 10. ...
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HIV-positive men urge China Premier to end discrimination
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:13 AM PST
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their employers discovered they had the virus that causes AIDS. The landmark petition, delivered Monday by mail to the State Council Legislative Affairs Office, is a bold test of China's promise to enforce the rule of law. ... Full Story | Top |
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