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| NZ's Fonterra finds botulism bacteria in dairy ingredient Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:36 PM PDT By Naomi Tajitsu WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter, on Saturday said it had found that an ingredient in some of its dairy products contained a strain of a bacteria which can cause botulism, prompting China to recall affected products. The company said it had notified the eight customers which purchased New Zealand-made whey protein concentrate contaminated with Clostridium Botulinum, and may have used the ingredient in the production of infant formula, sports drinks, and other products. ... Full Story | Top |
| Murder charges dropped against Indiana woman who ate poison while pregnant Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:13 PM PDT By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana prosecutors dropped murder and attempted feticide charges on Friday against an Indianapolis woman who tried to commit suicide by eating rat poison near the end of her pregnancy. Bei Bei Shuai, 36, was charged in March 2011 with knowingly killing a viable fetus, prosecutors said. Shuai walked out of Marion County Superior Court in Indianapolis a free woman on Friday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal recklessness for the death of her daughter, Angel. She had been released from prison on bond in May 2012. ... Full Story | Top |
| Doctor prescribes healthcare cost savings plans to governors Friday, Aug 02, 2013 07:30 PM PDT By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Home nursing and social work can significantly drive down healthcare costs caused by overuse of hospitals and nursing homes, a family doctor who practices in one of the poorest U.S. cities told a group of governors on Friday. Jeffrey Brenner, the founder of Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, encouraged governors attending the National Governors Association summer meeting in Milwaukee to work with healthcare providers in their state to consolidate and de-institutionalize their systems. "You regulate these facilities and you regulate the providers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Judge blocks one restriction on Wisconsin abortion doctors Friday, Aug 02, 2013 07:16 PM PDT (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday blocked a portion of a Wisconsin law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital near their practice. U.S. District Judge William Conley last month temporarily stopped the measure, days after Republican Governor Scott Walker signed it into law, and his latest ruling extends that indefinitely while a lawsuit proceeds against the provision. ... Full Story | Top |
| Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger Friday, Aug 02, 2013 06:06 PM PDT By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, the first example of what its creator says could provide an answer to global food shortages and help combat climate change, will be fried in a pan and tasted by two volunteers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Illinois university stands by professor linked to 1967 killings Friday, Aug 02, 2013 05:34 PM PDT By Mike Robinson CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small Illinois university said on Friday it was standing by a long-time psychology professor recently revealed to have shot and killed his father, mother and teenage sister in Texas more than four decades ago, although he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Millikin University, a Presbyterian school in Decatur with 2,380 students, said in a statement that the school expects James St. James, 61, to keep teaching at Millikin this fall. The school said it "has only recently been made aware of Dr. St. James' past. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. intestinal bug traced to salad greens from Mexican company Friday, Aug 02, 2013 05:06 PM PDT (Reuters) - U.S. health authorities have traced at least one source of an intestinal bug that has sickened more than 400 people in 17 states to salad greens supplied to restaurants by a company in Mexico. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a salad mix linked to the outbreak of cyclosporiasis was supplied to restaurants in Iowa and Nebraska by Taylor Farms de Mexico, a processor of food service salads. The restaurants included outlets of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains, both of which are owned by Darden Restaurants Inc, the FDA said in an e-mail. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. awards grant for health services a year after Wisconsin Sikh shooting Friday, Aug 02, 2013 05:00 PM PDT By Kevin Murphy (Reuters) - The U.S. government awarded a $512,000 grant on Friday to fund trauma and mental health services for the Sikh community in southern Wisconsin, nearly a year after a white supremacist killed six Sikh worshippers at a temple near Milwaukee. The first anniversary of the shootings at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin is Monday. Some experts have suggested that the man who opened fire might have thought the Sikhs were Muslim. The Sikh religion originated in India and is not related to Islam. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. high court backs order on California prison crowding Friday, Aug 02, 2013 04:52 PM PDT  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Friday to excuse California from a lower-court order demanding that the nation's largest state prison system reduce its inmate population by about 10,000 convicts this year to ease crowding. State prison officials, insisting that further cuts are unnecessary, said they were working to meet the court-ordered prison population target by their December 31 deadline, but warned that doing so would be costly and pose a risk to public safety. ... Full Story | Top |
| Factbox: States all over the map on Obamacare prices Friday, Aug 02, 2013 02:39 PM PDT (Reuters) - U.S. states are showing wide variations on the cost of new insurance plans under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, fueled by the way Obamacare's supporters and detractors describe those prices. Below are details of how different states arrived at their rate statistics for 2014. STATES SUPPORTIVE OF OBAMACARE California: Rates in plans available to individuals will range from 2 percent above to 29 percent below the average 2013 premiums that small employers pay in California's most populated areas. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: In Obamacare rate debate, price gets political Friday, Aug 02, 2013 02:39 PM PDT  By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the October 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way more. It depends who you ask. Residents of states that have embraced President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, including New York, California and Oregon, will save on health insurance, officials there say. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cuban death toll from methanol sold as rum climbs to 11 Friday, Aug 02, 2013 02:20 PM PDT  HAVANA (Reuters) - Eleven Cubans have died this week and more than 60 are in hospital after consuming toxic industrial methanol sold as rum, state media reported on Friday. The toll was up from seven dead and more than 40 hospitalized, as first reported by the Public Health Ministry on Wednesday in Cuba's worst mass poisoning incident in at least a decade. The poisoning cases emerged starting on Monday in the La Lisa municipality of Havana after poisonous wood alcohol was stolen from a warehouse and then passed off as rum, according to authorities. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas is running out of execution drug pentobarbital Friday, Aug 02, 2013 01:54 PM PDT By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas, the state with the highest execution rate in the country, is running out of a sedative used for lethal injections for the second time in 13 months, a state official said on Thursday. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark confirmed that the state's supply of pentobarbital, which has been used in the execution of condemned killers in the state since July 2012, will reach its expiration date in September. ... Full Story | Top |
| FDA issues new rules for labeling 'gluten-free' foods Friday, Aug 02, 2013 01:47 PM PDT By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Labels declaring foods to be "gluten-free" will need to meet new standards set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The standards, announced on Friday, are designed to protect patients with celiac disease, an inflammatory condition of the intestine triggered by gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. It affects about 3 million people in the United States. Under the new rules, any food bearing a gluten-free label must have less than .002 percent of gluten. The European Union and Canada have implemented the same gluten-free standards. ... Full Story | Top |
| Aetna exits Obamacare exchange in Maryland over price Friday, Aug 02, 2013 12:52 PM PDT  By Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Aetna Inc pulled out of Maryland's health insurance exchange being created under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law after the state pressed it to lower its proposed rates by up to 29 percent. Under the law, often called Obamacare, each U.S. state will have an online exchange where Americans will be able to buy insurance plans, starting on October 1. The government is counting on about 7 million people to enroll next year for this insurance, many of whom will qualify for subsidies. ... Full Story | Top |
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