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| Low prices seen luring young adults to Obamacare: study Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 09:03 PM PDT  By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - If uninsured young Americans shun the new health plans offered under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, it will be because the insurance costs too much and not because they don't expect to need much medical care, according to a study released on Wednesday. What uninsured young adults do when state exchanges created under "Obamacare" open on October 1 will be one of the most important factors in determining the success of the president's signature domestic policy achievement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Japan to issue gravest Fukushima nuclear warning in two years: agency Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 08:29 PM PDT  By Kentaro Hamada and James Topham TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will dramatically raise its warning about the severity of a toxic water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant, its nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, its most serious action since the plant was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The deepening crisis at the Fukushima plant will be upgraded from a level 1 "anomaly" to a level three "serious incident" on an international scale for radiological releases, a spokesman for Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Afghans at court-martial describe pain from massacre by U.S. soldier Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 06:47 PM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - An Afghan teenager who survived a rampage by a U.S. soldier who killed 16 unarmed civilians last year testified on Tuesday about the pain of losing his grandmother, at the start of a sentencing trial for the man behind the carnage. The teenager, who was shot in the legs and whose sister was also seriously wounded and now suffers nightmares, was among a group of Afghan victims of the violence flown to the United States to testify on the impact of the killings. ... Full Story | Top |
| Florida voices privacy concerns over Obamacare 'navigators' Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 04:17 PM PDT  By Zachary Fagenson and Bill Cotterell MIAMI/TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott voiced serious concerns Tuesday over what the federal government will do with personal and financial data collected by "navigators" who help people find insurance coverage under the new national health-care exchange system. "Privacy has been a big issue for me," Scott told a meeting of the Florida Cabinet held in downtown Miami. "We don't know how this information is going to be used. ... Full Story | Top |
| British tuberculosis rates among highest in Western Europe Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 04:09 PM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Rates of tuberculosis (TB) in Britain are among the highest in western Europe and London is struggling to shed its status as the "TB capital" of the region, according to data released on Wednesday. If trends of infection continue, within two years Britain is likely to have more new cases of TB each year than the United States, according a report from the government's health agency, Public Health England (PHE). ... Full Story | Top |
| Sliced and diced, digitally: autopsy as a service Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 02:11 PM PDT  By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Malaysian entrepreneur Matt Chandran wants to revive the moribund post-mortem by replacing the scalpel with a scanner and the autopsy slab with a touchscreen computer. He believes his so-called digital autopsy could largely displace the centuries-old traditional knife-bound one, speeding up investigations, reducing the stress on grieving families and placating religious sensibilities. ... Full Story | Top |
| Banks, miners lift TSX; attention shifts to Fed minutes' release Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 02:05 PM PDT  By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index jumped on Tuesday as strength in materials and financials drove investor sentiment, offsetting worries about the U.S. Federal Reserve's stimulus program. After recording its biggest drop in eight weeks the previous session, the market recovered to post its sharpest gain in more than 1-1/2 weeks. A drop in the U.S. dollar lifted bullion prices and pushed gold-mining shares up 3.8 percent. The Toronto stock market's benchmark index, which has outperformed the S&P 500 in August to date, had a stronger gain than its U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Patients may need better info when leaving hospitals Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 01:33 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older patients may think they understand everything doctors tell them when they are released from the hospital, but a new U.S. study found several gaps in what they remember and areas where instructions could be clearer. Out of nearly 400 patients discharged from a large academic medical center, 96 percent reported knowing why they had been hospitalized, but only about 60 percent could accurately describe their diagnoses, for instance. "Patients were very positive, but when we asked them about actual facts, they could not tell us," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Program tied to system-wide blood pressure benefits Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 01:14 PM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A comprehensive high blood pressure program at one California health system led to a near doubling in the proportion of patients who had their blood pressure under control, according to a new study. After the program was launched at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2001, the share of people with hypertension whose most recent blood pressure reading was in line with guidelines went from 44 percent to 80 percent by 2009. "I think there are many parts of this program that would likely be applicable in other primary care settings," Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insoles provide little arthritis pain relief: review Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 01:13 PM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Specially angled insoles may not do much to relieve pain for people with knee osteoarthritis, suggests a new review of past studies. Researchers found that across 12 trials, people who used so-called lateral wedge insoles rated their pain about two points lower on a 20-point scale than those who used flat insoles or none at all. But when the study team looked only at higher quality trials, including ones that accounted for the placebo effect of simply having insoles, any significant benefit went away. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jury selected for sentencing of U.S. soldier in Afghan massacre Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 12:56 PM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A jury of six military personnel was impaneled on Tuesday for the sentencing of a decorated U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty in June to killing 16 Afghan civilians in two nighttime forays from his Army post last year, an Army spokeswoman said. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to gunning down the villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012. In exchange for his guilty plea, Bales will be spared the death ... Full Story | Top |
| Iraq war veteran arraigned in death of former U.S. military sniper Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 12:27 PM PDT By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - An Iraq war veteran accused of fatally shooting former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a decorated sniper, and another man at a shooting range in Texas was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of capital murder, his attorney said. Eddie Ray Routh, 25, was indicted in July on two counts of murder in the February shooting deaths of Kyle, and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield, at the upscale Rough Creek Lodge resort about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth. ... Full Story | Top |
| Iraqi Kurdistan sets quota for Syria refugees: aid groups Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 10:40 AM PDT  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has set an entry quota of 3,000 refugees a day to cope with an influx of Kurds fleeing the civil war in Syria, but there are signs many more are still coming in, aid agencies said on Tuesday. About 35,000 refugees, believed to be mainly Syrian Kurds, have entered Iraq since last Thursday, including an estimated 5,100, well over the cap, on Tuesday, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said. UNHCR officials told an internal U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| Canada's Nordion, AECL settle lawsuit; sign new supply deal Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 10:27 AM PDT (Reuters) - Canada's Nordion Inc said it settled a five-year-old lawsuit with its main supplier, easing concerns about the supply of the main raw material the company uses to make medical isotopes. The settlement with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) pushed Nordion's shares up as much as 9 percent to C$8.40 Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Nordion has struggled to find an alternative supplier for molybdenum-99, the isotope at the center of the dispute. The company processes the isotope to produce radioactive tracers used in medical imaging. ... Full Story | Top |
| Red Cross chief in North Korea to discuss separated families Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 10:19 AM PDT  GENEVA (Reuters) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to discuss the reunification of families on the divided Korean peninsula and other humanitarian issues, the agency said. North Korea said on Sunday it had accepted a South Korean offer to hold talks on resuming reunions of families separated by the Korean War, three days after an overture by South Korean President Park Geun-hye. North Korea and South Korea are technically still at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. ... Full Story | Top |
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