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Pall to sell blood collection assets to Haemonetics
Sun,29 Apr 2012 11:37 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Pall Corp said on Sunday it agreed to sell some of its blood collection, filtration and processing product lines to Haemonetics Corp for about $550 million. Under terms of the agreement, about $535 million will be paid upon closing at the start of Pall's fiscal year 2013. Pall, based in Port Washington, New York, on Long Island, said it expects to record an after-tax gain of $230 million to $240 million, or $1.95 to $2.04 per share, as a result. ... Full Story | Top |
British Red Cross doctor kidnapped in Pakistan found beheaded
Sun,29 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT
Reuters -  QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside on Sunday in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was abducted by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work. "The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act," ICRC Director-General Yves Daccord said in a statement. "All of us at the ICRC and at the British Red Cross share the grief and outrage of Khalil's family and friends. ...
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British Red Cross doctor kidnapped in Pakistan found beheaded
Sun,29 Apr 2012 07:54 AM PDT
Reuters -  QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside on Sunday in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was abducted by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work. "The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act," ICRC Director-General Yves Daccord said in a statement. "All of us at the ICRC and at the British Red Cross share the grief and outrage of Khalil's family and friends. ...
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One killed, 16 hurt in grenade attack at Kenyan church
Sun,29 Apr 2012 05:47 AM PDT
Reuters -  NAIROBI (Reuters) - A gunman detonated a grenade in a Nairobi church on Sunday, killing one worshipper and wounding 16 in the latest in a series of attacks in Kenya since it sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants blamed for cross-border raids. Nairobi has said al Shabaab militants, who merged with al Qaeda earlier this year, are behind the surge in violence and kidnappings that has threatened tourism in east Africa's biggest economy and wider regional destabilisation. ...
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One killed, 16 hurt in grenade attack at Kenyan church
Sun,29 Apr 2012 05:46 AM PDT
Reuters -  NAIROBI (Reuters) - A gunman detonated a grenade in a Nairobi church on Sunday, killing one worshipper and wounding 16 in the latest in a series of attacks in Kenya since it sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants blamed for cross-border raids. Nairobi has said al Shabaab militants, who merged with al Qaeda earlier this year, are behind the surge in violence and kidnappings that has threatened tourism in east Africa's biggest economy and wider regional destabilization. ...
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One killed in grenade attack in Kenyan church: police
Sun,29 Apr 2012 01:26 AM PDT
Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and a dozen wounded in a grenade attack at a church in the Kenyan capital on Sunday, police said. "I can confirm that one person is believed to be dead," Kenya police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told Reuters. The blast was in a working class area of the city, police and Kenya Red Cross officials said. (Reporting by James Macharia; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Full Story | Top |
Kansas lawmakers to debate who can pull baby teeth
Sat,28 Apr 2012 03:52 PM PDT
Reuters - KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - In a debate every parent of a six-year-old can relate to, the Kansas legislature is deciding who can pull baby teeth. The problem is that rural areas in the United States have a shortage of dentists, and one proposed solution is to license "dental practitioners" who could do things such as fill cavities and pull baby teeth. But the lobbying group representing dentists in Kansas wants no part of non-dentists messing with people's mouths, saying that only a person with a four-year graduate degree and additional training should be allowed to extract teeth. ... Full Story | Top |
Suicides have Greeks on edge before election
Sat,28 Apr 2012 06:19 AM PDT
Reuters -  ATHENS (Reuters) - On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old student shot himself in the head. In a country that has had one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, a surge in the number of suicides in the wake of an economic crisis has shocked and gripped the Mediterranean nation - and its media - before a May 6 election. ...
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Rights defender thorn in China's side
Sat,28 Apr 2012 05:55 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese rights defender Chen Guangcheng has never been one to give up without a fight. Robbed of his sight as a child, the rural-born Chen taught himself law and used his knowledge with gusto, drawing international attention in 2005 after accusing officials of enforcing late-term abortions and sterilizations. His campaign appeared to pay off initially, after the government sacked and detained officials in his home province of Shandong for forcing pregnant women to undergo abortions or sterilizing couples with more than two children. ... Full Story | Top |
Trial of Ukraine's Tymoshenko adjourned until May 21
Sat,28 Apr 2012 01:38 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - A court in Ukraine on Saturday adjourned the tax evasion trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko until May 21 due to the ill health of the opposition leader who is already in prison on an abuse-of-office conviction condemned by the West. Judge Kostyantyn Sadovsky told the court in the city of Kharkiv it would be impossible to conduct hearings in the absence of Tymoshenko, who says she is suffering from chronic back pain. ... Full Story | Top |
Rights defender thorn in China's side
Sat,28 Apr 2012 01:36 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese rights defender Chen Guangcheng has never been one to give up without a fight. Robbed of his sight as a child, the rural-born Chen taught himself law and used his knowledge with gusto, drawing international attention in 2005 after accusing officials of enforcing late-term abortions and sterilizations. His campaign appeared to pay off initially, after the government sacked and detained officials in his home province of Shandong for forcing pregnant women to undergo abortions or sterilizing couples with more than two children. ... Full Story | Top |
Report of Mexican woman expecting nine babies a hoax
Fri,27 Apr 2012 05:04 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Reports that a woman in northern Mexico is pregnant with nine babies are a hoax, health authorities said on Friday. Mexico's main broadcaster Televisa and top daily newspapers ran stories about a woman expecting nonuplets late on Thursday after she provided welfare officials with supposed evidence of the multiple pregnancy, including an ultrasound video, said a spokesman for the health ministry of Coahuila state. ... Full Story | Top |
FDA approves Vivus's fast-acting Viagra rival
Fri,27 Apr 2012 02:40 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men with erectile dysfunction may not have to plan for sex as far in advance anymore after Vivus Inc won U.S. approval for avanafil, its faster acting rival to Viagra. Avanafil, which will be sold under the brand name Stendra, is the first new drug in the category in a decade. The drug -- which will compete with Pfizer Inc's Viagra, Eli Lilly's Cialis and Levitra, sold by GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer -- gives Vivus, which has struggled to bring a weight loss drug to market, a potentially lucrative commercial product. ...
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Republicans insert healthcare into student loan fight
Fri,27 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives defied a veto threat by President Barack Obama on Friday and voted to take money from his healthcare overhaul to extend low-interest rates for federal student loans. On a mostly party-line vote of 215-195, the House sent the measure to the Senate where Obama's Democrats are certain to reject it. Like Obama, they want to renew the low rate, but favor covering the one-year, $6 billion cost by ending a tax break for the rich. ...
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Slightly-overactive thyroid tied to heart problems
Fri,27 Apr 2012 12:58 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new report suggests higher-than-normal thyroid activity is linked to a greater risk of heart disease, including irregular heartbeats. People with so-called subclinical hyperthyroidism have a slightly-overactive thyroid -- a gland at the front of the neck responsible for regulating metabolism by releasing certain hormones. Those people often don't have the typical signs of full-on hyperthyroidism, such as increased appetite, restlessness and fatigue -- so the condition may frequently go undiagnosed. ... Full Story | Top |
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