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| Shooting at South Carolina university wounds one: school Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 08:00 PM PST Charleston, South Carolina (Reuters) - At least one person was wounded in a shooting Tuesday at a residence hall of a South Carolina university near the resort area of Myrtle Beach, the university said. Students were urged to remain in their dorm rooms at Coastal Carolina University in Conway but the gunman was believed to have fled, school officials said. The shooting occurred just before 7:30 p.m. at University Place, a residence hall. "The suspect fled in a vehicle. The campus is still on lockdown, although people in classrooms were allowed to go home. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gun control supporter wins Chicago House race Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:10 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Gun control supporter and former Illinois state Representative Robin Kelly on Tuesday won the Democratic primary to replace indicted former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. in a race that highlighted the national debate over gun violence. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a champion of tighter restrictions on weapons, poured more than $2 million into the Chicago race. He backed Kelly and attacked her main opponent, Debbie Halvorson, who was supported by the gun rights lobby. ... Full Story | Top |
| Actress Carrie Fisher briefly hospitalized after bipolar episode Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:52 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, was briefly hospitalized due to her bipolar disorder, the actress' spokeswoman said on Tuesday after video emerged of Fisher giving an unusual stage performance. The video came from a show Fisher gave aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean last week, according to celebrity website TMZ, which posted the clip. The clip shows Fisher, 56, singing "Skylark" and "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," at times appearing to struggle to remember the lyrics. ... Full Story | Top |
| Factbox: Impact of across-the-board U.S. budget cuts Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:11 PM PST (Reuters) - Deep U.S. budget cuts are due to kick in Friday unless Congress acts to stop them, which is unlikely. The $85 billion in across-the-board cuts, mandated by a 2011 deficit reduction law, apply in equal measure to defense and non-defense spending. The do not apply to about 70 percent of the money spent by the U.S. government, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and interest on government debt. ... Full Story | Top |
| Grand jury decides no charges against New Jersey's "Tan Mom" Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 05:47 PM PST (Reuters) - The case of the deeply bronzed New Jersey woman known as "Tan Mom" appears destined to fade away. A grand jury declined to indict her on child endangerment charges, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. Patricia Krentcil was arrested in April 2012 after her then 5-year-old daughter showed up at school with a sunburn and officials accused her of taking the child into a tanning booth. At the time, the blonde mother's chocolate-brown hue testified to many hours spent under the intense ultraviolet light of a tanning bed or out in the sun soaking up rays. ... Full Story | Top |
| Green Day's Armstrong comes clean on drink, prescription drugs Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 05:43 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said alcohol and prescription drug abuse forced him into rehab last year after sessions when he would black out and have no memory of what he had done. "I couldn't predict where I was going to end up at the end of the night," Armstrong, 41, the lead vocalist and songwriter for the California punk rock band told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview. "I'd wake up in a strange house on a couch. I wouldn't remember how. It was a complete blackout," he said, opening up about years of addiction to drink and prescription drugs. ... Full Story | Top |
| Arkansas governor vetoes bill banning abortions at 20 weeks Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 05:29 PM PST LITTLE ROCK, AR (Reuters) - Democratic Governor Mike Beebe on Tuesday vetoed a bill to ban most abortions in Arkansas at 20 weeks into pregnancy, though state lawmakers can override his decision with a simple majority vote. The measure, which had been approved by an 80 to 10 vote in the state House and by a 25 to 7 vote in the state Senate, would provide exceptions only in cases of rape, incest or to save a mother's life. It is one of several bills introduced by Republicans this year seeking to restrict abortion. ... Full Story | Top |
| Missed diagnoses common in the doctor's office Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 05:05 PM PST  (Reuters) - Missed or wrong diagnoses are common in primary care and may put some patients at risk of serious complications, according to a U.S. study. Mistakes in surgery and medication prescribing have been at the center of patient safety efforts, but researchers whose findings appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine said less attention has been paid to missed diagnoses in the doctor's office. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK study confirms GSK flu shot link to rare sleep disorder Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:38 PM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix swine flu vaccine has been linked to cases of the rare sleep disorder narcolepsy in children in a scientific study in England that confirms similar findings elsewhere in Europe. The vaccine, more than 30 million doses of which were given during the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010, contains a booster, or adjuvant, and may have triggered an adverse immune reaction in some children at higher genetic risk of narcolepsy, scientists said in new research published on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Chicago votes in House race dominated by guns issue Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:41 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago area voters went to the polls on Tuesday to choose a Democrat to succeed former Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. in a primary election partly bankrolled by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a champion of tighter gun control. The special election is to fill the seat of Jackson Jr, who resigned last November citing health problems, and pleaded guilty in federal court last week to using campaign funds for personal enrichment. ... Full Story | Top |
| Indiana Senate backs requiring ultrasound for "abortion pill" use Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:02 PM PST INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Indiana state Senate on Tuesday approved Republican-backed legislation to require women seeking to end pregnancies through use of the so-called abortion pill to have an ultrasound examination. If it becomes law, the proposal would make Indiana the ninth state to require an ultrasound prior to an abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. ... Full Story | Top |
| Traumatized Malians desperately in need of aid, says U.N. Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 01:46 PM PST  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Malians in the country's vast desert north are scared and in desperate need of aid, traumatized at the hands of Islamist extremists and fearful of ethnic reprisals by government troops, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said on Tuesday. John Ging, director of operations for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said a U.N. appeal for $373 million to fund aid operations in the West African state had so far only received $17 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| Advanced breast cancer inching up in young women Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 01:25 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More young women are being diagnosed with advanced, metastatic breast cancer than were three decades ago, a new study suggests - although the overall rate of cancers in that group is still small. One in 173 women will develop breast cancer before she turns 40, researchers said, and the prognosis tends to be worse for younger patients. In the new study, a team led by Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Do bariatric surgery restrictions improve outcomes? Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 01:24 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A Medicare policy limiting where people can undergo weight-loss surgery to so-called "centers of excellence" was not responsible for reducing complications from the procedures, according to a new study. In 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said it would only pay for bariatric surgery done at hospitals that had certain equipment and medical teams in place and were certified by the American College of Surgeons or the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). ... Full Story | Top |
| Teen driver deaths spiked in first half of 2012: survey Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 12:53 PM PST (Reuters) - Teen driving deaths in the United States increased in the first six months of last year, further eroding a decade-long reduction, possibly as a result of more accidents caused by texting and talking behind the wheel, state highway officials said on Tuesday. Deaths of drivers ages 16 and 17 increased roughly 19 percent, to 240 in the first six months of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, according to a study by the Governors Highway Safety Association. ... Full Story | Top |
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