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| India's Cipla offers to buy South Africa's Cipla Medpro for $512 million Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:59 PM PST  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Cipla said it has offered to buy all shares in South Africa's third largest drugmaker Cipla Medpro for a total consideration of about $512 million. Cipla, India's fifth largest drugmaker by sales, had last year offered to buy 51 percent equity in Cipla Medpro for $215 million at 8.55 rands a share. Cipla has now raised the price to 10 rands a share, it said in a statement. The Indian drugmaker's Chairman Y. K. Hamied had said early this month the company had put the deal on hold. Shares in Cipla were up 0.8 percent at 367. ... Full Story | Top |
| Arkansas House overrides veto of late-term abortion ban Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:32 PM PST LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled Arkansas House of Representatives on Wednesday overrode a veto by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe of a bill to ban most late-term abortions in the state at 20 weeks into pregnancy. The House voted 53-28 to override the veto, and the Republican-dominated state Senate was expected to vote on Thursday to override the veto as well. If that happens, Arkansas would join seven other U.S. states that restrict or ban abortions after the 20-week mark. ... Full Story | Top |
| Personalized risk info helps with screening decision Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 05:55 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People make more educated decisions about screening tests when they're given a personalized assessment of their own risk, rather than one-size-fits-all information, according to a new review of past studies. Those personalized evaluations take into account factors such as age, race, gender, weight, lifestyle and family history to determine an individual's chances of developing a certain type of cancer, for example. ... Full Story | Top |
| House Republicans seek to avoid potential government shutdown Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:49 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives are planning to put up for a vote next week a plan that avoids yet another nasty partisan budget fight, this time a potential shutdown of the government when the current temporary spending law runs out at the end of March. House Republican lawmakers said their caucus voiced strong support at a meeting on Wednesday for a stop-gap measure that would keep federal agencies and programs funded through the September 30 end of the fiscal year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Support for legalizing pot in California hits new high: survey Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:20 PM PST  (Reuters) - A record but still narrow majority of California voters, or 54 percent, favor legalizing marijuana for personal, recreational use with restrictions like those placed on alcohol, a poll showed on Wednesday. California was the first of 19 states and the District of Columbia to legalize pot for medical use, doing so in 1996, although voters rejected efforts to legalize the drug for recreational use in 2010. But support for legalizing pot, which the federal government considers an illegal narcotic, appears to be growing in the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Program increases contraceptive use in at-risk teens Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:22 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long after completing an 18-month program designed to teach about contraception and healthy relationships, teenage girls at high risk for unwanted pregnancy were using contraceptives more often and maintaining other safer sexual practices, according to a new study. Researchers in Minnesota tested an approach to preventing teen pregnancies that is based on providing access to birth control methods and information as well as building girls' sense of connectedness to family and society. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tom Hardy, Solar Pictures developing project about post-traumatic stress disorder Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:46 PM PST  NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Tom Hardy wants to play a British soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in "Samarkand," a project the actor is developing with Solar Pictures and Greg and Olly Williams, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. The Williams brothers have written a draft of the screenplay, which revolves around a young Special Air Service soldier returning from duty in the Middle East. ... Full Story | Top |
| Niacin-statin combo tied to skin, muscle side effects Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:19 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One-quarter of people taking niacin and statins as part of a four-year-long heart study dropped out early, often for medical reasons tied to niacin's side effects, a new study suggests. Previous research hinted that niacin could boost HDL ("good") cholesterol levels, but it was unclear whether the B-vitamin would improve heart health. The full data from the new study, which included 25,000 people in Europe and China, are being presented next month at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting in San Francisco. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. gay couples report poorer health than straight married counterparts Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:07 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian couples living together report poorer health than straight married couples, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, speculating that legalizing same-sex marriage could reduce the disparities. Studies have shown that married couples enjoy better health than people who are single, divorced or separated. When Dr Hui Liu, an assistant professor of sociology at Michigan State University, and her team studied the health of gay and straight couples, they found marriage made a difference. ... Full Story | Top |
| Screening might avert many lung cancer deaths: study Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:02 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A calculation based on results from a large lung cancer screening trial projects that 12,000 deaths a year among the highest-risk smokers and ex-smokers in the U.S. could be avoided with a national screening program. The National Lung Screening Trial, published in 2010, found 20 percent fewer deaths from lung cancer in a group of people at highest risk for the disease when they were screened annually with CT scans, a form of high-resolution X-ray that can spot suspicious lung nodules. Based on the 8. ... Full Story | Top |
| Amgen loses as top U.S. court backs class actions Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 11:18 AM PST  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier on Wednesday for shareholders to bring class-action lawsuits, breaking a recent line of decisions that had made it harder to sue corporate defendants collectively and perhaps obtain greater recoveries. By a 6-3 vote, the court allowed shareholders of Amgen Inc to sue the biotechnology company as a group without first having to show that misinformation had materially and fraudulently inflated its stock price. ... Full Story | Top |
| American classical pianist Van Cliburn dies at age 78 Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 11:09 AM PST  (Reuters) - American pianist Van Cliburn, who awed Russian audiences with his exquisite Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff concertos and won fame and fortune back home, died on Wednesday at the age of 78. Cliburn passed away at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, after suffering from advanced bone cancer, his publicist Mary Lou Falcone told Reuters. Cliburn announced in August 2012 that he had been diagnosed with the disease. ... Full Story | Top |
| Biden says Chicago vote a sign that voters want action on guns Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:41 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gun control supporter's victory in a Chicago Democratic congressional primary election is a sign that voters want tougher gun laws and are turning against the powerful gun lobby, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. Robin Kelly, a former Illinois state representative, won the election Tuesday to run for the U.S. House seat of former Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. It was the first U.S. electoral test since gun control rose to the top of the political agenda after a gunman killed 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December. ... Full Story | Top |
| Manhunt under way for gunman who killed South Carolina college student Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:09 AM PST CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A statewide manhunt was under way on Wednesday for a gunman who fatally shot a South Carolina university student outside a dormitory and then fled the campus in a car, police said. No motive has been revealed for the attack, which occurred Tuesday night at an apartment-style residence that houses almost 2,000 students about 2 miles from the main campus of Coastal Carolina University, near Myrtle Beach. ... Full Story | Top |
| South Africa steps up random tests on meats at shops Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:27 AM PST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African health authorities have stepped up random tests on meat and other foods in supermarkets after a study showed that donkey, goat and water buffalo have been added as unlabelled ingredients in meat products. The investigation started last month in response to a scandal in Europe where horse meat was labelled as beef, health department spokesman Popo Maja said. ... Full Story | Top |
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