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| Texas governor mounts new bid for abortion restrictions Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 06:51 PM PDT  By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday launched another battle to pass sweeping abortion restrictions after a marathon speech by a Democrat lawmaker briefly halted a bill critics say could shut most abortion clinics in one of the nation's biggest states. Democratic Senator Wendy Davis, once a teenage mother who went on to earn a Harvard Law degree, was propelled on to the national political stage when she spoke for more than 10 hours to block a measure that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. to retire most chimpanzees from medical research Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 05:50 PM PDT By Matt Haldane WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday it is reducing the number of chimpanzees it uses in biomedical research and will retire most of them to sanctuaries, a decision applauded by animal rights groups. "Chimpanzees are very special animals ... We believe they deserve special consideration," said NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, announcing the move. The decision followed a recommendation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in January. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. tax writers to propose a controversial tax code revamp Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:59 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat and Republican tax-writers in the Senate will propose a revamp of the tax code on Thursday that challenges their colleagues to justify retaining some of the country's most cherished tax breaks. Democrat Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and top panel Republican Orrin Hatch, will challenge fellow lawmakers in a "dear colleague" letter, according to a senior Republican aide, who could not speak for attribution. They will propose to cut tax rates with most tax breaks wiped out and ask their colleagues to justify putting them back in. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cosmo plans Obamacare focus for U.S. readers this fall Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:49 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Obamacare doesn't divulge the secrets of sexual arousal and won't give you the glowing complexion of a goddess. But those shortcomings aside, President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law will still feature prominently in forthcoming issues of the Cosmopolitan - the sexy, gossipy, glamour magazine that boasts a monthly U.S. readership of more than 18 million young women. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mandela still critical, Zuma cancels Mozambique trip Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:29 PM PDT By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma canceled a trip to neighboring Mozambique on Thursday, intensifying speculation about a deterioration in the health of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, who remains critically ill in hospital. Zuma made his decision not to leave the country after visiting the 94-year-old late on Wednesday in the Pretoria hospital where he has been receiving treatment for a lung infection for nearly three weeks. ... Full Story | Top |
| Governor calls Texas lawmakers back to session on abortion bill Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:23 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday called a second special session of the legislature on July 1 in a bid to overcome Democratic efforts to thwart proposed new restrictions on abortion. A Democratic state senator spoke for 10 hours on Tuesday to block a vote in the Republican majority chamber on a proposal that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The filibuster ran to the end of the first 30-day special session, which expired at midnight. (Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Daniel Trotta) Full Story | Top |
| Coke to sell 'natural' mid-calorie cola in Argentina Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:21 PM PDT  By Martinne Geller (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co announced plans on Wednesday to introduce a cola that is sweetened with sugar and the naturally occurring, no-calorie sweetener stevia, the latest move in the high-stakes race to turn around the soda industry. Coca-Cola Life will have about half the calories of regular Coke. It will go on sale this week in Argentina, where Coca-Cola has 50 percent of the soda market, compared with PepsiCo Inc's 16 percent, according to industry newsletter Beverage Digest, which was first to report the news. ... Full Story | Top |
| Defiant Texas legislator Davis persists against the odds Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:19 PM PDT By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - State Senator Wendy Davis, the woman whose 10-hour speech captured national attention and single-handedly slowed the Texas Republican drive to restrict abortion, has overcome long odds before in her life. While her defiance of the mostly male Texas Republicans may ultimately fail because Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday called another special session of the legislature to consider abortion curbs, the bid propelled her to stardom in a Texas Democratic party that has not won a statewide office in two decades. ... Full Story | Top |
| Defiant Texas state Senator Davis has overcome long odds before Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 01:36 PM PDT By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - State Senator Wendy Davis, the woman whose 10-hour speech captured national attention and single-handedly slowed the Texas Republican drive to restrict abortion, has overcome long odds before in her life. While her defiance of the mostly male Texas Republicans may ultimately fail if Governor Rick Perry calls another special session of the legislature, the gambit has propelled her to stardom in a Texas Democratic party that has not won a statewide office in two decades. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hormone therapy in the 50s not linked to memory loss Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 01:35 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy during the early stages of menopause - typically around age 50 - doesn't hurt or help brain function, according to a new study. Researchers found that women between the ages of 50 and 55 years old who took estrogen or estrogen with progesterone performed just as well on tests that measure memory problems as women of the same age who took a placebo. ... Full Story | Top |
| Heart failure tied to higher cancer risk: study Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:35 AM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with heart failure are also more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, according to a new study that followed older adults with and without heart problems. The findings don't prove that heart failure, when the heart can't pump enough blood to the rest of the body, causes cancer. Researchers said more studies are needed to determine what might explain the link. "People have not really considered any association of heart failure and cancer together, at least not developing cancer after diagnosis," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Companies win U.S. free speech shield over scientific articles Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:23 AM PDT By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authors and publishers of controversial scientific articles, and the companies sponsoring those articles, won broad free speech protection from a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said statements of scientific conclusions on matters open to scientific debate, and which are published in a research article, cannot result in damages associated with defamation. It also said companies may promote excerpts from such an article so long as readers are not misled about the conclusions. ... Full Story | Top |
| Many cancer patients expect palliative care to cure Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:05 AM PDT By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a survey of patients with terminal lung cancer, nearly two-thirds did not understand that radiation treatments intended only to ease their symptoms would not cure their disease. Among the nationwide sample of patients with advanced lung cancers, four out of five thought the radiation would help them live longer and two in five believed it might cure their cancers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Type 1 diabetes vaccine shows promise in early study: researchers Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:04 AM PDT By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - An early stage study suggests an experimental vaccine may be able to tame bits of the immune system that go haywire in people with type 1 diabetes, offering hope for a new way to delay or prevent the autoimmune disease, researchers said on Wednesday. For more than four decades, scientists have tried different ways of manipulating the immune system to stop the destruction of insulin-producing cells that is responsible for type 1 diabetes. The disease affects as many as 3 million Americans. ... Full Story | Top |
| Italy passes bill to ease overcrowded prisons Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 09:51 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italy moved to ease critically overcrowded prisons on Wednesday, passing a decree to reduce pre-trial detention and encourage alternatives to jail time for minor offences. Italian jails are the most crowded in the European Union, with close to 67,000 detainees held in jails built for 45,000, and some prisons at over 250 percent of the capacity they were built for, according to rights group Antigone. ... Full Story | Top |
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