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| California prison crowding plan neglects rehabilitation: lawmaker Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 08:34 PM PDT By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A plan by California Governor Jerry Brown to ease prison crowding by leasing space in county jails and private lockups came under fire Wednesday from lawmakers who advocate spending more for rehabilitation and mental health services. Fellow Democrats in the state Senate, led by Darrell Steinberg, condemned Brown's $315 million proposal as a short-term fix. "Temporarily expanding California's prison capacity is neither sustainable nor fiscally responsible," Senate leader Steinberg wrote in a letter to Brown. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fort Hood shooter's death sentence heads for appeal with or without him Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 05:49 PM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major Nidal Hasan may wish to die a martyr, as he told mental health evaluators before his trial in the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, but his execution is likely years away. The case against Hasan, who was convicted of the 2009 murders of 13 people at the Army base and sentenced to death on Wednesday by a military jury, will now move to a lengthy appeals process that includes several stages of review. ... Full Story | Top |
| Danone-owned milk formula maker considers legal action vs. Fonterra Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 05:03 PM PDT  WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A Danone SA unit said on Thursday it was considering legal action against New Zealand's Fonterra after the maker of Karicare milk formula had to recall products due to incorrect tests that led to global food safety scare. Initial tests prompted Fonterra to warn early this month that whey protein used in the products contained a bacteria which may cause botulism. Subsequent testing by New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries showed a different strain of the bacteria which posed no safety threat. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death for 2009 killings Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 04:06 PM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst and Jana J. Pruet FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A military jury on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. Army psychiatrist to death for murdering 13 people in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down unarmed soldiers in what he later called retaliation for U.S. wars in the Muslim world. Major Nidal Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic) during the attack and later said he wanted to be a martyr. Now he faces death by lethal injection, pending an automatic appeal, for the rampage that also wounded 31 people. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-HealthSouth CEO Scrushy loses bid to end SEC ban Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 03:31 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge rejected former HealthSouth Corp Chief Executive Richard Scrushy's bid to lift a ban on his serving as an officer or director of a public company, which was part of his settlement of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he masterminded a $2.6 billion accounting fraud. ... Full Story | Top |
| Toronto mayor says has smoked 'a lot of' marijuana Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 03:04 PM PDT  By Julie Gordon TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who denied allegations earlier this year that he was caught smoking crack cocaine on camera, casually admitted on Wednesday that he has smoked "a lot of" marijuana. The offhand comment by the leader of Canada's largest city came as Ford was leaving a business luncheon and was asked by reporters if he had ever smoked the drug. "Oh yeah, I won't deny that. I've smoked a lot of it," he said with a laugh. Ford made global headlines in May when U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| New MERS-coronavirus cases in Saudi bring global total to 102: WHO Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 02:04 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight more people in Saudi Arabia have contracted the MERS coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed infections worldwide in the past year to 102, of whom almost half have died, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Two of the men from Riyadh, who were already suffering from chronic diseases, died, while most of the other victims remain in intensive care, it said. Additionally, a person with a previously laboratory-confirmed case from the United Arab Emirates has died, it said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Percent of depressed men comparable to women: study Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 01:11 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The proportion of men who experience symptoms of depression may be similar to the proportion of women with depression when doctors look for non-traditional symptoms, according to a new study. Researchers found that one third of both men and women met the criteria for a depression diagnosis when traditional and alternative symptoms - such as aggression and sleep problems - were taken into account. ... Full Story | Top |
| Midwife-led care linked to fewer premature births Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 01:10 PM PDT By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women cared for by midwives throughout pregnancy tended to have less-complicated births and were less likely to go into labor early than women getting standard medical care, according to a new review of more than a dozen studies. Pregnancy care that was led or entirely provided by hospital- or community-based midwives was linked to fewer epidurals, episiotomies and use of instruments like forceps or vacuums during delivery. Risk of losing the baby during the first two trimesters was also significantly lower, UK researchers found. ... Full Story | Top |
| Shooter in Fort Hood massacre sentenced to death Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 12:17 PM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A military jury on Wednesday sentenced U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan to death by lethal injection for killing 13 people and wounding 31 others in a November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. The jury of 13 officers deliberated a little more than two hours before deciding the punishment for the Army psychiatrist, who admitted to being the gunman and said he had switched sides in what he considered to be a U.S. war on Islam. The U.S. military last executed a prisoner in 1961. (Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Daniel Trotta, Gary Hill) Full Story | Top |
| Scientists discover key to normal memory lapses in seniors Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 11:24 AM PDT By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists have good news for all the older adults who occasionally forget why they walked into a room - and panic that they are getting Alzheimer's disease. Not only is age-related memory loss a syndrome in its own right and completely unrelated to that dread disease, but unlike Alzheimer's it may be reversible or even preventable, researchers led by a Nobel laureate said in a study published on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| BRCA1 mutation not linked to worse cancer survival Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 11:00 AM PDT By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gene mutations known to increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer do not appear to also worsen her chance of survival after a diagnosis, a new study suggests. The findings should be reassuring to women with breast cancer, as carrying the BRCA1 mutations is "not a death sentence," provided patients get good treatment, Dr. Pamela Goodwin, an oncologist from the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fonterra products didn't have botulism bacteria after all, New Zealand tests show Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 10:12 AM PDT  By Naomi Tajitsu WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Dairy giant Fonterra's products at the center of a global contamination scare this month did not contain a bacteria that could cause botulism, and posed no food safety threat, New Zealand officials said on Wednesday. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) said tests showed that whey protein concentrate manufactured by the world's largest dairy processor contained clostridium sporogenes, which cannot cause botulism, but which at elevated levels can be associated with food spoilage. ... Full Story | Top |
| Scientists grow "mini human brains" from stem cells Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 10:01 AM PDT By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have grown the first mini human brains in a laboratory and say their success could lead to new levels of understanding about the way brains develop and what goes wrong in disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Researchers based in Austria started with human stem cells and created a culture in the lab that allowed them to grow into so-called "cerebral organoids" - or mini brains - that consisted of several distinct brain regions. ... Full Story | Top |
| Melbourne world's most livable city, Damascus least: survey Wednesday, Aug 28, 2013 09:49 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Melbourne, Australia was named the world's most livable city for the third year in a row, according to a survey of 140 cities released this month by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that also ranked the Syrian capital Damascus last. The capital of Australia's southeastern state of Victoria beat out Vienna, followed by Canadian cities Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary. Australia's Adelaide, Perth and Sydney also made it into a top 10 list which included the Finnish capital, Helsinki, and Auckland, New Zealand. ... Full Story | Top |
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