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Today's Reuters Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan dies at 89 Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries Race to get Obamacare online sites running goes to the wire Ruling French coalition split over Roma ejection call Roche immunotherapy drug may be 'game changer' in lung cancer

Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan dies at 89  Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 05:05 PM PDT (Reuters) - Marcella Hazan, whose cookbooks brought the rich taste of authentic Italian food into kitchens across the United States, has died at the age of 89, her family said. Hazan lived in Longboat Key, Florida, with her husband and lifelong collaborator and writing partner Victor. Her death was announced by her daughter-in-law Lael Sara Caplan Hazan on her Facebook page. "The world of authentic home cooking has lost a giant today. My mother-in-law Marcella Hazan, melted away peacefully, my father-in-law Victor, was at her side," Caplan Hazan wrote. ... Full Story	Top
Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries  Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 09:34 AM PDT RIYADH (Reuters) - A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules. A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on October 26 has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. On Sunday, the campaign's website was blocked inside the kingdom. In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq. ... Full Story	Top
Race to get Obamacare online sites running goes to the wire  Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 07:03 AM PDT By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just days before the launch of the new U.S. state health insurance exchanges that are the centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act, a nationwide push is still under way to test and patch the technology behind the online sites. Officials working on the sites have acknowledged that information technology (IT) failures will prevent many of them from functioning fully for weeks, and perhaps longer. That will slow the government's drive to enroll millions of uninsured Americans under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law starting Tuesday. ... Full Story	Top
Ruling French coalition split over Roma ejection call  Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 04:20 AM PDT By Mark John PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande is battling to heal a rift in his ruling coalition over treatment of France's Roma population after his interior minister said most of them should leave France. Manuel Valls enraged left-wingers in Hollande's government this week by arguing that the vast majority of 20,000 Roma living in makeshift camps outside French cities could never be integrated into society and so should be "taken back to the border" for transfer back to Romania and Bulgaria. ... Full Story	Top
Roche immunotherapy drug may be 'game changer' in lung cancer  Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 02:34 AM PDT By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An experimental Roche drug that seems to work particularly well against lung cancer in smokers may be a "game changer" for these normally difficult-to-treat patients, researchers said on Sunday. Presenting detailed data from an early-stage trial of the drug, called MPDL3280A, in patients with a form of the disease called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), investigators said what they had found was "great news for lung cancer patients". ... Full Story	Top

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