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| Obama, congressional leaders still deadlocked on shutdown Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 06:40 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met with Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress on Wednesday to try to break a budget deadlock that has shut wide swaths of the federal government, but there was no breakthrough and both sides blamed each other. After more than an hour of talks, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said Obama refused to negotiate, while House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused Republicans of trying to hold the president hostage over Obamacare. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Jackson case will change the tune for concert, artist insurance Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 04:13 PM PDT  By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Britney Spears takes the stage this December for the first of a heavily hyped 100-show two-year residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, the loudest cheers may come from her insurance underwriters. Along with the sound engineers and roadies who help stage a concert, insurance underwriters play a large role in making sure a star can get onstage and grab the microphone. Insurers are also key during those times when stars do not show and concerts get canceled. ... Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown, debt fight highlight Republican distance from 'big business' Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 04:05 PM PDT  By Gabriel Debenedetti and James B. Kelleher (Reuters) - Big business, a traditionally powerful but pragmatic player in Republican policy-making, has found itself outflanked and marginalized by smaller conservative groups opposed to compromise in the country's current fiscal crisis and the looming showdown over the debt ceiling. As the shutdown of the government approaches its third day, business leaders and groups like the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| How U.S. government shutdown ripples across nation Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 03:53 PM PDT By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Science was put on hold, normally bustling stores went quiet and families depending on government aid feared losing their baby food as a government shutdown rippled across the country. The budget impasse in Washington shut all but essential U.S. government services for the second straight day on Wednesday, while neither political party appeared willing to budge. Republicans want to tie continued government funding to measures that would undercut Obama's signature healthcare law, while Obama and his Democrats say that is a non-starter. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. government scrambles to provide access to Obamacare sites Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 03:45 PM PDT  By David Morgan and Lewis Krauskopf (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday scrambled to add computer capacity to handle an unexpectedly large number of Americans logging onto new online insurance marketplaces created under Present Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Technical glitches and heavy traffic slowed Tuesday's launch of the marketplaces, particularly for the federal Healthcare.gov website serving 36 states. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Tenet stands out by experimenting with core model of Obamacare Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:31 PM PDT  By Susan Kelly (Reuters) - Patients and investors gauging the impact of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law on hospitals, clinics and other providers need look no further than Tenet Healthcare Corp, the country's No. 3 for-profit hospital chain. The Dallas, Texas-based company stands out among its peers for experimenting with a core concept of the legislation - the lofty goals of coordinating treatment in a single, integrated system that reins in costs by improving care. ... Full Story | Top |
| Covered and looking for deals, insured Americans shop Obamacare Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:31 PM PDT  By Curtis Skinner NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stephanie Desaulniers is among the millions of Americans seeking information on new Obamacare health insurance plans launched this week, not because she lacks coverage, but because she's ready for a better deal. The 26-year-old geologist has health benefits through her employer, an environmental consulting firm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. "My insurance premiums are going to double next year through my work. Part of it is we are switching companies, but even last year, we were showing substantial increases," she said in an interview. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.N. Security Council urges easier access for Syria aid Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:09 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Building on a fragile unity, the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Syria's government to allow cross-border aid deliveries and called on combatants in the country's war to agree humanitarian pauses in fighting and aid convoy routes. Millions of people in Syria are in desperate need of help as a result of a 2-1/2-year civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, but aid has slowed to a trickle because of violence and excessive red tape. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama welcomes Pope Francis' remarks on gays, abortion Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed Pope Francis' recent remarks that the Catholic Church must shake off an obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuals, saying the pontiff was showing incredible humility. "I tell you, I have been hugely impressed with the pope's pronouncements," Obama said in a CNBC interview. Obama has worked to expand gay rights as president and last year backed same-sex marriage. He also supports the use of contraception and a woman's right to an abortion. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas experimenting with secret execution drugs -lawsuit Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:50 PM PDT By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Three Texas death row inmates claim the state plans to execute them by experimenting with new drugs, never used for such a purpose, that were obtained under false pretenses, attorneys told Reuters on Wednesday. Texas is turning to the new execution drugs in a desperate attempt to keep the United States' most active execution chamber operating despite dwindling supplies of the drug traditionally used for lethal injections, a lawsuit filed by the inmates says. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insurance may narrow race gap in access to surgery Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:48 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Wider insurance coverage erased racial differences in who got minimally invasive surgery in Massachusetts, according to a new study. After the state increased access to insurance in 2006, racial disparities in the proportion of people having gallbladders or appendixes removed with minimally invasive techniques - versus traditional "open" surgery - disappeared, researchers found. "The Massachusetts experience provides a really unique and natural experiment to measure the effect of insurance expansion," Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Stressful events linked to fall risk for older men Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:44 PM PDT By Kathleen Raven NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Loss of a loved one, serious financial trouble and other major stressful life events could set older men up for a fall, researchers say. In a new study, men aged 65 and older who experienced stressful events were more likely than men who didn't to fall during the subsequent year, and multiple stressful events raised men's chances of taking a tumble even further. Once researchers adjusted for other factors, however, stressful events did not increase the men's risk of breaking a bone. One in three adults over age 65 falls each year in the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exercise 'as good as medicines' in treating heart disease Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:06 PM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Exercise may be just as good as medication to treat heart disease and should be included as a comparison when new drugs are being developed and tested, scientists said on Wednesday. In a large review published in the British Medical Journal, researchers from Britain's London School of Economics and Harvard and Stanford universities in the United States found no statistically detectable differences between exercise and drugs for patients with coronary heart disease or prediabetes, when a person shows symptoms that may develop into full-blown diabetes. ... Full Story | Top |
| After melanoma, people head back to the sun: study Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:04 PM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with the most dangerous type of skin cancer tend to stay out of the sun and wear extra sunscreen the year after being diagnosed. But a new small study suggests those precautions don't last. Two to three years after being diagnosed with melanoma, people spent as many days in the sun and were exposed to at least as much UV radiation as their peers without the disease, researchers found. "Something tells us that they relax more when time passes by after diagnosis," Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Physician to the Stars,' Rexford Kennamer, dies in Alabama Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 10:29 AM PDT By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Rexford Kennamer, the so-called "Physician to the Stars" who told actor Gary Cooper he had terminal cancer and whose high profile client list included Rock Hudson and Frank Sinatra, has died in Alabama at 93, his nephew said on Wednesday. Kennamer, who long worked as an internist and cardiologist in Beverly Hills, died of natural causes on September 28 at the Montgomery home of his nephew, Richard Kennamer. "He was always interesting and very, very sharp. He practiced medicine past 80. ... Full Story | Top |
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