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White House pushes colleges to crack down on sexual assaults Monday, Apr 28, 2014 06:59 PM PDT | Top |
Pfizer move to join tax-driven deal-making raises red flags in U.S Monday, Apr 28, 2014 03:58 PM PDT | Top |
Actavis sues U.S. drug regulator over generic Celebrex Monday, Apr 28, 2014 03:40 PM PDT | Top |
Reproductive health app wins health-and-fitness Webby Monday, Apr 28, 2014 03:21 PM PDT By Daniel Gaitan NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Glow, a reproductive health service, was announced Monday as the Webby Award winner for best health and fitness mobile application. The free app, available for iOS and Android operating systems, aims to help women take full control over their reproductive health and calculate when they are most fertile http://bit.ly/1fqI2lb. Users begin by indicating whether or not they are trying to conceive, before adding personal health information, including weight, height, activity level, average menstrual cycle and body temperature. "Glow is an ambitious enterprise where for the first time ever, our emerging ability to crunch and analyze vast quantities of data will be used to empower women (and couples) to take control of their reproductive health," according to glowing.com. Full Story | Top |
S&P 500, Dow end up after late rebound; Apple, Pfizer lift Monday, Apr 28, 2014 02:31 PM PDT | Top |
Exposure to violence declining among children, teens: study Monday, Apr 28, 2014 02:29 PM PDT By Andrew Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite frequent media reports of school shootings and child abuse, a new analysis says the amount of violence U.S. children are exposed to fell considerably during the past decade. The reductions persisted even through the economic recession period from 2008 to 2011, indicating the hard times experienced by many families did not translate to an increase in violence. "It should be encouragement to people who have been working on this problem," said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. The findings are based on three telephone surveys taken in 2003, 2008 and 2011 of children and teens between the ages of two and 17 years old. Full Story | Top |
Scientists find MERS virus antibodies that may lead to treatments Monday, Apr 28, 2014 01:56 PM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found natural human antibodies to the newly-emerging Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus and say their discovery marks a step towards developing treatments for the often fatal disease. MERS, a SARS-like viral disease first detected in 2012 that has caused outbreaks in the Middle East and sporadic cases around the world, has raised international alarm in recent weeks with a surge in infections and deaths in Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials confirmed 26 more MERS cases and 10 deaths at the weekend, bringing the toll in the kingdom alone to 339 confirmed cases, of which 102 have been fatal. There is currently no cure or vaccine for MERS - a severe respiratory disease which causes cough, fever, shortness of breath, and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure. Full Story | Top |
France meets Alstom bidders with pledge to protect jobs Monday, Apr 28, 2014 01:54 PM PDT | Top |
Calling girls 'fat' may result in weight gain Monday, Apr 28, 2014 01:30 PM PDT "This study is one step closer to being able to draw that conclusion, but of course we can't definitively say that calling a girl "too fat" will make her obese," said senior author A. Janet Tomiyama of the University of California, Los Angeles. "This study recruited girls when they were age 10 and followed them over nine years, so we know it's more than just a one-time connection, which makes me believe that it's an important question to continue researching," Tomiyama told Reuters Health in an email. Those girls were more likely to have a body mass index (BMI) – a measure of weight relative to height - in the obese range ten years later than girls who answered "no," according to the results in JAMA Pediatrics. Full Story | Top |
Hiring domestic help may reduce caregiver stress Monday, Apr 28, 2014 01:13 PM PDT By Shreen Jegtiv NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly spouses caring for a sick husband or wife were less stressed when they hired a domestic helper, suggests a new study from China. "Domestic helpers provide support not just to frail older adults, but also to family caregivers - in this case, it is the spousal caregivers," Alice Chong told Reuters Health in an email. About half of spousal caregivers show signs of distress, anger or depression, especially when their spouse is older and frail, according to Chong and her coauthors. They wanted to determine whether having a domestic helper might reduce the spousal caregivers' distress to the extent that they were better able to allow the frail elders to stay at home. Full Story | Top |
Siemens offer for Alstom likely on Tuesday: source Monday, Apr 28, 2014 12:16 PM PDT Germany's Siemens is due to present its offer for a possible deal with French peer Alstom on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. "The Siemens' offer should be confirmed tomorrow during the day," the source said. He added that the French state believed that Alstom should take the time necessary to examine all the offers on the table. A spokesman for Siemens in Munich did not confirm the information. Full Story | Top |
Pfizer chases AstraZeneca for potential $100 billion deal Monday, Apr 28, 2014 12:06 PM PDT | Top |
Obama's health secretary nominee faces May 8 Senate hearing Monday, Apr 28, 2014 10:32 AM PDT | Top |
How do you know when it's time for hospice? Monday, Apr 28, 2014 09:52 AM PDT By Randi Belisomo NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Worn out and needing someone to know she was desperate, Jen Bosworth called her mother's physician. "She was having problems getting around, and treatments weren't working," recalls Bosworth, then a 35-year-old newlywed. "She was spending more time being schlepped around than enjoying life." Bosworth's doctor welcomed the call, offering a new option: hospice care. "I was totally afraid of that word," remembers Bosworth, who wrote a one-woman show about her mother's illness, Why Not Me: Love, Cancer and Jack White. Full Story | Top |
Uganda says planning tougher law limiting gay sex, foreign NGOs Monday, Apr 28, 2014 09:03 AM PDT By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda has drafted a new law that would bar non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from promoting homosexuality, tightening rules further after anti-gay legislation in February was widely condemned as draconian. The draft, now being studied by the cabinet before being introduced in parliament, would also ban foreign NGOs from meddling in the east African country's politics, junior internal affairs minister James Baba told Reuters on Monday. Critics say the legislation will further erode civil liberties and entrench a climate of oppression and political intolerance already evolving ahead of 2016 polls in which veteran leader, Yoweri Museveni, is expected to stand. The February law strengthened punishments for having gay sex and imposed jail terms of up to life for some categories of homosexuality, including sex with a minor or while HIV-positive. Full Story | Top |
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