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Oklahoma botches execution, raising questions on death penalty in U.S Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 08:27 PM PDT | Top |
J&J suspends sale of device used in fibroid surgery - WSJ Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 08:01 PM PDT (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson suspended sale of devices used in fibroid surgery amid concerns about their potential to spread a rare but deadly cancer, the Wall Street Journal reported. J&J was halting world-wide sale, distribution and promotion of the tools called power morcellators but not permanently pulling them from the market, the Journal said. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Sanofi explores $7 billion-plus drug divestiture - sources Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 07:53 PM PDT | Top |
Rugby league-NRL offers McKinnon 'job for life' Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 06:18 PM PDT Australia's National Rugby League has pledged a "job for life" for Newcastle Knights forward Alex McKinnon, whose neck was broken in a match last month. The 22-year-old suffered the sickening injury against Melbourne Storm on March 24 after being dumped heavily into the turf in a lifting tackle by three opposition players. One of the tacklers was banned for seven matches by the NRL. "His spirit and determination are an inspiration for all of us," NRL chief executive Dave Smith said in a media release on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Alstom accepts 10 billion euro GE bid for its energy unit Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 04:36 PM PDT | Top |
Georgia governor signs law to drug test some welfare recipients Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 04:23 PM PDT | Top |
U.N. chief urges South Sudan's Kiir help end violence, anti-U.N. campaign Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 04:16 PM PDT | Top |
Study finds Fukushima radioactivity in tuna off Oregon, Washington Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 03:24 PM PDT By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - A sample of albacore tuna caught off the shores of Oregon and Washington state have small levels of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, researchers said on Tuesday. But authors of the Oregon State University study say the levels are so small you would have to consume more than 700,000 pounds of the fish with the highest radioactive level to match the amount of radiation the average person is annually exposed to in everyday life through cosmic rays, the air, the ground, X-rays and other sources. Still, the findings shed some light about the impact of the meltdown on the Pacific Ocean following the March 2011 tsunami and subsequent power plant disaster, said Delvan Neville, a graduate research assistant at OSU and lead author of the study. "I think people would rather have an answer on what is there and what isn't there than have a big question mark," Neville said. At the most extreme, radiation levels tripled from fish tested before Fuskushima and fish tested after. Full Story | Top |
High court revives rules on air pollution Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 02:58 PM PDT | Top |
Oregon candidate's call for urine samples latest offbeat move Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 02:53 PM PDT By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A candidate for Congress is soliciting mass urine samples from Oregonians as part of his day job as a scientist, a move some see as a novel approach to improving modern medicine and others call just another odd move in an offbeat political career. Art Robinson, a Republican making his third bid to unseat Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat, last week sent out thousands of fliers across Oregon asking for volunteer urine samples. Robinson, co-founder of the nonprofit Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, said he is hoping to get 15,000 samples to help calibrate a machine that could use urine profiles to help predict if a person will develop degenerative diseases such as cancer. "We have to have urine sample form people from all walks of life," he said. Full Story | Top |
Alstom accepts GE offer for its energy unit: sources Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 02:19 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The board of French transport-to-turbines group Alstom has accepted General Electric's offer for its energy unit, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. Both sources said GE was not in exclusive talks with Alstom, which is also set to receive an offer from Germany's Siemens. One source said GE had offered to pay about 10 billion euros ($13.82 billion) for the unit. (Reporting by Geert De Clercq) Full Story | Top |
Food poisoning fells more than 100 at Maryland food safety summit Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 02:09 PM PDT | Top |
Wall Street ends up on earnings, rebound in high-growth shares Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 01:55 PM PDT | Top |
Alstom board accepts 10 billion euro GE offer for energy unit-paper Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 01:25 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The board of French trains-to-turbines maker Alstom has accepted General Electric's 10 billion euro offer for its energy division, French daily Le Figaro said on its website. Alstom declined to comment on the report. The firm will issue a statement Wednesday morning around 7 a.m. (0500 GMT). GE also declined to comment. Le Figaro said the Alstom board, at its meeting on Tuesday, had accepted GE's firm and financed offer. (Reporting by Geert De Clercq and Lewis Krauskopf; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) Full Story | Top |
American author Solomon wins Britain's Wellcome prize Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 01:18 PM PDT By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - American psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon won the 2014 Wellcome Book Prize on Tuesday for his "Far From the Tree: a dozen kinds of love" about raising unusual children ranging from prodigies to those suffering from autism and dyslexia. The prize, which is given to a book centered on medicine and health, is in its fifth year and carries a 30,000-pound ($50,500) cash award. Describing Solomon's book, 10 years in the making, as a "monumental work", a statement from the prize jury said it "tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so". Drawing on interviews with more than 300 families, the book covers subjects including deafness, dwarfism, Down's syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people. Full Story | Top |
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