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| Legendary Canadian abortion campaigner Morgentaler dies aged 90 Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:36 PM PDT  By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Henry Morgentaler, a Holocaust survivor who became one of Canada's leading abortion campaigners and spent time in jail for terminating pregnancies, died on Wednesday at the age of 90, activists said. Morgentaler set up Canada's first independent abortion clinic in Montreal in 1969 at a time when the procedure could only be performed in hospitals and was limited to cases when doctors deemed that continuation of a pregnancy could harm a woman. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bicycle helmet laws linked to fewer child deaths Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:27 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. states that require children and teenagers to wear helmets report fewer deaths involving bicycles and cars, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of U.S. bicycle deaths between 1999 and 2010 and found that states with bicycle helmet laws reported about 20 percent fewer bike-related fatalities among people younger than 16 years old. "The impetus is that when you make it a law, parents realize it's important and parents get their kids to do it," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| GSK bets on chimp virus with $321 million vaccines buy Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:20 PM PDT  By Ben Hirschler LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline is betting on a new vaccine technology based on chimpanzee viruses by acquiring Swiss-based Okairos for 250 million euros ($321 million) - the latest bolt-on biotech buy by a big drugmaker. Britain's largest pharmaceuticals group said on Wednesday that the privately owned company's know-how was expected to play an important role in GSK's development of vaccines to both prevent and treat diseases. Okairos was spun out from Merck & Co in 2007 and has laboratories in Rome and Naples, with headquarters in Basel. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sugary drink consumption down among U.S. kids Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:13 AM PDT By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More evidence that Americans are heeding calls to cut back on sugary drinks appears in a report from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2010, U.S. children got an average of 68 fewer calories per day from sugary drinks than in 2000, according to the analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Both children and adults are drinking less sugar at meals and at snack time, the study also found. ... Full Story | Top |
| Attack on Red Cross in eastern Afghanistan kills one guard Wednesday, May 29, 2013 09:52 AM PDT  By Hamid Shalizi and Rafiq Sherzad JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, killing an Afghan guard in the second major assault on a humanitarian organization in less than a week. Seven staff members, believed to be the total number of foreign workers at the ICRC in Jalalabad, were rescued by Afghan police during the attack, which involved a suicide bomber and three gunmen, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Six foreign staff rescued from attack on Red Cross in Afghanistan Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:08 AM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Six foreign staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Afghan city of Jalalabad were rescued by police on Wednesday from an insurgent attack and are safe, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of the ICRC offices in Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, and a firefight was raging between two insurgents holed up in the building and Afghan security forces. (Reporting by Hamid Shalizi, writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman, editing by Mark Heinrich) Full Story | Top |
| Avatars help schizophrenia patients silence tormenting voices Wednesday, May 29, 2013 06:19 AM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Psychiatrists are developing a system that can help people with schizophrenia control and sometimes silence the tormenting voices in their heads by confronting a computer avatar of them. In a pilot study of 16 patients who underwent the British experimental treatment, known as "avatar therapy", doctors found almost all of them reported a reduction in how often they heard voices and how severe the distress caused by them was. ... Full Story | Top |
| Growing crystal meth use blurs drug-hungry Afghanistan's future Wednesday, May 29, 2013 03:02 AM PDT  By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL (Reuters) - Impoverished Afghanistan, already plagued by insurgency and struggling to contain crippling rates of opium addiction, faces another potential headache with spiraling usage of the synthetic drug crystal methamphetamine. The growing use of the drug, known as crystal meth or ice, comes at a critical time. Some fear that, with the exit of most foreign troops by the end of next year and dwindling interest and aid from the international community, significant addiction to the relatively new drug could wreak social havoc. ... Full Story | Top |
| Amgen to make move into Japan, takes on Astellas as partner Tuesday, May 28, 2013 09:45 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Amgen Inc, the world's largest biotechnology company, said it entered into a long-term collaboration with Astellas Pharma Inc and will form a joint venture with the Japanese drugmaker to provide new medicines in Japan. Amgen management told a meeting of investors and analysts in February that it planned to expand its business into major Asian markets in 2015 and 2016 and called its lack of presence in Japan and China "a noticeable gap." Wednesday's announcement takes a major step toward filling that gap. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nike drops partnership with Lance Armstrong-founded charity Tuesday, May 28, 2013 08:27 PM PDT  By Phil Wahba (Reuters) - Nike Inc is dropping its partnership with the Livestrong Foundation, the cancer charity founded by disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, the latest repercussion from the doping scandal that last year stripped him of his titles. Nike said on Tuesday it would end production of its Livestrong gear and apparel after the 2013 holiday line, concluding a long-standing licensing agreement for footwear and apparel between the two that helped Livestrong raise a total of $100 million over the course of the partnership. ... Full Story | Top |
| New vaccine protects kids against hand, foot and mouth disease Tuesday, May 28, 2013 03:30 PM PDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have developed the first vaccine to protect children against a virus called enterovirus 71, or EV71, that causes the common and sometimes deadly hand, foot and mouth disease. The new inactivated EV71 vaccine, made by Beijing Vigoo Biological, was developed for use in the Asia-Pacific region, which accounts for most of the serious cases of the disease that can cause potentially fatal meningitis and encephalitis. ... Full Story | Top |
| First coronavirus sufferer in France dies in hospital Tuesday, May 28, 2013 01:41 PM PDT By Pierre Savary LILLE, France (Reuters) - France reported its first death from the new SARS-like coronavirus on Tuesday and Saudi Arabia, where the virus first emerged last year, said there were five new cases. French Health Minister Marisol Touraine sent her condolences to the family of the 65-year-old man who died in hospital in the northern city of Lille after visiting Dubai, bringing the worldwide death toll to 23. ... Full Story | Top |
| More Colorado kids ate pot after medical use legalized Tuesday, May 28, 2013 01:04 PM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fourteen kids were treated at one Colorado emergency room for accidentally ingesting marijuana after the drug became legal for medical use there in late 2009, according to a new study. In comparison, no children seen for a possible accidental poisoning had pot in their system in the four years before the change in laws, researchers looking back at ER records found. "These products are now commercially available and have high amounts of THC in them," said Dr. George Wang, who led the new study at Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver. ... Full Story | Top |
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