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| Release of Eliquis blood clot preventer story Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 06:58 AM PDT  By Bill Berkrot (Reuters) The blood clot preventer Eliquis, sold by Pfizer Inc and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, proved as effective as widely used warfarin in treating a dangerous condition known as venous thromboembolism and caused far less bleeding, according to data from a large clinical trial. The Pfizer and Bristol-Myers pill met the main goal of the study by showing it worked just as well as conventional treatment with warfarin, a generic blood thinner, in reducing recurrence of the condition and related deaths. ... Full Story | Top |
| Western United States swelters amid dangerously high heat Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 06:36 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Scorching heat baked the western United States and Sunday's forecast offered no relief from the soaring temperatures that prompted health warnings and sent scores of people to the hospital with heat-related illness. Cities in California, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Utah and Texas all recorded temperatures over 100 degrees (38 Celsius) on Saturday. Paramedics in Las Vegas, where the temperature hit 115 F (46 C), found an elderly man dead in his un-air-conditioned apartment on Saturday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare 1.0: States brace for Web barrage when reform goes live Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 04:02 AM PDT  By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 550,000 people in Oregon do not have health insurance, and Aaron Karjala is confident the state's new online insurance exchange will be able to accommodate them when enrollment under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform begins on October 1. What Karjala, the chief information officer at "Cover Oregon," does worry about, however, is what will happen if the entire population of Oregon - 3.9 million - logs on that day "just to check it out," he said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-Crusaders centre Fruean to have heart surgery Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:57 PM PDT June 30 (Reuters) - Cantebrury Crusaders centre Robbie Fruean is to undergo heart surgery to repair damage to a valve that occurred when he contracted rheumatic fever four years ago and been ruled out of the remainder of the Super Rugby season. The 24-year-old Fruean had open heart surgery in 2009 when he was first diagnosed with the illness, but his heart function had deteriorated over the last six months, the Crusaders said in a statement on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
| WHO wants HIV patients treated sooner to save lives, halt spread Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:49 PM PDT  By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors could save three million more lives worldwide by 2025 if they offer AIDS drugs to people with HIV much sooner after they test positive for the virus, the World Health Organization said on Sunday. While better access to cheap generic AIDS drugs means many more people are now getting treatment, health workers, particularly in poor countries with limited health budgets, currently tend to wait until the infection has progressed. But in new guidelines aimed at controlling and eventually reducing the global AIDS epidemic, the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama sees no threat in China rivalry for Africa business Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 08:16 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday. Suggestions that he has allowed China to steal a march over the United States in doing business with Africa have dogged Obama's three-nation swing through the continent, but he said the increased Chinese engagement was beneficial for all. "I don't feel threatened by it. I feel it's a good thing," Obama told a news conference during a visit to South Africa. ... Full Story | Top |
| The untold story of gun violence - life-altering injuries Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:33 PM PDT  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Miles Turner V, 18, was shot at least five times on a Chicago sidewalk last October. Doctors believed he might die, but he survived. The high school football player, who had never been in any trouble, is now undergoing physical therapy, in hopes of being able to walk again. "His life has changed dramatically from what it was," said his father, Miles Turner IV. "It's not easy." Young Miles represents a largely untold side of the gun violence story. It's about the survivors who must live with costly and often permanently debilitating injuries. ... Full Story | Top |
| Looking to Africa's future, Obama to cite Mandela, civil rights Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:13 PM PDT  By Mark Felsenthal JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will challenge Africans to renew efforts to expand economic growth and democratic government in a speech Sunday, invoking the legacies of Nelson Mandela and the U.S. civil rights movement in overcoming obstacles to achieve change. "There's been progress that nobody could have imagined in terms of a freer, more equal democratic society here in South Africa, and in many parts of the continent," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters traveling with the president. ... Full Story | Top |
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