Monday, October 31, 2016
Subcutanous ICDs Exchange Lead Risks for Erosion, Failures (CME/CE)
Saturday, October 29, 2016
U.S. watchdog highlights dire state of Afghan road system
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Nigerian activist held in solitary in Japan, prompting calls for her release
By Minami Funakoshi and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - A prominent Nigerian asylum seeker and activist is being held in solitary at a Tokyo detention center, a case that has highlighted a growing crackdown on foreigners living in Japan without visas and prompted demands for her release. Elizabeth Aruoriwo Obueza was detained two weeks ago after authorities turned down an appeal against her asylum rejection, Obueza and her lawyer told Reuters. Obueza, 48, campaigns for asylum seekers and the 4,700 people on "provisional release" from immigration detention - a status that lets foreigners out from detention but bars them from working and traveling freely.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Zimbabwe's Mugabe skirts retirement talk at burial of friend
By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe on Saturday avoided the controversial subject of his future as he buried a senior political colleague and friend who had been pressing him to retire. Mugabe, 92 and one of Africa's longest serving leaders, is eligible to seek re-election at the end of his current five-year term in 2018, but has increasingly looked frail, stoking a scramble in his ruling ZANU-PF party to succeed him. In an hour-long speech on Saturday at the state funeral of Cephas Msipa, a former cabinet minister and ZANU-PF member, Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, largely dwelt on his comrade's role in the 1960s-70s liberation struggle.
Friday, October 21, 2016
Sanders tells soda tax opponents to stop using his name
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Rural trauma patients more likely to die before reaching hospital
Friday, October 14, 2016
You're Welcome, World: America's Behind Climbing Childhood Obesity Rates
From First Lady Michelle Obama's “Let's Move!” campaign and Jamie Oliver's “Food Revolution” to parents who pester their kids to eat their vegetables and put down the video games, health advocates around the world are doing their best to reduce childhood obesity. Despite these efforts, new research released this week shows the childhood obesity epidemic is on track to get worse over the next decade. The report, published in the October issue of Pediatric Obesity by the World Obesity Federation, found that the World Health Organization's goal of halting the rise in obesity levels for children, adolescents, and adults by 2025 is unlikely to be achieved-and the obesity rate for children is set to soar.
Concussion Specialists Debate Sports' Impact on Kids' Brains
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Teens with celiac disease may be smaller than peers
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
6 Symptoms You Shouldn't Ignore
Some medical symptoms are warnings that you need immediate care. WebMD describes how to recognize these six.
Bariatric Surgery Helps Forestall Gout (CME/CE)
U.N.'s Zeid cool on Syrian opposition plan to bypass Russian veto
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official repeated his call on Wednesday for a dilution of big powers' United Nations veto in cases of serious war crimes, but he gave little support to Syrian opposition hopes of strong-arming Russia over eastern Aleppo. Russian war planes have bombed rebel-held eastern Aleppo in the past two weeks in support of Syrian and allied ground forces who are besieging about 275,000 civilians. The United Nations says hospitals have been hit and more than 400 people killed.
Changes in depression symptoms tied to lung cancer survival
Monday, October 10, 2016
Hurricane Matthew toll in Haiti rises to 1,000, dead buried in mass graves
By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people. The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (233 kph) winds and torrential rains that left 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. A Reuters tally of numbers from local officials showed that 1,000 people were killed by the storm in Haiti, which has a population of about 10 million and is the poorest country in the Americas.