Friday, August 12, 2016

South Korea looks to generate buzz for edible insects

A sales assistant poses for photographs with a mealworm cookie in SeoulBy Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - Bae Su-Hyeon's lunch of sweet potato soup and funghi pasta has bugs in it. "It didn't feel like eating insects," says Bae, an 18-year-old student having lunch with a friend at Papillon's Kitchen, a Seoul restaurant specialising in insects. Insect-eating, or entomophagy, has long been common in much of the world, including South Korea, where boiled silky worm pupae, or beondegi, are a popular snack.


Thursday, August 11, 2016

Star Belgian Sailor Takes Sick After Racing on Polluted Bay

Belgian woman who won 2012 bronze medal takes sick after racing on polluted Guanabara Bay

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Saturday, August 6, 2016

South Carolina girl dies from brain-eating amoeba

An 11-year-old South Carolina girl has died after she became infected by a brain-eating amoeba in a river where she had gone swimming, an undertaker said on Saturday. The girl, Hannah Collins, of Beaufort, died on Friday night at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, said Carla Smith, director-manager of the Anderson Funeral Home in Beaufort, which is handling the funeral. Hannah is thought to have been exposed to the amoeba on July 24 in Charleston County's Edisto River, the state health department said this week.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Behavior changes offer clues that dementia could be brewing

Graphic shows projection for number of people in U.S. with Alzheimer’s disease; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) - Changes in behavior or personality - not memory loss - might be an early warning sign that dementia is brewing.


Friday, July 22, 2016

U.S. charges three people in $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three people have been charged with conspiracy, obstructing justice, money laundering and healthcare fraud in connection with a $1 billion scheme involving Miami-based healthcare providers, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Olympics-Berdych pulls out of Olympics tennis event

Czech Tomas Berdych has become the third high-profile tennis player to withdraw from the Olympics in two days, saying his concerns over the Zika virus prompted his decision. The world number eight's announcement follows the decision by Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic and Simona Halep to withdraw from next month's Rio tournament. "It was a hard decision for me to take after a long and painstaking discussion with my dearest," Berdych, 30, said on his Twitter page on Saturday.