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At least 36 dead after Hong Kong ferry sinks following collision
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:36 PM PDT
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - At least 36 people died and dozens were injured when a ferry carrying more than 120 people on a company outing collided with another ferry and sank near an island south of Hong Kong on Monday night in one of the city's worst maritime accidents. The ferry belonging to the Hong Kong Electric Company was taking staff and family members to watch a fireworks display to celebrate China's National Day and mid-autumn festival when it hit the other ship and quickly began sinking near Lama island. ...
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Judge orders competency tests for accused Oakland shooter
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:18 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California judge ordered mental competency tests on Monday for a former nursing student accused of killing seven people and wounding three in an April shooting rampage at a Christian college in Oakland. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie Panetta ordered two clinicians to assess One Goh's competency after his attorney questioned whether he was fit to stand trial, said Teresa Drenick, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney. Goh, 43, is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder. ...
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Mandolinist, neurosurgeon among winners of 2012 "Genius" grants
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:12 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bluegrass musician and a pediatric surgeon were among 23 of the world's most creative and original thinkers to be awarded no-strings-attached $500,000 "genius" grants this year, a U.S. charitable organization said on Monday. Also among the 2012 MacArthur Foundation fellows are a celebrated fiction writer, a Washington Post reporter and a Boston man who makes some of the finest violin bows the modern world has ever seen. Since the program was initiated in 1981, the John D. and Catherine T. ... Full Story | Top |
Colombian president to have prostate cancer surgery
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:03 PM PDT
Reuters -  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday he would undergo surgery for a non-aggressive prostate cancer in a health scare that seemed unlikely to derail his government's imminent talks with Marxist rebels to end decades of war. Santos, 61, said the tumor was discovered as part of a routine checkup and will be removed on Wednesday. "It's a small tumor located on the prostate gland and it's a good prognosis. It's not aggressive," he said at the presidential palace in Bogota, flanked by his doctor and his wife. "There's a 97 percent chance of being totally cured. ...
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Factbox: Key facts about Colombian President Santos
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:03 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is to be operated on Wednesday for a small cancerous tumor in the prostate. Here are some facts about Santos: * Born into one of Colombia's most powerful families, Santos is the consummate political insider. His great uncle, Eduardo Santos, served as president. A cousin was a vice president. Before moving into politics, Santos was an editor at the country's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, once owned by his family. ... Full Story | Top |
Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study
Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:18 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically modified crop technologies that are sparking a rise of "superweeds" and hard-to-kill insects, according to a newly released study. Genetically engineered crops have led to an increase in overall pesticide use, by 404 million pounds from the time they were introduced in 1996 through 2011, according to the report by Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University. ... Full Story | Top |
Colombian president says to have prostate cancer surgery
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday that he would undergo surgery for non-aggressive prostate cancer and that the tumor was caught "in time". "It's a small tumor located on the prostate gland and it's a good prognosis, it's not aggressive," he said in an address to the nation. (Reporting by Eduardo Garcia and Jack Kimball)
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At least 25 dead after Hong Kong ferry sinks
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:31 PM PDT
Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - At least 25 people died after a Hong Kong ferry packed with more than 120 people collided with another ferry and sank near Lamma island on Monday night in one of the city's worst maritime accidents. Low visibility hampered rescue efforts, with many passengers trapped in the flooded upturned ferry before it sank, said survivors. Nine people suffered serious injuries or remain in a critical condition, the government said in a statement. The accident occurred on Monday night in the waters off Lamma, an island south of Hong Kong popular with tourists and expatriates. ...
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FDA warns Zimmer over manufacturing of hip devices
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:56 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Zimmer Holdings Inc said it received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration citing problems with manufacturing and testing processes for artificial hip devices made at the company's Ponce, Puerto Rico, plant. The warning letter, dated September 19, does not restrict production or shipment of the hip devices, called Trilogy Acetabular Systems, or require withdrawal of any products from the market, Zimmer said in a regulatory filing. ... Full Story | Top |
Massive Canada beef recall unlikely to rattle buyers: analysts
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:51 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The huge recall of Canadian beef because of E.coli contamination is unlikely to slow that country's beef consumption or its exports, analysts say, largely because the public has become familiar with E.coli. On Friday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) temporarily shut down privately held XL Foods' beef-packing plant at Brooks, Alberta, where products containing the potentially deadly bacteria were made. The CFIA also has recalled millions of pounds of beef products, including ground beef and steaks, from the plant. The U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
UPDATE 2-NFL-Colts head coach Pagano battling leukemia
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:35 PM PDT
Reuters - * Expected to be hospitalized six to eight weeks * Bruce Arians named interim head coach of Colts (Recasts with quotes and details) Oct 1 (Reuters) - Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is being treated for leukemia and is unlikely to resume full-time coaching duties this season, the National Football League team said on Monday. ... Full Story | Top |
Patients like reading their doctors' notes: study
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Both doctors and patients gave high marks to a program allowing patients to access their primary care physicians' office notes online, in a new study. Researchers at three U.S. practices found doctors' initial concerns about the extra time it would take to write out notes and answer patients' related questions didn't pan out. And almost everyone who got access to their notes for the study wanted to keep seeing them, even if some patients were concerned about privacy issues. "We were thrilled by what we learned," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
FDA chief says scarce funding hobbles sweeping food safety regulations
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:14 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is having difficulty implementing expansive new rules to improve food safety, nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed the standards into law, because of a lack of funding. FDA chief Margaret Hamburg predicted on Monday that her agency "very soon" will issue new regulations needed to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act, a sweeping piece of legislation enacted to upgrade the security of the U.S. food supply after a deadly salmonella outbreak in 2009. ... Full Story | Top |
Cargill to build canola-crushing plant in Alberta
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:05 PM PDT
Reuters - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Cargill Ltd plans to build a canola-crushing plant near Camrose, Alberta, to take advantage of steadily growing Canadian plantings of the oilseed, the U.S. agribusiness giant said on Monday. Canada, the world's biggest producer and exporter of canola, which is crushed to produce vegetable oil and meal, has steadily increased its plantings to what some expect will amount to a record-large harvest this year. Canadian crushing capacity has also expanded in recent years as demand builds from overseas and the United States for the processed products. ... Full Story | Top |
HPV vaccine found safe in large study
Mon,1 Oct 2012 01:26 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of nearly 190,000 young women injected with Merck & Co's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil found no new safety concerns. Researchers said the only side effects they observed - rare cases of skin infections and fainting - were benign and expected. "This analysis was very reassuring," said lead researcher Dr. Nicola Klein of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, whose work was funded by Merck. ... Full Story | Top |
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