Still searching for Japan tsunami missing to ease pain

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) – Japanese police painstakingly search the river and shoreline for bodies of the missing a year after the huge earthquake and tsunami swept away large areas of the fishing town of Rikuzentakata. Once renowned for a fine beach and seaside pine thicket nestled beneath mountains, the town is now synonymous with the destruction and widespread death wrought by the triple disaster. What had been the town centre is mostly abandoned and dotted with piles of brown rubble and a ruined town hall . A single pine overlooking a becalmed sea is all that remains of the thicket. …

Patheon posts loss as costs rise

(Reuters) – Contract drugmaker Patheon Inc reported its fourth consecutive quarterly loss hurt by higher costs. First-quarter net loss was $19.4 million, or 15 cents per share, compared with a profit of $3.5 million, or 2.7 cents per share, a year ago. Patheon said the consultation fees paid for the strategic review of its commercial business arm in the UK rose this quarter. As a result selling, general and administrative expenses rose 24 percent to $34.5 million. …

Why online security is taxing our brains

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nathan Acosta is feeling a little overwhelmed. The 24-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, who works for a financial services firm, is trying his best to keep up with all the passwords and security questions he has to juggle, just to log onto his personal accounts. But sometimes it feels like a losing battle. It’s a battle millions of consumers can identify with. For a while it was just your mother’s maiden name, then your first pet, the street you grew up on or the make and model of your first car. …

Japan cabinet stunned, confused after quake, minutes show

TOKYO (Reuters) – A stunned Japanese cabinet felt no one was taking charge days after a tsunami smashed into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, unofficial minutes released on Friday showed, evidence of the scale of confusion as the country faced its biggest crisis since World War Two. Ministers also thought there might be a meltdown just hours after the disaster struck on March 11 last year, but they gave no sign to the public of their worst fears. …

FDA asks experts if pain drugs get second chance

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. drug regulators are asking experts for advice on whether companies should restart clinical trials for painkillers that help people with osteoarthritis and other conditions, but can destroy joints. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said these drugs, from the class of anti-nerve growth factors, represent a potentially significant and novel strategy for the treatment of pain,” in a memo posted online on Thursday. …

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