Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
(Reuters) – Among smokers, people who prefer mentholated cigarettes tend to have more strokes than non-menthol smokers – and this seems to be especially true for women and non-African Americans, according to a North American study. The author of the study said that while no cigarettes are good for the health, the findings – published in the Archives of Internal Medicine – suggest people should especially stay away from mentholated varieties. …
ATLANTA (Reuters) – People can contract skin lesions from goats and sheep infected with the Orf virus through household meat preparation or when slaughtering the animals, a federal agency said on Thursday in a report aimed at doctors in ethnically diverse communities. The Orf virus – sometimes misdiagnosed as a more serious disease such as anthrax – is most commonly transmitted to humans on farms. It has also been reported in children who visited petting zoos and livestock fairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. …
| By Molly Kimball, The Times-Picayune We can't just wish our way to weight loss and better health — we actually have to make changes in our behaviors when it comes to food and exercise. And while any number of strategies (well-balanced or not) can work … See all stories on this topic » |
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s market watchdog on Friday recommended the Financial Services Agency (FSA) fine Olympus Corp about 200 million yen ($2.5 million) for false accounting in one of the country’s biggest corporate scandals. The recommendation, made by the Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission (SESC), was expected as part of legal procedures and comes after prosecutors last month charged the company and six key figures in the $1.7 billion accounting fraud. …
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer has agreed to pay at least $110 million to settle the first 500 lawsuits over claims that its Yasmin group of birth-control pills caused blood clots, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the agreement. Bayer had said in February that 170 Yasmin/Yaz cases in the U.S. had been settled out of court. A company spokeswoman said on Friday that Bayer would continue to consider settlements, declining to comment further. …
The exercise featured a significant deepwater well control event and subsequent oil spill incident in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mexico/US Border. The exercise itself brought together more than 300 people, representing members of Shell's Americas …
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HAMBURG (Reuters) – German authorities said on Friday the highly-poisonous chemical dioxin had been found above permitted levels in eggs from two more German farms following its discovery in eggs from three other farms in early April. Dioxin has been discovered on two poultry farms in the northern German state of Lower Saxony, the state Agriculture ministry said in a statement. The two farms have been sealed off and the eggs they produced recalled, the ministry said. The source of the contamination was unknown and being investigated. …
THURSDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) — A new study finds that obesity accounts for nearly 21 percent of U.S. health care spending, which is more than twice as high as previous estimates.
THURSDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) — Health investigators have confirmed that a bat that flew through the cabin of a U.S. commercial airliner last summer did not transmit rabies to 45 of 50 passengers assessed, the three flight crew members or 16 ground crew members who were in close proximity to the winged stowaway.