Month: August 2012

CDC says 10,000 at risk of hantavirus in Yosemite outbreak

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Visitor views Upper Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National ParkLOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some 10,000 people who stayed in tent cabins at Yosemite National Park this summer may be at risk for the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The CDC urged lab testing of patients who exhibit symptoms consistent with the lung disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, after a stay at the California park between June and August and recommended that doctors notify state health departments when it is found. …

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Obama vows to support veterans, steers back to foreign policy

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U.S. President Obama speaks to military personnel at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TexasEL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – President Barack Obama returned on Friday to the site where he announced the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq two years ago, highlighting his foreign policy record and pledging to take better care of veterans of America's wars. Obama visited Fort Bliss, Texas, where on August 31, 2010, he said he would make good on one of the signature promises from his 2008 run for the presidency: withdrawing American forces from Iraq. …

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U.N. says Haiti struggling to cope with cholera as aid withdrawn

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A girl receives treatment at a cholera treatment centre run by Doctors Without Borders, in Port-au-PrinceUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Friday that Haiti was struggling to cope with a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and deteriorating conditions in tent camps as aid groups withdraw from the impoverished country due to a lack of funding. In a report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said there had been an increase in the number of cholera cases since the rainy season began in early March and the World Health Organization had projected there could be up to 112,000 cases during 2012. …

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ConvaTec to buy 180 Medical Holdings for $321 million

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(Reuters) – Medical technology firm ConvaTec said it will buy privately owned 180 Medical Holdings Inc, a maker of catheters and urologic medical supplies, for $321 million. ConvaTec, which private equity firms Nordic Capital and Avista Capital Partners bought from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co in 2008, said the deal will close late in the third quarter. Skillman, New Jersey-based ConvaTec makes wound care and ostomy care products. (Reporting by Prateek Kumar in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel)

Induced labors may be tied to rise in preterm births

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The increasing number of preterm births in the U.S. during the early 1990s and 2000s appear linked to the increasing number of medically induced labors, according to a new study. The number of preterm births across the U.S. rose by 30 percent between 1992 and 2004, and that increase may be attributable to the number of medically induced labors, which nearly doubled during the same period, researchers found. Doctors induce labor in women for various reasons, including medical problems with the baby or a woman being past due for delivery. …

Boy without feet causing stir in Brazil

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CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian Gabriel Muniz, 11, is one of the best players at his school despite being born without feet and he dreams of being a footballer when he grows up, even though he knows it can only be at disabled level. After an appearance in Brazil’s most popular sports show on the TV Globo network, Gabriel was invited to take part in a Barcelona training camp in Saquarema, a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro. His special skills impressed the Spanish club’s coaches and he has been invited to meet his idol Lionel Messi next month. …

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