Month: October 2012

Baseball-Pitch counts don’t add up to more injuries, says study

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NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters Health) – It is impossible to watch a Major League Baseball (MLB) game nowadays – such as those in the World Series now underway – without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. “I don’t necessarily think that pitch counts or innings pitched are the best way to measure the demands of pitching,” Thomas Karakolis, the lead author on the study, told Reuters Health. …

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Planned Parenthood sues again over Texas health program

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(Reuters) – Planned Parenthood family planning providers in Texas filed a new lawsuit on Friday over a rule that bars its clinics from a state health program for low-income women because the organization performs abortions. The suit was filed in state court, after a federal appeals court declined on Thursday to reconsider a ruling allowing Texas to withhold funding for women’s healthcare from Planned Parenthood clinics. The new lawsuit tries a different legal tactic, filing in state rather than federal court, and arguing that the way the Texas rule is written violates state law. …

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Final farewell set for former Senator George McGovern

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Members of the McGovern family listen during a prayer service for former U.S. Democratic Senator and three-time presidential candidate George McGovern at the First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls,SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters) – Mourners gathered on Friday for the funeral of former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a soft-spoken South Dakota native and passionate opponent of the Vietnam war who shaped the Democratic Party even in a landslide defeat in the 1972 presidential race. Close friends, family and those he mentored directly and indirectly called McGovern a man of principle and decency during a prayer service on Thursday night. …

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In echoes of Obama, Romney seeks to adopt mantle of change

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U.S. President Barack Obama holds his early voting ballot receipt after casting his vote at the Martin Luther King Community Center in ChicagoAMES, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempted to adopt the mantle of change on Friday in an economic speech in which he vowed to bring a fresh start to Washington to generate stronger job growth. Romney's address in the swing state of Iowa was an effort to take on the role President Barack Obama played in 2008, that of an outsider who would represent an abrupt change if he wins the tight 2012 presidential race. …

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Plant compounds tied to less stomach cancer in women

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Getting a moderate amount of plant substances called flavonoids through the diet may be linked to a lower stomach cancer risk in women, but not men, according to a new study. European researchers found that women with the highest intake of flavonoids were half as likely to develop the disease as were women who had the smallest intake. …

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