Month: December 2012

Police seek young leukemia patient taken from Arizona hospital

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A handout surveillance photo from Phoenix Children's Hospital shows a woman, identified by police as Norma Bracamontes leading her daughter Emily out of the hospitalPHOENIX (Reuters) – Police are looking for an 11-year-old leukemia patient spirited out of a Phoenix hospital by her mother and are concerned a chest catheter in the girl's heart could lead to a fatal infection, authorities said on Tuesday. Emily Bracamontes went missing from Phoenix Children's Hospital on November 28, said Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant Steve Martos. The girl, who has leukemia, had previously been brought into the hospital by her mother for treatment, Martos said. During the treatment, a chest catheter was inserted into her heart. …

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Terminally ill woman mounts first Irish right-to-die case

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – An Irish woman who is terminally ill with multiple sclerosis made an impassioned plea in her battle to seek the lawful right to die at the start of a landmark case in Ireland’s High Court on Tuesday. “I’ve come to the court, whilst I still can use my speech, my voice, to ask you to assist me in having a peaceful, dignified death, to die peacefully, I need assistance,” Marie Fleming, 58, said, giving evidence from a wheelchair to three senior judges. …

Imprisoned Iranian lawyer ends hunger strike-website

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Imprisoned Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh ended her nearly 50-day long hunger strike on Tuesday, an opposition website said, after authorities lifted a ban on her young daughter travelling abroad. Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist, is serving a six-year jail sentence after being arrested in September 2010 and convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. …

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Teen fighting down in many countries, not U.S

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Fistfights among kids have become less common over the last decade in 19 of 30 countries surveyed in a new report. “It was not something that we anticipated,” said William Pickett, the lead author of the study in the journal Pediatrics and a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. “If anything, given what you hear in the news, I would have anticipated the reverse.” But fighting in other countries, including the U.S. and Canada, has remained steady, while in a few nations, including the economically decimated Greece, fighting has increased. …

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Countries With the Greatest Use of High-Fructose Corn Syrup Also Have More Diabetes

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The soaring rates of diabetes in the United States and many other developed countries over the past three decades has been generally blamed on obesity. We’re getting fatter, and that puts us at risk for developing diabetes. But a new theory suggests that the diabetes epidemic is not just a matter of eating too much and moving too little. It could have more to with some components  of our diet.

After parent’s cancer death, one in five kids self-injure

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – One in five teens who lost one of their parents to cancer cut or burn themselves, compared to one in ten teens with two living parents, according to a new Swedish study. “We were very surprised to find that so many did it,” said lead researcher Tove Grenklo, a behavioral scientist at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Cutting and burning is thought to be how some troubled teens express their emotions, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. …

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Obama says not able to overhaul tax system, entitlements in two weeks: Bloomberg TV

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Tuesday there is not enough time this year to come up with an overhaul of the U.S. tax system and entitlement programs as Republicans want as a condition for an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff. Obama told Bloomberg Television that despite weaknesses in Europe and Asia, he believes the U.S. economy is “poised to take off. …

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