Month: January 2013
Supersized court challenge to New York City’s ban on big, sugary sodas
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The beverage and restaurant industries on Wednesday urged a New York judge to block Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on large sugary drinks, calling it an unconstitutional overreach that burdens small businesses and infringes upon personal liberty. The ban, scheduled to go into effect in March, outlaws the sale of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces from New York City's restaurants and many other eateries in an effort to combat obesity. City officials have said they will not begin imposing $200 fines on offending businesses until June. …
Genome Donators Can Be Sleuthed Out
Using publicly available information, researchers found they could figure out the identities of 50 individuals who had loaned their genes to science. Karen Hopkin reports.
NYC Health Dept: Sugary drinks limit is reasonable
Research into Contagious Bird Flu Starts After Moratorium
Brain Damage Detected in NFL Players
A new imaging technique has allowed detection of tau protein abnormalities in the concussed brains of living retired football players that are identical to the autopsy findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in deceased athletes, researchers reported.
Quest Diagnostics expects reimbursement cuts to hurt in 2013
(Reuters) – Laboratory tests provider Quest Diagnostics Inc’s fourth-quarter profit missed analysts’ recently cut estimates, and the company forecast 2013 results below market expectations, citing pricing and reimbursement pressures. Quest, the No. 1 U.S. laboratory testing company, and its peer Laboratory Corp of America Holdings face falling test volumes as hospitals buy physician groups, which order tests to be conducted inhouse. Shares of Quest, which conducts tests under brands such as AmeriPath and Athena Diagnostics, were down 5 percent at $58. …
Study casts doubt on link between cannabis, teen IQ drop
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A landmark study suggesting a link between cannabis use and a drop in teenage IQ may not have gone far enough in its research, with any falls in IQ more likely due to lower socioeconomic status than marijuana, according to a Norwegian study. The latest work, which appears in the journal PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, also suggests that different policy steps might be needed in that case. …
Cycling-Armstrong fails to convince fans with confession-poll
Jan 23 (Reuters) – Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong failed to convince many people he was truly sorry for his actions during his televised confession to cheating his way to a record seven Tour de France titles by using drugs, according to a Reuters poll. Armstrong, 41, admitted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week that he used performance-enhancing drugs and lied about it for over decade, finally owning up to being at the centre of one of the biggest drug scandals in world sport. But the two-part interview aired over 2. …
Japan Official: ‘Hurry Up and Die’
Beverage attorney: NYC drinks limit bad for public
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's limit on the size of sugary drinks is an "extraordinary infringement" on consumer choice, a lawyer for the American Beverage Association and other critics said in court on Wednesday.
Healthy exercise at Kaneland High School
Comments (…) Text Size: AaAaAaAaAa. (Sandy Bressner – [email protected]). Kaneland High School sophomore A.J. Ayala (right) samples a rope exercise Tuesday as classmate Josh Delao (left) looks on during a wellness fair at the school.
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