Month: May 2013

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Bureaucratic hurdles still hamper delivery of aid in Syria where nearly one in three people need help, half of them children, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Aid requirements have risen dramatically in the past year as the civil war has escalated, with some 6.8 million deemed in need now compared with 1 million in March 2012, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Despite the lack of security, U.N. …

Marlene Hodge and others allege a dorm supervisor sexually abused deaf girls as young as 4 during the 60s and 70s at Fanwood deaf school in White Plains, N.Y.        

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie revealed earlier this week that he’d secretly undergone Lap-Band surgery in February to lower his weight, a top Christie aide told ABC News.        

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has both joked about his weight and said that it's a real concern, secretly underwent a weight-loss surgery in February that experts say could help him if he gets exercise and watches what he eats.

By Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Only half of people in the United States who have ever been infected with hepatitis C get proper testing for the liver-destroying disease, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Proper testing is a two-step process in which people who have antibodies get referred for a second more sophisticated test to detect the virus. According to the U.S. …

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