Month: September 2013

A study released in August says that commuting can hurt our personal relationships — something that’s probably not a surprise to those who spend countless hours behind the wheel a year. Yahoo News asked commuters (and ex-commuters) to share their stories and how rush hour affects their lives. Here’s one story.

A study released in August says that commuting can hurt our personal relationships — something that’s probably not a surprise to those who spend countless hours behind the wheel a year. Yahoo News asked commuters (and ex-commuters) to share their stories and how rush hour affects their lives. Here’s one story.

A study released in August says that commuting can hurt our personal relationships — something that's probably not a surprise to those who spend countless hours behind the wheel a year. Yahoo News asked commuters (and ex-commuters) to share their stories and how rush hour affects their lives. Here's one story.

A study released in August says that commuting can hurt our personal relationships — something that's probably not a surprise to those who spend countless hours behind the wheel a year. Yahoo News asked commuters (and ex-commuters) to share their stories and how rush hour affects their lives. Here's one story.

Whether it’s the duckface smirk or the coyly suggestive close-up, selfies are a mainstay of Twitter and Instagram and have parents and psychologists wringing their hands over what they “mean.”

They eat horses, don't they?

Researchers working on a global study have published two significant findings about adults with hypertension. They noted that many patients aren’t aware they have the condition and that among those who do know, many aren’t getting adequate drug therapy to control it.

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Subtle hints may help nudge people toward making healthier food choices at the grocery store, new findings suggest. Obese people heading into a store who were given a recipe flyer with a few health-related words spent less than one-third the amount on unhealthy snacks as those given the same flyer with unrelated wording, Dutch researchers found. And the flyer had an effect even if people weren’t thinking about it as they shopped. …

By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration review of GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Theravance Inc’s experimental drug to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease bodes well for approval, analysts said on Friday. The review, posted on the FDA’s website, comes ahead of a meeting next Tuesday of outside medical experts who will discuss the drug and recommend whether the agency should approve it. The FDA is not required to follow the advice of its expert panels but typically does so. …

More may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease after spinal surgery.        

What led one woman with no sign of cancer to have a radical hysterectomy.        

By Meeyoung Cho and Mari Saito SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – South Korea on Friday extended a ban on Japanese fishery imports to a larger area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant due to growing concerns over radiation contamination. Further fuelling those concerns, the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said it was "very concerned" that radioactive water could flow towards a bypass it is digging to divert clean groundwater around the damaged reactors and into the sea. …