Month: September 2013

The outbreak has been linked to D’Jais Bar and Grill.        

(Reuters) – Team Health Holdings Inc, a provider of outsourced physician staffing, said it received a subpoena from a U.S. government watchdog requesting documents related to its services at hospitals affiliated with Health Management Associates Inc. Team Health said it plans to cooperate with the government in its investigation and is in the process of responding to the subpoena, issued by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HMA, which operates 71 hospitals in 15 U.S. states, agreed in July to a $3. …

ATLANTA (AP) — Children — like adults — are increasingly trying electronic cigarettes, according to the first large national study to gauge use by middle and high school students.

By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) – If anybody had a good reason to dislike Australia's conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott, poised to be elected prime minister on Saturday, it would be author Bob Ellis. Abbott and former treasurer Peter Costello successfully sued Ellis's publishers for defamation over a book that touched on their days in student politics written by the long-time Labor Party figure, forcing the book to be pulped and costing Ellis's backers more than $500,000. …

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.

Judge says Amish girl with cancer shouldn’t be forced to undergo chemo.        

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care law appears to mirror a trend in job-based insurance, where employees are being nudged into cost-saving plans that require them to pay a bigger share of their medical expenses.

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kids and teens with asthma and type 1 diabetes often don’t take their medication as prescribed, and those that skip doses are more likely to end up in the emergency room, according to a new review. More than half of children with a chronic illness are put on medication, but past studies have found anywhere from 50 percent to 88 percent don’t take their drugs as prescribed. …

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(Reuters) – Twice as many U.S. middle and high school students used electronic cigarettes, which mimic traditional cigarettes and deliver nicotine as a vapor, in 2012 than a year earlier, and these teens could be on the way to a lifelong addiction, according to a government report released on Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 10 percent of high school students surveyed reported using e-cigarettes in 2012, up from 4.7 percent in 2011. Some 2.7 percent of middle school students surveyed had used e-cigarettes in 2012, up from 1.4 percent in 2011. Last year, nearly 1. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it a hidden ally: The right germs just might be able to help fight fat.

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) – An intensifying crackdown on corruption in China is a positive development that should be welcomed by companies doing business there, and not be a source of concern, a senior U.N. crime-fighting official said on Thursday. Some foreign firms in China are getting increasingly jumpy about a spate of corruption and anti-trust investigations by Chinese authorities and are hiring lawyers to make sure their operations comply with the law. …