Month: October 2013
Youths stay away from Nyeri Military recruitment exercise | NTV
Time FM Organises Clean-Up Exercise in Obuasi
Exercise May Cut Hypertension Risk
The Pill’s link to depression still unclear
By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Young women using hormone-based contraceptives, including the Pill, were no more likely to be depressed than other women in a new U.S. study. In fact, the women in their 20s and 30s on hormonal contraceptives had fewer symptoms of depression than their peers using other types of contraception or no contraception at all, researchers found. “This counters somewhat some of the prevailing wisdom that hormone contraceptive use in general is associated with adverse mental health outcomes in women,” lead author of the study Dr. …
TSX gains as investors shrug off U.S. shutdown
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s main stock index was marginally higher on Tuesday as the market largely shrugged off a partial shutdown of the U.S. government, though many of the index’s biggest mining stocks fell. Investors are getting wise to Washington politics and do not expect the shutdown, which could put up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, to last too long, said Keith Richards, portfolio manager and technical analyst at ValueTrend Wealth Management in Barrie, Ontario. If the shutdown were prolonged, it might encourage the U.S. …
Teva says oral MS drug laquinimod may reduce brain tissue damage
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Sweden’s Active Biotech said a Phase III clinical trial of laquinimod, an oral treatment for multiple sclerosis, demonstrated a beneficial impact on brain tissue damage. The study found that, compared with a placebo, patients treated with laquinimod had decreased rates in brain tissue damage shown by various MRI markers, specifically decreased rates of white matter, grey matter and thalamic atrophy, the companies said on Tuesday. …
Senate votes to kill Republican request for talks to end shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led Senate on Tuesday voted to kill Republicans' latest attempts to modify an emergency government funding bill, just hours after federal agencies and national parks began shutting down. The Senate voted on 54-46 along strict party lines to strip the proposed amendments from the spending bill, sending a "clean" measure back to the House of Representatives that would extend funding for government agencies until November 15. …