Year: 2013

LONDON (Reuters) – Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, said on Monday it had found horse DNA exceeding 60 percent in some of its own-brand frozen spaghetti bolognese meals withdrawn from stores last week. Tesco said tests carried out since pulling the product last Wednesday had identified the presence of horse DNA, with most positive results at a trace level of less than one percent. However, three tests showed horse DNA levels of over 60 percent. …

We are a nation of advocates. Of changemakers. Of visionaries. We have achieved incredible medical advancements, such as developing childhood vaccines for adult cancers. When we decide as a nation that something should happen, it does. 

UK spots world’s 10th case of SARS-related virus; patient had been to Mideast, Pakistan

ARLINGTON, Texas (Reuters) – Thousands of people are expected to gather at Cowboys Stadium on Monday to remember former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was killed at a shooting range by an Iraq War veteran he tried to help. Kyle, 38, was considered the deadliest sniper in American military history. He served four combat tours of duty in Iraq and elsewhere, and won two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for bravery, according to his book “American Sniper,” about his military service from 1999 to 2009. …

LONDON (AP) — British officials have found the world’s 10th known case of a new coronavirus, a mysterious disease related to SARS and first identified last year.

In this, the second in our month-long series on the disparities and inequities of cancer in the U.S. and beyond, we look at the millions of currently uninsured Americans and the burden they bear if they have the misfortune to develop the disease:

Book showcases pictures of same-sex couples by top wedding photographers.

CHICAGO (AP) — Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there's a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses heal, a government-funded analysis found.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many hospitals are hard-pressed to tell people needing a hip replacement how much their procedure is likely to cost, according to a new study. Even when they can cite prices, going rates for the procedure may vary from hospital to hospital by a factor of 10, researchers found. “It was very frustrating,” said Jaime Rosenthal, a student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, who led the new research. “You got transferred to all these different people. You had to leave messages, call back.” According to the U.S. …

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Three Nigerian journalists have been arrested for inciting violence by saying on a radio show that polio immunizations were an anti-Islam Western conspiracy, just days before health workers administering the vaccines were killed. Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead the nine health workers in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s main northern city of Kano on Friday. No one claimed responsibility but Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a sect that has condemned the use of Western education, has been blamed for carrying out a spate of assaults on security forces in the city. …

Americans had fewer babies in 2011 than in any year before, according to an annual summary of vital statistics.