Month: March 2014

High-protein diets may help you lose weight in the short term, but could … short-term weight loss, they may have negative effects on health as you get older. … cutting back on your intake will also make room for other nutritious foods.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama released his fiscal year 2015 budget request to Congress on Tuesday, and lawmakers will promptly ignore it. Obama outlined how he would parcel out $1.014 trillion on government agencies’ discretionary programs ranging from the military to national parks. The level, barely above this year’s spending cap of $1.012 trillion, was set by a recent budget deal and forces Obama to make some difficult cuts to fund the programs he wants. If the president wants to spend more, he will have to sell Congress on the idea of raising additional revenues.

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – A former Massachusetts state crime-lab chemist who admitted to faking drug test results was the sole "bad actor" at the facility, but lax management allowed her to carry on for nine years, an official review released on Tuesday concluded. In a case that shook the foundations of the state's criminal justice system, chemist Annie Dookhan last year acknowledged faking tests on evidence in drug cases involving some 40,000 people from 2002 to 2011.