Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
First and foremost, do not believe that your Inner Worrier is the voice of truth. It's simply the voice of fear. Secondly, know that stress is an inevitable part of living life. Work with it, find your way to getting yourself in the driver's seat rather than allowing the worry and doubt to steer your vehicle.
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's AstraZeneca on Monday rejected a sweetened and "final" offer from Pfizer, puncturing the U.S. drugmaker's plan for a merger to create the world's biggest pharmaceuticals group. The rebuff came nine hours after Pfizer said on Sunday night it had raised its takeover offer to 55 pounds a share, or around 70 billion pounds ($118 billion) in total, and would walk away if AstraZeneca did not accept it. The rejection left some major shareholders fuming as shares in AstraZeneca slumped 11 percent to close at 42.88 pounds after falling as much as 15 percent – their biggest ever intra-day decline. Pfizer rose 1 percent in New York.
By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago police are still far more likely to arrest people caught with small amounts of marijuana than ticket them as allowed under a 2012 ordinance intended to promote the more lenient penalties, a study released on Monday found. Ninety-three percent of misdemeanor marijuana possession violations in 2013 resulted in arrest in the nation’s third-largest city, while 7 percent resulted in tickets, a study by Roosevelt University’s Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy found. The study shows some of the difficulties that can come with implementing a new drug policy, even as more states and cities soften their approach to marijuana. In Chicago, police may issue a citation for a fine of $250 to $500 for possession of small amounts of marijuana, 15 grams (0.5 ounce) or less, instead of making an arrest.
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who become diabetic during pregnancy may be able to avoid later developing type 2 diabetes with exercise, according to a new U.S. study. Among women who had so-called gestational diabetes, those who upped their exercise by a little more than 20 minutes a day after giving birth had half the longer-term diabetes risk of women who didn’t change their activity levels. “This is kind of a hopeful message because they may think they are at a high risk of type 2 diabetes, but this shows they shouldn’t give up,” Dr. Cuilin Zhang said. Women – especially those who are older, heavier and not white – are at risk of developing gestational diabetes, because of changes in the body during pregnancy.
