Month: May 2014

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – The Colorado Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a trial judge's decision granting prosecutors a second psychiatric examination of accused theater gunman James Holmes, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering 12 moviegoers in 2012. Acting without comment, the court denied a defense motion seeking to reverse an opinion by Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour finding that Holmes' first sanity exam was flawed and ordering him to submit to another.

(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Thursday approved a blood clot preventer developed by Merck & Co for use by patients who have had a heart attack or who suffer from blockages in the arteries of the legs. The drug, vorapaxar, was approved to reduce the risk of heart attacks, stroke, cardiovascular death and the need for procedures to improve blood flow to the heart, the Food and Drug Administration said. Merck will sell the new medicine under the brand name Zontivity. The approval follows a recommendation for its use by an FDA advisory panel that voted 10-1 in favor of the drug in January.

By David Morgan and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Health Secretary-nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell sought to allay a major Republican worry about Obamacare on Thursday, telling lawmakers that President Barack Obama's reforms would not lead to a government-run single-payer healthcare system on her watch. Her assurance against an approach reviled by Republicans and industry leaders came during a two-hour Senate confirmation hearing at which Burwell received an important endorsement from Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. Burr sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide whether to send her nomination to the floor for a final vote.

With my new book, Nothing Changes Until You Do, just released I've been reflecting a bit on the whole experience of writing this new book and now putting it out into the world.  As with my previous two book writing and launching experiences, it has been exciting, challenging, fun, vulnerable, and growth-inducing on so many levels. This experience, however, has been quite different in many ways.  Maybe it's because I'm a few years older and have a little more perspective or maybe it's because the focus of this book is on our relationship with ourselves, but what I've learned

We're all quite impulsive when it comes to food, and even more so when it comes to high-reward foods. Kids are even more vulnerable, and kids with higher impulsivity are a great target audience for advertisers. All the more reason to try and limit kids' exposure to these ads.