Month: December 2014

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – British actor Idris Elba and a host of international football stars launched a public awareness campaign on Wednesday to help halt West Africa's Ebola epidemic and recognise the health workers fighting the deadly disease. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 6,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries worst affected by the epidemic. The Africa United campaign (http://www.weareafricaunited. …

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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has been barred by from exporting the antibiotic cephalosporin to Germany from its plant in central India for not complying with standard manufacturing practices. Germany's regulator issued a "non-compliance" report for the plant where Ranbaxy made the antibiotic, after an inspection in June, the European Medicines Agency said on its website in a notice dated Nov. 26. …

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The promo for diet company LighterLife bigs up the fact that Denise … of weight loss were compatible with good medical and nutritional practice and …
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By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas plans to execute a convicted double murderer on Wednesday over the objections of lawyers arguing his life should be spared because he suffers from serious mental illness and putting him to death would be morally and legally wrong. Scott Panetti, 56, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. CST (1900 ET) by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville. If the execution goes ahead, Panetti would be the 519th person executed in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state. U.N. …
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“These days, most of the advice is, 'You have to change nutrition, you have to eat a healthy diet,'” Panda says. “But many people don't have access to …
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Diet Doc promises no overnight fat cure or miracle weight loss potion, rather a medically supervised, healthy road to fast and permanent weight loss.
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While these diet plans generate safe, natural and fast weight loss, the real goal is to educate their patients about how the body and brain react to …
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"I lived on a diet of crisps, chocolate and other sugary snacks. … Laura kickstarted her weight loss by braving the cabbage soup diet – an eating … crisps and potatoes for quite a while and started to eat veg and healthy light meat.".
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The system that helps Stephen Hawking communicate with the outside world will be made available online from January in a move that could help millions of motor neurone disease sufferers, scientists said Tuesday.

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