Year: 2014

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has banned imports of all live birds and bird products from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany due to bird flu cases in those countries, Ukraine’s state veterinary inspectorate said on Wednesday. “The ban … will be valid until the international watchdog says these countries are free from bird flu,” an inspectorate official told Reuters. (Reporting By Pavel Polityuk, editing by John Stonestreet)
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ROME (Reuters) – International organizations and 170 governments committed to battling poor nutrition on Wednesday, saying that while hunger had dropped, half the world’s population was in some way affected by nutritional problems. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)and World Health Organization (WHO) said global hunger had fallen 21 percent since 1992, but people living in the same community or even the same household suffer variously from hunger, micro nutrient deficiencies and obesity. …
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When actor James Gandolfini died in the summer of 2013, at age 51, a prominent cardiologist described him as “a heart attack waiting to happen.” The award-winning Sopranos star was overweight and inactive, and on the evening he died, he had indulged himself in a diet of rum, beer and fatty foods. In short, he didn’t take care of himself, and…
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(Reuters) – Pharmaceutical investment firm Royalty Pharma said it would buy royalties on Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc’s cystic fibrosis treatments from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for $3.3 billion in cash. Vertex’s cystic fibrosis drug, Kalydeco, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2012. Vertex co-developed the drug with an affiliate of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The foundation plans to use the proceeds of the deal for the development of new therapies for the disease, Royal Pharma said in a statement on Wednesday. …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. federal judge who must approve a proposed settlement between the National Football League and its players over concussions sustained while playing the game was set to review its terms during a hearing in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Most of the 20,000 former players involved in the class action lawsuit back the deal, which provides payments of up to $5 million to those with the most serious neurological impairments, while others think the NFL should pay more. U.S. …
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