Year: 2014

By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) – Hardest hit this U.S. flu season are adults, from younger to middle-aged, in part because fewer have been vaccinated, a federal health agency said on Thursday as the season enters its final weeks. An estimated 60 percent of those who have died from influenza this season were 24 to 64 years old, compared with 18 percent last season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. People ages 18 to 64 have accounted for 61 percent of all hospitalizations due to the flu, up from about 35 percent in the three prior seasons, the CDC said. This season’s dominant flu strain is the H1N1 virus, the same one that struck in 2009, with high rates of hospitalization and death among young adults and the middle aged, the CDC said.

The world's top deal adviser for nine of the past 10 years, Goldman Sachs Group Inc has been notably absent on 2014's largest mergers and acquisitions, including Facebook's $19 billion deal to purchase mobile messaging service WhatsApp. Normally the go-to-banker for big deals, Goldman has missed out on the top five transactions in the young year, according to Thomson Reuters data. Facebook Inc relied on boutique investment firm Allen & Co to help with its offer to buy startup WhatsApp, which in turn chose Morgan Stanley . Typically, Goldman Sachs starts out slowly and still land at the top of the league tables by the end of the year.

By Julian Linden SOCHI, Russia, Feb 20 (Reuters) – The fairytale princess that Russia had been craving finally came to life on Thursday when teenager Adelina Sotnikova won the women’s individual figure skating title at the Sochi Olympics. Sotnikova produced the skate of her life to win the gold medal ahead of South Korea’s Kim Yuna with an energetic routine that had the crowd on their feet and judges’s hearts melting. In fact, I smashed my highest score for my whole career and I did it at the Olympics,” said the jubilant 17-year-old. I just couldn’t skate badly.” Incredibly for a country that has produced so many great figure skaters, Sotnikova become the first Russian woman to win the individual title.

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By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Simple at-home exercises could help seniors regain mobility and independence after recovering from a broken hip, according to a new study. Participants who followed the six-month home exercise program showed significant improvements in their ability to get up and around, climb stairs and attend to daily activities, compared to similar seniors who only had typical post-fracture rehab. A broken hip often marks the start of a rapid decline in older people’s health. However, research has also shown that months of intensive outpatient physical therapy improves function, mobility and other outcomes, she added.

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By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) – A Miami judge temporarily blocked media access to any more semi-clad video images of Justin Bieber filmed while the teenage pop singer was in police custody last month after his arrest for driving under the influence. Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield ordered that about 10 hours of police surveillance video not be released until he has been able to review them in his chambers. The footage included clips of Bieber giving a urine sample. "While in custody at the Miami Beach police station, the defendant was captured on videotape in various states of undress which show intimate personal parts of the defendant's body," according to a legal motion filed earlier this month in Miami-Dade County Court by Bieber's Miami law firm.