Year: 2014

A Mississippi mother expecting rare idential triplets received a shocking surprise just days before Valentine’s Day.        

It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s just PR, but here are nine surprising people – or groups of people – who, based on my reporting and research, are actually pretty serious about meditation.        

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea said on Monday a United Nations report on its human rights record due to be issued later in the day was based on material faked by hostile forces backed by the United States, the European Union and Japan. A statement sent to Reuters from the Communist state's diplomatic mission in Geneva said that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea "categorically and totally rejects the report," drawn up by a three-member Commission of Inquiry. The two-page North Korean statement, in English, said the report was an "instrument of a political plot aimed at sabotaging the socialist system" and defaming the country. And it denounced the Commission as "a marionette running here and there in order to represent the ill-minded purposes of the string-pullers, such as the United States, Japan and the member states of the EU." The Commission was set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council a year ago at the request of the European Union, the United States and Japan under a resolution adopted by consensus at the 47-member state forum.

"I think this is overwhelming support for early interventions and immediate interventions and really advancing the science about interventions," Laura Bogart, from Boston Children's Hospital, told Reuters Health. In the past, when researchers have surveyed students at one point in time, children and teens who were being bullied tended to score lower on measures of physical and mental health. They analyzed data from the Healthy Passages study, which surveyed students in Alabama, California and Texas about how much bullying they experienced and evaluated their physical and mental health. Generally, those who had been bullied in the past scored better on measures of physical and mental health, compared to those who were currently being bullied.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia says a Saudi man has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 60 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.

While this post is certainly not meant to diagnose anyone, here are five indications that your healthy efforts may have morphed into detrimental patterns.        

French investigators have ruled out any third party involvement in the ski accident of former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher and have closed the case, the local prosecutor said on Monday. "The investigation into the causes and consequences of the December 29 skiing accident of Michael Schumacher … has been closed on February 12," Albertville prosecutor Patrick Quincy said in a statement. "No person has been found guilty of any violation." Schumacher, 45, has undergone two operations since sustaining brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the French Alps resort of Meribel. The seven times world champion was in a stable but critical condition until late January and doctors in the Grenoble hospital have started waking him up progressively by lowering his sedation.

French investigators have ruled out any third party involvement in the ski accident of former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher and have closed the case, the local prosecutor said on Monday. “The investigation into the causes and consequences of the Dec. 29 skiing accident of Michael Schumacher … has been closed on Feb. 12,” Albertville prosecutor Patrick Quincy said in a statement. “No person has been found guilty of any violation.” Schumacher, 45, has undergone two operations since sustaining brain injuries after hitting his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the French Alps resort of Meribel. The seven times world champion was in a stable but critical condition until late January and doctors in the Grenoble hospital have started waking him up progressively by lowering his sedation.

Mothers may say they don't care whether they have a son or a daughter, but their breast milk says otherwise. "Mothers are producing different biological recipes for sons and daughters," said Katie Hinde, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University. There are a lot of theories as to why this happens, Hinde said Friday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting.