Year: 2014

X-rays barely registered little girl’s bones before experimental treatment.        

Cold weather can boost your metabolism and motivate you to move.        

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Lufthansa has named company veteran Carsten Spohr as the group's new chief executive, Germany's largest airline said on Friday. Spohr will take over on May 1 from Christoph Franz, who is moving to Swiss pharmaceuticals group Roche . (Reporting by Victoria Bryan; Editing by Christoph Steitz)

His heart started failing, his sight and hearing deteriorated, he suffered from acid reflux, swollen lymph nodes and an inexplicable fever. Only Dr Gregory House, TV's misfit medical genius, could solve the mystery: the cause was an eroded prosthetic hip. The patient had been referred to Marburg's Centre for Undiagnosed Diseases in May 2012. Poring over his medical history, the team found a past that was uneventful… apart from a double hip replacement.

Celebrities have burst onto New York Fashion Week, donning couture red dresses made by some of America's top designers and strutting the catwalk to raise money for heart disease. The Red Dress Campaign is a charity gala that takes place each year during New York Fashion Week when organizers rely on the pulling power of popular names to rake in the cash. US singer and rock guitarist Joan Jett, who lost her mother to congenital heart failure, said Thursday's event was very personal. Anika Noni Rose, a singer and actress who appeared in Hollywood film "Dreamgirls" and is currently in rehearsals on Broadway, said New York came alive during Fashion Week.

German airline Lufthansa has picked company veteran Carsten Spohr to succeed Chief Executive Christoph Franz when his contract runs out at the end of May, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Handelsblatt Online earlier cited sources close to the company as saying Lufthansa would announce the appointment later on Friday. Shares in Lufthansa rose 2.2 percent to 17.78 euros by 0910 GMT, making them the second-biggest gainer on a flat blue-chip DAX index . Germany's largest airline has been looking for a new CEO since September, when it was announced that Franz would leave at the end of May to become chairman at Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche .

By Julian Linden SOCHI, Russia, Feb 7 (Reuters) – When Angeli VanLaanen straps on her skis and catapults herself down the halfpipe, she looks just like any other freestyle skier. For more than a decade, VanLaanen lived with a mystery disease that she never knew she had but that left her with aching joints, blurred vision and a pounding headache. Finally, in 2009, she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease, a debilitating bacteria-based illness that leaves suffers constantly fatigued. In early 2011, the International Olympic Committee announced that halfpipe skiing would be added to the programme for Sochi but the Games were the last thing on VanLaanen’s mind as she battled her health problems.

LOHATA, India (AP) — This cluster of poor villages, long known for its colorful silk saris, now is known for something else: tuberculosis. Nearly half of Lohata's population has it — some 100,000 people — and the community's weaving tradition is part of the reason it is on the front line of a major Indian health crisis.

By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, many political strategists saw it as a triumph of the Obama team's technological prowess, allowing it to identify likely Democratic voters and get them to the polls. It was a sore point for Republicans, who came out of that election vowing to nullify the Democrats' advantage in gleaning information from voter databases and social media to find potential supporters. According to interviews with a dozen strategists from both parties, Democrats appear set to maintain their technological edge, potentially boosting their prospects in the 2014 midterm elections just as other factors – such as President Obama's sliding popularity – are likely to favor Republicans.