Year: 2014

Teen with prosthetic legs fights to stay on basketball team.        

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s cancer agency warns there will be 22 million new cases of cancer every year within the next two decades.

Should you really trust in chicken noodle soup?        

By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK (Reuters) – Women-only gyms, once seen as the exercise alternative for out of shape women of a certain age, are actively shedding that reputation, fitness experts say. Young, professional women are discovering that female-only fitness zones can be what a morning of golf or shooting the hoops is to their male counterparts: a chance to network, negotiate and bond while working out. “Men have been combining fitness and a social aspect for ages, doing business and creating relationships at the same time,” said Leanne Shear, trainer and founder of Uplift Studios, a boutique women-only venue in Manhattan. “Women have not, to their detriment.” Shear said her studio, which opened in 2012, attracts professional women in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s, and aims to provide a social atmosphere where they can come together as a community.

(Reuters) – Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe has been admitted to rehab after suffering from depression, local media said on Monday. Police were called after Thorpe was found disoriented and behaving oddly near a vehicle and the 31-year-old was later taken to Bankstown hospital on Monday. "He is in rehab for depression," Thorpe's manager James Erskine told the Australian Associated Press.

Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe has been admitted to rehab after suffering from depression, local media said on Monday. Police were called after Thorpe was found disoriented and behaving oddly near a vehicle and the 31-year-old was later taken to Bankstown hospital on Monday. “He is in rehab for depression,” Thorpe’s manager James Erskine told the Australian Associated Press.

Camera-in-a-pill maker Given Imaging said on Monday it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for a pill to provide visualization of the colon that has a global market of 3 million procedures a year. The pill, called the PillCam Colon, may be used for detection of colon polyps in patients after an incomplete optical colonoscopy, the Israeli medical device maker said.

CHICAGO (AP) — Gay and bisexual teen boys use illicit steroids at a rate almost six times higher than do straight kids, a “dramatic disparity” that points up a need to reach out to this group, researchers say.

By Li Hui and Ben Blanchard TIANJIN, China (Reuters) – Fangfang was just a few days old when she was abandoned on a near freezing New Year’s Day in north China. “They will only provide more accurate numbers.” Welfare experts and officials note that China has various charity funds and government health insurance schemes to help the sick and disabled.

(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline is set to unveil plans to launch late-stage clinical trials on 10 new drugs over the next two years, the Telegraph reported, without citing sources. The new drugs, which have not been detailed to investors, will include cancer and respiratory disease medicines, the newspaper said on its website. (http://link.reuters.com/fup56v) Britain's biggest drugmaker is also expected to report that fourth-quarter sales in China, where it is embroiled in a major bribery probe, took a smaller hit than when the scandal first blew up during the summer quarter, the report said. …