Month: February 2015

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations war crimes investigators plan to publish names of suspects involved in Syria’s four-year war and push for new ways to bring them to account, in a radical change of strategy announced on Friday. Diplomatic sources said the independent Commission of Inquiry, led by Brazilian investigator Paulo Pinheiro, may publish some or all of hundreds of names on secret lists of suspects at the U.N. Human Rights Council on March 17. The investigators have already drawn up four lists including military and security commanders, the heads of detention facilities, and commanders of non-state armed groups, including the so-called “emirs” of radical groups, they said. “After four years of intensive monitoring and the submission of four confidential lists of perpetrators, however, not to publish names at this juncture of the investigation would be to reinforce the impunity that the Commission was mandated to combat,” they said in a report to the Human Rights Council.
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Cut out (or down on) meat, lose weight. And, while you're at it, protect your heart, sidestep cancer and live longer. It's a promising premise.
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I honestly love what she is doing — holding Big Food's feet to the fire. But a book that promises weight loss and getting healthy in 21 days written by a …
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Photo credit: ArtistashmitaA few years ago, while in a local health food store with my son Jack, a man was offering raw chocolate tastings. As expected, my kid was excited to try a sample. As I grabbed a few things throughout the small market, Jack (a bit beyond his years) respectfully chatted with the man. "Hey Mom," my son exclaimed, "this…

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HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — That phone app keeping track of your exercise and meals might keep you out of the hospital one day.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday it had approved a 15-minute test for Ebola that should prove a fast and rugged tool in countries hit by the disease. The test is a little less accurate than the so-called gold standard of lab assessment, but does not need electricity or highly trained personnel to use it, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said. "This is the first rapid antigen test that gives the results in 15 minutes," Jasarevic said. "Where possible, obviously results from this antigen rapid test should be confirmed by testing by blood sample using normal PCR tests," he added, referring a DNA analysis to detect the disease.

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By Sharon Begley and Toni Clarke NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators have known since at least 2009 that the medical devices at the center of the "superbug" outbreak at UCLA can transmit lethal infections but have not recommended any new safety requirements, a lapse that threatens patient safety, experts in hospital-acquired infections said. The latest outbreak involving the reusable devices called duodenoscopes, which are inserted down the throat, may have exposed 179 patients at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles and contributed to two deaths.

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