Month: February 2015

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada, a major exporter of beef, said on Friday it had found a case of mad cow disease in a beef cow in the province of Alberta, the first in the country since 2011. A statement from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said no part of the cow had reached the human food or animal feed systems and said exports should not be harmed. Mad cow is formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a progressive, fatal neurological disease. "The CFIA is seeking to confirm the age of the animal, its history and how it became infected.

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By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) – The man Whitney Houston's daughter calls her husband cannot visit her at the hospital where she is being treated after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub last month, her cousin told a local news station. "In response to reports that Nick Gordon is taking legal action, he would like it to be clear, he is not," lawyers Randy Kessler and Joe Habachy said in the statement. Family members have said Bobbi Kristina Brown, 21, the only child of singers Bobby Brown and the late Houston, is fighting for her life after Gordon and a friend discovered her in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home on Jan. 31. Gordon and Bobbi Kristina referred to each other as husband and wife, but Bobby Brown said after his daughter's hospitalization that the two were never legally married.

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A new study finds that in just four weeks children can lose weight, lower blood pressure, and improve their cholesterol by eating a plant-based diet or …
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By Katy Migiro JUBA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In South Sudan's capital, Mary Nyapini Malual watches her children jostle over a plate of stew and pancakes, grateful they are safe from a government she believes wants to kill them. It has been more than a year since Malual ran from clashes that broke out after months of tension sparked by President Salva Kiir's decision to fire former vice president Riek Machar.

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By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) – Kiev, Moscow, Munich, Washington, Ottawa, Minsk and Brussels — all in a week’s work for Angela Merkel, whose tireless efforts to broker peace in Ukraine and keep Greece in the euro zone won praise even from the chancellor’s fiercest critics in Germany. Tomorrow is a working day,” Merkel said late on Thursday after negotiating for 16 hours to wrestle a ceasefire deal from Russia’s Vladimir Putin before flying straight to Brussels to deal with the Greeks.
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These discouraging facts about the body's response to weight loss are well known … by the FDA to supplement diet and exercise in promoting weight loss. … Meanwhile, public health officials and researchers, Ochner added, should …
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