Month: February 2015

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – After 10 hours of emotional testimony and debate, Colorado lawmakers late on Friday voted down a proposed assisted-suicide law that would have allowed terminally-ill patients to end their lives with prescription drugs. By an 8-to-5 bipartisan vote, the so-called “Death with Dignity” bill was rejected by the Public Health and Human Services Committee in the state’s House of Representatives. The measure was sponsored by two Democratic lawmakers. “Supporting a concept and a bill are two different things,” said committee chairwoman Dianne Primavera, a Democrat, during the hearing. The right-to-die movement gained momentum last year after Brittany Maynard – a 29-year-old California woman with terminal brain cancer – went public with her move to Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, to end her life.  The Colorado proposal would have required two physicians to verify that the patient is terminal, had made both verbal and written statements of their intentions, and was able to self-administer the lethal medications.
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… the health of over-weight people by helping them burn fat better, says a study. … in the dark-coloured grapes do not promise a miraculous weight–loss. … The rest were fed a diet of 60 percent fat – the sort of unhealthy diet that …
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By Katy Migiro JUBA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the swampy frontlines of South Sudan's conflict, women spend hours pounding wild fruits, water lilies and grasses to feed their children, just two months after the harvest. Aid workers fear famine will again threaten South Sudan in the next few months if forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar continue to shell food distributions, loot aid and menace humanitarian staff. Fighting which erupted in December 2013 has forced two million people to flee their homes, killed up to 50,000 people and hurt efforts to tackle South Sudan's chronic hunger problem. "If the guns don't fall silent for humanitarian support to go in, they would still be having this looming possibility of localized famine," said Bernard Owadi, World Food Programme's (WFP) lead food security analyst in South Sudan.

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