Month: May 2015

Jack Culverhouse was sworn in with the same badge number as his late great-grandfather.
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By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police on Friday found at least 30 graves believed to belong to migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh at what authorities say is an abandoned trafficking camp in remote jungle in Thailand’s south, police said. Illegal migrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh, brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution and to seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub.
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So-called superfoods are nutritional powerhouses that help build bones, … top superfoods for weight loss, and how to pack them into your daily diet!
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By Frank Jack Daniel and Andrew R.C. Marshall LUKLA, Nepal/KATHMANDU (Reuters) – As rescuers lose hope of finding more survivors in Nepal's earthquake disaster zone, a separate drama has unfolded high above them on Mount Everest where the hopes of a few rich climbers and some of their sherpas have also vanished. After six days of high emotion and harsh words at Everest Base Camp, climbing firm Himalayan Experience finally decided on Friday to abandon its ascent of the world's highest peak, becoming the last big team to do so. For one of its clients, millionaire Texas realtor David McGrain, it should never have taken that long to call off the climb, given thousands of people had been killed in the valleys below as well as 18 in an avalanche at base camp itself. "All they could think about was their goddamn climb, when hours before we were holding crushed skulls in our hands." McGrain, a former weightlifter and self-styled "adrenaline philanthropist" who has a tattooed chest and wears a gold nose-ring, was in a minority of one when he quit his party of at least 10 climbers, all clients of Himalayan Experience.

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Life, where he confessed to living on a 10,000 calorie diet that left the … Unfortunately, his health insurance company would not cover surgery at first, …
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By Frank Jack Daniel and Andrew R.C. Marshall KATHMANDU (Reuters) – U.S. military aircraft, heavy equipment and air traffic controllers will start arriving in Nepal from Saturday as part of a U.S. relief operation following the devastating earthquake, a senior U.S. officer said. Brigadier General Paul Kennedy of the U.S. Marine Corps told Reuters the six military aircraft, including two helicopters, will arrive from Saturday, accompanied by 100 marines and lifting equipment under an agreement reached with Nepal’s government earlier in the week. The U.S. military would help manage the growing piles of relief supplies clogging Nepal’s only international airport, located in Kathmandu, which has struggled to distribute all the aid arriving from around the world since the earthquake.
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U.S. health officials are now recommending people avoid contact with the semen of Ebola survivors after a woman in Liberia contracted Ebola through sexual intercourse with a survivor of the disease. In a report issued on Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a review of the 44-year-old woman's case now suggests that the Ebola virus persists longer in semen that previously thought. CDC said it is conducting further studies to see how long the virus can remain viable in body fluids of male and female survivors and the likelihood of sexual transmission. Until more information is known, CDC recommends that if male survivors choose to have sex – oral, vaginal, or anal – they should use a condom every time.

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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – The large reduction in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes over the past few decades helped the U.S. economy, according to a new study. Of the $200 million of compounded annual growth to the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) since 1984 to 1986, about 5 percent is a result of reduction in alcohol-related car crashes, researchers report. Economic gains will continue to accumulate as alcohol-related car crashes continue to become less common, said Ted Miller, a study author from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Silver Spring, Maryland. “We need to hold the course and keep expanding it.” The installation of breath-controlled ignitions or crash avoidance systems may help reduce alcohol-relate car crashes, Miller told Reuters Health by phone.
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I have always been against weight loss pills and fad diets, and I still am. … Nothing can take away the place of a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz's radio show, "The Daily Dose with Dr. Oz," is getting a new home.

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By Joseph D'Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – There is only "a small window of time" for relief workers in Nepal to put in place measures to protect people from deadly disease outbreaks, a senior United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Saturday. The dangers posed would be exacerbated by wet and muddy conditions brought on by the upcoming rainy season, said Rownak Khan, UNICEF's deputy representative in the country. Nepal's monsoon season normally runs from June to September. "Hospitals are overflowing, water is scarce, bodies are still buried under the rubble and people are still sleeping in the open," UNICEF's Khan said in a statement.

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