Year: 2016

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Dozens of people have fallen ill with suspected cholera in South Sudan's capital of Juba, while a U.N. food warehouse was looted and destroyed, incurring $20 million of damage, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "We expect a huge humanitarian crisis. Cholera is a type of acute watery diarrhoea which kills fewer than 1 percent of sufferers if there is proper treatment with oral rehydration salts, according to the World Health Organisation.

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SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwired – July 20, 2016) – Over two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Constant consumption of unhealthy food …
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By Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) – Henderson Global Investors, a minority investor in Bayer has demanded a vote on the firm's $64 billion-plus proposed takeover of Monsanto, which it said threatened the long-term strength of the German chemicals group. Asim Rahman, European equities fund manager at Henderson, one of Bayer&039;s 20 largest investors with a 0.7 percent stake, said the bid for the U.S. seeds company represented "a major departure from a strategy of focus and integration of existing acquisitions" that Bayer had consistently communicated to the market for a number of years. Bayer announced a sweetened $125-a-share offer for Monsanto, the largest all-cash takeover bid on record, on July 14 in an effort to entice its reluctant management to give the German company full access to its books.

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Everybody seems to have some go to dieting rules when trying to lose unwanted kilograms. There are actually diet rules out there that are meant to be …
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This is exactly the reason why the “fad” diets fail. The weight loss occurs, but then people return to their previous dietary habits. Eat healthy food, do …
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By Randy Fabi and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia on Monday began re-vaccinating nearly 200 children who received fake versions of imported inoculations from a drug-counterfeiting ring broken up last month after operating for more than a decade. President Joko Widodo urged calm as public uproar intensified over revelations that health officials knew about the syndicate producing the fake vaccines for several years but did little to stop it. No illnesses or deaths have been directly linked to the fake vaccines, officials have said.

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By Tom Finn DOHA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian laws requiring women to have male guardians have been reformed in recent years but continue to restrict and endanger them, obstructing government plans to reform the economy, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says in a report. The report drew criticism on Sunday from a government rights official, who said the system was designed to protect and help women, and was less restrictive than portrayed by HRW. Women in Saudi Arabia must usually obtain permission from a guardian – father, husband, or son – to travel, study or marry.

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