Year: 2017

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani poet and activist Salman Haider who went missing from the capital Islamabad earlier this month, just days after four other human rights campaigners disappeared, has been found, his family said on Saturday. The five missing liberal activists, some of whom have posted blogs criticising the political influence of the military and speaking up for the rights of religious minorities, had each gone missing separately since Jan. 4. "Salman is fine, he is safe and we are happy he is back with us," Haider's brother Zeeshan Haider told Reuters, declining to elaborate on where he was.

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Brian Wansink, professor and director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, is the author of Mindless Eating and Slim by Design. He says that …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said he was launching a manufacturing jobs initiative and named a group of U.S. business executives and labor union officials to help with the effort, the White House said in a statement. …

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With one week between the holiday binge fest and squeezing into my book launch dress I've had to tackle a fad diet. I am not really a dieting kind of …
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By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. Multiple outbreaks have been reported in poultry farms and wild flocks across Europe, Africa and Asia in the past three months. While most involve strains that are currently low risk for human health, the sheer number of different types, and their presence in so many parts of the world at the same time, increases the risk of viruses mixing and mutating – and possibly jumping to people.

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They offer healthy food packaged with nutritional information so you can easily fit it into a weight–loss diet, even buy enough for a week. The idea is …
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German industrial group Siemens will shortly start picking banks to organize a stock market listing of its healthcare business, three people close to the matter said. Siemens will invite investment banks in early April to pitch for roles in the initial public offering (IPO), the people said, adding that Goldman Sachs had already been asked to look after some preparatory tasks for the IPO. "Goldman Sachs will very likely emerge as one of the global coordinators of the Healthineers IPO," one of the sources said, adding that Healthineers would be listed in late 2017 provided equity markets were favorable.

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