WikiLeaks’ Assange downplays health concerns

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he appears to speak from the balcony of Ecuador's embassy in LondonLONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in London's Ecuadorian embassy for nearly six months, played down concerns about his health on Thursday, saying he enjoyed being at the centre of the legal and diplomatic storm. Assange, 41, whose website angered the United States by releasing thousands of secret diplomatic cables, took sanctuary in Ecuador's embassy in June, jumping bail after exhausting appeals in British courts against extradition to Sweden for sexual assault allegations. …

New Cases, Death Rate Slows in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

New Cases, Death Rate Slows in Fungal Meningitis OutbreakIf there's any positive news to be known about the fungal meningitis outbreak, linked to tainted injectable medications manufactured by the New England Compounding Center, NECC, is that at long last the reports of new infections and deaths having occurred are coming in more slowly. A consumer watchdog group, Public Citizen, has written a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking it to revisit 16 compounding pharmacies to which the agency had issued warnings from 2003 through 2012, in an effort to prevent any such health tragedies in the future.

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