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By Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday ended its search for missing crew of the cargo ship El Faro that sank off the Bahamas last week after sailing into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. An exhaustive air and sea search for possible survivors was called off at sunset, six days after communication was lost with the ship and the 33 people aboard, the
By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a tax on high-frequency trading, her campaign said late Wednesday. The tax would target securities transactions with excessive levels of order cancellations, which destabilize the markets, a campaign aide said. “The growth of high-frequency trading has unnecessarily burdened our markets and enabled unfair and abusive trading strategies,” the aide said.
By Krista Mahr KABUL (Reuters) – The U.S. air strike in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 patients and staff at a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital wasn’t the first time the escalating war has affected an aid-run medical facility. According to Sagot-Priez, in mid-August intense fighting broke out near a remote clinic operated by Premiere Urgence in Kunar, in the east.
CHICAGO (AP) — Cancer is much less common in elephants than in humans, even though the big beasts’ bodies have many more cells. That’s a paradox known among scientists, and now researchers think they may have an explanation — one they say might someday lead to new ways to protect people from cancer.
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) — A nurse accused of reusing syringes while giving flu shots to 67 patients at a pharmaceutical company voluntarily surrendered her license, New Jersey officials said Thursday.
By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) – Seniors with nighttime breathing issues like snoring or sleep apnea often have high blood sugar and may be almost twice as likely as sound sleepers to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Findings from some 6,000 U.S. adults who were followed for up to 10 years suggest that doctors may want to monitor blood sugar in older patients with sleep-disordered breathing,
Roche’s big new drug hope ocrelizumab cut multiple sclerosis relapses by nearly 50 percent compared with the older product Rebif in two large clinical trials, underscoring its potential in the main relapsing form of the disease. Ocrelizumab also cut clinical disability by nearly a quarter in a separate study of patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS), which affects around 15 percent of patients and for which there is currently
Two greats of the game – Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – play in the China Open quarter-finals on Friday, live on Sky Sports.
Sky Sports Fantasy Football have provided us with their highest-scoring England XI, which includes just four of Roy Hodgson’s regular starters.
The Sunday Supplement is back again, as our panel of journalists dissect the week’s big football talking points.