(Reuters) – Hurricane Joaquin gathered strength on Thursday as it moved over the Bahamas and officials on the U.S. East Coast began gearing up for possible landfall early next week, three years after Superstorm Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey. Joaquin, the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, intensified into a major Category 3 storm on a scale of 1 to 5, with maximum sustained winds of 125
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first combination of two drugs that help the immune system fight cancer, a therapy regimen that could cost $256,000 a year. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said the FDA had given the green light to combine its immuno-oncology drugs Opdivo and Yervoy to treat advanced or inoperable melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, in patients who do not have a mutation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is tightening limits on the smog-forming pollution that’s linked to asthma and respiratory illness — setting a new national ozone standard of 70 parts per billion.
Marijuana sales for recreational use began in Oregon on Thursday as it joined Washington state and Colorado in allowing the sale of a drug that remains illegal under U.S. federal law. Oregon residents 21 years and older can buy up to a quarter-ounce (seven grams) of dried pot at roughly 200 existing medical-use marijuana dispensaries as a new law took effect. About 40 people lined up outside the medical pot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will issue on Thursday stricter curbs on ground-level ozone, the main component of smog, limiting the pollutant to 70 parts per billion, said sources familiar with the decision. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will tighten the national ozone standard from the current level of 75 ppb set under former President George W. Bush in 2008, a level industry groups argued was adequate and that
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Web surfing may not be as big a factor in teenage weight gain as how many excess pounds children are carrying around at the start of adolescence, a Swiss study suggests. “Nowadays Internet use is almost a necessity to survive in this world, as youths are asked to use this technology,” lead study author Yara Barrense-Dias of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
Eagle Top will defend the honour of British older horses when he lines up for the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday, as red-hot favourite Treve was eased to odds against with a number of firms on Thursday.
The Singapore Grand Prix is always a highlight on the race calendar.
Chris Froome says the frustration of breaking his foot at the Vuelta a Espana last month has given him renewed “hunger” for 2016.
Wayne Rooney will be presented with a golden boot by Sir Bobby Charlton before the European Qualifier against Estonia to mark his achievement of becoming England’s record scorer.
