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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday it was investigating laminates used by Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc, after reports that its products contained too-high levels of formaldehyde. Commission Chairman Elliot Kaye said the regulator would determine in the coming months whether the products were harmful to human health. He said the company had been cooperative so far with the agency’s probe. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson;
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Fighters are increasingly targeting water and sanitation facilities across the Middle East, exacerbating severe shortages for agriculture and households, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. Militants in Syria, Iraq and Gaza have also used access to water and electricity supplies as “tactical weapons or as bargaining chips,” the ICRC said in a report. “Heavy fighting and direct targeting have
The latest in a string of candidate vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus was proven safe in an early trial in healthy adults in China, its developers said Wednesday. Dubbed Ad5-EBOV, the vaccine is the first based on the strain of the Ebola virus behind the west African outbreak, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal. “Up to now, all tested Ebola virus vaccines have been based
Here’s what it really feels like to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
A large Mayo Clinic study has found that, when it comes to what causes Alzheimer’s Disease, researchers may have been barking up the wrong tree.
Sometimes, you need to lose that belly fat— now! Here’s how to make that happen.
Choupette stars in a calendar this year Millennials are well-known for their love of looking at pictures of cats on the Internet, but some luxury brands are beginning to take advantage of this and use the furry friends to market products. The best example of this is Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld’s white Birman cat, who became an Internet sensation after the designer adopted her from a friend in 2011, and who is
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Once again the gold price got sold down in Far East trading on their Tuesday morning, with the low tick, such as it was, coming somewhere during the Hong Kong lunch hour. The subsequent rally got capped at 11 a.m. GMT in London—and from there it sold off until shortly after the equity markets opened in New York. From that point gold rallied anew, before trading
Today the man who remarkably predicted the collapse of the euro against the Swiss franc warned King World News that worldwide markets are going to see total panic as the massive derivatives bubble implodes!
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