Blog

Tuesday, March 24: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Gold began to rally the moment that trading began in New York at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening, but wasn’t allowed to get far—and by 10 a.m. Hong Kong time on their Monday morning, the gold price was back to unchanged.  It’s low tick, such as it was, came shortly before 9 a.m. in London—and from there the price chopped quietly higher in light trading, with

Oman Sultan returns in 'complete health' after treatment in Germany

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos returned home “in complete health” on Monday after an eight-month medical stay in Germany, state television reported, adding his treatment had been a success. Qaboos, 74, has been absolute ruler of the Arabian peninsula state since 1970, but his absence in Germany since July had led to growing concern about his health. Qaboos “returned to the soil of the dear nation this evening, blessed by God’s favor

A year after Ebola discovered, relapses seen in fight to end it

By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) – Lapses that fueled the Ebola outbreak after it was first discovered a year ago are dogging the final stages of the fight against the virus as fatigue and complacency set in, delaying the end of the deadly epidemic. Three doctors were discovered to be infected with Ebola at a hospital in Guinea’s capital Conakry last week in what health reports and government officials blamed

Tumors grown in dishes could help customize cancer treatment

Experiments conducted at an underground laboratory at Vanderbilt University could prove vital in the fight against cancer. Alex Walsh, a biomedical researcher, is using a laser to make what she calls organoids glow. The organoid is then dosed with a cocktail of cancer drugs and placed under a microscope at which point it is blasted with a laser. Measuring the variations in the intensity of the resulting fluorescence provides a