The Heart Attack Risk Factor That Millions Deal With Every Night
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African campaigners urge end to 'scandal' of child marriage in a generation
By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It’s a scandal that any family in a continent as rich as Africa, with its vast oil and mineral wealth, should be so poor they feel forced to sell their daughter, the African Union’s (AU)goodwill ambassador on child marriage said. “It’s very painful when families say we have no choice, we’re so poor and that’s why we married off our daughter,” Nyaradzayi
FDA to cut trans fats from processed foods, gives three-year timetable
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of processed foods, from microwave popcorn to frozen pizza, saying they raise the risk of heart disease. Under new FDA regulations, partially hydrogenated oils, which have been shown to raise “bad” LDL cholesterol, will be considered food additives that cannot be used unless authorized by the FDA.
Commercial plane orders slow; jetmakers focus on backlog
By Tim Hepher and Andrea Shalal PARIS (Reuters) – The boom in commercial plane orders of recent years appears to be giving way to a more sustainable pace of demand at the 2015 Paris air show, with jetmakers increasingly focused on lifting production to meet their record backlog of sales. U.S. planemaker Boeing and European rival Airbus unveiled a steady stream of deals on Tuesday, day two of the aerospace
Trans fat is not safe and must be removed from food: US
Partially hydrogenated oils, known as artificial trans fats, are not safe to eat and must be removed from the food supply in the next three years, US regulators said Tuesday. Often found in margarine, frosting, cookies, crackers and frozen pizzas, partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) are not “generally recognized as safe” for use in human food, said the US Food and Drug Administration, finalizing the agency’s proposed ban on artificial trans
U.S. official suspects cyber attack occurred in 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management said on Tuesday that officials suspected a cyber attack that affected millions of employee records took place in 2014. “We suspect that it happened earlier, in 2014,” Katherine Archuleta testified at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Ramadan Fast Imposes Difficult Choice on Diabetic Muslims
Ramadan, which begins later this week, poses a unique problem for those who must eat regularly.
Are You a Super Recognizer? Test Tells If You’re One of Elite Few Who Never Forgets a Face
Never forget a face? There’s a chance you might be part of a tiny segment of the population known as “super recognizers.” A fun new test can tell you for sure.
German dies of complications from MERS infection
A 65-year-old German man died this month after contracting MERS during a trip to Abu Dhabi, in the first death linked to the virus in Europe this year, authorities said Tuesday. The man died in the western town of Ostercappeln on June 6 of an acute lung ailment that came as a complication from the MERS virus, the health ministry of Lower Saxony state said. German authorities said they had
Activists struggle in fight with Russian AIDS epidemic
Waiting with his rucksack full of clean syringes by a pharmacy in the Moscow suburbs, Maxim Malyshev is fighting a lonely battle on the frontline of Russia’s spiralling AIDS epidemic. Malyshev, along with about a dozen other volunteers from the Andrei Rylkov Foundation, run the only outreach programme for drug users in the country’s sprawling capital — handing out fresh needles, condoms and advice to help combat the spread of