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By Joseph D’Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists on Friday welcomed Nigeria’s new law banning female genital mutilation (FGM), but warned that legislation alone will not be enough to eradicate the practice. According to 2014 U.N. data, a quarter of Nigerian women have undergone FGM — the partial or total removal of external genitalia which can cause physical and psychological problems. Although some of Nigeria’s 36 states already prohibit
A heart attack can kill you almost instantly, but it doesn’t rank among the most common causes of sudden death among younger guys. Here’s what does.
One dude leaks all.
A U.S. Navy SEAL hopeful and his friend were doing underwater drills in a pool just 3.5 feet deep. No one realized anything was wrong until their limp, unconscious bodies were noticed beneath the surface.
“Those who had a small taste of a desired food and then distracted themselves with a phone call or other task for 15 minutes felt satiated and didn’t feel the need to indulge more.”
The average workplace is riddled with weight gain triggers, regardless of whether you’re a fortune teller or a Fortune 500 CEO.
By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Economic growth helped the Asia-Pacific region to halve the proportion of those who have too little to eat to 12 percent of its population over the past 25 years, meeting one of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, U.N. officials said on Thursday. The target, one of eight international development goals set by the United Nations in 2000, was to halve the proportion
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has lost a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow generic versions of the company’s antipsychotic drug Abilify. At the end of April, the FDA approved applications to make Abilify by several generic drugmakers, including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, which immediately announced it would launch its own version. Otsuka sued the FDA in March saying it had an exclusive right to make
In an fascinating experiment, undercover investigators from the New York State Liquor Authority visited almost 1000 NYC stores in 2014 to test whether they would sell to underage buyers. Shockingly, not 10%, not a quarter, not half, but almost 60% of NYC stores sold to underage buyers.Take a minute to understand what that means – if you are…
(Reuters) – A Delaware jury on Thursday ordered Boston Scientific to pay $100 million to a woman who said she was injured by transvaginal mesh, a device that is the subject of more than 25,000 lawsuits against the company. Jurors awarded plaintiff Deborah Barba $25 million in compensatory damages, and an additional $75 million in punitive damages, according to a spokeswoman for law firm Motley Rice, which represented Barba. Boston
