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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rising temperatures at the top of the world may be bad news for Arctic denizens like polar bears, but good news for the local mosquitoes, pesky bloodsuckers that prosper with warmer weather. Researchers said on Tuesday that increasing temperatures were enabling Arctic mosquitoes to grow more quickly and emerge sooner from their pupal stage, greatly expanding their numbers and menacing the caribou whose blood
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For primary school children in China, spending an extra 45 minutes per day outside in a school activity class may reduce the risk of nearsightedness, or “myopia,” according to a new study. In some parts of China, 90 percent of high school graduates have nearsightedness, and rates are lower but increasing in Europe and the Middle East, the authors write. “There were some studies
It’s raining–a hard, soaking rain. I have the windows open and the air is crisp and clean. I can actually smell the ferns hanging on my front porch. It smells like life right outside of my window, but I have just learned the details of a young boy’s death. It’s just past 11:00 a.m., and I’ve hung up the phone with tears in my eyes and a lump…
XenoPort Inc’s psoriasis drug showed high rates of gastrointestinal-related side effects, overshadowing its success in a mid-stage study. XenoPort should stop spending limited resources on a drug that, while active, appears to be inferior to the standard of care in psoriasis, Cowen & Co analyst Eric Schmidt wrote in a note. The drug’s profile compares poorly to Celegene Corp’s Otezla, which was approved last year for psoriasis, and Biogen Inc’s
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, an error which the main opposition quickly used to question whether Africa’s oldest leader was still of a sound mind. Mugabe, the only ruler the southern African nation has known since it was recognised in 1980, delivered the same speech he gave on Aug. 25, pinning his
By Jaqueline Burt for DETAILS.There’s no question that beer gets a bad rap when it comes to whether or not it’s good for you–in fact, you’ve probably just come to accept the fact that knocking back a pint or two is somehow derailing your general well-being. But while it’s true that a few too many six-packs can wreak havoc on your…
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, an error which the main opposition quickly used to question whether Africa’s oldest leader was still of a sound mind. Mugabe, the only ruler the southern African nation has known since it was recognised in 1980, delivered the same speech he gave on Aug. 25, pinning his
By Jaqueline Burt for DETAILS.There’s no question that beer gets a bad rap when it comes to whether or not it’s good for you–in fact, you’ve probably just come to accept the fact that knocking back a pint or two is somehow derailing your general well-being. But while it’s true that a few too many six-packs can wreak havoc on your…
Reynolds American Inc can no longer sell Camel Crush bold and three other types of cigarettes in the United States, because the company has not shown they carry no greater health risk than similar products on the market before Feb. 15, 2007, regulators said on Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration move comes three weeks after the agency told Reynolds and two of its rivals that they could not claim
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Electric Co said on Tuesday it will move 500 U.S. power turbine manufacturing jobs to Europe and China because it can no longer access U.S. Export-Import Bank financing after Congress allowed the agency’s charter to lapse in June. The largest U.S. industrial conglomerate said France’s COFACE export agency has agreed to support some of GE’s global power project bids with a new line
