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Ghana doctors to extend strike for two weeks – union

ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s doctors unanimously agreed on Friday to extend their strike for two weeks while pressing government for a formal document to define their conditions of service, a senior leader for the Ghana Medical Association union told reporters. The strike, under which doctors refuse to see out-patients or admit new in-patients, is an early challenge to the government’s adherence to an International Monetary Fund programme designed to restore

Johnson Health Tech to pay US fine over exercise equipment defects

Johnson Health Tech agreed to pay a $3 million penalty for failing to report a defect with its Matrix Fitness Ascent Trainers and Elliptical Trainers that could spark fires and lead to potentially serious injury, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. In January 2014, Johnson Health Tech recalled the trainers, which had sold for $6,000 to $11,000 each, after it had received multiple reports of fires, smoking, sparking or melted

Kaspersky Lab tricked antivirus rivals into deleting harmless files on your PC

Are you ready for a tech story that reads as if it’s straight out of a Bond film? For more than 10 years, Kaspersky Lab has been manipulating rival antivirus companies into deleting or disabling harmless files on your PC. Two unnamed Reuters sources claim the Russian security software developer targeted Microsoft, AVG, Avast and other developers by reverse-engineering their virus detection software to figure out how to flag good

Volkswagen Recalls 420,000 Cars for Potentially Faulty Airbags

– Volkswagen is recalling 420,000 cars for driver’s-side front airbags that may not deploy in a crash, according to filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. – – Affected models include the 2010–2014 Volkswagen CC, Passat, and Tiguan; 2010–2013 Eos and Jetta; 2011-2014 Golf and GTI; and 2011–2013 Jetta SportWagen. The airbag clock spring, which consists of a spiraled cable that allows electrical components within the steering wheel to