World’s richest woman suggests $2 a day wages for Australian miners
By David Edwards Wednesday, September 5, 2012 9:35 EDT Topics: Australian miners ♦ Gina Rinehart ♦ mining in Australia The world’s most wealthy woman is...
Banks plan outside spending group to influence elections
By Alina SelyukhPosted 2012/09/05 at 4:54 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Sep. 5, 2012 (Reuters) — A major banking industry trade group is planning a foray into...
Consumer group sues FDA over Aricept safety
By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Associated Press – 38 mins ago TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A consumer group pressing the Food and Drug Administration to...
Briton who launched first web page in 1990 reiterates opposition to extending government control of internet
Tim Berners-Lee: the internet has no off switch Charles Arthur and agencies guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 September 2012 12.02 EDT Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the launch...
Jeremy Hunt under fire for stance on NHS tribute, homeopathy and abortion:” Leading scientists have also questioned Hunt’s suitability to be responsible for the NHS because he endorses homeopathy”
Labour claims health secretary's apparent attempt to exclude NHS scenes from Olympic ceremony shows lack of support Denis Campbell, health correspondent guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4...
Report: Liberian forests sold off in secret logging contracts
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 5, 2012 8:04 EDT Forty percent of Liberia’s forests have been sold off in secretive and often illegal contracts, Global...
Concern about plans to close unique Canadian environmental project
Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 202-872-6042 American Chemical Society The Canadian government's plans to discontinue in 2013 a unique environmental research project that has yielded insights...
Prenatal exposure to pesticide additive linked with childhood cough: piperonyl butoxide (PBO) used in pyrethroid pesticides
Contact: Timothy S. Paul tp2111@columbia.edu 212-305-2676 Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health Cough symptoms at age 5 and 6 appear to be unrelated to...
Hackers steal details of a MILLION Apple users… but why did the FBI have the information anyway?: Includes FBI’s response below in Post
Questions raised over why the FBI had the data, which is believed to include user names, device names and phone numbers Antisec group claims to...
Eurozone demands six-day work week for Greece, set the minimum daily rest to 11 hours
Eurozone demands six-day week for Greece Government in Athens under pressure to introduce a six-day working week as part of the terms for a second...
Paralyzed patients regain some sensory function after neural stem cell treatment
By Michelle Castillo StemCells' human neural stem cell (Credit: StemCells Inc.) (CBS News) For most people who are paralyzed, there is no treatment available...
Mass. judge approves sex-change for transgender prison inmate: Serving life in prison for murder
By Eric W. Dolan Tuesday, September 4, 2012 17:00 EDT A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday ordered the state’s Department of Correction to provide...
Former Navy SEAL’s book on Osama bin Laden raid contains classified info that may be dangerous insight into U.S. operations, Pentagon say
By Associated Press PUBLISHED:16:09 EST, 4 September 2012| UPDATED:16:54 EST, 4 September 2012 A former Navy SEAL's insider account of the raid that killed Osama...
Facebook has lost more than $50bn in share value – MORE than Lehman Brothers did in year before meltdown
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:20:23 EST, 4 September 2012| UPDATED:22:45 EST, 4 September 2012 The botched initial public stock offering of Facebook shares has seen...
Only 2 percent of child drug trials have independent safety checks
Repost from 2008 Contact: Dr. Helen Sammons helen.sammons@nottingham.ac.uk University of Nottingham Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported using independent safety monitoring committees...
Scientists successfully awaken sleeping stem cells: ” might be possible to turn on the eye’s own resources to regenerate damaged retinas, without the need for transplanting outside retinal tissue or stem cells,”
Contact: Patti Jacobs pjacobs12@comcast.net 617-868-0077 Schepens Eye Research Institute New hope for regenerating the human retina damaged by disease or injury Boston, MA—Scientists at Schepens...
What effect does melatonin have in colitis (IBD) ? ” bacterial translocation in postcolitis rats has been reversed by melatonin administration”
Contact: Jing Zhu wjg@wjgnet.com 0086-105-908-0039 World Journal of Gastroenterology In rats with experimental colitis, the marked increase in bacterial translocation in postcolitis rats has been...
Pneumococcal disease rates down significantly post-vaccine: But One of the non-vaccine strains, 19A showed an increase of 264%
Contact: Jim Sliwa jsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297 American Society for Microbiology Pneumococcal disease rates down significantly post-vaccine Since the approval of a vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria for...
Rodent study finds artificial butter chemical harmful to lungs: inhaled diacetyl vapors for three months, developed lymphocytic bronchiolitis
Contact: Robin Mackar rmackar@niehs.nih.gov 919-541-0073 NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences A new study shows that exposure to a chemical called diacetyl, a component of...
A cup of black tea could be the next line of defense in the threat of bio-terrorism according to international research
Contact: Professor Les Baillie bailliel@cf.ac.uk 029-208-75535 Cardiff University Is a cup of tea really the answer to everything -- even anthrax? A cup of black...