World Health Organisation says has found new SARS-like virus
6:13pm EDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A new virus belonging to the same family as the SARS virus that killed 800 people in 2002 has been identified in…
German bishops get tough on Catholics who opt out of church tax
Fri, Sep 21 2012 By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters)- Germany's Roman Catholic bishops have decreed that people who opt out of a "church tax" should not be given…
Troika report on Greece could be delayed until US election: The Obama administration doesn’t want anything on a macroeconomic scale that is going to rock the global economy before November 6,”
An EU-IMF report on Greece's debt could be delayed until after November 6, EU officials and diplomats say. The EU politicians want to avoid any shock to the global economy…
Chinese miss Japan Open as diplomatic row rages
By Ossian Shine | Reuters – Tue, Sep 18, 2012 (Reuters) - China has withdrawn its badminton players from this week's Japan Open and a Japanese cycling team has been…
Insight: In India, gift-giving drives drug makers’ marketing: shower Indian doctors with gifts, posh junkets abroad, and cash payments disguised as consultancy or other types of fees
By Frederik JoelvingPosted 2012/09/17 at 7:20 am EDT MUMBAI, Sep. 17, 2012 (Reuters) — Sales representatives for Abbott Laboratories Inc's Indian subsidiaries know what it takes to get a doctor…
DEA shuts down shipments from Walgreen facility : Suspicion that highly addictive painkillers were being diverted to the black market.
Reuters – Fri, Sep 14, 2012 (Reuters) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said it shut down shipments of controlled substances from Walgreen Co's Florida distribution facility on the…
Exclusive: U.N. patents body roiled by misconduct feud: U.N. Selling Computers to Iran and North Korea
Exclusive: U.N. patents body roiled by misconduct feud By Emma FargePosted 2012/08/30 at 10:50 am EDT GENEVA, Aug. 30, 2012 (Reuters) — Four months after a U.N. agency's decision to…
Indian doctors illegally removed wombs from poor women: minister
RAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Doctors in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh performed hysterectomies on poor village women without a valid medical reason in order to claim money from a national…
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