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- Sugary soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer: study (AFP)
AFP - People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar, a new study shows.
- Doctor: Kirchner recovers well from artery surgery (AP)
AP - Former President Nestor Kirchner is recovering well from emergency surgery on an important artery feeding blood to his brain, one of his doctors said Monday.
- Top 5 certifications that can gift you the CNA dream job
The nursing job field has the demand for an increased number of qualified nursing candidates. There is certain certification course available which would help to get that dream Certified Nursing Assistant or CNA job.
- Debate over blood samples from babies
A critical safety net for babies that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. is facing an ethics attack.
- Stem Cell Research Makes Another Advance (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they've
developed a new and easier way to create what's known as pluripotent stem
cells -- cells that can develop into one of many cell types for use in
regenerative medicine.
- Cleaning Agent Tied to Parkinson's in Study (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The industrial cleaner
trichloroethylene (TCE) has been linked to an increased risk of
Parkinson's disease, U.S. researchers say.
- AstraZeneca gets OK for expanded Crestor use (AP)
Federal regulators have granted AstraZeneca approval to market its cholesterol pill Crestor as a preventive measure against heart attack and stroke in patients with healthy cholesterol levels.
- Exclusive: Sebelius Says Obama Will 'Accelerate' Health Care Reform After Bipartisan Meeting
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday that President Obama is willing to "add various elements" to health care legislation suggested by Republican lawmakers during an upcoming bipartisan meeting on the topic. But he won't change the entire plan and he is "absolutely not" hitting the reset button on the legislative process, the former Kansas governor insisted.
In a brief interview with the Huffington Post following a speech to an audience of health care professionals, Sebelius said that the president views the bipartisan meeting as a needed pivot to move reform f
- For obese, vaccine needle size matters (Reuters)
Reuters - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic.
- Officials: TennCare cuts may close some hospitals
Health care officials say Gov. Phil Bredesen’s proposed cuts to the state’s expanded Medicaid program would cost state hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars and may force some of them to shut down.
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- Asian shares struggle, euro wins respite (Reuters)
Asian share markets struggled to hold firmer ground on Tuesday but won some respite from recent losses, while the euro rose tentatively as investors took a break from selling it off over fiscal concerns in the euro zone.
- Criminal probe is launched in Conn. plant blast (AP)
AP - Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn't rule out negligence.
- Chrysler pledges 0M to build Fiat 500 in Mexico (AP)
Chrysler Group LLC says it will invest 0 million to build the Fiat 500 minicar at its assembly plant near Mexico City.
- American Airlines Blankets Will Cost 8 DOLLARS
DALLAS — If you want a pillow and blanket in coach on American Airlines, it's going to cost you.
The airline will charge for a pillow and blanket in coach class for domestic trips and some international flights longer than two hours, beginning May 1. The international flights are to and from Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central America.
- Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook (AP)
AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.
- Boeing's 747-8 freighter makes first flight (AP)
Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter -- the biggest plane the company has ever built -- took off on its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.
- Credit-Card Protester Sticks It To Banks -- With Stickers
John Clinton Tuttle of Seattle, Wash. is waging guerrilla warfare against high interest rates and other depredations of the credit card industry. He's literally sticking it to 'em -- he's launched a campaign to encourage angry consumers to put bank-bashing stickers on ATMs.
"The credit card business is unethical," said Tuttle, 60, who told HuffPost he put 40 stickers on ATMs in Seattle last Thursday. The stickers say "Stand up to the rich bankers!" and direct ATM customers to Tuttle's website, www.creditcardrevolt.com, where he makes the case for five basic reforms for the credit card industr
- Citigroup CFO John Gerspach to Present at the 2010 Credit Suisse Financial Services Forum (Business Wire)
NEW YORK----John Gerspach, Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup, will present at the 2010 Credit Suisse Financial Services Forum on Thursday, February 11, 2010. The presentation is expected to begin at approximately 8:45 AM .
- Big banks are too big – and unproductive (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The American financial industry has become too big for its britches.
- Dow closes below 10,000 for first time in 3 months (AP)
The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months Monday on nagging concerns about debt loads in Europe.
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- Toyota recalls 437,000 Priuses, hybrids globally (AP)
Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems -- the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
- Bolivia expects 5,000 foreigners at climate forum (AP)
AP - Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change.
- Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract (AP)
AP - Google Inc. has lowered by 0 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network.
- Quake shakes southern Mexico, felt in capital (AP)
AP - A magnitude 5.7-earthquake has shaken southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast.
- ACLU accuses Calif. instructor of religion lessons (AP)
AP - An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
- Weather closes government offices a second day (Reuters)
Reuters - Federal government agencies in the capital region will remain closed for a second day on Tuesday as residents brace for another blizzard while trying to clean up from a weekend storm that paralyzed the area with two feet of snow.
- Boeing's 747-8 freighter completes first flight (AP)
- Haitians confront new threat: deadly spring rains (AP)
AP - Survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake have had one saving grace: There's been no significant rain since the disaster. But that won't last.
- Top 10 “Clean Energy” Topics to Keep an Eye On
Clean energy is one of the top topics in the world these days, in presidential speeches, economic growth plans and projections, international competition and cooperation, and even in Hollywood. We have seen rapid growth in wind power, rooftop solar, innovative financing, and much more recently.
Here is my list of the Top 10 “Clean Energy” Topics (some aren’t what I would consider the cleanest) to keep an eye on.
1. International Clean Energy Race
The “international clean energy race” may well determine who will lead the world economy in the future — “the nation that leads the clean energy
- Another major storm headed to snowy Mid-Atlantic (AP)
AP - A second major storm in less than a week was blowing Tuesday toward the Mid-Atlantic region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power and shovels were in short supply.
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