Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur is Cuddly and New

Cheirogaleus lavasoensis, from southern Madagascar. Credit: Andreas Hapke

Look at this soft, fluffy bundle of newness. This little man is the Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis), a newly described species of dwarf lemur from southern Madagascar.

The first Lavasoa dwarf lemur was picked up during an expedition in the Lavasoa Mountains region of Madagascar in 2001, but ever since it?s been wrongly assigned to another dwarf lemur species. Now, a team led by Andreas Hapke from the Institute of Anthropology at Germany?s Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz?has published a genetic analysis of several species of dwarf lemur to confirm that there are six, not five, known species. Their analysis compared data from 40 dwarf lemur samples collected in 2005 with samples from 11 individuals caught in recent field expeditions. Hapke?s team caught the notoriously difficult to find dwarf lemurs by enticing them with bananas, then photographing, measuring and gently extracting tiny tissue samples before releasing them back home that night.

The Lavasoa dwarf lemur weighs no more than 300 g and stretches to around 54 cm, its tail contributing to half its total length. It has a pointed muzzle, big black rings around its eyes, and dark, rounded ears that perch neatly in a reddish golden coat. This fox-like colouring runs over its head and down its torso, gradually fading to grey. Its undersides are also grey, and look very soft and are practically begging for scritches. You can tell it likes scritches.

Hapke and his colleagues, Dana Thiele, also from the Johannes Gutenberg University, and Emilienne Razafimahatratra from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, report that the new species is restricted to three isolated forest fragments in the Lavasoa Mountains, which sit in the middle of where the island?s vegetation transitions from dry, spiny bush to thick, humid forest. They?ve estimated that less than 50 of these little primates remain in the wild.

Cheirogaleus lavasoensis in its natural habitat. Credit: Dana Thiele, Emilienne Razafimahatratra, Andreas Hapke

So now we have six species of dwarf lemur ? a genus larger than the mouse lemur but smaller than the gentle lemur. What makes them and the mouse lemurs so difficult to find is that they spend most of their time high up in the forest canopy, plus they?re nocturnal, plus they?re most active during the rainy season, which just happens to make their forests inaccessible to researchers. They?re also the only known primates to hibernate, so they?ll be hidden for up to seven months per year.

Dwarf lemur hibernation was first reported in the Lavasoa dwarf lemur?s closest relative, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur (C. medius) from western Madagascar. In 1999, researchers from the University of Hohenheim in Germany described in Oecologia how over a period of two or three weeks every year, these primates would fatten themselves up on a diet of 80% sugary fruits and nectars while avoiding any calorie-burning activity. Sometimes they?d end up doubling their entire body mass in this short period, which helped them to hibernate their way through the cold and lean Madagascan dry season that runs from the end of April to October.

The top layer of soil is removed to reveal a sleepy, underground dwarf lemur. Credit: Marina Blanco et al.

Just like chipmunks, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur hibernates in the holes of trees, but two other species of dwarf lemur prefer to hibernate in the ground. Earlier this year, a team led by biological anthropologist Marina Blanco from Duke University in North Carolina reported in Scientific Reports that the newly rediscovered Sibree?s dwarf lemur (C. sibreei)?and Crossley?s dwarf lemur (C. crossleyi) from the high-altitude forests of central and eastern Madagascar?dig into the soft humus and leaf litter on the forest floor to create a shallow burrow. Here they?ll hibernate for three to six months during the dry season underneath a warm layer of soil.

It?s not yet known whether the Lavasoa dwarf lemur hibernates, but judging from the behaviour of its relatives, it?s a pretty good bet that it does.

And here?s a video of baby fat-tailed dwarf lemur triplets managing to look both sleepy and super-wired all at once:

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ACC Challenges New Mexico In-House Counsel Rules

The New Mexico Supreme Court shouldn?t be gambling with a legal client?s services, said the Association of Corporate Counsel in a comment letter [PDF] sent to Chief Justice Petra Jimenez Maes last week.

The letter urges the court to pass new rules removing restrictive bar admission standards for experienced lawyers from outside the state, if the other state reciprocates. But the letter goes further than the proposed rules, arguing for an end to reciprocity requirements.

The letter commends the proposal for looking ?beyond state borders. But requiring reciprocity is a step in the wrong direction.?

The current proposal ?would effectively subject clients? needs to a roulette wheel of reciprocity, with everything riding on where the lawyer?s license happens to come from,? the letter states.

ACC advocates nationally to authorize the cross-border practice of competent lawyers who are in good standing in their home jurisdictions. The issue is especially important to in-house counsel whose corporate businesses increasingly cross state and national boundaries.

Amar Sarwal, ACC?s vice president and chief legal strategist, issued a statement criticizing the current New Mexico rules.

?Requiring experienced lawyers from other states to retake the bar exam in order to practice in New Mexico privileges the parochial interests of local lawyers, rather than those of the clients they ostensibly serve,? Sarwal said.

?In fact, the proposal's reciprocity requirement also needlessly benefits lawyers alone, while depriving clients of their experienced counsel of choice,? he added.

Currently in New Mexico, unlike a majority of U.S. jurisdictions, attorneys cannot gain admission to practice law by motion or under any form of reciprocity with other states. Likewise, New Mexico attorneys applying in other states are not allowed similar access to admission without passing the bar exam.

?Choice of counsel of clients and prospective clients is unnecessarily restricted,? states the New Mexico proposal [PDF]. ?The reality of transboundary law practice is not served by New Mexico?s lack of admission by motion.?

The proposal goes on to state that requiring all out-of-state attorneys to sit for the bar exam is ?a relic and outdated.?

But the ACC letter contends that reciprocity doesn?t fix the problem. ?Instead, reciprocity subjects the needs of clients to the whims of state-to-state diplomacy. A more open admission system serves clients better,? it says.

The letter was signed by Sarwal, and by ACC senior counsel Evan Schultz, who is also the group?s director of advocacy.

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Ex-Penn St. prez: I didn't jump to conclusions

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Penn State's former president told investigators that he knew better than to jump to conclusions that Jerry Sandusky's "horsing around" in a university shower naked with a boy could have been sexual in nature.

Graham Spanier made the comment during April 2011 grand jury testimony that was read aloud for the first time in a Harrisburg courtroom Tuesday.

The hearing for Spanier and two other former university officials is to decide whether there's enough evidence to warrant a trial on the charges against them in the child-sex abuse scandal.

Prosecutors say the defendants failed to tell police about a sex-abuse allegation against Sandusky in 2001. But the defendants say they weren't told that Sandusky was molesting the boy.

Police also investigated complaints about Sandusky showering with boys in 1998, but Spanier says he knew nothing about that.

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Wave of car bombings target Iraqi Shi'ites, killing 60

By Kareem Raheem

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs ripped through busy streets and markets in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite areas in some of the deadliest violence since Sunni insurgents stepped up attacks this year.

The 17 blasts, which appeared to be coordinated, were concentrated on towns and cities in Iraq's mainly Shi'ite south, and districts of the capital where Shi'ites live.

Militant groups including al Qaeda have increased attacks in recent months in an insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government as a civil war in neighboring Syria heightens sectarian tensions.

The violence has raised fears of a return to full-blown intercommunal conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds, majority Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable way of sharing power.

In Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr city, police and witnesses said a minivan drew up to a group of men waiting by the side of the road for day work, and the driver told them to get in before detonating an explosive device in the vehicle.

"The driver asked laborers to get into the van, then he disappeared and minutes later the truck exploded, flinging the laborers' bodies back," said Yahya Ali, a worker who was standing nearby.

"Somebody tell me please why poor laborers are targeted? They want only to take food to their families!"

Monday's attacks underscore deteriorating security in Iraq, where nearly 4,000 people have been killed since the start of the year, said violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count. In July, more than 810 people were killed in militant attacks.

SECTARIAN STRIFE

"I am deeply concerned about the heightened level of violence which carries the danger that the country falls back into sectarian strife," said acting United Nations envoy to Iraq, Gyorgy Busztin.

"Iraq is bleeding from random violence, which sadly reached record heights during the holy month of Ramadan."

At least 10 people were killed when two car bombs blew up near a bus station in the city of Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of the capital, police said.

Four more were killed in a blast in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, and two bombs in Samawa, further south, killed two.

The rest of the bombings took place across Baghdad, in the districts of Habibiya, Hurriya, Bayaa, Ur, Shurta, Kadhimiya, Risala, Tobchi and Abu Dsheer.

An assault on Abu Ghraib prison last week raised questions about the ability of Iraq's security services to combat al Qaeda, which has been regrouping and striking with a ferocity not seen in years.

"Today's attacks are closely linked with the Taji and Abu Ghraib prison breaks, which have encouraged terrorist groups to launch further attacks in areas of a specific sect to put more pressure on the government and undermine security force morale", Hakim Al-Zamili, a senior member of the security and defense committee in parliament, told Reuters.

Insurgents have been recruiting from the country's Sunni minority, which increasingly resents Shi'ite domination since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, in 2003.

The Syrian conflict has drawn Shi'ites and Sunnis from Iraq and beyond into battle against each other.

On Monday, a roadside bomb killed a senior police officer, his aide and two guards when it hit their convoy near Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of the capital, and five roadside bombs targeted a police patrol in Baghdad's Palestine Street.

(Reporting by Kareem Raheem in Baghdad, Aref Mohammed in Basra, Jaafar al-Taie in Kut and Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)

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Arctic Methane Claims Questioned

A scientific controversy erupted this week over claims that methane trapped beneath the Arctic Ocean could suddenly escape, releasing huge quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas, in coming decades, with a huge cost to the global economy.

The issue being debated is this: Could the Arctic seafloor really fart out 50 billion tons of methane in the next few decades? In a commentary published in the journal Nature on Wednesday (July 24), researchers predicted that the rapid shrinking of Arctic sea ice would warm the Arctic Ocean, thawing permafrost beneath the East Siberian Sea and releasing methane gas trapped in the sediments. The big methane belch would come with a $60 trillion price tag, due to intensified global warming from the added methane in the atmosphere, the authors said.

But climate scientists and experts on methane hydrates, the compound that contains the methane, quickly shot down the methane-release scenario.

"The paper says that their scenario is 'likely.' I strongly disagree," said Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

An unlikely scenario

One line of evidence Schmidt cites comes from ice core records, which include two warm Arctic periods that occurred 8,000 and 125,000 years ago, he said. There is strong evidence that summer sea ice was?reduced during these periods, and so the methane-release mechanism?(reduced sea ice causes sea floor?warming and hydrate melting) could have happened then, too. But there's no methane pulse in ice cores from either warm period, Schmidt said. "It might be a small thing that we can't detect, but if it was large enough to have a big climate impact, we would see it," Schmidt told LiveScience.

David Archer, a climate scientist at the University of Chicago, said no one has yet proposed a mechanism to quickly release large quantities of methane gas from seafloor sediments into the atmosphere. "It has to be released within a few years to have much impact on climate, but the mechanisms for release operate on time scales of centuries and longer," Archer said in an email interview.

Methane has a lifetime of about 10 years in the atmosphere before it starts breaking down into other compounds. [What are Greenhouse Gases?]

Defending new model

Today (July 26), Peter Wadhams, a co-author of the Nature commentary, defended the work against critics in an essay posted online.

"The mechanism which is causing the observed mass of rising methane plumes in the East Siberian Sea is itself unprecedented, and the scientists who dismissed the idea of extensive methane release in earlier research were simply not aware of the new mechanism that is causing it," wrote Wadhams, an oceanographer at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

"But once the ice disappears, as it has done, the temperature of the water can rise significantly, and the heat content reaching the seabed can melt the frozen sediments at a rate that was never before possible," Wadhams added. "David Archer's 2010 comment that 'so far no one has seen or proposed a mechanism to make that (a catastrophic methane release) happen' was not informed by the ... mechanism described above. Carolyn Ruppel's review of 2011 equally does not reflect awareness of this new mechanism," Wadhams wrote.

But Ruppel, a methane hydrate expert at the U.S. Geological Survey who authored a review of research on gas hydrates in 2011, also called the sudden-thawing scenario unrealistic.

"I would say it's nearly impossible," Ruppel, chief of the USGS Gas Hydrates Project in Woods Holes, Mass., told LiveScience.

Methane: microbial or hydrate?

Much of the Arctic's methane sits in permafrost buried under hundreds of meters of seafloor sediments, Ruppel said. The deposits formed on exposed ground during the last Ice Age, when sea levels were lower. The rising seas have been warming the deposits for millennia. Any added warming will have to work down through the thick sediment cap.

Much of the modeling predictions in the Nature commentary were based on recent discoveries of rising methane plumes in the East Siberian Sea. However, those plumes may be from methane hydrates or from microbes.

"Methane release in the Arctic from both marine and terrestrial sources is expected to increase with warming climate, as documented in numerous papers," Ruppel said. "Much of the methane may actually be produced in the shallow sediments by microbial processes and be completely unrelated to methane hydrates." ? ?

However, there has yet to be a detectable change in Arctic methane emissions in the atmosphere over the past two decades, Ed Dlugokencky, a research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory, said in an email interview.

Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin. Follow us @livescience, Facebook?& Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.

Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Florida lawmakers stand by self-defense laws

Current state lawmakers who voted for "stand your ground" outnumber those who opposed it by a 4-1 margin.
Republicans who approved it are unapologetic. Not one would repeal it now.
"It's never come up on the campaign trail, pro or con," said former Sen. Victor Crist, R Tampa, who now serves as a Hillsborough County commissioner. "The firearm abolitionists are stirring the pot, using 'stand your ground' as a platform to eliminate guns."

Read the article: The Miami Herald

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Fox Show&quot; during the NBC sessions at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California" border="0" /></a>By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Michael J. Fox said he aimed to bring laughs and a dose of reality about day-to-day living with Parkinson&#039;s disease to a new NBC comedy loosely based on his life, his first lead role in a television show in 13 years. In the upcoming &quot;The Michael J. Fox Show,&quot; the actor plays a father with Parkinson&#039;s who returns to work as a local newscaster on an NBC TV station in New York. To his surprise, his fictional family reacts with relief that he will be getting out of the house. ...</p><br clear="all"/>DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi man has died of the coronavirus Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the Saudi Health Ministry said on Saturday, raising to 39 the number of deaths from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom where it first emerged last year. "The Ministry of Health has announced the death of one case, who had been previously announced to be infected with this virus in Asir, may Allah have mercy upon him," the ministry said in a statement. ...http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-man-dies-kingdom-mers-coronavirus-health-ministry-203546282.htmlSat, 27 Jul 2013 16:35:46 -0400Reuterssaudi-man-dies-kingdom-mers-coronavirus-health-ministry-203546282BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 18 more people have been detained in China in connection with a corruption scandal involving British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, state media reported, giving more details on an investigation that has rocked the company. China's state radio reported late on Friday on its website that police in the central city of Zhengzhou had "recently held, in accordance with the law, 18 GlaxoSmithKline (China) employees and some medical personnel". It provided no details of the detentions nor say exactly when they happened. ...http://news.yahoo.com/china-state-media-says-18-more-detained-gsk-092523017.htmlSat, 27 Jul 2013 07:21:00 -0400Reuterschina-state-media-says-18-more-detained-gsk-092523017<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/famed-hacker-barnaby-jack-dies-week-hacking-convention-003721970.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/6U.lIlIvC1G58s94WmZrlQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-27T042652Z_3_CBRE96Q01QF00_RTROPTP_2_HACKER-DEATH.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Barnaby Jack, 35, is pictured in this handout photo" align="left" title="Barnaby Jack, 35, is pictured in this handout photo" border="0" /></a>By Jim Finkle (Reuters) - Barnaby Jack, a celebrated computer hacker who forced bank ATMs to spit out cash and sparked safety improvements in medical devices, died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to make a high-profile presentation at a hacking conference. The New Zealand-born Jack, 35, was found dead on Thursday evening by &quot;a loved one&quot; at an apartment in San Francisco&#039;s Nob Hill neighborhood, according to a police spokesman. He would not say what caused Jack&#039;s death but said police had ruled out foul play. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/famed-hacker-barnaby-jack-dies-week-hacking-convention-003721970.htmlSat, 27 Jul 2013 00:26:52 -0400Reutersfamed-hacker-barnaby-jack-dies-week-hacking-convention-003721970<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/famed-hacker-barnaby-jack-dies-week-hacking-convention-003721970.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/6U.lIlIvC1G58s94WmZrlQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-27T042652Z_3_CBRE96Q01QF00_RTROPTP_2_HACKER-DEATH.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Barnaby Jack, 35, is pictured in this handout photo" align="left" title="Barnaby Jack, 35, is pictured in this handout photo" border="0" /></a>By Jim Finkle (Reuters) - Barnaby Jack, a celebrated computer hacker who forced bank ATMs to spit out cash and sparked safety improvements in medical devices, died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to make a high-profile presentation at a hacking conference. The New Zealand-born Jack, 35, was found dead on Thursday evening by &quot;a loved one&quot; at an apartment in San Francisco&#039;s Nob Hill neighborhood, according to a police spokesman. He would not say what caused Jack&#039;s death but said police had ruled out foul play. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/judge-delays-conservatorship-ruling-actress-amanda-bynes-231310602.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/M9uas6eSgkSkGMw1B0ZB3Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T231310Z_1_CBRE96P1SIJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Actress Amanda Bynes arrives for a court hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York" align="left" title="Actress Amanda Bynes arrives for a court hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York" border="0" /></a>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge in Southern California on Friday has postponed ruling on whether the parents of troubled actress Amanda Bynes should be granted legal control over the former teenage star&#039;s affairs. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Glen Reiser pushed back the hearing to August 9 because Bynes, 27, is under court-ordered psychiatric care for the next two weeks, according to a court official. Her parents have asked the court to grant them conservatorship after Bynes allegedly started a small fire in the driveway of a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks on Monday. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/judge-delays-conservatorship-ruling-actress-amanda-bynes-231310602.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 19:13:10 -0400Reutersjudge-delays-conservatorship-ruling-actress-amanda-bynes-231310602<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/judge-delays-conservatorship-ruling-actress-amanda-bynes-231310602.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/M9uas6eSgkSkGMw1B0ZB3Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T231310Z_1_CBRE96P1SIJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Actress Amanda Bynes arrives for a court hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York" align="left" title="Actress Amanda Bynes arrives for a court hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York" border="0" /></a>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge in Southern California on Friday has postponed ruling on whether the parents of troubled actress Amanda Bynes should be granted legal control over the former teenage star&#039;s affairs. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Glen Reiser pushed back the hearing to August 9 because Bynes, 27, is under court-ordered psychiatric care for the next two weeks, according to a court official. Her parents have asked the court to grant them conservatorship after Bynes allegedly started a small fire in the driveway of a home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks on Monday. ...</p><br clear="all"/>By Toni Clarke (Reuters) - A vitamin B dietary supplement called B-50 contains two anabolic steroids and has been cited as causing unusual hair growth in women and impotence in men, U.S. health regulators said on Friday, warning consumers to avoid the product. The product, sold by Healthy Life Chemistry By Purity First, contains the steroids methasterone and dimethazine, both of which are potentially dangerous. The ingredients are not listed on the label and should not be in a dietary supplement, the Food and Drug Administration said. ...http://news.yahoo.com/fda-warns-vitamin-supplement-containing-steroids-cites-risks-230608083.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 19:06:08 -0400Reutersfda-warns-vitamin-supplement-containing-steroids-cites-risks-230608083Texas authorities say the woman and her daughters were also operating without a medical license. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/mom-accused-injecting-patients-toxic-chemicals-19760926Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:18:34 -0400ABC NewsHealth/video/mom-accused-injecting-patients-toxic-chemicals-19760926(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday said it would temporarily ban new home health providers and ambulance suppliers from enrolling in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in three areas of the country, citing the risk of fraud. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said the bans will apply to home health agencies in the Miami, Florida and Chicago, Illinois metropolitan areas as well as ambulance suppliers in the Houston, Texas area. ...http://news.yahoo.com/u-bans-home-health-ambulance-providers-three-regions-220640814.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 18:07:21 -0400Reutersu-bans-home-health-ambulance-providers-three-regions-220640814By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Victims in Tennessee of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak won the right to pursue a new avenue of litigation against healthcare facilities and doctors there, after a ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge this week. Tennessee was the second hardest-hit state, behind Michigan, in a meningitis outbreak that has injured or killed more than 700 people nationwide. There were about 65 healthcare facilities and doctors in Tennessee on the customer list of New England Compounding Center, which U.S. ...http://news.yahoo.com/tennessee-victims-u-meningitis-outbreak-win-avenue-lawsuits-213607177.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 17:36:07 -0400Reuterstennessee-victims-u-meningitis-outbreak-win-avenue-lawsuits-213607177The parasite has sickened 315 people in 15 states. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/07/26/stomach-bug-spreads-to-15-states/Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:05:51 -0400ABC Newsblogs/health/2013/07/26/stomach-bug-spreads-to-15-states/<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fda-issues-rules-targeting-improved-food-safety-imports-153039516.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/34ySlBFtM0ug_rGQh912GA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T204245Z_2_CBRE96P1F1900_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-PHARMACEUTICALS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) logo at its headquarters in Silver Spring" align="left" title="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) logo at its headquarters in Silver Spring" border="0" /></a>By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed rules on Friday that would require food companies to verify that the products they import meet certain safety standards. The rules are the latest in a series proposed under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was signed in 2011 and represents the most sweeping food safety reform in more than 70 years. More than 3,000 people in the United States die each year from food-borne illnesses, according to federal data. One in six are sickened and 100,000 hospitalized from illness tied to pathogens such as salmonella, E. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/fda-issues-rules-targeting-improved-food-safety-imports-153039516.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 16:42:45 -0400Reutersfda-issues-rules-targeting-improved-food-safety-imports-153039516<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fda-issues-rules-targeting-improved-food-safety-imports-153039516.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/34ySlBFtM0ug_rGQh912GA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T204245Z_2_CBRE96P1F1900_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-PHARMACEUTICALS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) logo at its headquarters in Silver Spring" align="left" title="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) logo at its headquarters in Silver Spring" border="0" /></a>By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed rules on Friday that would require food companies to verify that the products they import meet certain safety standards. The rules are the latest in a series proposed under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was signed in 2011 and represents the most sweeping food safety reform in more than 70 years. More than 3,000 people in the United States die each year from food-borne illnesses, according to federal data. One in six are sickened and 100,000 hospitalized from illness tied to pathogens such as salmonella, E. ...</p><br clear="all"/>Ikarians have low rates of heart disease and cancer, and plenty of sex. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/Health/slideshow/photos-greek-isle-residents-live-decade-longer-americans-19784159Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:40:49 -0400ABC NewsHealth/slideshow/photos-greek-isle-residents-live-decade-longer-americans-19784159By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After kidney transplants, the risk of death over the next year falls just as much among obese kidney failure patients as it does for thinner people, says a new study. Researchers found that the risk of an obese person dying during the year after a kidney transplant dropped about 66 percent, compared to obese people who remained on dialysis. That's equal to the benefit thinner people get from a transplant. "This is good and important news with the changing environment and increasing regulation of transplantation. ...http://news.yahoo.com/transplants-may-benefit-obese-kidney-patients-203435490.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 16:34:35 -0400Reuterstransplants-may-benefit-obese-kidney-patients-203435490By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and pressure ulcers may heal faster when they are cleaned out frequently, a new study suggests. So-called debridement involves removing dead or infected tissue and any foreign bodies or bacteria from slow-healing wounds, such as with a scalpel or special cream. It's traditionally performed when a patient first comes in with a wound, said Dr. Robert Kirsner, a dermatologist and wound researcher from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. ...http://news.yahoo.com/regular-wound-cleaning-tied-faster-healing-200920625.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 16:09:20 -0400Reutersregular-wound-cleaning-tied-faster-healing-200920625Two New York City hospitals are getting serious about childhood obesity by writing prescriptions for fruits and vegetables. But they?re not the only ones addressing the weighty problem in innovative ways.http://news.yahoo.com/hospitals-health-nannies-prescriptions-fruits-other-unusual-ways-200008045.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 16:00:08 -0400Time.comhospitals-health-nannies-prescriptions-fruits-other-unusual-ways-200008045Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If current trends continue, the number of Americans who experience a dangerous irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation will more than double in the next 16 years, according to a new study. In 2010, some five million U.S. adults had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, or AF, but the study projects about 12 million cases by the year 2030. That's a best guess, said study coauthor Dr. ...http://news.yahoo.com/americans-irregular-heartbeats-double-study-193155554.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 15:31:55 -0400Reutersamericans-irregular-heartbeats-double-study-193155554By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Pennsylvania cabinet maker's religion-based challenge to the 2010 healthcare law's requirement that larger companies provide workers with health insurance covering birth control. The decision created a split among federal appeals courts, boosting the chance that the U.S. Supreme Court may step in to resolve the dispute over challenges to the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 3rd U.S. ...http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-rejects-firms-challenge-obamacare-contraception-mandate-193059507.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 15:30:59 -0400Reutersu-court-rejects-firms-challenge-obamacare-contraception-mandate-193059507By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Farmers who used weedkillers were more than twice as likely to be treated for depression than farmers who didn't use the chemicals in a new study from France. Whether the weedkillers are causing depression "is not clear," said Marc Weisskopf, the study's lead author and an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "But (the result) suggests we should not be ignoring herbicides just because they're targeting plants. ...http://news.yahoo.com/weedkillers-tied-depression-farmers-193011410.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 15:30:11 -0400Reutersweedkillers-tied-depression-farmers-193011410<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-china-pays-over-odds-medicines-145509651.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vCmWwbWLYkXzAcKqMTwz7w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T145509Z_1_CBRE96P15G100_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-MULTINATIONALS-CRACKDOWN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A flag bearing the logo of GlaxoSmithKline flutters next to a Chinese national flag outside a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai" align="left" title="A flag bearing the logo of GlaxoSmithKline flutters next to a Chinese national flag outside a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai" border="0" /></a>By Ben Hirschler, Ransdell Pierson and Kazunori Takada (Reuters) - China has a drug problem. While most Western countries spend 10-12 percent of their healthcare budget on medicines, in China it is well over 40 percent, a disparity that goes to the heart of Beijing&#039;s crackdown on the industry. A promise this week by GlaxoSmithKline to make its drugs more affordable in China in the wake of a bribery scandal is an important lever Chinese authorities may now use to start redressing the balance. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/why-china-pays-over-odds-medicines-145509651.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 14:37:32 -0400Reuterswhy-china-pays-over-odds-medicines-145509651<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/why-china-pays-over-odds-medicines-145509651.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vCmWwbWLYkXzAcKqMTwz7w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T145509Z_1_CBRE96P15G100_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-MULTINATIONALS-CRACKDOWN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A flag bearing the logo of GlaxoSmithKline flutters next to a Chinese national flag outside a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai" align="left" title="A flag bearing the logo of GlaxoSmithKline flutters next to a Chinese national flag outside a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai" border="0" /></a>By Ben Hirschler, Ransdell Pierson and Kazunori Takada (Reuters) - China has a drug problem. While most Western countries spend 10-12 percent of their healthcare budget on medicines, in China it is well over 40 percent, a disparity that goes to the heart of Beijing&#039;s crackdown on the industry. A promise this week by GlaxoSmithKline to make its drugs more affordable in China in the wake of a bribery scandal is an important lever Chinese authorities may now use to start redressing the balance. ...</p><br clear="all"/>By Diane Bartz and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' $4 billion-a-year multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone will lose its patent protection in 2014 rather than 2015 because of a ruling from a U.S. appeals court on Friday, making it potentially prey to cheaper generics next May. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in a patent fight that pits Teva against two teams developing cheaper generic forms of Copaxone: one with Novartis AG and Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc and another between Mylan Inc and Natco Pharma Ltd. ...http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-permits-generic-version-teva-ms-drug-172330030.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 14:20:18 -0400Reutersu-court-permits-generic-version-teva-ms-drug-172330030By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A convicted Ohio killer who sought to be spared the death penalty because he was obese died Thursday at a Columbus hospital of natural causes, an Ohio prison spokeswoman said. Ronald Post, 53, who weighed more than 450 pounds, had been scheduled to be executed by lethal injection last January for the aggravated murder in 1983 of motel desk clerk Helen Vantz during a robbery. The execution was commuted to life in prison by Ohio Governor John Kasich last December, following a recommendation by a parole board panel. ...http://news.yahoo.com/obese-former-death-row-inmate-dies-ohio-172546336.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 13:25:46 -0400Reutersobese-former-death-row-inmate-dies-ohio-172546336Lulu Alvarado suffered ten months of migraines. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/07/26/cheerleaders-migraines-relieved-through-implanted-device/Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:24:21 -0400ABC Newsblogs/health/2013/07/26/cheerleaders-migraines-relieved-through-implanted-device/Lulu Alvarado suffered ten months of migraines. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/07/26/cheerleaders-migraines-relieved-through-implanted-device/Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:24:21 -0400ABC Newsblogs/health/2013/07/26/cheerleaders-migraines-relieved-through-implanted-device/<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fighting-tooth-claw-wolverine-examining-healing-power-x-160100218.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZHdCYz7gC.hmSLM8WF6Wmw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ScientificAmerican/Wolverine-SCIAM-Zehr-Figs.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Fighting Tooth and Claw with Wolverine Examining the Healing Power of an X-Man" align="left" title="Fighting Tooth and Claw with Wolverine Examining the Healing Power of an X-Man" border="0" /></a>Fighting Tooth and Claw with Wolverine Examining the Healing Power of an X-Man</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/fighting-tooth-claw-wolverine-examining-healing-power-x-160100218.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 12:01:00 -0400Scientific Americanfighting-tooth-claw-wolverine-examining-healing-power-x-160100218<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fighting-tooth-claw-wolverine-examining-healing-power-x-160100218.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZHdCYz7gC.hmSLM8WF6Wmw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ScientificAmerican/Wolverine-SCIAM-Zehr-Figs.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Fighting Tooth and Claw with Wolverine Examining the Healing Power of an X-Man" align="left" title="Fighting Tooth and Claw with Wolverine Examining the Healing Power of an X-Man" border="0" /></a>Fighting Tooth and Claw with Wolverine Examining the Healing Power of an X-Man</p><br clear="all"/>The proposed guidelines follow outbreaks linked to produce and cheese. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-proposes-rules-safer-imported-foods-19780363Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:04:14 -0400ABC NewsHealth/wireStory/fda-proposes-rules-safer-imported-foods-19780363LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis won an important endorsement of its new inhaled medicine for chronic lung disease on Friday when European regulators recommended approval of Ultibro Breezhaler. Also known as QVA149, the once-daily medicine belongs to a new type of dual-action treatments that are expected by analysts to become major sellers and is the first in the class to win such a green light. The green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) paves the way for full marketing authorization in the next two or three months. Approval in the key U.S. ...http://news.yahoo.com/eu-regulators-back-novartis-inhaler-gilead-hiv-drug-115130901.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 10:50:46 -0400Reuterseu-regulators-back-novartis-inhaler-gilead-hiv-drug-115130901L.A. County health officials have closed Table Mountain Campgrounds for at least a week. ? ? ? ?http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/plague-infected-squirrel-closes-campground-19780801Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:59:37 -0400ABC NewsHealth/video/plague-infected-squirrel-closes-campground-19780801(Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration said it would limit the use of Johnson & Johnson's antifungal medicine, Nizoral tablets, warning that it may cause severe liver injuries and adrenal gland problems, and lead to harmful drug interactions. The agency said it approved changes to the drug's label to address the new safety issues. As a result, Nizoral oral tablets should not be the initial treatment for any fungal infection. ...http://news.yahoo.com/fda-limits-j-js-nizoral-antifungal-drug-safety-133547577.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 09:35:47 -0400Reutersfda-limits-j-js-nizoral-antifungal-drug-safety-133547577(Reuters) - At least 285 people in 11 states have been sickened by a parasitic infection commonly linked to fresh produce, and the exact cause of the outbreak has yet to be pinpointed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Most of the cyclospora infections have been clustered in the Midwest, with 138 cases reported in Iowa and 70 in neighboring Nebraska. The remainder have been identified in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, New Jersey and Ohio. ...http://news.yahoo.com/stomach-bug-linked-produce-sickens-285-people-11-132017385.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 09:20:17 -0400Reutersstomach-bug-linked-produce-sickens-285-people-11-132017385<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/greek-myths-human-origins-114500434.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vUUm38aGvvn5nTKqjVGsJQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ScientificAmerican/Sci_Am_Sub_Natural_Reason_Prometheus.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Greek Myths about Human Origins" align="left" title="Greek Myths about Human Origins" border="0" /></a>Greek Myths about Human Origins</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/greek-myths-human-origins-114500434.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 07:45:00 -0400Scientific Americangreek-myths-human-origins-114500434<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/greek-myths-human-origins-114500434.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vUUm38aGvvn5nTKqjVGsJQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ScientificAmerican/Sci_Am_Sub_Natural_Reason_Prometheus.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Greek Myths about Human Origins" align="left" title="Greek Myths about Human Origins" border="0" /></a>Greek Myths about Human Origins</p><br clear="all"/>By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nahla Kayali is a foot soldier for Obamacare. She is among the first wave of 2,000 community organizers in California getting trained to persuade more than 1 million uninsured people in the state to sign up for subsidized health coverage under President Barack Obama's reform law. Kayali and her cohorts begin their mission next month, armed with flyers, pamphlets and a small army of volunteers who speak 13 languages. ...http://news.yahoo.com/obamacares-foot-soldiers-train-enroll-masses-110615788.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 07:06:15 -0400Reutersobamacares-foot-soldiers-train-enroll-masses-110615788<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nih-begins-gene-therapy-trial-parkinson-disease-100000077.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dY0neqkvBI9r6c.Nn59UOA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ScientificAmerican/3662432706_53d21bbd48_q.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="NIH Begins Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson s Disease" align="left" title="NIH Begins Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson s Disease" border="0" /></a>NIH Begins Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson s Disease</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/nih-begins-gene-therapy-trial-parkinson-disease-100000077.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 06:00:00 -0400Scientific Americannih-begins-gene-therapy-trial-parkinson-disease-100000077<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nih-begins-gene-therapy-trial-parkinson-disease-100000077.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dY0neqkvBI9r6c.Nn59UOA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ScientificAmerican/3662432706_53d21bbd48_q.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="NIH Begins Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson s Disease" align="left" title="NIH Begins Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson s Disease" border="0" /></a>NIH Begins Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson s Disease</p><br clear="all"/>LONDON (Reuters) - European drugs regulators have found no new safety concerns with diabetes drugs known as GLP-1 and DPP-4 therapies after concluding a safety review of possible links to damage to the pancreas. The class of drugs - known as glucagon-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists and dipeptidylpeptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors - includes Merck's $4 billion-a-year Januvia franchise, Novo Nordisk's Victoza, and Byetta and Onglyza from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, among others. ...http://news.yahoo.com/eu-regulator-finds-no-safety-issues-diabetes-drugs-093616947.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 05:36:16 -0400Reuterseu-regulator-finds-no-safety-issues-diabetes-drugs-093616947<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/algeria-puts-army-charge-fighting-drug-trafficking-083248914.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Usu96G_QXwR0CGx03qNu5A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T083248Z_1_AJOE96P0NQR00_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-ALGERIA-DRUGS-TRAFFICKING-20130726.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has identified drug trafficking as a top national security threat linked to militancy in the region and put its powerful army in charge of fighting it, interior minister Daho Ould Kablia said. &quot;We are waging a war. It is a war against a new form of terrorism: drugs trafficking,&quot; Ould Kablia told the APS state news agency late on Wednesday. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/algeria-puts-army-charge-fighting-drug-trafficking-083248914.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 04:32:48 -0400Reutersalgeria-puts-army-charge-fighting-drug-trafficking-083248914<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/algeria-puts-army-charge-fighting-drug-trafficking-083248914.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Usu96G_QXwR0CGx03qNu5A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T083248Z_1_AJOE96P0NQR00_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-ALGERIA-DRUGS-TRAFFICKING-20130726.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has identified drug trafficking as a top national security threat linked to militancy in the region and put its powerful army in charge of fighting it, interior minister Daho Ould Kablia said. &quot;We are waging a war. It is a war against a new form of terrorism: drugs trafficking,&quot; Ould Kablia told the APS state news agency late on Wednesday. ...</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-president-pena-nietos-thyroid-growth-benign-official-025110999.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dbmAONb1qSzgHEaQ_EXDcQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T025110Z_1_CBRE96P07XP00_RTROPTP_2_SUNVALLEY-CONFERENCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto listens to an attendee at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley" align="left" title="Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto listens to an attendee at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley" border="0" /></a>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A nodule on Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto&#039;s thyroid gland is benign, an official in the president&#039;s office said on Thursday. Pena Nieto is due to undergo surgery to remove the nodule next Wednesday, in a procedure that will last an hour and a half, the president&#039;s office said in a statement on Wednesday. The official said the operation was a simple one and that the nodule was being removed because doctors thought that was the best course of action. Pena Nieto will spend four days recovering after the operation. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-president-pena-nietos-thyroid-growth-benign-official-025110999.htmlThu, 25 Jul 2013 23:32:32 -0400Reutersmexican-president-pena-nietos-thyroid-growth-benign-official-025110999<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-president-pena-nietos-thyroid-growth-benign-official-025110999.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dbmAONb1qSzgHEaQ_EXDcQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-26T025110Z_1_CBRE96P07XP00_RTROPTP_2_SUNVALLEY-CONFERENCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto listens to an attendee at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley" align="left" title="Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto listens to an attendee at the annual Allen and Co. conference at the Sun Valley" border="0" /></a>MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A nodule on Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto&#039;s thyroid gland is benign, an official in the president&#039;s office said on Thursday. Pena Nieto is due to undergo surgery to remove the nodule next Wednesday, in a procedure that will last an hour and a half, the president&#039;s office said in a statement on Wednesday. The official said the operation was a simple one and that the nodule was being removed because doctors thought that was the best course of action. Pena Nieto will spend four days recovering after the operation. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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