Business
 | Stuff.co.nz - A congressional "super committee" on Monday failed to reach a deal on reducing federal government deficits, the co-chairs of the panel said. |
 | The Age - Qantas announces talks with unions have collapsed leaving the industrial umpire to resolve the dispute. UNIONS have received a setback in their bid to get Qantas to negotiate over job security, with the workplace umpire now set to rule on their claims. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - THE PHILIPPINES has lost ground in global tax rankings published by the World Bank and the International Finance Corp. (IFC), having been overtaken by other countries that implemented reforms to make payments easier and less costly for businesses. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Germany and France, Europe's cornerstone economies, were dragged into the eye of the debt storm on Monday, triggering a collapse of stock prices around the world. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Bloomberg News Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- China pledged to improve its monitoring of intellectual property rights in trade talks with the US, as American officials called on the world's second biggest economy to abide by international rules. |
 | Financial Times - Austrian bank supervisors have instructed the country's banks to limit future lending in their east European subsidiaries, a further sign of the potential knock-on effects of the eurozone crisis for economies around the world. |
Health
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - New data released Monday by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) underscore a call by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month to harness new science to curb the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. |
 | Hong Kong Standard - Unlike in 2006 when there was suspense whether Beijing's backing of Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun would bear fruit, the next race for director-general of the World Health Organization may be a bit one-sided. |
 | Mindanao Examiner - MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 20, 2011) - Public health is crucial to the development of any nation and in recent decades, the health of the people is increasingly being put at risk by social and environmental factors that cross national boundaries. |
 | CBC.ca - By Community Team Updated guidelines suggest routine mammography has no significant benefit for women aged 40 to 49. (iStock)Leading breast cancer experts in Canada appear divided over updated guidelines recommending less screening for breast cancer in ... |
 | Baltimore Sun (blog) - New research released at the Gerontological Society of America meeting found that the more often older married people engage in sexual activity, the more likely they are to be happy in their lives and in their marriage. |
 | BBC News - About 9000 cancer patients are being asked take part in new gene tests which could improve therapies. Samples from tumours will be tested for gene faults, and testing laboratories in London, Cardiff and Birmingham will compare the outcome of treatments ... |
 | WTSP 10 News - This time a Miami-area woman looking for a cheap enhancement instead got sickened by a phony doctor who police say used a chemical cocktail difficult to fathom. |
 | Forbes - On Friday, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced that the agency was revoking its approval of best-selling cancer drug Avastin for breast cancer. |
 | The Almanac Online - The Menlo Park-based biotechnology firm Geron Corp. announced recently that it was abandoning its stem cell research in favor of focusing on two cancer drugs. |
 | Fox News - It's that time of year again where you have to start thinking about the flu shot. Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews. |
 | Sky News - A woman who collapsed immediately after using a home hair-dying kit is fighting for her life in hospital. Julia McCabe, 38, stopped breathing after what her family believe was a reaction to a chemical in the dye. |
 | WalesOnline - Her comments come as a report reveals how the problem of resistance, which can create superbugs, has increased in Wales over the last six years. |
 | The News International - Taking advantage of devolution of the Ministry of Health and placement of the Tobacco Control Cell under the Health Services Academy, the tobacco industry has started violating with impunity, laws that were being strictly enforced to regulate the ... |
 | Standardbred Canada - A portion of program sales and a raffle plus donations will go to the Trot Magazine Movember team, raising money for prostate cancer awareness. |
 | Mass Device - Results from St. Jude's study of its Libra deep brain stimulator show reduced symptoms among patients suffering from highly treatment-resistant depression. |
 | The Stir - Few topics are as controversial among mothers as the steadily rising rate of cesarean births in the United States in recent years. |
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