Business
 | NEWS.com.au - From: AP UNTIL this week, the fate of Europe seemed to hang on the decisions of three power brokers - the president of France, the chancellor of Germany and the head of the European Central Bank. |
 | Business Times (subscription) - SINGAPORE and Hong Kong would be worst hit among all East Asian economies if the eurozone crisis led to recession in Europe while these two highly open and trade-dependent economies would suffer even more badly if recession also ... |
 | Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares of Olympus Corp (7733.T) dropped more than 8 percent after a third-party panel investigating the accounting scandal at the firm urged it to pursue legal action against former executives responsible for the loss-hiding schemes ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - The price of Brent crude could immediately slide by $5 a barrel if European Union leaders are unable to agree on a convincing plan at the crisis summit in Brussels, analysts say. |
 | Globe and Mail - During the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund enjoyed a rebirth as a central player in bailing out bankrupt nations after being condemned to irrelevancy in the decade that preceded the Great Recession. |
 | Written by  Huffington Post - European leaders will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday in yet another attempt to assure the markets that Europe isn't going to fall apart. |
 | Xinhua - CHANGCHUN, December 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police said on Tuesday that the Coca-Cola brand milk drinks suspected of causing one death and sickening three others in Changchun, the capital city of northeastern Jilin province, were deliberately poisoned. |
 | Irish Times - TREATY CHANGES: IRELAND WILL ask European leaders to cut the cost of its bank bailout in return for agreeing European Union treaty changes that could trigger a potentially divisive referendum. |
Health
 | Jerusalem Post - Inspired by Israeli program, men and youths will undergo the procedure in US government, UN program advocated by J'lem-based Operation Abraham. |
 | TVNZ - The number of rhinos poached in South Africa has risen sharply this year with more than 400 killed, the South African National Parks said. |
 | Montreal Gazette - Compared to women who had never been pregnant, those who reported at least four pregnancies were about 35 per cent less likely to die of any heart or vascular disease, including half as likely to be killed ... |
 | U.S. News & World Report - TUESDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Giving steroids to pregnant women at risk for preterm birth as early as 23 weeks during their pregnancy may boost an infant's overall chance of survival and reduce the baby's risk of serious ... |
 | Bloomberg - Women who get an increasingly popular course of targeted radiation that takes less time after a breast tumor is removed are almost twice as likely to need a mastectomy later as those who get a more ... |
 | Daily Mail - There's absolutely nothing festive about the sparkly lights that spell out the word 'sex' in a new advert encouraging women to stock up on the morning-after pill over Christmas. |
 | ABC News - Yaz was pitched as the blockbuster birth control pill with benefits, the choice for women desperate for relief from severe PMS and acne. |
 | CTV.ca - Garry Keller has been looking for a kidnet donor for six years and is getting help from across Parliament Hill to find one. One political staffer's need for a kidney transplant is showing the problems others awaiting organs are facing. |
 | Express.co.uk - By Daily Express Reporter Their feat, described as the “Holy Grail of regenerative medicine”, paves the way for the cells to become the “gold standard” treatment for conditions ranging from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to heart disease and diabetes. |
 | HelpingYouCare™ - By Editor, on December 6th, 2011 A new study of 14345 adult men, published in Circulation, a Journal of the American Heart Association, found that improving physical fitness lowered risk of death, both from cardiovascular disease and from all causes, ... |
 | BBC News - Every NHS patient should be a "research patient" with their medical details "opened up" to private healthcare firms, says David Cameron. |
 | The State Journal-Register - Influenza (the flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. Some people, such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions are at risk. |
 | Toronto Sun - If you spend a lot of time being a couch potato, you may eventually need a bigger couch to accommodate your bigger butt. Sitting is not just a lack of activity, it's "active inactivity," researchers at Tel Aviv University say. |
 | Reuters UK - LONDON (Reuters) - The government is to begin a wide-ranging consultation on plain packaging of tobacco products by the end of the year, informed by the legal challenges Australia has faced as the first nation to pass such legislation. |
 | Business Standard - On Tuesday, India's leading drug maker Ranbaxy announced the launch of an authorised generic version of Pfizer drug Caduet in the United States. |
 | Insideireland.ie - A study published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that children born early are more likely to suffer behavioural problems. |
 | Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, scientists said on Monday. |
 | Maribyrnong Weekly - CASES of potentially fatal whooping cough are continuing to rise in the west and adults are being urged to have booster immunisation doses to prevent the spread to young children and babies. |
 | Scienceline - Trouble getting up in the morning might be in your DNA. [Image Credit: Alan Cleaver via Flickr] By Kathryn Doyle | Posted December 6, 2011 A paper just out in the November issue of Molecular Psychiatry identifies a gene that appears to be associated ... |
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