Business
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - STANDARD & Poors Ratings Services on Friday revised its rating outlook on the Philippines to positive from stable, citing the country's "diminished" external vulnerability and holding out the prospect of an upgrade if the fiscal picture further ... |
 | Financial Times - The relationship between Britain and France has long been characterised by mistrust on each side of the other's reliability. This lives on in France in the expression “perfide Albion”. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Zynga Inc., the largest maker of games for Facebook, declined in its first day of trading after raising $1 billion in an initial public offering that gave it a greater valuation than rival Electronic Arts Inc. The shares, ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Kristine L. Alave The Philippines, the world's top rice importer in 2010, will become a rice exporter in a span of four years. |
 | CNN - By Tom Cohen, CNN President Obama says Congress should stay in session until both the spending bill and the payroll tax cut measure have passed. |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By MARI YAMAGUCHI AP TOKYO • Japan's prime minister announced Friday that the country's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant has achieved a stable state of "cold shutdown," a crucial step toward the eventual lifting of evacuation orders and closing of the ... |
 | MarketWatch (press release) - NEW YORK, Dec 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fitch Ratings has published a report on Collier County, FL. The report is available at ' www. |
 | Financial Times - By Neil Buckley in London and Kester Eddy in Budapest The European Union and International Monetary Fund have cut short preparatory talks on financial support for Hungary after the government of Viktor Orban refused to delay a draft law that they ... |
 | Silver Investing News - Crazy Horse Resources Inc. (TSXV:CZH,OTCQX:CRZHF) announced final drilling results from the Philippines-based Taysan project. Please see the comment policy for information on comment moderation. |
 | Financial Times (blog) - Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff must have a non-stick coating. A study released on Friday by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) found that her personal approval rating remains at 72 per cent compared with 71 per cent in September. |
Health
 | Philippine Star - By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star) Updated December 17, 2011 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - The Network to Stop AIDS in the Philippines (NSAP) expressed concern over the possible interruption of free treatment for HIV/AIDS patients after the ... |
 | Voice of America - December 16, 2011 Cholera Awareness Campaign Begins in Mogadishu Lisa Schlein | Geneva A campaign to stamp out cholera is being launched on Friday in Mogadishu, Somalia. |
 | Mobiledia - By Sandy Fitzgerald | Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:59 am Malware in a Georgia hospital's computer system forced it to turn away patients, highlighting the problems and vulnerabilities of computerized systems. |
 | RH Reality Check (blog) - by Jodi Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief, RH Reality Check Last week, the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), published the world's largest, most comprehensive and systematic review of mental health outcomes and abortion care. |
 | AFP - WASHINGTON - Women's health advocates said they will sue the US government for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of young teens by denying them over-the-counter access to emergency contraception. |
 | AFP - MONTREAL - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a Canadian NGO on Friday announced $32 million to fund research for the discovery and development of affordable tools for rapidly diagnosing diseases in developing nations. |
 | WebMD (blog) - By Sean Swint Long a mainstay of some medical research, chimpanzees may finally get their day in the sun, and out of the labs. The head of the National Institutes of Health Frances Collins, MD, PhD, has accepted the recommendations set down in an ... |
 | ESPN - By Mike Fish BUFFALO -- Anthony Galea, a go-to doctor for injured elite athletes -- from golfing great Tiger Woods to baseball star Alex Rodriguez -- was sentenced Friday afternoon in a US District Court to one year of supervised release but no jail ... |
 | WFAA - When little Melinda Star Guido was born prematurely in Los Angeles this summer, she could fit in her doctor's palm. She is one of the smallest babies in the world to survive, and today she's getting ready to go home. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - One Manchester United fan knows exactly what is meant when people say football is a matter of life and death. Without treatment, the 58-year-old woman is in danger of dying from stress while watching her team play. |
 | Globe and Mail - Scientists who uncovered the first signs that infectious salmon anemia is present on the West Coast have found themselves shunned and intimidated by federal government officials, the Cohen Commission has heard. |
 | CBC.ca - When the unions of same-sex couples are legalized, doctor's visits and subsequent health costs go down considerably in this group, finds the study. |
 | The Guardian - According to new research, 27% of young women, and 22% of men, had sex before the age of 16. Being a teenager myself, I was not particularly alarmed by the latest Health Survey for England, but others apparently are. |
 | NewsChannel 9 WSYR - Syracuse (WSYR-TV) -- It looks as though teens do care about the amount of sugar they put in their bodies. A new study shows they're less likely to buy sugary drinks if the calories are posted next to them. |
 | CBS News - (CBS) Stretching is supposed to help loosen your body, but can it cause you to lose body parts? A 59-year-old woman was stretching during a Pilates class. |
 | Daily Mail - By Beth Stebner A new study out of Australia sought to prove the speed it takes to outpace the Grim Reaper - the personification of Death - and found it's about three miles per hour. |
 | U.S. News & World Report - THURSDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Low levels of iron in the blood are associated with an increased risk of dangerous blood clots that form in a vein, according to the results of a new study that included patients with an inherited blood vessel ... |
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