Business
 | CNN - By Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney December 22, 2011: 7:14 PM ET House Speaker John Boehner said he will push for final approval of a two-month payroll tax cut extension before Christmas. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Paolo G. Montecillo With fewer people expected to take to the streets on Dec. 24 and 31, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) announced Thursday that Metro Manila's three overhead light trains will observe shorter operating ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - MANILA HAS lost its appeal against the World Trade Organization's (WTO) order that Philippine liquor taxes be reformed for being unfair against imports. |
 | Bloomberg - Oil headed for its biggest weekly gain in almost two months in New York after US economic reports indicated that growth in the world's biggest crude consumer will accelerate. |
Health
 | New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has told Malaysians to be cautious when travelling to countries with the Influenza A (H5N1) pandemic following the bird flu alert in Hong Kong. |
 | Examiner.com - Eva Ekvall, former Miss Venezuela, has lost her fight with breast cancer at age 28. The beauty queen was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and fought the disease with radiation, chemotherapy, and a mastectomy. |
 | Reuters India - By Brian Love | PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of women worldwide may have defective and potentially harmful breast-enhancement implants produced by a small French company that went into bust in March 2010 after its silicone gel product was ... |
 | Food Poison Journal - This past summer, Germany was the epicenter of an unthinkably large outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 (STEC O104:H4) infections. |
 | The Atlantic - By Kate Kelland Low doses of DHEA can help sexual function and menopausal symptoms and may be used as a hormone replacement therapy alternative. |
 | Reuters - By Martinne Geller (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) has pulled cans of Enfamil baby formula from the shelves of 3000 of its stores this week and other US retailers followed after the death of a Missouri newborn who drank the formula. |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By MALCOLM RITTER AP New York • A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a controversial 2009 report that linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus. |
 | Xinhua - WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The journal Science on Thursday chose the HPTN 052 clinical trial, an international HIV prevention trial as the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. |
 | Vancouver Sun - A two-headed born baby is pictured in Anajas, northern Brazil December 21, 2011. Doctors in Brazil said on Wednesday said they are unsure whether they can operate on a baby born with two heads, although the newborn boy is in stable condition. |
 | Edmonton Journal - By Jodie Sinnema, edmontonjournal.com December 22, 2011 5:00 PM EDMONTON - It's the perfect excuse for not cooking turkey dinner or rolling cabbage for Christmas. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Is it time to honour the last wishes of Charles Byrne, whose skeleton stands in the Hunterian Museum? By Theodore Dalrymple As every schoolboy knows - or at any rate used to think he knew - the Victorians were a prudish lot. |
 | Expatriate Healthcare - Expatriate international health insurance policyholders may be able to discover if they are at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by having a brain scan. |
 | Toronto Star - After removing this pen from a woman's stomach, doctors at Britain's Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Foundation Trust failed to come up with anything clever to write with it. |
 | WXIA-TV - WXIA -- People are more likely to lie in text messages than during face-to-face interactions, according to a study carried out by researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada. |
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