Business
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - Philippine monetary officials have decided today to cut interest rates to shield the local economy from a global economic slowdown. |
Wall Street Journal - ATHENS (Dow Jones)--Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said Thursday that talks with the country's private creditors over a planned debt restructuring had made progress after a two and-a-half hour meeting. |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Samuel Rubenfeld European nations agreed to sanction Iran's central bank, freezing assets used to finance its nuclear ambitions, but didn't come to an agreement on an oil import embargo because Greece held out, AFP reported. |
Inquirer.net - Debit and prepaid cards may surpass credit cards in the Philippines in the coming years due to the country's demographics and the fact that a large portion of the local population remains “unbanked. |
CBS News - (AP) Natural gas prices fell to levels not seen in a decade after a government report showed weak demand and high supplies. The price of natural gas slid 6.1 percent to $2.32 per 1000 cubic feet Thursday after the Energy Department said the nation's ... |
Health
Mindanao Examiner - MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / Jan. 19, 2012) - The state-run Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) said it would recruit at least 600 nurses to provide “superior customer care” to its members and dependents seeking treatment in all ... |
MyHealthNewsDaily - Fewer people are engaging in behaviors that put them at high risk of acquiring HIV, a new report says. About 10 percent of men and 8 percent of women surveyed in the United States reported taking part in sexual or drug-related behaviors in the last ... |
Los Angeles Times - The numbers of abortions performed annually worldwide has held steady in recent years, but the proportion of abortions that are considered unsafe is rising, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization. |
Toronto Star - Re: Keep sex of fetus secret, MD urges, Jan. 17 The Canadian Medical Association Journal's motive to keep the sex of a fetus secret from all Canadian couples until 30 weeks of pregnancy is well intentioned. |
TODAYonline - HANOI - An 18-year-old and a toddler have died from bird flu in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively, bringing to four the number of fatal cases of H5N1 in the region in the last three weeks. |
Times LIVE - Sales of condoms and birth control in Poland shrank by 10 percent and 3.2 percent respectively over a year as of October 2011, the first such drop on record, fresh market surveys showed Tuesday. |
Huffington Post (blog) - Paula Deen announcing she has Type II Diabetes after endorsing a drug company's diabetic treatment product is like a man admitting he's a sex addict after inking a deal with Viagra. |
Fox News - Gary Carter's health has taken a turn for the worse. The 57-year-old Hall of Fame catcher, diagnosed last May with a malignant brain tumor, received results of his latest MRI exam Thursday, according to the online journal of his daughter, ... |
ABC News (blog) - One in five Americans experienced some sort of mental illness in 2010, according to a new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. |
Huffington Post - By LINDA A. JOHNSON 01/19/12 01:24 PM ET AP TRENTON, NJ -- In a setback that could spell trouble for several drugmakers developing a new type of diabetes pill, US regulators have told partners Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. |
The Province - By ELAINE O'CONNOR, The Province January 19, 2012 12:11 PM Defective silicone gel breast implants, manufactured by French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), are seen near surgical instruments after being removed from a patient at a french clinic. |
The Hindu - Days after panic struck Mumbai with reports of a deadly form of tuberculosis called total drug resistant (TDR)-TB, official investigations have found that there are no TDR cases in Mumbai. |
Toronto Star - Over the past three years, Ontario has spent $26 million stockpiling Tamiflu to treat people in the event of a pandemic. During the last big scare - H1N1 in 2009 - there were shortages of the children's antiviral dose and cases of frantic parents ... |
New Zealand Herald - If you can't resist passing on tittle-tattle, don't be too hard on yourself. People who gossip are apparently doing us all a favour. |
Scientific American - By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine In December 2010, the US Congress passed the National Alzheimer's Project Act. The law instructs the US government to develop its first-ever strategic plan for battling Alzheimer's disease, the dementia-inducing ... |
Smart Business Network - Obesity can have a significant impact on employers, in health care and workers' compensation costs and in lost productivity. Health care costs for obese employees are as much as 21 percent higher than costs for those at a healthy weight. |
TIME - By Alice Park | @aliceparkny | January 19, 2012 | + Counterfeit or weakened versions of life-saving antimalarial drugs are making the rounds in Africa, potentially putting millions of lives at risk and encouraging drug resistance, say scientists. |
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