Sunday, June 30, 2013

WHO wants HIV patients treated sooner to save lives, halt spread

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors could save three million more lives worldwide by 2025 if they offer AIDS drugs to people wit...

U.S. sets birth control rule for employers with religious ties

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday made it final that employees of religiously affiliated, nonpr...

With Mandela, end-of-life care dilemmas magnified

CHICAGO (AP) — The emotional pain and practical demands facing Nelson Mandela 's family are universal: confronting the final days of a...

Judge: Hobby Lobby won't have to pay fines

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge says Hobby Lobby and a sister company will not be subject to daily fines for refusing certain birth-...

Surgeon allowed to work despite inquiry into 10 deaths

Mr Jones' family only learnt that the hospital had concerns about Mr Sarker after an original inquest into his death was dramatically ...

Crackdown on NHS 'health tourists'

Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, will call a halt to foreign patients wrongly getting free care, after putting the cost of the problem a...

Farewell Dame Edna, the global gigastar from Moonee Ponds

By putting a non-porous barrier between himself and Edna, Humphries has not only fed the idea of his character as someone else entirely, b...

Why having big families is good for you (and cheaper)

So, with the help of Swedish researcher Therese Wallin, I set about pulling together data that put a different cost/benefit complexion on ...

Hundreds of thousands out for London's gay pride

1 of 7. People take part in the first Gay Pride march (Marche des Fiertes) since a French law permitting gay and lesbian marriage was pas...

U.S. sets birth control rule for employers with religious ties

WASHINGTON | Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:32am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday issued its final rule requiring he...

Patients facing eight-hour waits in ambulances outside A&E departments

"Patients can't get into A&E because there isn't an empty cubicle, let alone the staff, so they end up trapped in ambulan...

Why having big families is good for you (and cheaper)

So, with the help of Swedish researcher Therese Wallin, I set about pulling together data that put a different cost/benefit complexion on ...

Farewell Dame Edna, the global gigastar from Moonee Ponds

By putting a non-porous barrier between himself and Edna, Humphries has not only fed the idea of his character as someone else entirely, b...

The untold story of gun violence - life-altering injuries

1 of 12. Miles Turner is helped up the stairs to his home by his mother Angela and his father Miles in Chi...

Hundreds of thousands out for London's gay pride

1 of 7. People take part in the first Gay Pride march (Marche des Fiertes) since a French law permitting gay and lesbian marriage was pas...

The untold story of gun violence - life-altering injuries

1 of 12. Miles Turner is helped up the stairs to his home by his mother Angela and his father Miles in Chi...

WHO wants HIV patients treated sooner to save lives, halt spread

An HIV-infected patient displays medicine at a hospital in Payao province, about 600 km (373 miles) north of Bangk...

U.S. sets birth control rule for employers with religious ties

WASHINGTON | Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:32am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday issued its final rule requiring he...

WHO wants HIV patients treated sooner to save lives, halt spread

An HIV-infected patient displays medicine at a hospital in Payao province, about 600 km (373 miles) north of Bangk...

Surgeon allowed to work despite inquiry into 10 deaths

Mr Jones' family only learnt that the hospital had concerns about Mr Sarker after an original inquest into his death was dramatically ...