Breast cancer patients taking the drug tamoxifen can cut their chances of having the disease come back or kill them if they stay on the pills for 10 years instead of five years as doctors recommend now, a major study finds.The results could change treatment, especially for younger women. The findings are a surprise because earlier research suggested that taking the hormone-blocking drug for longer...
Wall Street flat, Freeport offsets China comments
Label: BusinessFacebook (FB) announced on Tuesday that it will begin opening Facebook Messenger to consumers who do not have a Facebook account, starting in countries like India and South Africa, and later rolling out the service in the United States and Europe. This is a belated acknowledgement of a staggering strategic mistake Facebook made two years ago. That is when the messaging app competition was still...
Dec
04
Assad Suffering Reversals in Fighting and Diplomacy
Label: WorldThair Al-Khalidieh/Shaam News Network, via ReutersA Free Syrian Army fighter battled government forces in Homs, Syria, on Monday. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fierce fighting on the battlefield and setbacks on the diplomatic front increased pressure on the embattled Syrian government as fresh signs emerged on Tuesday of a sustained battle for control of the capital, Damascus. News reports quoted...
Taylor Swift & Harry Styles Hold Hands After Long Night in NYC
Label: Lifestyle By Tim Nudd 12/04/2012 at 10:20 AM EST Taylor Swift and Harry Styles Alequin/Bosch/INF They're getting closer by the day. After strolling together in Central Park on Sunday, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles graduated to publicly holding hands early Tuesday after...
Tapping citizen-scientists for a novel gut check
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — The bacterial zoo inside your gut could look very different if you're a vegetarian or an Atkins dieter, a couch potato or an athlete, fat or thin.Now for a fee — $69 and up — and a stool sample, the curious can find out just what's living in their intestines and take part in one of the hottest new fields in science.Wait a minute: How many average Joes really want to pay for the privilege...
Wall Street flat, awaits movement on fiscal cliff talks
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed in early trading on Tuesday as the market remains hostage to negotiations in Washington on how to avert a "fiscal cliff" that could push the U.S. economy into recession. Republicans in Congress proposed steep spending cuts to bring down the budget deficit on Monday but gave no ground on President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the...
Dec
03
Syria Moves Its Chemical Weapons and Gets Another Warning
Label: WorldWASHINGTON — The Syrian military’s movement of chemical weapons in recent days has prompted the United States and several allies to repeat their warning to President Bashar al-Assad that he would be “held accountable” if his forces used the weapons against the rebels fighting his government. The warnings, which one European official said were “deliberately vague to keep Assad guessing,” were...
David Oliver Relin, Co-Author of Three Cups of Tea, Commits Suicide at 49
Label: Lifestyle By Maggie Coughlan 12/03/2012 at 10:45 AM EST David Oliver Relin, a journalist who co-authored the controversial best-selling book Three Cups of Tea, has committed suicide, the New York Times reports. He was 49.Relin, who co-wrote the 2006 book with Greg Mortenson about how Mortenson, a former mountain climber,...
Asperger's dropped from revised diagnosis manual
Label: HealthCHICAGO (AP) — The now familiar term "Asperger's disorder" is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But "dyslexia" and other learning disorders remain.The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation's psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.Full details...
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