It is one of the only major food crops left without a genetically-modified (GM) counterpart, but this could soon change if the Australian government gets its way in approving a GM wheat variety developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), an agency of the Australian government. Despite being hailed by its...
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Herbalife reports higher profit, lifts outlook
Per-share earnings topped Herbalife’s expectations and the company again raised its full-year earnings view. For the year, Herbalife HLF +1.25% now sees earnings of $4.60 to $4.80 a share. In February, the company had raised its earnings outlook to a range of $4.45 to $4.65 a share. Herbalife tops forecasts for a 17th consecutive...
IMF Ready To Pump Healthy Patients Full Of Austerity
Chastened by the overwhelming evidence that austerity has done wonderful things for the British economy in spite of its own hemming-and-hawing on the matter, the IMF has a new policy: Austerity for everyone, even if there’s no evidence you need it. In its latest assessment of Asia’s economic prospects, the International Monetary Fund tells...
Democrats vote to continue advertising American food stamps in Mexico
At yesterday’s Budget Committee mark-up, Sen. Sessions offered an amendment to prohibit any further funds from being expended on the controversial U.S.-Mexico food stamp partnership, which allows USDA to advertise food stamp benefits in foreign consulates. This commonsense amendment was voted down unanimously by the panel’s Democrats.
46,609,072 People on Food Stamps in 2012; Record 47,791,996 in December
On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it’s ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of...
Genetics tie Haiti’s cholera strain to U.N. peacekeepers. More than 8,000 dead
Laika Valcoure, 16 months-old, suffering from cholera symptoms, is held by her mother at a local hospital in Limbe, near Cap Haitien, Haiti. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) There’s new evidence that the strain of cholera raging through Haiti today is an especially toxic one that was delivered by United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, sent to...
Study: 9/11 responders have 15 percent higher cancer rate
The moon rises over lower Manhattan as the “Tribute in Lights” illuminates the sky. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) Mount Sinai Hospital’s World Trade Center Health Program has analyzed data from close to 21,000 participants in the WTC Health Program from 2001 to 2008.That study revealed that cancer among 9/11 first responders is 15 percent higher than...
China confirms 102 H7N9 cases, 20 deaths
During the 24-hour period ending at 4 p.m. on Sunday, China confirmed six new cases of human H7N9 avian influenza, including five in Zhejiang and one in Jiangsu. The National Health and Family Planning Commission said in its daily update on H7N9 cases that a total of 102 H7N9 cases have been reported in...
China confirms 102 H7N9 cases, 20 deaths
During the 24-hour period ending at 4 p.m. on Sunday, China confirmed six new cases of human H7N9 avian influenza, including five in Zhejiang and one in Jiangsu. The National Health and Family Planning Commission said in its daily update on H7N9 cases that a total of 102 H7N9 cases have been reported in...
