BEIRUT — In the wake of a nine-month uprising, Syrian authorities are exerting ever-tighter control over the media, routinely censoring and detaining reporters, bloggers and photojournalists. But in spite of the risks, a flurry of new outlets has emerged to tell stories banned by the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Read full article > >
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Syrian media awaken despite clampdown
A review of the data used to assess the risks posed by faulty breast implants is to be carried out by the government, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says.
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UK to review breast implant data
Largely in response to the risks posed to nonsmokers by secondhand smoke, indoor smoking bans are being adopted nationwide, affecting hundreds of thousands of public housing tenants.
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Public Housing Authorities Increasingly Ban Indoor Smoking
A popular new generation of birth control pills should carry stronger warnings about the risks they pose of potentially life-threatening blood clots, federal advisers recommended Thursday. After a day-long hearing, two Food and Drug Administration advisory committees, meeting together, voted 15 to 11 that the benefits of the pills in preventing unwanted pregnancies outweighed the risks. But the panels voted 21 to 5 that the current labels fail to adequately warn of the dangers, and they urged the agency to require stronger admonitions. Read full article > >
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What if a mother could predispose her child to like broccoli or Brussels sprouts — or at least not make a face and spit it out — by what she ate during pregnancy? Some health-care practitioners are suggesting that if mothers include a wide range of foods in their diet during pregnancy, they can shape their children’s food preferences later in life. Those choices, researchers say, have the potential to reduce the risks of diabetes and obesity. Read full article > >
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A mother’s food choice can shape baby’s palate, research shows
An MSP demands answers from the Ministry of Defence on the risks posed by radioactive particles found in Dalgety Bay.
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Answers demanded on particle find
Regulators worry that derivatives that insure against a default may have dangerously concentrated the risks.
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Derivatives Cloud the Possible Fallout From a Greek Default
A new finding challenges conventional wisdom about the risks to women of hormone therapy for menopause.
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Well: Estrogen Lowers Breast Cancer and Heart Risk in Some
Professor Paddy Regan describes the risks stemming from Japan’s quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was rocked by a third blast.
Friends of a US couple aboard a yacht hijacked off Somalia say the pair knew of the risks, but were determined to press on with their Christian mission.
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Hijacked yacht pair ‘knew risks’
Some federal park police officers have raised concerns about the risks of letting people board ferries bound for the statue without passing through metal detectors.
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Statue of Liberty Security Plan Is Delayed
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls accuses the chancellor of being in denial about the risks to jobs and growth from his deficit plan.
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Osborne in deficit denial – Balls
Edinburgh’s fund managers are told by a senior regulator to take a more active role in controlling the risks taken on by banks.
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Investors ‘should bear bank risk’
Stronger warnings urged on safety of new birth control pills
Friday, December 9th, 2011A mother’s food choice can shape baby’s palate, research shows
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