Plans to allow first-time buyers of new homes to borrow up to 95% of the value, with the government underwriting part of the risk, are to be unveiled.
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Affordable housing plan unveiled
Cancer experts are to carry out a major study to see if commonly used blood pressure drugs cut the risk of breast cancer spreading.
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Beta blockers ‘may halt cancer’
Cancer experts are to carry out a major study to see if commonly used blood pressure drugs cut the risk of breast cancer spreading.
Pregnant women who eat low-fat yoghurt daily can increase the risk of their child developing asthma and hay fever, a study says.
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Low-fat yoghurt ‘pregnancy risk’
People with psoriasis have nearly three times the risk of stroke and abnormal heart rhythm, according to scientists in Denmark.
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Psoriasis ‘linked to stroke risk’
A technique that unlocks natural gas from underground rocks increases the risk of nearby drinking water becoming contaminated, a study suggests.
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Gas drilling ‘contaminates water’
Alabama and the seven other states devastated by tornadoes are turning their attention to rebuilding. The task is huge: One estimate, by the risk model forecaster EQECAT, put the insured property losses between $2 billion and $5 billion. Contractors…
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Thousands Homeless in Tornado-Struck States
Scientists say they have found a mechanism which may explain why a poor diet during pregnancy can increase the risk of offspring developing diabetes.
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Mothers’ diet link to diabetes
High levels of cholesterol do not predict the risk of stroke in women, according to researchers in Denmark.
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Cholesterol ‘poor stroke marker’
You might want to think twice about that week at the beach this summer. Last year saw a skyrocketing number of shark attacks worldwide-and the risk factors could continue for the foreseeable future. According to the University of Florida’s…
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Shark Attacks Up 25 Percent in 2010
A district court hearing will be held in Texas on Monday to determine whether the death penalty is unconstitutional due to the risk of wrongful convictions. It will be the first time in the state’s history that a court will examine the issue of…
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Is Death Penalty Over in Texas?
Interview with distinguished professor of sociology Stanley Aronowitz at the City University of New York. He evokes the reasons for Barack Obama’s Democrats in the midterm elections. Bruno Odent for L’Humanit
A wood panel plant holds a “symbolic” shutdown in protest at what bosses and 600 staff say is the risk to jobs caused by “unfair subsidies”.
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Factory demo over biomass subsidy
US regulators warn that drugs used to protect brittle bones may actually increase the risk of fracture in rare cases.
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Fracture warning over bone drugs
Evidence is mounting that levels of vitamin B12 may be connected to the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Study backs Alzheimer’s-B12 link
Stanley Aronowitz: "An Immense Malaise Torments American Society"
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
