People with diabetes living longer

Diane Alter – Fourth Estate Cooperative Reporter Atlanta, GA, United States (4E) – Some good news on the diabetes front: people with the disease are living longer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in a study released Wednesday that between 1997 and 2004, the percentage of people with diabetes who died from any [...]

HP will announce mass layoffs

Linda Young – Fourth Estate Cooperative Writer New York, N.Y., United States (4E) – Hewlett-Packard reportedly plans to announce another large round of job cuts Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to streamline its PC and service businesses. News of the planned layoffs is being reported by Bloomberg and Fortune, among others. The nation’s largest tech [...]

Kings of the road: Penner OT goal lifts L.A. past Phoenix, into Finals

Jojo Doria – AHN Sports Contributor Glendale, AZ, United States (AHN Sports) – The Los Angeles Kings ended 19 years of frustration Tuesday night when they finished off the gritty Phoenix Coyotes 4-3 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals thanks to Dustin Penner’s game-winner with 2:18 left in overtime. The eighth-seeded Kings are [...]

Donald Driver takes Dancing With the Stars trophy

Diane Alter – Fourth Estate Cooperative Reporter Los Angeles, CA, United States (4E) – Green Bay Packers star receiver Donald Driver, with professional dance partner Peta Murgatroyd, took home the coveted mirror ball trophy and bragging rights Tuesday night when the duo won “Dancing With the Stars.” The world knew he had the moves on [...]

U.S. markets weak Wednesday morning after world markets fall

Diane Alter – Fourth Estate Cooperative Reporter New York, N.Y., United States (4E) – U.S. stocks fell on the open Wednesday taking the lead from plunging world markets. Just after the opening bell on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 84 points, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slumped 8 points and the [...]

Sloan bullish on sideline return; ex-Jazz coach talked to MJ

AHN Sports Staff Salt Lake City, UT, United States (AHN Sports) – If you can’t beat ‘em, go to work for them. Former Utah Jazz legendary coach Jerry Sloan said he would consider serving as bench boss for the Charlotte Bobcats, owned by former rival Michael Jordan or the Orlando Magic, who have an opening [...]

Wednesday’s Google Doodle celebrates creator of the synthesizer

Diane Alter – Fourth Estate Cooperative Reporter Mountain View, CA, United States (4E) – Wednesday’s Google Doodle honors Robert Moog, the father of the modern electronic synthesizer, on what would have been his 78th birthday. The doodle is a working Moog synthesizer. When a user clicks on what looks like a piano keyboard, musical tones [...]

Health insurance cutbacks squeeze the insured

United States (KaiserHealth) – Amber Cooper and her husband were doing OK. They both had jobs. A healthy 5-year-old son, a house in Riverbank, Calif., and health insurance from her job in the accounting department of a small manufacturing company. But then one day everything changed. “We were in a conference room getting the information [...]

Healthcare in the crossfire

Bangkok, Thailand (IRIN) – As Mohammed Mohammedi lay trapped in the car with his co-worker, pinned down by heavy gunfire, they promised each other that whoever made it out alive would tell the other’s family. Now, 12 years after he was captured and beaten by militias in Somalia while carrying out a polio vaccination campaign, [...]

From malaria research results to policy

Londno, United Kingdom (IRIN) – No matter how compelling, medical research has historically not guaranteed swift regulatory approval, but researchers are finding ways to speed up translation of their conclusions into policy. In the fight against malaria, it took years of consistent medical results on insecticide-treated bed nets to gain the World Health Organization’s (WHO) [...]

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