Topic: Julie Steenhuysen
(Reuters) - LivingSocial, the online deal provider, is looking to raise nearly $200 million from new and old investors, the New York Times reported on Friday.The company is also considering a credit facility worth about $100 million, the paper said, quoting two ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women who were repeatedly sexually abused as girls have a 62 percent higher risk of heart problems later in life compared with women who were not abused, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.The findings, presented at the American Heart ...
(Reuters) - People who are lonely may be more likely to have sleepless nights, researchers said Tuesday in a study that suggests loneliness may not only cause unhappiness, it may be bad for your health.Reporting in the journal Sleep, Lianne Kurina of ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bipolar disorder, a brain disorder that strikes early and can cause lifelong disability, is chronically undertreated in many low-income countries, government researchers reported on Monday.Their survey of more than 61,000 patients suggests 2.4 percent of the world ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Poor families who sign up for high-deductible health plans are more likely to put off needed care than wealthier families, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests such plans may need to be revamped if they ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A panel of federal vaccine experts narrowly voted to add a booster dose of a meningitis vaccine to teens at age 16.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 6-5 on Wednesday to add a booster dose of the vaccine ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted the oldest galaxy ever seen, one born just 600 million years after the Big Bang.Their report, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, confirms that the distant smudge first spotted by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A 10-year study of nine boys born without the ability to ward off germs has found that gene therapy is an effective long-term treatment, but it carries a price: four of them developed leukemia.The technique is designed to help ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Synthetic biology can be used to make nonpolluting fuel, instant vaccines against new diseases and inexpensive medicines, but it will take time, collaboration and a nurturing regulatory environment, scientists said on Thursday.The researchers, along with an ethicist and members ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Synthetic biology can be used to make nonpolluting fuel, instant vaccines against new diseases and inexpensive medicines, but it will take time, collaboration and a nurturing regulatory environment, scientists said on Thursday.The researchers, along with an ethicist and members ...
