Americans fatter than ever, obesity officially called a 'disease'

US obesity rates have reached a record high, and physicians have officially classified it as a “disease”, which will likely change the way doctors and health insurance providers treat the 28.9 percent of American adults who are severely overweight.

June 19, 2013 18:42

‘Guantanamo detainees distrust military doctors’ – open letter to Obama

Over 150 doctors and medical professionals have signed an open letter to US President Barack Obama calling for hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba to receive independent medical care.

June 19, 2013 11:18

Cancer-causing isotope found in Fukushima groundwater – plant operator

Elevated levels of cancer-causing radioactive isotopes have been discovered in the groundwater of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the plant’s operator has revealed. Highly toxic strontium-90 was present at 30 times the allowable rate, tests showed.

June 19, 2013 10:12

Saudi women activists get jail time for helping starving mother locked in home

A Saudi court sentenced two women to ten months in prison, along with a two-year travel ban, after they tried to help a Canadian woman who, with her three children, was denied adequate food and water and was subjected to violence by her Saudi husband.

June 19, 2013 00:47

ISS threatened by possible ‘mold and bacteria contamination’ inside cargo spacecraft

Mission control has instructed the crewmembers of the International Space Station (ISS) to open the hatches of the recently docked ATV-4 unmanned cargo spaceship and carry out disinfection procedures, over fears of mold and bacteria contamination.

June 18, 2013 15:58

Russia to introduce no smoking cells for remand prisoners

All Russian pre-trial detention centers might soon have separate cells for smokers and non-smokers, a top justice ministry official has announced.

June 18, 2013 11:34