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  • Want to detect gluten on the go? There’s a device for that

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    By Ben Gruber SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California startup has developed a portable technology that will allow consumers to test their food for gluten on the go. “Even when you go out and see these labeled menu items, you are still playing Russian roulette,” said Shireen Yates, co-founder and chief executive of NIMA, which…

  • Want to detect gluten on the go? There’s a device for that

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    By Ben Gruber SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California startup has developed a portable technology that will allow consumers to test their food for gluten on the go. “Even when you go out and see these labeled menu items, you are still playing Russian roulette,” said Shireen Yates, co-founder and chief executive of NIMA, which…

  • Haiti fights losing battle against cholera

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    Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Plastic-sheeted cots for men, women and children are crammed side by side in a former hangar. At the cholera treatment center in the Haitian city of Carrefour, the sick have no privacy. Djelile Pierre gingerly uses a syringe to feed her five-year-old daughter, who has been hospitalized there near the capital of…

  • 2011 Ohio law made abortions riskier, more costly

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    By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – After Ohio enacted a law forcing abortion providers to prescribe an outdated drug regimen, women who received medication abortions there were more likely to experience complications and higher prices, a study shows. “That’s what happens when laws aren’t based on scientific evidence,” said lead researcher Ushma Upadhyay, of…