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Ask adult patients about alcohol misuse: panel

May 13, 2013 23:01
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Primary care doctors should ask adults how much and how often they drink alcohol and counsel those with risky and dangerous drinking habits, a government-backed panel said today. Based on a review of studies conducted since 1985, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) determined there is good enough evidence both that screening can accurately detect alcohol misuse and that counseling can reduce heavy drinking in people age 18 and older.

Canada looking at criminalizing cyber-bullying

Agence France-PresseMay 13, 2013 16:43
Canada is looking to criminalize cyber-bullying, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday, after a pair of teenage suicides provoked by unrelenting online harassment. "The Internet is in most ways a great development for our society," Harper said at a roundtable on ways to protect youth from cyber-bullying. "Unfortunately, it has other purposes and other uses, and young people are extremely vulnerable."

Qatada will go to Jordan if it ratifies UK treaty

Agence France-PresseMay 13, 2013 16:34
Islamist terror suspect Abu Qatada will voluntarily return to Jordan if a treaty with Britain that forbids the use of evidence obtained by torture in legal cases is ratified by the Jordanian parliament, his lawyer said on Friday. Lawyer Edward Fitzgerald gave the pledge at Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London, which is hearing a bid by the radical preacher against his detention for breaching his bail conditions.

Jury deadlocked on two counts in Philadelphia abortion trial

May 13, 2013 14:17
By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury in its 10th day of deliberations said it was deadlocked on two counts in the murder trial of a doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic that served low-income women. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-closed Women's Medical Society Clinic, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder. He is accused of delivering live babies during late-term abortions and then deliberately severing their spinal cords.

Anti-bullying panel outlines scope of its review in Rehtaeh Parsons case

The Canadian PressMay 13, 2013 13:39
HALIFAX - A review of the Halifax school board's handling of the Rehtaeh Parsons case could lead to revised anti-bullying guidelines to help schools prevent a similar tragedy, a panellist said Monday. "We're really hoping to move forward and look at how we could prevent something like this from ever happening again," said Debra Pepler, a professor at York University in Toronto. "We hope we'll be able to provide some guidelines so students who struggle are supported and recognized in a different way."

Qatada offers to return to Jordan if it ratifies UK treaty

Agence France-PresseMay 11, 2013 18:16
Britain's decade-long battle to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada had a surprise boost Friday after he vowed to return to Jordan voluntarily if its parliament ratifies a treaty barring the use of evidence obtained by torture. Abu Qatada's lawyer told a bail hearing at an immigration tribunal in London that the Islamist terror suspect was ready to return to Amman as soon as Jordanian lawmakers approve the fair trial pact with Britain.

Alberta says child protection bill will continue despite privacy concerns

The Canadian PressMay 11, 2013 04:15
EDMONTON - Alberta's human services minister says it's full speed ahead with proposed legislation to help protect children despite concerns from the privacy commissioner. Dave Hancock said Thursday he still hopes to pass the bill in the current legislature sitting. "We'll have to have a respectful disagreement on some of these points," Hancock said.

Jury in sixth day of deliberation in abortion doctor trial

May 10, 2013 20:50
By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury began its sixth day of deliberations on Tuesday in the murder trial of a doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic serving low-income women. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.

Harper says society must do whatever it can to stop cyberbullying

The Canadian PressMay 10, 2013 18:16
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Stephen Harper met in Winnipeg today with parents of some children who have been victims of cyberbullying. Harper says he wishes such meetings weren't needed, but they are. Among those at the meeting were the parents of Rehtaeh (reh-TAY'-uh) Parsons and the mother of Amanda Todd —- two girls who committed suicide after relentless bullying. The federal government has already committed to look at new criminal laws that could include a ban on distributing intimate images without consent.

U.N. team won't be deterred if North Korea rebuffs inquiry into abuses

May 9, 2013 05:00
By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.N. investigators will seek the cooperation of North Korea as part of an inquiry into allegations of widespread human rights abuses in the country but won't be deterred if Pyongyang refuses, the head of the investigating panel said on Thursday. Michael Kirby, an outspoken former justice of Australia's top court, was named this week as head of a three member team that will look into allegations of torture, food deprivation and labor camps that are believed to hold at least 200,000 people.
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