Noticias de Hoy

MANILA, Philippines (AP) ? Twenty-six years after Roman Catholic leaders helped his mother marshal millions of Filipinos in an uprising that ousted a dictator, President Benigno Aquino III picked a fight with the church over contraceptives and won a victory that bared the bishops’ worst nightmare: They no longer sway the masses.

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BOSTON (AP) ? At first, the Melnick sisters thought it was just a cruel coincidence that two of them were diagnosed with breast cancer.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U. S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Only a 10 percent chance of showers today, but a 70 percent chance of flu next month.

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German drugmaker Bayer said its drug Nexavar reached a goal of improving the survival of patients with a certain type of thyroid cancer in a late-stage trial. It said on Thursday it plans to submit data from the trial as the basis for marketing approval of Nexavar to treat radioactive iodine refractory differentiated thyroid cancer. (Reporting by Maria Sheahan)

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KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple so they could have a child said on Wednesday he is shocked the state is now trying to make him pay child support. William Marotta, 46, donated sperm to Jennifer Schreiner and Angela Bauer under a written agreement that he would not be considered the father of the child nor liable for child support. A daughter, now 3, was born to Schreiner. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People seem less likely to take their medications if the pill color changes between prescriptions, which can happen when switching from a brand-name to generic drug, says a new study. “I have a lot of experience when patients of mine come and say, ‘I was taking a green pill and now it’s pink. What’s going on?'” said Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, the study’s lead author from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Unlike women in the U. S. , Canada and much of Europe, most women in the world can access the birth control pill without a prescription, according to a new study. As medical organizations and other groups push to ease the prescription requirements for the Pill in the U. S. and elsewhere, “we can start to use this information to. . . get a sense of the safety of women having access to this method where no prescription is required,” said Kari White, who studies birth control at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. . . .

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At 25 years old and 288 pounds, Ashley Donahoo was depressed. ?I was unhappy with my job, I was unhappy with the direction my life was going, and I had a hard time enjoying the little things that my kids wanted to do,? the 27-year-old. . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States averted economic calamity on Tuesday when lawmakers approved a deal to prevent huge tax hikes and spending cuts that would have pushed the world’s largest economy off a "fiscal cliff" and into recession. The agreement hands a clear victory to President Barack Obama, who won re-election on a promise to address budget woes in part by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. His Republican antagonists were forced to vote against a core tenet of their anti-tax conservative faith. . . .

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