Noticias de Hoy

The bacterial zoo inside your gut could look very different if you’re a vegetarian or an Atkins dieter, a couch potato or an athlete, fat or thin.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With a few weeks remaining before the onset of "fiscal cliff," a bipartisan delegation of governors is set to meet Tuesday with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in search of some answers about the impact of deficit reduction measures on their state budgets, which rely heavily on federal aid. Federal grants to the states comprise about a third of state revenues in the United States, according to the Pew Center on the States. . . .

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While morning sickness in pregnant women is common, the problem the Duchess of Cambridge has been hospitalized with is not.

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Flu season in the U. S. is off to its earliest start in nearly a decade ? and it could be a bad one.

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Hassan al-Kubaisi considers it a gift from above that drivers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gallon at the pump.

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The United States on Monday challenged China’s view of how to split the burden of curbing carbon emissions, saying the rich-poor divide in past climate agreements has no place in a future pact to fight global warming.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Looking for the perfect holiday present for a fitness fan? Gift offerings this year range from apps that can store a run in the country to be viewed later to gadgets so sophisticated they measure quality of sleep as well as calories burned. There is also the revival of the humble foam roller, which experts say, like old-time push-ups, squats and planks, has never been more popular. Anita Golden, fitness manager at a Crunch gym in New York City, said she’ll be giving clients a foam roller called the GRID. . . .

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s Novo Nordisk, the world’s biggest insulin producer, said on Monday its Ryzodeg insulin had passed the first review by an advisory committee to the health ministry in Japan. Novo Nordisk said in a statement it expected to receive marketing authorization for the treatment from the Ministry within a few months. Price negotiations for another insulin, degludec, continued and were expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2013, the company said in the statement, adding the exact launch timing for Ryzodeg would be decided after a price listing for degludec. . . .

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will seek to convince Czech leaders of the advantages of picking U. S. firm Westinghouse over a Russian rival as the contractor for a $10 billion nuclear reactor project in meetings in Prague on Monday. U. S. officials traveling with Clinton to Prague said the Temelin nuclear power project could bring as many as 9,000 jobs to the United States and would help diversify the Czech Republic’s energy supply away from Russia. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed Republicans on Sunday to offer specific ideas to cut the deficit, and predicted that they would agree to raise tax rates on the rich to obtain a year-end deal and avoid possible economic doom. But the top U. S. Republican, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives John Boehner, stood firm and renewed his stand against increased tax rates, leaving talks at a stalemate. "Here’s the problem," Boehner told "Fox News Sunday" as both sides took their battle to TV talks shows. . . .

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