Новости за 19.01.2016

A recent article describes a Beaufort women’s challenge to a Beaufort County ordinance that requires pit bulls to be spayed or neutered.

I grew up in Mount Pleasant catching fiddler crabs at low tide along the banks of Conch Creek, yet I am among the large majority of South Carolinians who welcome potential energy production in our state.

If you’re among the more than 24 million Americans who take a cholesterol-lowering statin, now hear this: Don’t stop these heart-protecting drugs on your own.

Recently a group of 15 cancer researchers cut short a meeting at the Food and Drug Administration. The reason: They had been invited to Vice President Joe Biden’s office to discuss his "moonshot" to cure cancer.

Two online graduate nursing programs in South Carolina have been named the first and second best in the United States by a new U.S. New & World Report list.

Katy Clemens wanted to have a natural, drug-free childbirth. Then an ultrasound suggested her baby would weigh 11.5 pounds, and her doctors insisted she schedule a cesarean section.

NEW YORK — In a storefront parlor on Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, a father of two sat in a chair one recent Saturday afternoon, his shirt hiked over his head to reveal an open expanse of shoulder to be tattooed.

Daniel Castner of Napa, California, speaks from experience when he advises people to pay attention to their bodies and have anything unusual thoroughly checked out without delay. It’s just possible there’s a treatment that can nip a problem in the bud if treatment is started soon enough.

Having friends is good for your physical health, and the benefits appear to start early in life, according to a new study.

NEW YORK — Fast food is becoming a dirty term.

BROWN, Adell S., 99, of Mount Pleasant, a former retail clerk with Belk, died Sunday. Arrangements by Simplicity Lowcountry Cremation and Burial Services of North Charleston.

BARKUS, Robert, Mount Pleasant

Boxing as a spectator sport may be on the ropes, but the sport as a non-combative, group fitness activity is spreading like wildfire across the nation, starting in the usual fitness hubs of New York, Los Angeles and other trend-setting cities.

NEW YORK — Getting cable service no longer requires a technician who’ll come and install an ugly cable box.

For those of us who argue in favor of gun safety laws, there are a few inconvenient facts. We liberals are sometimes glib about equating guns and danger. In fact, it’s complicated: The number of guns in America has increased by more than 50 percent since 1993, and in that same period the gun homicide rate in the U.S. has dropped...

The Minding the Campus website chose the beginning of the second semester to issue its hotly contested "Worst College President of the Year" award. The somewhat predictable winner was Yale’s Peter Salovey, who "committed millions of dollars to appease racial protesters with a basket of goodies likely to...

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's implied oil consumption grew 2.5 percent in 2015 on strong growth in gasoline and kerosene use, defying a slowing economy and falling demand for many other commodities.

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - British insurer Prudential Plc said on Tuesday its solvency capital ratio was 190 percent on June 30, 2015 under new European rules for insurers.

* China 2015 oil demand at 10.32 mln bpd despite slowing economy

* Full-year growth in 2016 likely to be negative - analyst (Adds investment real growth rate, economist comment, details)

LOS ANGELES, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A natural gas leak that has sickened residents of a Los Angeles neighborhood will be stopped by late February or possibly sooner, the utility that operates the site of the leak said on Monday, after previously indicating the job could take until late March.

* China economy grew 6.8 pct last quarter, matching expectations

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will prosecute two former senior officials, including a one-time vice mayor of Shanghai, for corruption, after probes found they abused their power and took bribes, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Second seed Andy Murray advanced into the second round of the Australian Open after a comfortable 6-1 6-2 6-3 victory over Germany's Alexander Zverev on Tuesday.

Economies around the world feel the chill as China posts a 2015 GDP reading of 6.9%, its slowest growth figure in more than two decades. As Tara Joseph reports, there are a number of reasons for analysts and investors to worry.