Anthony Tesvich, a former highly paid Home Depot flooring buyer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Atlanta to four crimes, including tax evasion and fraud.
He was the mastermind behind a kickback scheme that netted him millions of dollars and filled the pockets of several former Home Depot colleagues with hundreds of thousands of dollars [...]
An older person’s likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new research indicates.
There could be various reasons for this, Elina Nihtila, of the department of sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, who led the research, told Reuters Health.
“It may be [...]
Home Affairs Director-General Mavuso Msimang has stuck to his guns about allegations that members of Parliament’s Home Affairs Portfolio Committee were “actively in contact†with departmental officials accused of corruption.
This came despite this week’s declaration by the committee’s chairman, Patrick Chauke, that Msimang had failed to substantiate his claims against the MPs.
Msimang told the Sunday [...]
IT GETS lonely sometimes for Chen Wen Tsong – the nights are especially hard. A carpenter for an interior outfit solutions company based in Dubai for the last two years, Chen feels a more acute yearning for his wife and children as the day draws to a close and he waits for sleep to Home [...]
The method involves introducing Gonatocerus ashmeadi, a microscopic parasitic wasp, into an ecosystem under siege from the glassy-winged sharpshooter. The tiny stingless wasp attacks glassy-winged sharpshooter eggs by drilling a tiny hole in the egg through which the parasite lays its own egg. The wasp larva that hatches from the egg then eats the [...]
Sylvia Cremer is from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Regensburg in Germany. Working with colleagues from these institutes and the University of Keele in the UK, she looked at colonies of ants in 14 locations around Europe. Using a combination of genetic, chemical and behavioural analyses, the researchers investigated the [...]
Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, were found in more than a dozen crop fields in Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006.
What we’re seeing is evolution in action, said lead researcher Bruce Tabashnik. This is the first documented case of field-evolved resistance to a Bt crop.
Bt crops are so named because they have been [...]
That leaves almost 80 percent who are suffering more than they need to, said the study’s lead author, Jill Halterman, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong. They may be experiencing unnecessary symptoms, missed school days, and restrictions on activity. That’s a problem.
Halterman said the survey results are striking because, [...]
According to the findings of a new study, published in the January issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, CO also causes direct damage to the heart muscle, separate from the effects of oxygen deprivation, which reduces the heart’s pumping capacity and permanently impairs cardiac function.
These findings suggest that heart damage caused by carbon monoxide may have [...]
Much of the research effort around MRSA to date has focused primarily on hospitals, said Carmel Hughes, lead review author.
MRSA spreads easily — most commonly via the hands of health care workers — and first-line antibiotics, like penicillin, are ineffective against the organism. Nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable because infection with the bug tends [...]