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Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB in lab tests

Published by on May 22, 2013

Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists have found. The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this increasingly hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva University say in Nature Communications. An estimated 650,000 people worldwide have multidrug-resistant TB. Studies are now needed to see if a treatment that works using the same action… Read more →

iReporter Jeff Lechus talks about driving to pick up his son from school as a tornado hit the area.

Overnight, shots were fired from Syria at an IDF patrol. IDF forces returned fire, reporting a direct hit on source of the attack. The IDF will continue to operate day and night in order to keep Israel’s citizens safe.

The Oklahoma City Medical Examiner’s Office says the death toll from a massive tornado that churned through Oklahoma City Monday has been downgraded from 51 to at least 24.

“To date, 24 deceased victims of the tornado have been transported to our Oklahoma City Office, and positive identification have been made in the vast majority of those, and these are ready for return to their loved ones,” spokeswoman Amy Elliott told FoxNews.com in an e-mail.

Seven of the bodies are children.

Elliott said during early recovery efforts, 51 deaths were reported to the medical examiner’s office, but some of them may have been double-counted.

 

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Senior WH aides knew about IRS probe, Carney says

Published by on May 20, 2013

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Denis McDonough, President Obama’s chief of staff, was among a handful of senior aides informed of the Treasury inspector general’s findings that the IRS was targeting conservative groups for heightened scrutiny in their tax-exempt application process – but insisted he did not intervene in the “ongoing” investigation, or tell the president.

Fact check rips IRS official over Tea Party targeting claims

Published by on May 20, 2013

A detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official’s claim that the agency’s scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonprofit applications, showing the practice started well before the forms started flooding in. The piece in The Washington Post disputed a central claim that Lois Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, and other IRS officials made… Read more →

Deadly Twisters Rip Through Midwest — with More Storms on the Horizon

Published by on May 20, 2013

At least one person has been killed and 21 injured in Oklahoma as a severe storm system generated several tornadoes Sunday in Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, leveling neighborhoods and sending frightened residents scurrying for shelter as extreme conditions are expected to linger across the Midwest. The tornadoes, high winds and hail were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that… Read more →

Sun unleashes four massive solar flares in two days

Published by on May 16, 2013

The Sun has unleashed four massive solar flares in two days, each emitting energy equivalent to a billion hydrogen bombs. The latest flare on Wednesday might cause geomagnetic storms on Earth affecting satellites and communications systems. Four significant X-class solar flares left the Sun in just 48 hours, sending powerful bursts of radiation into space, according to Space Weather website…. Read more →