A $4.4 billion upgrade program has been approved by the San Francisco officials to safeguard the Hetch Hetchy, the Bay Area's largest drinking water system from drought or a catastrophic earthquake.

Both San Francisco's planning and public utilities commissions, despite opposition from some environmental groups have approved the upgrade though they have put off plans to divert more water from the Tuolumne River for another decade.

GlaxoSmithKline P. L. C.'s drug Avandia is facing flak for causing more than one dozen cases of liver failure and death in patients taking the drug according to a consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

A study by Swedish researchers has found that the extra hour of sleep that the daylight savings time gives could prevent some people from having a heart attack. The research based on heart attacks in Sweden found that lack of sufficient sleep could adversely affect cardiovascular health and may even result in an increased likelihood of having a heart attack.