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Anthropologist and childbirth expert Sheila Kitzinger has died at 86. Her books proved to be a great help for people who wanted to learn how to begin new lives as parents. Her publisher, Pinter & Martin, confirmed that Kitzinger succumbed to a quick illness at her property close to Oxford in southern England.

Kitzinger gained popularity as an early leader of the all-natural childbirth movement. She also worked to make girls empowered throughout pregnancy and birth. Among her more than two dozen books are 'The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth', 'The Encounter of Childbirth' and 'Ourselves as Mothers'.

Her daughter Celia Kitzinger said her mother was a great human being and her efforts against female genital mutilation will never be forgotten.

Rhode Island physician Adam Levine along with his team published a research that will help doctors in determining a patient's risk of having the disease until lab results are present.

The research was based on their experience of setting up and running an Ebola clinic in Africa last year. He developed a diagnostic tool, which was the subject of a paper in the latest issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

He carried out the research in Liberia, while working with the International Medical Corps, a humanitarian organization, as it set up its first Ebola treatment center.

The Health Diagnostics Laboratory and Singulex Inc is going to pay millions of dollars as they allegedly bribed doctors so that they can receive referrals and for doing unnecessary testing and let Medicare pay for it.

For every referral the companies received, the doctor who referred received $10 to $17 because they also waive co-pays and deductibles for the patients. Health Diagnostics Laboratory is going to pay $7 million and Singulex Inc. will pay $1.5 million in order to settle the cases.

The two diagnostics company also worked with Blue Wave healthcare consultants in order to get more referrals from doctors who were getting incentives. Doctors were also getting incentives for every unnecessary test.

On Sunday, a Russian official said that enemy spy satellites disguised as space junk has been detected orbiting above its territory.

The remarks were made by Gen. Oleg Maidanovich, the head of Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces' Space Command during the 40-minute, state-produced film Space Special Forces, which was shown on the defense ministry channel Zvezda.

The film was released to celebrate the space flight of cosmonaut Yury Gagarin on April 12, 1961. Maidanovich said, "Very recently, specialists of the department of space intelligence center uncovered a newly created group of space satellites made for radio-technical reconnaissance of equipment on Russian territory".

NASA has released a video titled 'Expect the Unexpected'. The video is the third in a series of videos celebrating Hubble Telescope's 25th anniversary. The novel video has shown some of the biggest mysteries of the universe and much more.

This month marks as the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope has been built by NASA with the help from ESA. The telescope has been named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble. His observations unveiled that the universe is expanding.

The United States based company Sabra Dipping Company announced on Wednesday that it has decided to recall about 30,000 cases of famous classic hummus dip that could be contaminated with Listeria bacteria, a harmful genus of bacteria that contains 10 species, each containing two subspecies.

Listeria monocytogenes is known to have been the cause of several deaths in the past. Sabra, which is the world’s largest hummus manufacturer, is not the first company that has recalled its products. On April 7, Blue Bell removed a huge quantity of ice-cream when some of their products tested positive for the disease. Three individuals were poisoned with Listeria and died after consuming the products.