A fresh series of UK postal strikes begins in a dispute with Royal Mail over pay and modernisation plans.

- Postal workers set for new strike

A British man is extradited from Morocco to face questioning over the 53m Securitas raid in Kent.

- 53m raid suspect extradited

Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline.A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’ compensation claims, had seven times higher medical costs from those claims and lost 13 times more days of work from work injury or work illness than did nonobese workers. [click link for full article]

- Obesity Increases Workers’ Compensation Costs

New research carried out by researchers in Nepal has shown that a new and affordable drug, Gatifloxacin, may be more effective at treating typhoid fever than the drug currently recommended by the World Health Organisation. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, has implications for the treatment of typhoid particularly in areas where drug resistance is a major problem. [click link for full article]

- Nepalese Researchers Identify Cost-Effective Treatment For Drug-Resistant Typhoid