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  • India court tells tobacco industry to adopt stricter warnings

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    India's highest court on Wednesday ordered cigarette manufacturers to comply with controversial new rules requiring bigger health warnings on packets that sparked weeks-long factory shutdowns. The tobacco industry has taken the government to court, arguing that the directives — aimed at deterring smokers with graphic images of diseased lungs and mouth tumours — are too…

  • India court tells tobacco industry to adopt stricter warnings

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    India's highest court on Wednesday ordered cigarette manufacturers to comply with controversial new rules requiring bigger health warnings on packets that sparked weeks-long factory shutdowns. The tobacco industry has taken the government to court, arguing that the directives — aimed at deterring smokers with graphic images of diseased lungs and mouth tumours — are too…

  • Biotech stock swoon sparks buyout interest: investor

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    The Nasdaq Biotechnology index fell 23 percent in the first three months of 2016, its worst quarterly performance since 2002, and remains down one-third from its all-time high, reached last July. Andy Acker, a portfolio manager at Janus Capital Group who helps oversee $7 billion in healthcare assets, says the sell-off led to a steep…

  • Biotech stock swoon sparks buyout interest: investor

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    The Nasdaq Biotechnology index fell 23 percent in the first three months of 2016, its worst quarterly performance since 2002, and remains down one-third from its all-time high, reached last July. Andy Acker, a portfolio manager at Janus Capital Group who helps oversee $7 billion in healthcare assets, says the sell-off led to a steep…