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Children aged 7 to 17 killed in Texas home by toxic chemical gas
Four children aged 7 to 17 died after a toxic gas leak from a pest control product at their home in Amarillo, Texas, fire officials said on Tuesday. Six others survived the incident, with Martha Balderas, the mother of the children, in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby Texas Panhandle city of Lubbock,…
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Why you shouldn’t treat earwax without seeing a doctor
“Patients may try to blindly instrument their ears with cotton ear buds, bobby pins, or other tools,” said Dr. Seth Schwartz, chair of a committee that drafted new guidelines for diagnosing and treating earwax for the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. “Scratching of the ear canal skin can lead to pain…
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Teva to pay U.S. government $519 million over foreign bribery charges
The settlement with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission relates to conduct in Ukraine, Mexico and a guilty plea by a subsidiary in Russia, and followed a voluntary investigation, Teva said. Details of the misconduct, which Teva said ended several years ago, were not disclosed. Teva, the world's biggest generic drugmaker,…
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U.S. watchdog highlights dire state of Afghan road system
Billions of dollars spent building up Afghanistan’s road infrastructure over more than a decade risk going to waste because of poor maintenance, a U.S. Congressional oversight body said on Saturday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said U.S. agencies had spent $2.8 billion since 2002 building roads in Afghanistan but wear and tear as…
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U.S. watchdog highlights dire state of Afghan road system
Billions of dollars spent building up Afghanistan’s road infrastructure over more than a decade risk going to waste because of poor maintenance, a U.S. Congressional oversight body said on Saturday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said U.S. agencies had spent $2.8 billion since 2002 building roads in Afghanistan but wear and tear as…
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VW HR chief says expects five-digit number of job cuts: FAZ
BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen expects the shift to electric cars to cost a five-digit number of jobs in coming years, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported, citing the carmaker's human resources chief. Karlheinz Blessing, who sits on VW group's nine-member top management board, said the carmaker will need to cut jobs in production as assembly…
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For Thais overcome by the king’s death, medics and a hotline
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Kaweewit Kaewjinda BANGKOK (Reuters) – King Bhumibol Adulyadej was so revered that many Thai people around the country fainted or felt unwell when they learnt this week that he had died after 70 years on the throne. “There are people who hyperventilate and we try to calm them down by…
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For Thais overcome by the king’s death, medics and a hotline
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Kaweewit Kaewjinda BANGKOK (Reuters) – King Bhumibol Adulyadej was so revered that many Thai people around the country fainted or felt unwell when they learnt this week that he had died after 70 years on the throne. “There are people who hyperventilate and we try to calm them down by…
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Mylan pays $465 million to settle EpiPen Medicaid rebate dispute
(Reuters) – Mylan NV on Friday said it will pay $465 million to settle the question of whether misclassification of its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment resulted in underpayment of rebates to the U.S. Medicaid healthcare program. The company has come under scrutiny for raising prices on the lifesaving EpiPen sixfold in less than a decade,…