Tag: even-though
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UK urged to stop locking up stateless "ghost people"
By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain is locking up stateless people for long periods even though there is nowhere they can be deported to, campaigners, lawyers and academics said on Thursday as they called for a strict time limit on detention. The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) estimates several hundred stateless people…
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UK urged to stop locking up stateless "ghost people"
By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain is locking up stateless people for long periods even though there is nowhere they can be deported to, campaigners, lawyers and academics said on Thursday as they called for a strict time limit on detention. The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) estimates several hundred stateless people…
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Pot-in-schools debate returns to Colorado
DENVER (AP) — A new Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at public schools is getting a second look Monday in a House committee.
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UK cost agency says ‘no’ to pricey Vertex cystic fibrosis drug
LONDON (Reuters) – A new cystic fibrosis treatment from Vertex Pharmaceuticals has been rejected as too expensive by Britain’s healthcare cost agency NICE. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said on Wednesday that Orkambi, priced at an annual 104,000 pounds per patient, was not a cost-effective use of state healthcare resources, even…
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Texas executes man who killed city inspector in 2005
Texas on Tuesday executed a convicted killer who repeatedly shot a city code officer inspecting piles of garbage at the death row inmate's former home, a department of criminal justice official said. Adam Ward, 33, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. The execution…
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BioMarin drug fails to show inattention, mood benefit in study
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc’s drug met a study’s main goal of reducing a toxic buildup of an amino acid in the blood of patients with a genetic disorder, but did not show enough benefit in related inattention and mood complications. BioMarin’s shares fell as much as 6 percent in early trading on Monday after the company…
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Premature Birth Could Impact Fitness Later In Life
(Reuters Health) – Young adults who were born prematurely may have weaker muscles than their peers born at full term, a Finnish study suggests.These young adults born preterm also considered themselves less physically fit, even though the study didn’t find their cardiorespiratory fitness levels to be much different than people who weren’t…
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Oxley, co-author of landmark U.S. anti-fraud law, dies at 71
Former U.S. Representative Mike Oxley, a 12-term Republican congressman from Ohio who co-sponsored a landmark 2002 law to fight corporate fraud, died on Friday at the age of 71, officials said. “Mike personified a true public servant who loved serving his constituents, Ohio, and the United States of America,” Oxley's successor in Congress, Representative Bob…
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U.S. dietary supplement shares whipsawed by Justice Dept. announcement
Shares of dietary supplement retailers tumbled in heavy trading volume on Tuesday, spurring a surge in options hedging activity for those stocks even though fears they would be mentioned in a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit did not materialize. GNC Holdings’ shares tumbled as much as 27.1 percent to hit their lowest in four years,…
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Women and Toilets. A Tale of Two Worlds.
By: Ranit Mishori and Tanvi Nagpal The scene at the Boston Ballet the other day was not unusual: a long line of women waiting to use the bathroom. Surprisingly, and with the help of a wonderful bathroom attendant who used a microphone to call out available stalls by number, the line moved very quickly. While…