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  • Special Report: The mafia and a very special flower arrangement

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    By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – To traders at the famous Royal FloraHolland flower market near Amsterdam, Vincenzo Crupi was just another businessman helping to make the Netherlands the largest exporter of cut flowers in the world. To the police, Crupi was a mafia suspect allegedly concealing drugs worth millions of dollars alongside fragrant bouquets…

  • Oral contraceptive use early in pregnancy not tied to defects

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    By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Women who accidentally keep taking oral contraceptives after becoming pregnant shouldn't worry about birth defects, a new study suggests. An analysis of nearly 900,000 births found no connection between oral contraceptive use right before or during pregnancy and birth defects in babies, researchers report in The BMJ. “For…

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    By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Women who accidentally keep taking oral contraceptives after becoming pregnant shouldn't worry about birth defects, a new study suggests. An analysis of nearly 900,000 births found no connection between oral contraceptive use right before or during pregnancy and birth defects in babies, researchers report in The BMJ. “For…

  • UniQure shares jump on promising gene therapy data

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    Dutch biotech UniQure NV said its experimental gene therapy for a blood disorder benefited some patients in an early-stage study, offering a rare ray of hope in gene therapy research plagued by a series of failed trials. Janney Capital Markets analyst Debjit Chattopadhyay said UniQure’s data looked better than that of Baxalta Inc’s rival drug.…

  • Canadian cross-border M&A seen gaining momentum in 2016

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    By John Tilak and Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – Lawyers expect cross-border deals to again drive Canadian merger and acquisition activity in 2016 after aggressive moves by Canadian firms spurred a major surge in M&A transactions last year. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt topped the list of law firms that advised on M&A transactions involving Canadian…