Tag: several-years
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Vera Rubin, pioneering U.S. dark matter astronomer, dies at 88
Rubin died on Sunday at an assisted living facility in Princeton, New Jersey, and had suffered from dementia for several years, Allan Rubin, a geosciences professor at Princeton University, said in an email. Rubin, a Philadelphia native, used galaxies’ rotations to discover the first direct evidence of dark matter in the 1970s while working at…
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Cancer patient donates year’s worth of pizza to food bank
NORTHAMPTON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man going through treatment for colon cancer won a pizza parlor’s raffle for a year’s worth of free pies and then donated his prize to a food bank.
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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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Sweden needs more immigrants to counter ageing population: employment agency
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden needs more immigrants not fewer to sustain its cradle-to-grave welfare system and care for an ageing population, a senior official at the state employment service told Reuters in an interview. In 2015, a record 163,000 people sought asylum in Sweden, the highest per capita in Europe, part of…
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Rugby union-Former players criticise RFU concussion decision
English rugby’s decision not to sanction Northampton Saints for their handling of George North’s concussion against Leicester has been widely crticised, with one former international branding it “a disgrace”. The rugby players’ union (RPA) and a brain injury charity also took issue with the conclusion of a three-man RFU panel that the club did not…
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Roche receives blood cancer drug blow after Gazyva trial fails to meet endpoint
Swiss drugmaker Roche said trials showed its new blood cancer drug Gazyva failed to deliver significant improvements over an older medicine in people with an aggressive type of blood cancer, a blow in its fight against competition from biosimilars. Gazyva did not significantly reduce the risk of disease worsening or death for people with previously…
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US bans sale of e-cigarettes to those under 18
The United States Thursday issued a sweeping ban on sales of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs to those under 18, marking the first time these products have been federally regulated. The ban will go into effect in 90 days, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, which issued the final rule after several…
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Cayman Islands to deploy genetically modified mosquitoes
MIAMI (AP) — British biotech company Oxitec and the Cayman Islands government announced plans Thursday to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the fight against a species that spreads Zika and other diseases.