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GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm
GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics. Verily Life Sciences – known as Google's life sciences unit until last year – and Britain's biggest drugmaker will together contribute 540 million…
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VW’s Audi will miss 2016 profitability goal
Volkswagen's luxury division Audi will miss its benchmark for profitability this year as costs for the diesel emissions scandal and possible recalls of cars fitted with Takata Corp airbags are weighing on results. First-half operating profit at Audi plunged 18 percent to 2.4 billion euros ($2.66 billion), including 265 million euros of special items which…
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Mosquitoes suspected in 2 new mysterious Florida Zika cases
NEW YORK (AP) — Florida health officials are investigating two more mysterious cases of Zika infection that do not appear to be related to travel, bringing the total to four.
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Lack of exercise costs world $67.5 bln and 5 million lives a year
* Physical inactivity linked to 5 million deaths a year * Sitting for eight hours or more raises mortality risk * Experts say at least an hour a day of exercise is ideal By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) – A study of one million people has found that physical…
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Teva, Allergan win U.S. antitrust approval for generics deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd won U.S. antitrust approval to purchase Allergan Plc's generics business, after agreeing to divest 79 generic drugs to rival firms, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.
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Exercise lowers heart disease risk, even for younger women
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For women under age 50, spending two and half hours of leisure time each week being active could cut heart disease risk by 25%, according to a U.S. study. While that’s been shown before for middle aged and older adults, less was known about whether exercise would make a…
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Australian PM orders inquiry after teenage prisoners teargassed, stripped naked
By Matt Siegel and Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the treatment of children in detention after the airing of video showing prison guards teargassing teenage inmates and strapping a half-naked, hooded-boy to a chair. Footage of the abuse of six aboriginal boys in a…