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Home for the Holidays? Hold the sugar, please
In the month of December, retail sales of sugar typically account for almost double most other months of the year. Stew Leonard, Jr., chief executive of the Stew Leonard's chain of four supermarkets in New York and Connecticut, has begun paring back shelf space devoted to sugar as he braces for another year-over-year decline in…
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Fire sweeps through Saudi hospital, at least 24 dead
The fire broke out at the general hospital in the southwestern port city of Jazan, the capital of the Jizan region, one of Saudi Arabia's poorest areas. The civil defense agency said 25 people died but a later statement by Health Minister Khalid al-Falih put the death toll at 24. Photographs published on Twitter by…
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Commentary: The unseen toll of workplace disease in America
Work-related illnesses kill an estimated 50,000 people in America each year. Few seem to notice or care.
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India’s Piramal eyes nutrition, cough-cold brands to boost consumer health arm
India's Piramal Enterprises Ltd is exploring buying nutritional supplements and cough and cold brands to grow its consumer healthcare business to among the three largest in the country by 2020, a senior executive said. The healthcare and financial services conglomerate, owned by Indian billionaire Ajay Piramal, is studying various brands, but is not close to…
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Sanofi submits new diabetes drug application to U.S. regulator
French drugmaker Sanofi said on Wednesday it had submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a single daily insulin injection to treat adults with type 2 diabetes. Sanofi said it had requested a six-month review of its new drug application by the FDA, rather than the standard 10 months. “A…
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Independent group says new Glaxo asthma drug far too expensive
An independent nonprofit organization that evaluates clinical and cost effectiveness of new medicines found the price of GlaxoSmithKline’s new drug for severe asthma should be as much as 76 percent lower to justify its value, according to the group’s latest draft report. The Boston-based Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) said its analysis indicated…
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Immortality Bus Delivers Newly Created Transhumanist Bill of Rights to the US Capitol
The Immortality Bus at the US Capitol in Washington DC — Photo by Zoltan IstvanAfter months of traveling across the country on a national bus tour, the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus drove into Washington DC and successfully delivered a newly created Transhumanist Bill of Rights to the US Capitol. The delivery of the futurist-themed…
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San Francisco hospital suspends kidney donations after death
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — UCSF Medical Center has voluntarily suspended its living donor program for kidney transplants after a living donor died last month.