Tag: actual-damages
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J&J must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to talcum powder: lawyers
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades. In a verdict announced late Monday night, jurors in the…
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J&J must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to talcum powder: lawyers
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades. In a verdict announced late Monday night, jurors in the…
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Cuba throws soldiers into battle against Zika virus
HAVANA (AP) — Olive-clad soldiers are going door-to-door across Cuba, filling houses with mosquito-killing fog in a nationwide mobilization to keep the Zika virus out of one of the last countries in the hemisphere without it.
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U.N. says poised for huge Syria aid effort, if the door opens
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations is ready for a huge aid effort if the warring Syria parties stop fighting, but even then aid workers will proceed carefully and assess the safety of each delivery, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. “We are now standing by, our warehouses are full of aid…
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Brexit is the wrong prescription, says European pharma industry
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's departure from the European Union would threaten scientific research and jeopardize the 28-nation bloc's system of drug regulation, the European pharmaceutical industry said on Wednesday. The declaration is the clearest statement yet on the issue by an industry that includes EU-based players such as Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca,…
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Proving Zika guilty: A long and painstaking task
By Kate Kelland LONDON,(Reuters) – Evidence is building for the theory that Zika can cause newborn brain defects and the World Health Organization is promising more answers in weeks, but nailing a definitive link will be neither simple nor swift. Picking apart numerous potential connections between mothers who show evidence of infection with the mosquito-borne…