Tag: britain
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Global ad spend strengthens on U.S. demand: Zenith
Spending on global advertising will grow by a better-than-expected 4.4 percent this year, led by the United States, a leading forecaster said on Monday. Zenith, owned by France's Publicis , raised its global growth forecast for this year from the 4.1 percent it predicted in June, despite the uncertainty sparked by Britain's vote to leave…
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Statins’ benefits understated and harms exaggerated, scientists warn
By Kate Kelland LONDON, (Reuters) – – The benefits of statins – cholesterol-busting drugs that can dramatically reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes – have been underestimated and their harms exaggerated, scientists said on Thursday in a major review of research. In an effort to counter what they said were misleading reports of…
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Appeals court rejects Michigan woman’s lawsuit over Catholic hospital care
Tamesha Means said she went to a Mercy Health Partners facility in Muskegon, Michigan, the only hospital within 30 minutes of her home, when her water broke after only 18 weeks of pregnancy, according to the lawsuit filed against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2013. Despite her being in excruciating pain and with…
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Chipotle settles sick customers’ claims, avoiding court battles
Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to financial settlements with more than 100 customers who fell ill after eating at its restaurants last year, lawyers for the consumers said, as it attempts to move on from a string of food-safety problems. Terms of Chipotle's settlements with customers were confidential, lawyers representing them said this week. Chipotle…
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India plans surrogacy ban for foreigners, unmarried couples
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government plans to ban foreigners, single parents and gay couples from using India's surrogacy services under a proposed law intended to protect poor women from exploitation.
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Turkish Airlines resuming flights to Sharm al-Sheikh
Turkish Airlines will resume flights next month to Sharm al-Sheikh, nearly a year after they were suspended following the bombing of a Russian jet which took off from the Egyptian resort, the Turkish embassy in Cairo said on Wednesday. “Turkish Airlines will be the first of the companies that halted flights after October 31, 2015…
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Britain seeks to fight the fat with soft drinks sugar levy
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday launched a strategy aimed at curbing childhood obesity by taxing companies which sell sugar-laced soft drinks and investing that money in programmes to encourage physical activity and balanced diets for school children. Urging food and drinks firms to act swiftly to cut sugar in their products,…
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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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GSK forms bioelectronics venture with Alphabet
British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline announced Monday that it will form a joint venture with Google's parent company Alphabet to research and develop so-called bioelectronic medicines. GSK has agreed with Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences) to create a new company called Galvani Bioelectronics, it said in a statement.