Tag: illnesses-kill
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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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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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Adviser to top EU court says EU cigarette law is valid
An adviser to Europe's highest court in Luxembourg on Wednesday said an EU law on cigarettes was valid, rebuffing a challenge from Philip Morris International, although the court still has to deliver a final ruling. The opinion, if adopted by the court, would be a blow to Big Tobacco, which had lobbied vigorously against what…
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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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Ukraine health system in danger of collapse as reforms stall
A reform drive launched by the Western-leaning government installed after a pro-Moscow president, Viktor Yanukovich, was overthrown in a popular uprising last year has become mired in bureaucratic inertia, arguments and allegations of corruption. “I don't know who is writing and carrying out reforms at the top or if they have ever been to a…