Tag: italian

  • The best Italian restaurants in NYC

    The best Italian restaurants in NYC

    With so many great Italian restaurants in New York City, you may often get overwhelmed by the idea of having to choose the best one for your next eat-out. Luckily for you, we’ve sifted through them all and only reviewed the best ones below. Dominick’s Located in the Bronx, Dominick’s is known for its well-sauced…

  • DNA offers hard evidence of malaria in Roman Empire

    A DNA analysis of 2,000-year-old teeth unearthed from an Italian graveyard has offered hard evidence that malaria existed during the Roman Empire, researchers said Monday. The findings are based on mitochondrial DNA — genetic material inherited from one's mother — extracted from teeth belonging to 58 adults and 10 children at three imperial-period Italian cemeteries,…

  • Chiesi nears cardiovascular assets deal with Medicine Co: sources

    By Carl O’Donnell and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – Italian specialty pharmaceutical company Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA is close to an agreement to acquire some of Medicines Co’s cardiovascular assets for several hundred millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The transaction would allow Chiesi to expand its global footprint, while freeing up capital…

  • Chiesi nears cardiovascular assets deal with Medicine Co: sources

    By Carl O’Donnell and Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – Italian specialty pharmaceutical company Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA is close to an agreement to acquire some of Medicines Co’s cardiovascular assets for several hundred millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The transaction would allow Chiesi to expand its global footprint, while freeing up capital…

  • Gates Foundation backs Takeda polio vaccine with $38 million grant

    By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceuticals is to get $38 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a crucial, low-cost polio vaccine for use in developing countries. As part of a global plan to eradicate the crippling disease, of which experts say the world could see the last case…

  • News about Schumacher ‘not good’: Montezemolo

    The latest news about the health of seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher is not good, his former Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo said on Thursday. The German is still receiving intensive treatment far from the public eye at his home in Switzerland following severe head injuries that he suffered in a skiing accident…

  • Italy confirms higher cancer, death rates from mob dumping

    ROME (AP) — An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste dumping by the local Camorra mob.

  • Italy confirms higher cancer, death rates from mob dumping

    ROME (AP) — An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste dumping by the local Camorra mob.

  • Execution of Saudi cleric latest blow to hopes of rapprochement with Iran

    By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian clerics, officials and students attacked Sunni Muslim-ruled Saudi Arabia on Saturday for executing Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, a move that seemed to further doom any hope of rapprochement between two ideologically opposed powers vying for influence across the region. Nimr, executed along with three other Shi’ites and dozens…

  • Premature Birth Could Impact Fitness Later In Life

    (Reuters Health) – Young adults who were born prematurely may have weaker muscles than their peers born at full term, a Finnish study suggests.These young adults born preterm also considered themselves less physically fit, even though the study didn’t find their cardiorespiratory fitness levels to be much different than people who weren’t…