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Vermont becomes third US state to legalize … AFP - 17 hours agoVermont became on Monday the third US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. More »
Impossible to predict outcome in China's … AFP - 17 hours agoIt is impossible to predict the evolution of China's human H7N9 bird flu outbreak as researchers are still trying to understand the source of human transmission, More »
SARS-like virus claims new life in Saudi: … AFP - 18 hours agoA Saudi man who had contracted the coronavirus has died, raising the death toll in the kingdom from the SARS-like virus to 16, the health ministry announced on More »
- Royalty ups Elan bid and issues shareholder … Reuters - 19 hours ago
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Royalty Pharma raised its hostile bid for Elan to $12.50 (8.20 pounds) per share and heaped pressure on shareholders, saying it will withdraw the More »
- Actavis to buy Warner Chilcott in $5 … Reuters - 22 hours ago
By Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Generic drugmaker Actavis Inc , itself the subject of takeover speculation, said on Monday it would buy specialty pharmaceutical More »
- AstraZeneca closes in on site for new … Reuters - 23 hours ago
By Ben Hirschler and Tom Bill LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca is closing in on a site for its new $500 million home in Cambridge, with a biomedical park just south More »
- UK tries out new model for gene testing … Reuters - 23 hours ago
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Britain launched a research programme on Monday that should eventually allow all cancer patients to have access to the kind of More »
Don't wear socks, hot Pakistanis told … Reuters - Mon, May 20, 2013ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has told civil servants not to wear socks as the country turns off air-conditioners amid a chronic power crisis and soaring More »
- Elan strikes more deals to repel Royalty … Reuters - Mon, May 20, 2013
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Elan announced its second major drug deal inside a week on Monday and said it would buy back more shares as it continues to bat More »
Indonesia's nationwide healthcare plan … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Randy Fabi and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) - When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away in February, critics More »
Alzheimer's leaves bilingual victims … AFP - Sun, May 19, 2013The devastating effect of Alzheimer's disease on bilingual people has been thrown into focus in Canada, where the sudden loss of a second language can leave More »
Greying China taps rural elderly to … Reuters - Sun, May 19, 2013By Li Hui and Maxim Duncan QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his More »
'Gap' for HIV vaccine efforts after … AFP - Sun, May 19, 2013The hunt for an HIV vaccine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past decade, and the failure of the most recent efficacy trial has delivered yet another setback to 26 More »
Bernanke, in commencement address, upbeat … Reuters - Sat, May 18, 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to lift living standards, More »
Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive … Reuters - Sat, May 18, 2013By Miriam Arghandiwal and Ibrahimi Aziz KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to More »
- Peru cracks down on junk food in schoolsFri, May 17, 2013
- South Sudan forces loot aid agencies in restive eastMon, May 13, 2013