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Obama taps New York donors despite Wall Street ire
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:41 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama returned to New York on Thursday for a series of high-end fundraising events, tapping Wall Street donors whose generosity has been strained by U.S. financial reforms that many bankers oppose. Facing the multimillion-dollar election war chests of his Republican rivals, Obama has raised $136 million so far in the 2012 presidential race, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. But only $2.3 million has so far come from the securities and investment industry, compared to the $7. ... Full Story | Top |
UCB sees sales, profit falling in 2012
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:22 PM PST
Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian drugmaker UCB forecast sales and profit would fall this year after the cost of launching new medicines and higher drug trial expenses pushed down 2011 earnings. It forecast 2012 recurring core profit would come in between 630-660 million euros ($840-$880 million), compared with 683 million euros last year. Last year's figure was below an average of 696 million euros expected by 12 banks and brokerages polled by Reuters. (Reporting By Ben Deighton) Full Story | Top |
HIV rate among US intravenous drug users falls: CDC
Thu,1 Mar 2012 06:12 PM PST
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - HIV infections among intravenous drug users in the United States have fallen by half in the past decade, but HIV testing is also down and risky behaviors such as needle-sharing persist, U.S. health experts said on Thursday. A study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention based on a 2009 survey of 10,000 people from 20 urban areas found that 9 percent of IV drug users were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That compares with a rate of 18 percent in the 1990s. ... Full Story | Top |
Loss of Arctic sea ice may lead to mercury deposits: NASA study
Thu,1 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Significant declines in perennial Arctic sea ice over the past decade may be intensifying a chemical reaction that leads to deposits of toxic mercury, a NASA-led study showed on Thursday. The study found that thick, perennial Arctic sea ice was being replaced by a thinner and saltier ice that releases bromine into the air when it interacts with sunlight and cold, said Son Nghiem, a NASA researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. ... Full Story | Top |
Daiichi Sankyo, GlaxoSmithKline set up Japan JV
Thu,1 Mar 2012 04:38 PM PST
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co said on Friday it will form a 50-50 joint venture with Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC to bring new vaccines to the Japanese market, which is known for its slow acceptance of vaccines. Japan's No.3 drugmaker said in a statement the venture, to be called Japan Vaccine Co, would sell vaccines marketed by Glaxo and Daiichi Sankyo, and the firms plan to expand the business as new vaccines in the development pipeline are approved. ... Full Story | Top |
Senate rejects Republican birth control challenge
Thu,1 Mar 2012 04:20 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate narrowly backed a key plank of President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Thursday by rejecting a sweeping Republican measure that would have allowed employers to opt out of birth control coverage and other services on moral grounds. Senators voted 51-48 to set aside a measure proposed by Republican Roy Blunt that would have exempted employers like Catholic hospitals, universities and charities from an Obama healthcare provision that requires most employers to offer free insurance coverage for women's contraceptives. ... Full Story | Top |
Some U.S. women live far from maternity care
Thu,1 Mar 2012 02:37 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some U.S. women, especially in the rural West, live more than an hour's drive from a hospital with maternity care, a new study finds. There's no set ideal for how close a pregnant woman should live from a maternity hospital. And the study did not look at whether women living more than an hour's drive away face bigger risks. But researchers say the findings add to the issue of Americans' varied access to medical care -- which, not surprisingly, is much more limited in rural areas than urban or suburban ones. ... Full Story | Top |
Senate rejects Republican birth control challenge
Thu,1 Mar 2012 01:32 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate narrowly backed a key plank of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law on Thursday by rejecting a sweeping Republican measure that would have allowed employers to opt out of birth control coverage and other services on moral grounds. Senators voted 51-48 to set aside a measure proposed by Republican Roy Blunt that would have exempted employers like Catholic hospitals, universities and charities from an Obama healthcare provision that requires most employers to offer free insurance coverage for women's contraceptives. ... Full Story | Top |
Global drug industry tightens anti-corruption code
Thu,1 Mar 2012 01:30 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The global pharmaceutical industry is tightening its code of practice in a bid to stamp out bribery and corruption, particularly in emerging markets. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations said on Thursday it had expanded and strengthened the code to ensure "the highest ethical and professional standards." Bribes paid to foreign doctors and other state employees are shaping up as a major legal liability threat for Big Pharma, which has already forked out billions of dollars to settle mis-selling scandals in the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
Mask may help curb drug-resistant tuberculosis
Thu,1 Mar 2012 01:29 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having tuberculosis patients wear a surgical mask all day cuts the likelihood of them transmitting the infection through the air by nearly half, according to a new study from South Africa. "It's great to know now that it's very effective," said Dr. Rod Escombe, a researcher at Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study. "I had already recommended it, and it was already suggested by guidelines, but we've never had any evidence before" that wearing a mask works, he told Reuters Health. Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infection caused by bacteria. ... Full Story | Top |
HIV rate among U.S. injection drug users falls: CDC
Thu,1 Mar 2012 12:52 PM PST
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - HIV infections among injection drug users in the United States have fallen by half in the past decade, but HIV testing is also down and risky behaviors such as needle-sharing persist, raising worries that progress may be short-lived, U.S. health experts said on Thursday. A study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based on a 2009 survey of 10,000 people from 20 urban areas found that 9 percent of IV drug users were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. ... Full Story | Top |
Air travel may help explain clots in marathoners
Thu,1 Mar 2012 12:16 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Marathon runners who travel by air to the race may end up with higher blood levels of molecules that have been linked to clots, a new study shows. That doesn't mean flying is actually likely to trigger a blood clot in endurance athletes, researchers say, or that air travel is a no-go. But it does suggest a possible explanation for the rare but mysterious reports of clots in otherwise healthy marathoners who flew to a race. ... Full Story | Top |
Is chocolate really heart-healthy?
Thu,1 Mar 2012 12:16 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - That heart-shaped box of chocolate you got for Valentine's just might have some benefits for your real heart, a new study hints. The study, which combined the results of 42 small clinical trials, found that people fed chocolate or cocoa for a few weeks to months had small dips in their blood pressure and improved blood vessel function. On average, chocolate eaters shaved a couple points from their blood pressure and showed a small improvement in "flow-mediated dilation" -- a measure of how well the blood vessels respond to increased blood flow. ... Full Story | Top |
Ousted Woodford launches Olympus lawsuit
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:52 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Woodford, the ousted Olympus chief executive who blew the whistle on one of Japan's most high-profile frauds, vowed he would hold his former employer to account as he kicked off his legal battle for wrongful dismissal in London on Thursday. "I found wrongdoing, I raised that wrongdoing and for doing that I was dismissed ... in a way in which I'll never forget," he told a small throng of reporters gathered outside an employment tribunal building in east London. "(I was) thrown out of my apartment and told to get the bus to the airport. We now know why ... ...
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Syphilis tests could save a million babies: experts
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:18 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The lives of almost a million newborn babies could be saved every year if simple, cheap and rapid tests for syphilis were offered to pregnant women in poorer countries, global health experts said on Thursday. The Global Congenital Syphilis Partnership, a group set up to help tackle the sexually transmitted disease, said testing women in early pregnancy would cost less than 1 pound ($1.58) per woman, and those who tested positive could be treated with a single dose of the cheap antibiotic penicillin. ... Full Story | Top |
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