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...In February, the Philippines said one of its ships was hit by a laser from a Chinese vessel near the disputed Spratly Islands....
...The Alexandria Center for Life Science opened in the city five years later. “Bloomberg was the most aggressive supporter of the industry....
...Wartzman, who runs the Drucker Institute’s KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society, credits the retailer with undergoing a “remarkable” transformation in how it treats its people....
...The Staples Center in Los Angeles, one of the best-known sports and entertainment arenas in the US, is being rebranded as the Crypto.com Arena, the first such name change since the 20,000-seat venue opened...
...Bob Iger, former Disney chief executive, has described Mr Mayer as “intense” and “laser-focused”....
...New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc vs Bruen The court’s conservative majority last week recognised a constitutional right to carry firearms outside the home, striking down a century-old New York...
...The unusual price reduction comes as the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering whether to cover the drug within Medicare, the programme for senior citizens....
...Last week Oxfam joined forces with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, or ICCR, and the investor groups Mercy Investments and Trinity Health to file shareholder resolutions calling on Pfizer...
...The US Department of Energy helped establish MIT’s Plasma Fusion Center — now the Plasma Science and Fusion Center — in 1976 in response to the oil crisis and rising prices....
...“We are well aware of the attention surrounding this approval,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research....
...The justice department accused Thaxter of asking employees to devise a strategy to win preferred drug status for it with MassHealth, the Massachusetts regulator....
...As the US reels from an opioid crisis that has turned 2m Americans into addicts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Insys and Purdue Pharma — a company owned by members of the billionaire...
...Lori Trahan, a Democratic representative from Massachusetts, said: “We want to understand the types of data that they are collecting on our children....
...Rochelle Walensky, the chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School, said the preliminary data suggested “some modest benefit” which...
...Quest’s Mr Davis said: “What the government can do more of is to seed innovation, making sure the smartest people at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] and Cornell and Harvard are getting what they...
...Following his diagnosis, he set up the Sean M Healey and AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital, raising more than $40m....
...Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that while the decision was not “under critical review” by public health authorities, he was unhappy with the move....
...Congressional leaders are looking into the outbreaks at Massachusetts Walmarts and the family of Wando Evans, an associate in Chicago who died of Covid-19, is alleging Walmart failed to fulfil its duty of...
...Arlington in Massachusetts hits them with penalties....
...Polarisation by TV remote has reached the point where voters are forming their views on politics (and pandemics) “in two nearly inverse news media environments”, the Pew Research Center has found....
...As ever with Apple, its laser-etched titanium card is beautifully packaged, and promises to change the world....
...Insys also owes $30m to the healthcare fraud unit of the US attorney’s office for the district of Massachusetts, and a total of about $11m for counsel for Mr Kapoor....
...Andrew Lelling, US attorney for Massachusetts, where the most recent case against Insys executives was tried, said the resolution was the culmination of years of work by prosecutors and agents and should...
...Andrew Lelling, US attorney for Massachusetts, said it was “the first successful prosecution of top pharmaceutical executives for crimes related to the illicit marketing and prescribing of opioids”....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 9 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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