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Samsung creates committee to inspect plants linked to cancer

2016-01-12 09:36:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics will create an independent committee to monitor working conditions at its semiconductor facilities, writes Bloomberg. The ombudsman committee was created together with victims of leukemia and other work-related diseases, and a local civic after some court cases established that its workers developed rare cancers and other illnesses at its semiconductor facilities. The move comes after Samsung announced a KRW 100 billion (USD 83 million) fund in July to compensate victims and fund preventive measures. Samsung publicly apologised in 2015 to its ill workers and to the surviving family members it battled in South Korea's courts over a period of nine years.

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Illumina, partners make $100 million bet to detect cancer via blood test

2016-01-11 01:57:29| Biotech - Topix.net

Gene sequencing company Illumina Inc is going after the next big advance in cancer detection, working to develop a universal blood test to identify early-stage cancers in people with no symptoms of the disease. On Sunday, San Diego-based Illumina said it would form a new company, called Grail, with more than $100 million in Series A financing.

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CEO Frazier: Merck is eager for deals, sees strong prospects for drugs for cancer, hepatitis C

2016-01-05 22:22:53| Biotech - Topix.net

Merck's chief executive says the drugmaker is "raring to go" on deals this year, particularly for small and midsize acquisitions of companies or their experimental drugs. CEO Kenneth Frazier, speaking Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs conference of CEOs of health care companies in Boston, also said he expects more approvals and growing sales from new cancer drug Keytruda.

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Around the state at 27km/h to beat breast cancer

2016-01-05 13:15:09| Real Estate - Topix.net

It was a 2am brainwave that prompted Hugh Bateman to buy a tractor from a Sydney auction. A lick of pink paint back in his hometown of Mudgee and the 64-year-old real estate agent was ready for the 27km/h road trip of a lifetime.

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