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Medivation lines up cancer drug deal - with an escape
2014-10-25 02:34:46| Biotech - Topix.net
Medivation Inc. broadened its cancer drug portfolio in a low-risk deal with a $5 million upfront payment and an escape hatch. The San Francisco company , which developed the prostate cancer drug Xtandi with Astellas Pharma Inc., said Friday that it licensed exclusive worldwide rights to an immune system-modulating drug from CureTech Ltd. So-called immuno-oncology drugs, including "checkpoint inhibitors" that rev up patients' own immune systems to attack cancer, are a white-hot area of cancer drug development.
Europe Reaches Climate Deal, Sends Message
2014-10-24 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The European Commission's vote to reduce greenhouse gas pollution levels by 40 percent by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, "will put pressure on all countries,' said Jake Schmidt, the Natural Resources Defence Council's climate negotiations expert, "including the U.S. and China, to be ambitious when they announce targets next year.' The European Union's (EU) 28 countries are responsible for about one-sixth of the greenhouse gas pollution that's created by humanity every year. The EU is on track...
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Fight Over $100 Billion Aid Stalls Global Warming Deal
2014-10-24 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A dispute about how to link greenhouse-gas emissions cuts to a promise from the wealthiest nations for $100 billion a year in climate aid emerged as a major stumbling block at UN talks on global warming. After a week of discussions in Bonn, envoys from some 190 nations deadlocked about the formula countries will use in setting out their commitments on reducing fossil-fuel pollution in time for the deal they plan to sign in Paris in 2015. That means higher-level officials will have to deal with...
Frustration at UN climate talks despite EU deal
2014-10-24 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A European deal on curbing carbon emissions yielded a rare concrete input Friday to UN climate talks, but did little to ease frustration among negotiators demanding progress on a global pact in Bonn. Sealed at a hard-fought summit in Brussels, the European Union agreement was praised by UN climate chief Christiana Figueres as providing "valuable momentum" towards a global pact to be inked in Paris just over 13 months from now. But developing countries and observers said the contribution, though...
Kindle Fire HDX 7 lands on AT&T, lucrative Fire Phone bundle deal offered
2014-10-24 18:16:58| Wireless - Topix.net
Well, this is unusual. AT&T is trying to resuscitate stagnant sales of the gimmicky Amazon Fire Phone by bundling it with a one-year-old tablet.
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