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Gilead's India Patent Snag May Spur Low-Cost Sovaldi Copies

2015-01-16 02:44:37| Biotech - Topix.net

The Indian patent office's rejection of a key patent for Gilead Sciences' Hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi may pave the way for more low-cost copies in the country. The New Delhi patent office this week rejected one of the patents for Sovaldi on the grounds that it "lacks novelty" and lacks an inventive step.

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Political appointments spur concerns for Amazon

2015-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature: Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff survived an unexpectedly strong challenge from a prominent environmentalist to stay in office. Now, less than three months into her second term, Rousseff has sparked controversy by appointing an avowed climate-change sceptic as science minister. The choice of Aldo Rebelo, a Communist law-maker who last July called the idea of global warming incompatible with current knowledge, follows a decade in which Brazil has slowed Amazon deforestation and claimed a leadership...

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Biz Break: Booming economic growth helps spur Dow to 18,000

2014-12-24 04:09:39| Biotech - Topix.net

Today: Strong reading of U.S. economic growth helps the Dow Jones industrial average close higher than 18,000 for the first time. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Tuesday morning that U.S. gross domestic product increased by 5 percent in the third quarter, a big jump from its previous estimate of 3.9 percent.

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Festive jumpers spur on seasonal fundraisers

2014-12-21 20:52:12| Biotech - Topix.net

Festive jumpers were all the rage at a health-care company in High Wycombe as part of a seasonal fundraising drive. Knitting together to support Save the Children, employees at Johnson & Johnson joined countless others in schools, offices and homes up and down the country to sport a Christmas sweater and raise money to help children across the world.

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