As my patient looked on, his wife took the framed photograph out of a nondescript manila mailer, the type with bubble wrap on the inside, and handed it to me gingerly. It was clear they both considered it to be precious cargo.“You can see I made it to the wedding,” he said, smiling broadly, as I studied the image of him in a suit, locking arms with his granddaughter, the bride. The two of them were...
Jobless claims fall sharply for the week
Label: Business Jobless claims were sharply down last week, back to just about the weekly average for the 10 weeks before Hurricane Sandy...
Dec
05
Secure Communities is optional, Harris says
Label: World SAN FRANCISCO — California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris told local law enforcement agencies Tuesday that they were not obligated...
Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012.Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company's website about doubled this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over "American capitalism" versus "European socialism," said the editor at large, Peter Sokolowski.The choice...
Extended Use of Breast Cancer Drug Suggested
Label: HealthThe widely prescribed drug tamoxifen already plays a major role in reducing the risk of death from breast cancer. But a new study suggests that women should be taking the drug for twice as long as is now customary, a finding that could upend the standard that has been in place for about 15 years. In the study, patients who continued taking tamoxifen for 10 years were less likely to have...
Netflix buys exclusive rights to Disney movies
Label: Business Netflix Inc. has acquired exclusive U.S. rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios in a deal that catapults the Internet video-on-demand...
Dec
04
Mexico port picks up slack from strike at L.A., Long Beach complex
Label: World ENSENADA — This sluggish port city is coming alive.Standing atop a pier with a hulking cargo ship behind him, dock manager Rogelio...
Student group to go to court over Facebook privacy policy
Label: TechnologyVIENNA (Reuters) – An Austrian student group plans to go to court in a bid to make Facebook Inc, the world’s biggest social network, do more to protect the privacy of its hundreds of millions of members.Campaign group europe-v-facebook, which has been lobbying for better data protection by Facebook for over a year, said on Tuesday it planned to go to court to appeal against decisions by the data protection...
US reacts with joy to royal baby news
Label: LifestyleWESTPORT, Connecticut (AP) — An heir to the British throne is on the way — and Americans may be as enthralled as the Brits.This former colony has been riveted by the royal news that the former Kate Middleton is pregnant — perhaps as much as Britain, where such regal developments are taken in stride."We don't really have a princess here," said Kathy Gitlin, an elementary school teacher in Connecticut...
Generic Drug Makers Facing Squeeze on Revenue
Label: HealthThey call it the patent cliff. Brand-name drug makers have feared it for years. And now the makers of generic drugs fear it, too. This year, more than 40 brand-name drugs — valued at $35 billion in annual sales — lost their patent protection, meaning that generic companies were permitted to make their own lower-priced versions of well-known drugs like Plavix, Lexapro and Seroquel...
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