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Another Indian firm under fire for shoddy clinical trials work

By Ben Hirschler and Zeba Siddiqui LONDON/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Another Indian clinical research organization, Quest Life Sciences of Chennai, is in trouble over defective trials work, including manipulation of heart readings, according to a warning issued by the World Health Organization. The action by the United Nations health agency follows an earlier scandal at GVK Biosciences, which resulted in approvals for hundreds of generic drugs being withdrawn in Europe. The

Purported 2016 Toyota Prius Specs, Photos Leak Out

– “TOYOTA fourth-generation Prius Exposure! Hybrid, PHV Two Kinds of Style for the Choosing,” reads the Google Chrome–translated headline from AutoNet, a Taiwanese website claiming to have specs and details on the 2016 Toyota Prius. As with any leak, but especially those parsed via browser-based translation software, take everything you’re about to read with a Taiwan-sized grain of salt (only one kind of style for the choosing, sorry). According to the report, and as

Taking Wing: We Prowl L.A. in a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing and a 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT S

– The slow, clockwise churn of the North Pacific Gyre is what gives Los Angeles its famously fine climate, producing as it does the two dominant weather patterns that the bored meteorologists here just call onshore and offshore. The onshore winds wafting in from the chilly waters of the Santa Moni­ca Bay bring the morning fogs, the afternoon breezes, and the moderate temperatures that make this otherwise arid basin an