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By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California’s former top Democrat legislator hinted broadly on Tuesday that he will run for mayor of Sacramento, bringing political heft to a race to succeed Kevin Johnson, the former basketball star whose boosterism helped revitalize his home town Darrell Steinberg, a former president pro tem of the state senate and a onetime Sacramento City Council member, said in an email to supporters that
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Shire reported positive results for a new eye drug on Tuesday, increasing the chances of lifitegrast reaching the market next year and boosting the London-listed group’s prospects as it tries to buy Baxalta. Chief Executive Flemming Ornskov said the news would help Shire’s attempt at an equity-based takeover of its U.S. rival to create a global leader in treatments for rare diseases. Lifitegrast significantly
Germany’s food and agriculture minister said Tuesday that people should not be afraid of biting into a grilled bratwurst despite the World Health Organization’s warning that sausages and ham cause cancer. “No one should be afraid when eating a bratwurst,” said Christian Schmidt. “We worry people unnecessarily if we put meat in the same category as asbestos or tobacco,” he added.
Digesting news this week that the World Health Organization (WHO) had classified beef, lamb and pork as “probable” carcinogens, South Africans said they would take the risk rather than turn their backs on their nation’s social centerpiece. Afrikaans for barbecue, the open-air braai took root among Dutch settlers in the 1600s but over the next three centuries spread across South Africa’s many races as the way to eat and entertain
DuPont is in M&A talks with rivals for its agriculture business, interim Chief Executive Edward Breen said on Tuesday, less than a week after Dow Chemical Co announced a review of its farm chemicals and seeds unit. DuPont has been touted as a potential buyer of Dow’s farm unit, but some have questioned if the company is in a position to do so. Breen took over earlier this month after
ImageContent(562e536de4b0443bb564a0f5,562e51be1400002b003c91cf,Image,HectorAssetUrl(562e51be1400002b003c91cf,Some(),Some(jpeg)),Firdia Lisnawati/AP,)BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Whether Charley Hooper has any concept of the space she occupies in the world is an enigma.She is so disabled that her mother considers her “unabled.” At 10, her brain is…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The U.N. World Health Organization is formally removing Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries, meaning the entire African continent is free of the crippling disease.
PARIS (AP) — Hot dogs, bacon, cold cuts and other processed meats raise the risk of colon, stomach and other cancers, and red meat probably contributes to the disease, too, the World Health Organization said Monday, throwing its considerable authority behind what many doctors have been warning for years.
U.S. companies are far from optimistic that next year will see them get a break from the tough economic and market conditions they have faced in 2015. In the first three weeks of October, 165 American companies have cited the slowing global economy in their outlooks for earnings and revenue. Earnings and revenue have been depressed this year largely because of the strong dollar, economic weakness in China and Brazil,
Nestle SA, the world’s largest packaged food company, plans to resume sales in India of its Maggi noodles in November, a spokesman for the Swiss group said on Monday. Vevey, Switzerland-based Nestle has been grappling with a public relations crisis in India, a fast-growing consumer goods market, following a nationwide ban on its Maggi instant noodles in May. It has said the noodles are safe.
