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Danaher Corp will buy air and water-filter maker Pall Corp in a $13.8 billion deal to tap into fast-growing demand from the biotechnology industry, and said it would split into two listed companies after the deal. The $20-billion filtration market is expected to grow due to strong demand for advanced purification systems as biotechnology companies launch more biologics, drugs made from living cells. “That means an increase in production and
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By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – Media content delivery company Limelight Networks Inc did not directly infringe a patent on managing web images and video held by rival Akamai Technologies Inc because it did not carry out all the steps of the patent, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. In a longstanding case on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch appeals court on Wednesday cleared a man of any criminal responsibility for helping his 99-year-old mother take her own life — a case that aimed to create precedents for assisting suicide in a country where euthanasia already is legal under certain circumstances.
Clarence Blackmon, 81, returned home to an empty refrigerator after being hospitalized for months for cancer treatments.
By Andrew MacAskill and Krista Mahr KATHMANDU/CHARIKOT, Nepal (Reuters) – The powerful 7.3 magnitude tremor that struck Nepal this week left an already traumatized population gripped by even deeper fear, underlining concerns that the country is ill-prepared to cope with the mental side effects. Tuesday’s quake caused a fraction of the fatalities inflicted by the huge 7.8 earthquake that killed some 8,000 people less than three weeks earlier, but left
The FDA has released new blood donation recommendations for men who have sex with men — involving a year of abstinence. Some say the advice, while better than an all-out ban, is still stigmatizing. But health experts explain why the “year” aspect isn’t totally arbitrary.
27 year old Tawny Willoughby posted a graphic photo of her skin cancer treatment to Facebook as an awareness tool. “This is what skin cancer treatment can look like.”
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