(Reuters) – General Electric Co on Tuesday named top brand executive Linda Boff as its chief marketing officer, as the U.S. conglomerate tries to position itself as a digital industrial company.
Democrats blocked the fiscal 2016 defense spending bill in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, amid a fierce fight with Republicans over tax and spending policy days before a potential Oct. 1 government shutdown. The vote was 54-42, largely along party lines with Republicans voting yes and Democrats no. It meant the appropriations measure failed to achieve the 60-vote majority needed to advance to final passage in the 100-member Senate. Congressional
Americans are paying way over the odds for some modern cancer drugs, with pharmaceutical companies charging up to 600 times what the medicines cost to make, according to an independent academic study. The United States also pays more than double the price charged in Europe for these drugs – so-called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), a potent class of cancer pills with fewer side effects than chemotherapy. The analysis by pharmacologist
By Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – Medicare’s new “chronic care management” (CCM) payment program could make it more financially feasible for physicians to deliver services between visits. Under the new program, Medicare could reimburse primary care practices about $40 month for such things as medication management and communication with other doctors for patients who have two or more chronic medical conditions. CCM has the potential to organize the coordination
Volkswagen shares plunged more than 20 percent on Monday, their biggest one-day fall, after the German carmaker admitted it had rigged emissions tests in the United States, and U.S. authorities said they would widen their probe to other manufacturers. Germany, alarmed at the potential damage the scandal could inflict on its world-beating car industry, urged Volkswagen to fully clear up the matter and said it would investigate whether emissions data
NEW YORK (AP) — New government data shows that in most states, the rate of adult obesity is not moving.
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Justice will catch up with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even if he remains in power under a negotiated end to Syria’s war, U.N. human rights investigator Carla del Ponte said on Monday. “Assad is the president, so let’s deal with the institution of president. “You remember in former Yugoslavia, Milosevic was president, and it was a peace negotiation at Dayton and they achieved an
General Electric Co will not invest in atomic energy in India until accident liability laws are brought in line with global rules, Chairman Jeff Immelt said on Monday, in a setback for top-level efforts to get U.S. firms to build power stations. Speaking shortly after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Immelt said India needed to “homogenize” its liability law with the rest of the world. With the
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For U.S. children and teens, more than half of total fruit consumption comes from whole fruits, most commonly apples, new survey data show. “My ultimate goal was to understand what kids are eating,” said lead author Kirsten A. Herrick of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland. Kids’ whole fruit consumption increased by 67 percent between 2003 and 2010, according to a
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’ll soon roll out a proposal for controlling the cost of prescription drugs, a key fix to President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.