The first treatment developed for lupus in over 50 years has been reocommended for approval by the European Union this week. The watchdog, European Medicines Agency has backed the injectable drug that will cost Europeans $23,000 USD a year. Already approved in the United States in March 2011, the drug costs Americans $35,000 USD annually.
- May 21 Sat 2011 02:55
GSK Lupus Treatment Benlysta Reaches Europe After US Approval
- May 21 Sat 2011 02:45
California's lackluster recovery continues as unemployment rate dips below 12%
The leisure and hospitality sector performed well in April, adding 12,400 jobs. Manufacturing, trade, transportation and utilities, and education and health services also gained positions, but the additions were offset by losses in construction, information,
- May 21 Sat 2011 02:35
IMF Aborted Strauss-Kahn Probe in 2008
An internal investigation by the International Monetary Fund into allegations that its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, abused his position of power failed because the alleged victim refused to cooperate.
- May 21 Sat 2011 02:22
Luxury Building Blocks Strauss-Kahn for House Arrest
Instead, Mr. Strauss-Kahn will be staying at a corporate-housing building used by the security company, Stroz Friedberg, which has been hired to guard him while he remains under 24-hour home confinement, according to the official at State Supreme Court in Manhattan. He had been expected to leave on Friday from Rikers, where he has been held after being arrested last Saturday on sexua
- May 21 Sat 2011 02:08
Outburst From Gallery Halts Casey Anthony Trial
member of the courtroom gallery has interrupted jury selection in the murder trial of an Orlando woman accused of killing her daughter.
- May 21 Sat 2011 01:14
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President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Washington today amid chilly relations between the two countries that, many observers believe, were exacerbated Thursday by Obama's Mideast policy speech that's unlikely to produce tangible results.
- May 20 Fri 2011 23:59
Experimental therapy gives paralyzed new hope
(CBS News) A new study is giving hope to millions who are paralyzed as the result of spinal cord injuries. The results of a new treatment challenge the conventional thinking that signals from the brain are needed for walking.
- May 18 Wed 2011 05:23
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gures from Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard, although a late rebound suggested investors may be looking for a short-term bounce.
- May 18 Wed 2011 05:18
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n they meet the Queen. When former Czech president Václav Havel met the Queen at Buckingham Palace, his hand was so sweaty he had to wipe it on his trousers, and when George Bush was entertained by the Queen he became a bundle of nerves.
- May 18 Wed 2011 05:05
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