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Weather’s silver lining: Coat comfort on runways at New York Fashion Week

NEW YORK Rain, snow, ice. There’s a lot of grumbling about the stiletto-adverse weather as New York Fashion Week hit Day 5 on Monday. But there’s a silver lining: cozy coats, especially styles with oversized fur hoods, never looked better. Phillip Lim, for his 3.1 brand, sent out his big coats in navy and black […]

AstraZeneca began offering Gefitinib free of charge to physicians at 89 clinics and hospitals for 286 patients in Japan in December 2000, the Asahi newspaper reported

The drug, Iressa, was administered only to those patients who did not respond to other treatments and whose cancer was at a very advanced stage, said Fumiko Muramoto, a spokeswoman for the pharmaceutical company. “We have very rigid standards for when doctors use the drug,” Muramoto said. “But we are taking some steps to review […]

The researchers reviewed a nationally representative sample of company prescription claims for 178,800 children throughout 1999

While the prevalence of the disorder is not thought to vary greatly by region, a study being released Monday found that treatment rates ranged from 1.6 percent of children’s prescriptions examined in Washington, D.C., to 6.5 percent of children’s prescriptions in Louisiana. Significantly higher rates were found in the South and Midwest than in the […]

Daniel Berman, a spokesman for the Access to Essential Medicines campaign at Doctors Without Borders, called the model “really quite interesting.” “For the first time a company is offering a nonprofit organization rights to distribute its AIDS drug in a large block of developing countries,” he said

Pharmacia Corp. said it will work with the International Dispensary Association in Amsterdam to provide licenses and technological skills to generic companies to make its drug delavirdine, an anti-retroviral sold under the trade name Rescriptor. AIDS activists praised the idea of using a nonprofit agency as an intermediary — even if the drug on offer […]

Since October, Tenet’s shares have plunged 70 percent amid allegations that two doctors at a hospital in Redding, Calif

The Justice lawsuit said Tenet improperly assigned diagnosis codes for hospital stays so it would receive higher reimbursements than it was entitled to between 1992 and 1998. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles against the Santa Barbara-based company, said the alleged violations took place while Tenet was operating under a “corporate integrity agreement” with the […]

Thursday’s stock jump ends up valuing the company at nearly $4 billion

Beyond Meat, the tech startup behind meatless burgers in many grocery coolers, debuted on the Nasdaq stock market Thursday in an initial public offering that saw its share price more than double in the first hour of trading. It’s the first vegan “meat” company to go the IPO route — and its sizzling first-day performance […]

More than 500 arrested at Hong Kong pro

HONG KONG — Police here arrested more than 500 people holding a sit-in a day after tens of thousands in the former British colony joined a massive march to push for democracy. Anger at mainland China has never been greater after Beijing warned recently it holds the ultimate authority over the freewheeling capitalist enclave. That’s […]

“This gives us real data and proof that this needs to be done,” said Karla Cutting, a spokeswoman for a Chicago campaign to prohibit workplace smoking

Doctors said their study, which they described as a kind of “natural experiment,” is the first to examine what happens to public health when people stop smoking — and breathing secondhand smoke — in public places. The doctors, themselves backers of the ban, acknowledged the effects need to be demonstrated in a larger locale. But […]

The Thai government says fear of SARS caused tourism to plunge 50 percent last month

Tommy Thompson, who was in Brussels to meet European Union officials, said despite best efforts to contain severe acute respiratory syndrome, he expected it to cause deaths in areas that so far are unaffected. “I am not confident at all. … I do not think SARS is going to go away,” Thompson said. “Even though […]

“Our pilots are just like all people; they have some of the same shortcomings that any of us could have,” said Peggy Gilligan, the former FAA administrator in charge of safety

The words CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF are welcomed by air travelers in a hurry. They’re even more welcomed by airline pilots who once feared they’d never fly again. Our Cover Story is reported by Tony Dokoupil: Many alcoholics can tell you the exact moment they hit rock bottom. Former airline Captain Lyle Prouse hit his at […]