Year: 2014

Keystone Food Products, makers of The Real Deal All Natural Snacks, originated with the Corriere family back in 1946 in Easton, Pennsylvania and is …

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – It will take about six months to bring under control the Ebola epidemic, the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday, saying the outbreak in West Africa felt like “wartime, is moving, advancing.” Joanne Liu, international president of MSF (Doctors Without Borders), speaking after a 10-day trip to West Africa, said more experts were needed on the ground and was critical of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for declaring Ebola a “public health emergency of international concern” only on Aug 8. “We need people with a hands-on operational mindset,” to combat the outbreak, Liu told a news briefing in Geneva.

By Ronnie Cohen MILL VALLEY Calif. (Reuters) – Robin Williams was the only person who came backstage to see him when satirist Mort Sahl gave a show 17 years ago, and the 87-year-old comic said it marked the start of a close friendship that ended with the comedian's apparent suicide this week. Sahl, sometimes considered the godfather of stand-up political comedy, told about 80 people at an informal tribute to Williams on Thursday night that he had been expecting hordes of fans eager to tell him how much they had loved his show. "Just one guy came and knocked on the door," Sahl said in a room at a theater where Williams used to perform. He looked down at his shoes, and he says, 'I always wanted to meet you.'" Sahl, whose razor-sharp wit and knack for social satire influenced Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen and landed him on the cover of Time magazine in 1960, leaned on a cane and a friend's arm as he walked into the room at the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco.

(Reuters) – Gilead Sciences Inc said an arbitration panel has ruled in its favor, rejecting patent infringement claims from Roche Holding AG, related to Gilead’s hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi. Roche initiated arbitration proceedings against Gilead in 2013, asserting exclusive rights over sofosbuvir by virtue of its 2004 collaboration agreement with Pharmasset Inc. Gilead bought Pharmasset in 2012.

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – U.S. and Australian couples attempting to leave Thailand with babies born by surrogate mothers have been stopped at the airport and prevented from leaving the country in recent days, an Australian surrogacy advocate said on Friday. The crackdown follows the case of an Australian couple – one of whom is a convicted child sex offender – who left a male twin surrogate baby with Down Syndrome in Thailand, bringing only his sister back to Australia. The incident, made public earlier this month, unleashed an international outcry over a shadowy business that rights groups say preys on poor and vulnerable women in countries such as India and Thailand. In response, Thailand's new military government gave preliminary approval on Wednesday for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offense.

ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the use of its Avastin cancer drug in combination with chemotherapy to treat advanced cervical cancer. Avastin has now been approved to treat five distinct tumor types in the United States, Roche said. (Reporting by Alice Baghdjian)