Year: 2014
Kids with seizures use pot as treatment
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Mugabe in Singapore for eye operation ahead of 90th birthday
By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for an eye operation ahead of his 90th birthday on Friday, a spokesman said, maintaining a government denial that Zimbabwe's long-serving ruler is suffering from prostate cancer. George Charamba said Mugabe, Africa's oldest president, left Harare on Monday and would be back in the country for birthday celebrations on Saturday. "This is a routine check-up, a routine cataract operation for his left eye whose date was set down more than a year ago and the president has gone out to fulfill that appointment," Charamba told Reuters on Tuesday. "He had a right eye operation a couple of years ago and he is going to have the other attended to now." A June 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said Mugabe had prostate cancer that had spread to other organs.
Germany’s stance on pricing threatens drug firm profits
By Ludwig Burger and Thorsten Severin FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany's plan to publish price discounts agreed with drugmakers poses a risk to profits in the industry, which fears the information could be used to drive down prices elsewhere. Germany, Europe's biggest market for medicines, is already one of the toughest for pharmaceutical companies, in part because statutory health insurers club together to increase their bargaining power in price negotiations with the industry. Discounts vary widely, but can be around 20 percent off drugmakers' list prices. The aim of the new law, which could come into force as soon as April, is to stop wholesalers and pharmacies from basing their margins on list prices rather than the discounted prices.