Month: December 2015

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc Chief Executive J. Michael Pearson was hospitalized with a "severe case of pneumonia" on Friday and is receiving treatment, a company spokeswoman said. Pearson, 56, joined Valeant as CEO in September 2010 after a 23-year career at McKinsey & Company and became chairman of the board in 2010. Under Pearson's leadership, the company has come under U.S. government scrutiny for acquiring off-patent drugs and drastically hiking the prices.

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Accusations flew over who was to blame for the deaths of at least 24 people in a Saudi hospital fire, with one official saying a crowd that gathered there had obstructed rescue workers and some Twitter users blaming lax safety standards. The blaze on Thursday tore through the intensive care unit and maternity ward at the general hospital in the southwestern port city of Jazan, capital of the Jizan region, one of Saudi Arabia's poorest areas. The country&039;s deputy health minister was quoted by the Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper on Friday as saying 141 people had been injured in the fire – the latest in a series of accidents that have killed hundreds of people at Saudi public facilities.

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Their prescription diet medications and natural hormone treatments, including Sermorelin hGH anti-aging therapy, is manufactured in FDA approved, …
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By Hadeel Al Sayegh DUBAI (Reuters) – A fire at a hospital in Saudi Arabia killed 25 people and injured more than 100 others as it ripped through the intensive care unit and the maternity ward before dawn, the Saudi civil defense agency said. Details of the fire and its victims were scant, but photographs published on Twitter by the agency showed smoke and an intense blaze which appeared to have severely damaged the interior of the white-walled hospital. The fire broke out at the general hospital in the southwestern port city of Jazan, the capital of the Jizan region, one of Saudi Arabia's poorest areas, near the Yemeni border.

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Diet Doc's new holiday diet plans allow patients to load up on calories and to … choosing healthy foods that will nourish the body without weight gain.
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(Reuters) – Drugmaker Adamas Pharmaceuticals Inc said its lead experimental drug met the main goal of a late-stage study. The company said its drug, amantadine HCl, significantly reduced dysfunctional movement, a side effect of levodopa, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s patients. (Reporting by Vidya L Nathan in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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