Year: 2016

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Roche has no plans to sell its diabetes testing business, despite a pummeling in the past three years from U.S. price cuts, and the Swiss drugmaker expects the unit to return to sales growth in 2017. Roland Diggelmann, head of Roche diagnostics, said the fundamentals for blood glucose meters remained strong given the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity, especially in emerging markets. Roche, best known for its cancer drugs, is also the world's biggest diagnostics company and the market leader in diabetes testing.

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The San Francisco-based company has agreed to open its books to both Pfizer Inc and Amgen Inc , those people said. The move comes less than two weeks after Sanofi made its approach public by publishing a letter to Medivation's chief executive David Hung that contained details of the offer.

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The company specializes in teaching their patients how and why the body responds to specific foods and weight loss methods and helps their patients …
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India's biggest cigarette maker, ITC Ltd, said on Monday it had resumed production in phases, complying with new rules on pictorial warnings from the federal government. The company had shut its plants from May 4 as it worked to get much larger health warnings on cigarette packs, even as a court hears objections to the new rules. "ITC cigarette factories have resumed production in a phased manner, with the specified 85 percent graphical warning pending hearing by the Karnataka High Court,?" a company spokesman told Reuters in an email.

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These include, age, race, family history, being obese/overweight, not physically active, smoking, too much salt in the diet, stress, and drinking too …
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This is something that all the people struggling with weight issues have been well acquainted with. You have to diet and eat “healthy.” However, how …
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