(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s <AMZN.O> Whole Foods Market said on Friday it had replaced affected point-of-sale systems at venues located within some stores where payment card information had been stolen. The upscale grocer last month disclosed card information had been stolen from taprooms, restaurants and other venues located within some of its stores. Whole Foods, […]
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal prosecutor told jurors on Friday that a Massachusetts pharmacist gambled with patients’ lives by making drugs in unsafe ways that led to a deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak, but a defense lawyer said he was no murderer. Glenn Chin, a former supervisory pharmacist at New England Compounding […]
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By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Kidney specialists recommend follow-up care for most patients who have experienced acute kidney injury, but only a minority of patients have been getting that care, according to a Canadian study. “Acute kidney injury refers to a sudden loss of kidney function that usually develops over the course of days […]
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By Heather Somerville and Arjun Panchadar (Reuters) – Lyft Inc has raised $1 billion in fresh financing, the ride-services company said on Thursday, in a round led by one of Alphabet Inc’s <GOOGL.O> investment funds, further complicating the convoluted world of ride-hailing alliances and dealing a blow to rival Uber Technologies Inc. The round was […]
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By Jan Wolfe NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Japanese software company is suing Apple Inc <AAPL.O> in a U.S. court over the trademark for the term “animoji”, alleging the U.S. technology company stole the name to use on a feature of its iPhone X. Tokyo-based Emonster kk sued Apple on Wednesday in federal court in […]
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By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Drugmaker Merck & Co Inc <MRK.N>, moving to a new sales team structure in the United States, plans to cut 1,800 sales positions, while adding 960 jobs to a new chronic care sales force, the company said on Friday. Three of Merck’s U.S. sales teams will be cut: primary care, […]
Read More By Anne Harding (Reuters Health) – Frail older people don’t live as long as their stronger peers, and loss of mental function further increases their risk of death, recent research shows. The good news: Older people can live longer, healthier lives by maintaining their strength and cognitive abilities, Dr. Yunhwan Lee of Ajou University School […]
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(Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the agency was working with several pharmaceutical and medical device companies in Puerto Rico to prevent shortages of medical products in the United States as it joins a massive effort to help rebuild the island that was ravaged by Hurricane Maria. Drugmakers are […]
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PARIS (Reuters) – France will propose rule changes within six months that will remove administrative hurdles and speed the development of onshore wind power projects, its junior ecology minister said. France, which depends on nuclear power for over 75 percent of its electricity needs, plans to ramp up the development of renewable energies during the […]
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By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) – Paris does not want Asian bike-sharing operators to burst into the city the way Airbnb and Uber did and plans to introduce regulation to ensure an orderly rollout of new bicycle schemes, a top city official told Reuters. Launched just last week, Hong Kong’s Gobee.bike has already spread […]
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By Sarah White PARIS (Reuters) – L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics company wants to see more beauty tech like sensory hair brushes that tell you how to care for your hair, and skin patches that let you know how much sun you are getting. So it said on Friday it was launching a program of […]
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By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean public support for nuclear power on Friday sucker punched a government policy to steer the country away from nuclear-generated electricity as Seoul said it would bow to a demand to resume construction of two new reactors. President Moon Jae-in came to power in May, after running on […]
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