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HEALTH PLANS: Three Inconvenient Truths: The Future of Health Plans in a Connected World - 0 views

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    Why do we need health insurance companies? This talk (transcript) offers sharp, smart warnings to health care companies about their imminent obsolescence.
Matti Narkia

Second team finds natural super flu fighter - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - An antibody being developed by a Dutch drug company chokes off both seasonal flu and the H5N1 avian flu virus and might offer a way to develop better treatments and vaccines, researchers reported on Thursday.
Matti Narkia

Crucell's Revolutionary Antibody for Universal Therapy Against Flu - 0 views

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    Leiden, The Netherlands (February 26, 2009) - Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V. (Euronext, Nasdaq: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) announces that the journal Science today published a study showing why Crucell's novel anti-influenza antibody is so effective against such a broad range of influenza virus subtypes. These characteristics make the Crucell antibody CR6261 a potentially revolutionary therapy against seasonal and pandemic flu.
Graham Perrin

'Green' lightbulbs poison workers - Times Online - 0 views

  • a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs
  • reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment
  • depends on highly toxic mercury
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  • hundreds of workers at Chinese-owned factories have been poisoned by mercury over the past decade
  • Osram, as a responsible multi-national company, was probably the best employer in a hazardous sector
  • ruined mountain landscape of Guizhou province
  • Until recently, the conditions were medieval
  • European demand for mercury had brought the miners back.
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