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

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  • avivajazz jazzaviva on 05 Apr 09
     
    Why do we need health insurance companies? This talk (transcript) offers sharp, smart warnings to health care companies about their imminent obsolescence.
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Second team finds natural super flu fighter - 0 views

uk.reuters.com/...idUKN2641112820090226 2006 February reuters news influenza antibody second team medicine seasonal pandemic avian H5N1 Crucell passive immunotherapy passive_immunotherapy vaccine vaccines
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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.
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Crucell's Revolutionary Antibody for Universal Therapy Against Flu - 0 views

money.cnn.com/...0477846.htm 2009 February CNN news influenza antibody novel new anti-influenza seasonal pandemic medicine health Crucell CR6261
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  • Matti Narkia on 27 Feb 09
     
    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.
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'Green' lightbulbs poison workers - Times Online - 0 views

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  • 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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