Lana Hart writes in Stuff: The country’s District Health Boards will all blow their budgets, yet again. My own DHB in Canterbury tops the list of the country’s biggest spenders with projections of deficits of over $100 million. Added up, expected overspending for 2018/19 will amount to almost $350m across New Zealand’s 20 DHBs.With this kind of chronic, amplified […]
The second round of the first Democratic primary debates on Thursday included a revealing — and at times tense — discussion of race between several candidates. But a defining moment was when Sen. Kamala Harris took former Vice President Joe Biden to task over his recent comments about segregationist senators, as well as his opposition […]
Ten people were killed when a small airplane crashed as it was taking off from a Dallas-area airport Sunday morning, a spokesperson for the town of Addison, Texas, said.
Concerns about the effects of immigration on social cohesion and democratic sovereignty are legitimate, but we should avoid false moralistic narratives that pit pro-immigration elites against the American people. These narratives mask the diversity of “real Americans,” simplify the American people’s complex views on immigration, and downplay democratic politics’ potential to empower excluded groups and redefine the political community.
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Apparently concerned with how Kevin Durant would bounce back from a ruptured Achilles tendon, the Knicks were not planning on offering the former MVP a full max contract, according to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne.
Читать дальше...By Emma Hatton of RNZ New figures show the gap between rangatahi Māori and non-Māori being arrested continues to widen. The statistics show the total number of youth arrests has fallen ...
LABOUR wants to introduce major reforms to inheritance tax by replacing the current levy with a ‘lifetime gifts tax’ on cash or homes given to children. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell claimed the plan, which the Tories say would affect 10 million households, could ensure ‘wealth is more fairly distributed’. INHERITANCE TAX Under existing laws, a […]
Democratic presidential candidates, especially Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, want to eliminate private health insurance
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Billy Porter rocks a colorful outfit to 2019 World Pride on Sunday (June 30) in New York City. The 49-year-old actor wore a custom outfit by Christian Siriano to co-host ABC’s coverage of the event. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Billy Porter While Billy served as a co-host, his Pose co-stars MJ Rodriguez, [...]
With her strong performance in the first Democratic debates, Kamala Harris may now be a first-tier candidate. But multiple rivals – Castro, Booker, Warren, Sanders and Biden in particular – will be obstacles in her path to the nomination.
Stress of surviving the Holocaust has shown a lifelong and lasting negative impact on survivors’ brain structure, as well as
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This month, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to finally appear for his public testimony on Capitol Hill to answer questions about his famous report on Russian election meddling and potential obstruction of justice. Democratic lawmakers want answers and Mueller to elaborate on Donald Trump’s possible misconduct and repeated attempts to torpedo the special counsel’s investigation.
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A Ukrainian-Russian developer says he hired the former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to lobby. Mr. Giuliani says he never lobbied the U.S. government.
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Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but Lonza said it plans to retain the Novartis employees currently working at the facility.
Under the agreement, Thermo Fisher will provide Amicus with immediate clinical and commercial manufacturing capabilities and capacity for Amicus’ intrathecal AAV Batten disease gene therapy programs.
Now that Novartis has a competing therapy on the market for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Biogen is eager to show why it thinks its Spinraza (nusinersen) is superior.
Have you ever asked your doctor whether the drug they are prescribing you is FDA-approved for how they are prescribing it? When a doctor prescribes an FDA-approved drug for a disease or condition, age group, or dosage other than what it has been approved for, then it is called an unapproved, or “...
Exiting the last week of June and heading into July, a number of companies announced results from ongoing clinical trials. Here’s a look.
Retrophin, based in San Diego, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given its 100 mg and 300 mg tablets of Thiola EC (tiopronin) the thumbs-up to treat cystinuria.
Two months after taking over as interim chief executive officer of Bay Area-based uBiome, John Rakow is stepping down from the company that has been under scrutiny from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The month of July is a slow one for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at least in terms of scheduled approval dates. Here’s a look at the three PDUFA dates the agency has on its calendar for the month.
Pfizer’s intravenous (IV) Revatio (sildenafil), when added to inhaled nitric oxide (iNO), failed to meet its primary efficacy endpoint in treating newborns with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (PPHN).