EMM Entities: News about Bill Berkrot

Playing on a Nintendo Wii is 'as healthy as a jog or swim'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The console is as effective as 'moderately intense' conventional exercise, according to new research.

Death of cancer-jab girl probed

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

An urgent inquiry is under way into the death of a 14-year-old girl after she was given a cervical cancer vaccine at school.

Pfizer agrees record fraud fine

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

US drugmaker Pfizer agrees to pay $2.3bn in the Department of Justice's largest healthcare fraud settlement.

Mexico shuts down to control flu

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

It extends nationwide a policy already in place in the capital Mexico City, where most restaurants, cinemas and bars have been closed since last weekend. City authorities say initial evidence suggests infection rates there are slowing. Some factories will stop production and schools are already closed.

U.S. panel backs Lilly, Daiichi anti-clotting drug

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

04 Feb 2009 00:14:48 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds comments by panel member, analyst, Lilly) By Lisa Richwine SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb 3 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co and Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd <4568.T> won unanimous support ...

Roche cuts Genentech bid to $42.5 bn

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG launched a hostile bid for Genentech and lowered its offer for the remaining 44% of the US biotechnology company it does not already own.

Statins may benefit healthy people too

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The drugs can cut heart and stroke risks in people with normal cholesterol levels, researchers say. In results from an eagerly anticipated study that could dramatically change the treatment of cardiovascular disease, researchers have found that statin drugs -- now given to millions of people with....