FDA names drugmakers potentially acting to delay cheap generics

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday listed drugmakers, including Celgene Corp , Johnson & Johnson , Gilead Sciences and Novartis AG , who the regulator says are potentially blocking access to samples of their drugs to delay generic competition.


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Beer is not beneficial, German court rules

BERLIN (Reuters) – Beer cannot be marketed as beneficial, a German top court ruled on Thursday after a consumer rights group sued a brewery on the basis that its advertisement falsely suggested the beer had health benefits.


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Congo and WHO race to prevent runaway Ebola outbreak

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese and U.N. officials were racing to prevent a runaway Ebola outbreak in Congo on Thursday, working out the logistics of keeping newly arrived vaccines well below freezing in a steamy region on the equator with unreliable power.


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