By Jan WolfeOct 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge’s ruling on Monday invalidating Allergan Plc's patents on its blockbuster $1.5 billion dry-eye medicine, Restasis, has cast doubt on the company's novel strategy to enlist a Native American tribe to help shield those patents from challenge by generic drugmakers, legal experts said.In a deal announced last month, Allergan transferred the Restasis
By Heba KansoCAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cairo was named on Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll with women's rights experts saying the treatment of women in the Egyptian capital has worsened since a 2011 uprising seeking social change.Cairo came out worst when the Thomson Reuters Foundation asked experts on women's issues in 19 megacities how w
By Megan RowlingBARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Paris plans to turn its school playgrounds into public "oases" offering cool, green spaces for children and parents alike as climate change ratchets up extreme heat and rainfall, just one of 35 actions in a new urban plan for the French capital. Other programs will seek to strengthen ties between Paris and the surrounding countryside whose
By Gene EmeryNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A team of researchers in France says three years of rituximab maintenance therapy, given every 2 months for 3 years, cuts the 4-year death rate from mantle-cell lymphoma nearly in half.The rate of overall survival was 89% among rituximab recipients versus 80% in the observation group (P=0.04). All 240 study participants (ages 18-65) had already undergone au
배우 박보검이 SNS를 통해 '예수중심교회' 홍보글을 올린 가운데 네티즌의 반응이 뜨겁다.박보검은 지난 25일 자신의 공식 트위터에 "Prayer Assembly for the Peace of Our Nation and Country The Seoul City Hall Square at 3pm on Oct. 2nd, 2017(국가와 민족의 평화를 위한 기도성회)"라는 글을 올려 논란이 됐다.'예수중심교회'는 대한민국 개신교 이단 중 하나로 알려져있고, 전국에 기도원을 포함 100여개의 지교회가 있다.한 포털사이트의 네티즌들은 "혼자 믿으면됩니다. 전도하지마세요", "박보검 이단종교 믿나?", "한국은 종교의 자유가 있다", "영향력이 어마어마한데..", "아
By Lewis KrauskopfNEW YORK (Reuters) - Health stocks are highly sensitive to news about regulatory and legislative change. This week is another test with the latest Republican effort to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.The overall S&P 500 healthcare sector has underperformed the broader stock market in the past two weeks as Senate Republicans seek to generate enough sup
By Stephanie KellyNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's industrial development agency on Tuesday approved a $9.4 million tax-break package for Aetna Inc, as the third-largest U.S. health insurer moves its corporate headquarters to Manhattan from Connecticut.The benefits come on top of $24 million in performance-based tax credits that the state of New York will deliver to Aetna over ten years. T
? Firm to harness world-class digital and physical infrastructure? Accenture is the second global firm to commit to District 2020? Move supports vision to spur economic and social developmentDUBAI, 13 September 2017 ? Leading professional services company Accenture will open a digital hub in District 2020, the legacy site of Expo 2020 Dubai, to help clients across a variety of industries develop i
By Chris Kenning(Reuters) - Kentucky's "unapologetically pro-life" governor and the state's last abortion clinic will square off on Wednesday in a federal courtroom in a case that could make it the first U.S. state without an abortion provider.In a three-day trial, the state will argue before a U.S. District judge in Louisville that EMW Women's Surgical Center does not have proper st
By Alex WhitingROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - School playgrounds across Syria are being transformed into vegetable gardens where children whose diets have been devastated by six years of war can learn to grow - and then eat - eggplant, lettuces, peppers, cabbages and cucumbers.Traditional Syrian cuisine is typical of the region, and rich in vegetables. Its mainstays include hummus, minced lam
By Toni Clarke(Reuters) - The chief executive of Philip Morris International said he was "extremely encouraged" by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent proposal to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes and nudge smokers toward less harmful alternatives such as e-cigarettes.The FDA'
By Sophie HaresTEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Delicate mosses found on rocks and trees in cities around the world can be used to measure the impact of atmospheric change and could prove a low-cost way to monitor urban pollution, Japanese scientists suggest.The "bioindicator" responds