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Key players in the pharmaceutical industry pledged on Monday to donate 14 billion drug treatments as part of a new, global push to eradicate tropical diseases. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

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TUESDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) — Combining two drugs that target an aggressive type of breast cancer known as HER2-positive appears to work better than using either drug alone, researchers report. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

When the Federal Emergency Management Agency mailed out 83,000 debt notices this year to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other 2005 storms, one of the letters showed up in David Bellinger’s mailbox. Bellinger, who is blind, needed a friend to … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is joining with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and other agencies to fight labor law and insurance-related violations in an “underground economy.” The collaboration was announced on Thursday by Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

Marin County in Northern California is pumping more money into its legal battle with Deloitte Consulting LLP over a $30 million computer system that county officials say was riddled with problems. The Marin Independent Journal reports that county supervisors earlier … View full post on Insurance Journal » News

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Philip Morris on Tuesday became the third tobacco giant to file a legal challenge against new Australian laws that will force tobacco products to be sold in dull, plain packaging from late next year. The tough, world-first le… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

TOKYO (Reuters) – Olympus ex-CEO Michael Woodford said on Tuesday that he has a realistic chance of winning a battle for control of the scandal-hit company and that he had the support of two major shareholders. He added that he believed a proxy fi… View full post on Yahoo! Health News

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but three kiwis could lower your blood pressure. View full post on Yahoo! Health News

Commonwealth leaders on Saturday vowed to step up the fight against polio, but said the Afghanistan war was hindering the fight and warned that without total eradication there could be a resurgence of the crippling disease. View full post on Yahoo! Health News