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Charles River Scraps Biggest Foreign Takeover of China Company
Charles River Laboratories International Inc. withdrew a $1.6 billion bid for WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. , citing investor opposition to what would have been the largest foreign takeover of a China company.
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IBM Simulates Monkey Brains as Researchers Seek Breakthrough for Revenue
In a small, windowless room in the basement of International Business Machines Corp. ’s Almaden lab in Silicon Valley, Dharmendra Modha is building a simulated monkey brain using images projected on flat-screen TVs.
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Calcium Supplements Raise Heart Attack Risk by 30% in Study of 11 Trials
Patients who took calcium increased their risk of a heart attack by about 30 percent, according to researchers who said the use of dietary supplements for preventing and treating osteoporosis should be reviewed.
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Orexigen's Two-Drug Obesity Pill Cuts Hunger, Cravings, Weight in Study
Obese patients who took Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. ’s experimental pill combining an anti- addiction drug and an antidepressant lost more weight than those who took a placebo, a company-sponsored study found.
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