Day: January 17, 2017

Foxx: Private dollars alone can’t solve transportation woes

Stimulating private investment in infrastructure projects, as President-elect Donald Trump has proposed, can cover only a fraction of the costs of solving America’s transportation problems, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx warned as he prepares to leave office. Financing schemes called public-private partnerships, which involve both government dollars and private capital, are useful and can address about to 10 percent to 20 percent of America’s transportation “deficit,” Fox said in an interview this week with The Associated Press.

AnaptysBio Sets Estimated IPO Pricing Range

San Diego-based AnaptysBio , which develops antibodies for treating inflammation, has set its estimated IPO pricing range, saying on Tuesday that it expects to price its IPO at between $14.00 and $16.00 per share. The company is selling 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as ANAB.

Tax Advocate: Use tax breaks you’re entitled to

… Revenue code to you, yourself,” she said. “If you’re an employee, you might be benefiting from employer-provided health insurance or tax-deferred retirement savings,” she said. “If you own a home, you may be benefiting from the deduction of mortgage …

Baker budget could include employer penalty for uninsured workers

Companies that do not offer their employees health insurance would pay a $2,000 annual assessment per full-time worker to the state under a plan Gov. Charlie Baker plans to offer later this month to blunt the impact of escalating, enrollment-driven costs in the state’s Medicaid program, the State House News Service has learned.

Donald Trump tweets at wrong Ivanka — and she hits back

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted at the wrong Ivanka on Monday night, and the British woman on the receiving end of his praise has hit back. Trump had quoted a tweet praising his daughter Ivanka, but the account mentioned in the tweet belongs to Ivanka Majic, a digital consultant from the British seaside town of Brighton.

Uma Thurman back in court to fight ex in custody case

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: Determined Uma Thurman heads back to court to fight accusations by her ex she is mentally ill and mixing alcohol and drugs in their nasty custody battle Uma Thurman was accused of having a serious mental illness and mixing her medication with alcohol during her custody trial last Friday Luna was conceived at the same time Thurman was fighting Busson to keep a million dollar ring, Busson’s lawyer said in court on Friday A psychologist said at the start of the trial that the former couple had a toxic relationship and should not be together around their daughter Later, Busson’s attorney criticized the $25,000-a-year private nursery school that Thurman sent Luna too, calling the children ‘disheveled and dirty’ Busson, 53, was also revealed to have left his daughter on two occasions when she came to visit him, once having his ex Elle MacPherson watch the child The pair had … (more)

Suffolk-based foundantion supports charity

A global online auction and grand secret garden ball has seen a Suffolk-based charity present more than 57,000 to Sarcoma UK. The GeeWizz charitable foundation, led by Gina Long MBE, organised the two-week ultimate charity auction and secret garden ball last October in support of national and local charities.

Baker plans $2,000 employer assessment to address health costs

Companies that do not offer their employees health insurance would pay a $2,000 annual assessment per full-time worker to the state under a plan Gov. Charlie Baker plans to offer later this month to blunt the impact of escalating, enrollment-driven costs in the state’s Medicaid program, the State House News Service has learned. The proposal — the bulk of which is expected to be filed within the governor’s budget due on Jan 25 — would also impose growth caps on the rates health providers can charge for medical services in an effort to control the cost of care in the commercial market and make it more affordable for employers.

A third of year six children are overweight

… average figure of 62 per cent for England. An annual report by Dr Andrew Furber, the district’s director of public health, said rising obesity levels could cost the UK health service an extra 45.5bn a year by 2050. It said: “Being overweight can …

British American Tobacco agrees on takeover of Reynolds

British American Tobacco Plc has agreed to fully take over Reynolds American Inc. on terms that are improved from an initial bid made last year. The takeover would create the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company and combine BAT’s presence in developing countries, where anti-smoking campaigns are not as strong as in the U.S. and Europe, with Reynolds’ almost exclusive focus on the U.S. BAT said Tuesday it will buy the 57.8 percent of Reynolds it does not already own.

Schizophrenia US Therapeutic and Drug Pipeline Review H2

PUNE, INDIA, January 17, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — GET SAMPLE REPORT @ Summary Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous behavioral and cognitive syndrome involving chronic or recurrent psychosis. The disorder is characterized by several symptom domains including positive symptoms , negative symptoms , and cognitive deficits .

BAT agrees to buy Reynolds for $49 billion

British American Tobacco has agreed a $49.4 billion takeover of U.S. rival Reynolds American Inc , creating the world’s biggest listed tobacco company after it increased an earlier offer by more than $2 billion. BAT, which already owned 42 percent of Reynolds, will pay $29.44 in cash and 0.5260 BAT shares for each Reynolds share, it said, a 26 percent premium over the price of the stock on Oct. 20, the day before BAT’s first offer was made public.

Drugs For Rare Diseases Have Become Uncommonly Rich Monopolies

More than 30 years ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed a landmark health bill aimed at motivating pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs for people whose rare diseases had been ignored. But lucrative financial incentives created by the Orphan Drug Act signed into law by President Reagan in 1983 succeeded far beyond anyone’s expectations.

Town defender undergoes second operation

Sendles-White took to Twitter yesterday to give an update on his recovery after his season was curtailed against Bury back in September. The central defender has been seen in a leg brace since rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament and damaging other parts of his left knee and yesterday posted a picture of him back in hospital to undergo a second operation.

RondinX Debuts to Accelerate Drug Development with a Breakthrough Microbiome Computational Platform

RondinX’ Microbiome Platform Builds on an Exclusive License from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Research Collaborations with the Elinav and Segal Labs )–RondinX, an emerging pioneer in intelligent microbiome drug development, today unveiled a novel approach to discovering how changes in the human microbiome affect health and disease. RondinX’ cloud-based technology platform adds a new dimension to the microbiome drug development process by profiling and predicting microbial growth dynamics from single metagenomic samples.

Comedy show Jan. 19 benefits New Orleans Abortion Fund

As a presidential administration widely feared to be hostile to reproductive rights takes office, women’s health care observers make note of a significant date: Jan. 22, the 44th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion services.

Could acupuncture stop your baby crying?

… two types of acupuncture with standard care alone in 147 babies with colic, aged two to eight weeks, at four child health centres in Sweden. They had all been on a cow’s milk exclusion diet for at least five days in a bid to curb excess crying or …

Excessive crying

The crying of babies with colic may be reduced if they are treated with acupuncture, according to controversial research from Sweden. But UK experts say no conclusions can be drawn from the small study of 147 babies aged two to eight weeks.

ObsEva Expands Leadership Team and Board of Directors with Industry Veterans

ObsEva SA , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for serious conditions that impact a woman’s reproductive health and pregnancy, announced today the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer, Timothy M. Adams. Mr. Adams is located in Boston, Massachusetts, where the Company is currently hiring finance, IR and clinical operation people to support ObsEva’s clinical-stage programs in uterine fibroids, endometriosis, Assisted Reproductive Technology and preterm labor.

BAT agrees to buy Reynolds for US$49 billion

British American Tobacco has agreed a US$49.4 billion takeover of U.S. rival Reynolds American Inc , creating the world’s biggest listed tobacco company after it increased an earlier offer by more than US$2 billion. FILE PHOTO – Pall Mall cigarettes are seen after the manufacturing process in the British American Tobacco Cigarette Factory in Bayreuth, southern Germany, April 30, 2014.

Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus – China

On 5 January 2017, the Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region notified WHO of a case of laboratory-confirmed human infection with avian influenza A virus and on 9 January 2017, the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China notified WHO of 106 additional laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A virus. On 5 January 2017, a human case of infection with avian influenza A was reported from the Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region .

This week in music: 1974 The Joker

For the 3rd week of January in 1974 The Hot 100 had former Beatle Ringo Starr at number five with You’re Sixteen. The song was a remake of a 1960 hit by Johnny Burnette who took it all the way to number 3. Ringo did a little better taking it all the way to the top of the charts.

Seoul moving swiftly to ease anti-bribery law

The South Korean government has officially begun discussions to revise the sweeping anti-corruption law less than four months after it was implemented, amid much controversy and public confusion. Officials from several related government bodies, including the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, held an inaugural meeting on Tuesday to come up with a revised draft for the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act.

Vicki (Spielmann) Hunter

… floor, in the operating room, in the clinic as a primary nurse. She also worked in an Urgent Care setting, Home Health and finally settled again into the clinic at St. Croix Regional Medical Center as a triage nurse. Vicki’s family and friends were …