American Academy News
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The woman responsible for many of the nation’s most permissive gun laws is a 4-foot-11, 73-year-old grandmother who carries a Smith & Wesson .38 Special with a laser sight in her purse.
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Pfizer Inc.’s Lyrica, approved for use in fibromyalgia, didn’t work to control painful nerve damage from diabetes in one study, and the company halted a second trial in nerve-damaged HIV patients.
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Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports that rich Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship rose sevenfold since UBS AG whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld triggered a crackdown on tax evasion four years ago. About 1,780 expatriates gave up their nationality at U.S. embassies last year, up from 235 in 2008, according to Andy Sundberg, secretary of Geneva’s Overseas American Academy. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Rich Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship rose sevenfold since UBS AG whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld triggered a crackdown on tax evasion four years ago.
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Robert Thomas of the pop band Matchbox Twenty performed an acoustic set in the Temple of Dendur last night for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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Sanofi, France’s largest drugmaker, said its experimental medicine Lemtrada led to an improvement in disability scores in patients with multiple sclerosis compared to an older treatment.
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An experimental drug to treat multiple sclerosis developed by Ono Pharmaceutical Co. reduced the number of lesions in the brain, a study to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology showed.
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Ohio lawmakers are considering a budget provision like one that caused five of six Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas to lose funding and, the group says, left poor women without access to preventive health care.
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Children as young as 4 years old may now be treated with medications such as Novartis AG’s Ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, under new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was awarded the Henry A. Kissinger Prize by the American Academy in Berlin for his role in Germany’s reunification.
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