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  • Angelina Jolie Stunt Double Sues News Corp. Over Hacking

    A British stunt double for actress Angelina Jolie sued News Corp. alleging the media company hired private investigators to access her mobile phone voice-mail messages to seek information for news stories.

  • Myriad Gene Patent Ruling Triggers Race for Cancer Tests

    Companies and a university are moving to offer cheaper and broader genetic testing for breast cancer risk to a growing group of women, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended Myriad Genetics Inc.’s monopoly over DNA that vastly raises odds for the disease.

  • Paradise Lost Facing Expats in Cayman Work Visa Crackdown

    Jennifer Smith was so taken by the mix of white sand, blue waters and modern offices when her cruise ship called at the Cayman Islands that the New Jersey accountant found a job and moved to what she calls paradise.

  • Gene Patents Limited by Court in Mixed Ruling for Myriad

    The U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability of companies to patent human genetic sequences, issuing a mixed ruling in a case that raised questions about thousands of biotechnology, agricultural and drug patents.

  • Human Genome Project Spurred $966 Billion Sciences Boom

    The $14.5 billion investment by the U.S. in the Human Genome Project, completed a decade ago, has paid off more than 60-fold in new jobs, drugs and a rapidly expanding genetics industry, an analysis has found.

  • How Michael Douglas Helps the Fight Against HPV

    Michael Douglas may have done more for awareness about human papillomavirus than all the education programs health advocates have ever sponsored. The actor revealed this week that his throat cancer was caused by an HPV infection, the result of his having oral sex with an HPV- infected woman.

  • True Religion, Jeans Maker, Sued Over TowerBrook Buyout

    True Religion Apparel Inc., the maker of designer jeans worn by Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie, was sued by an investor who contended the shares are undervalued in an $835 million buyout by TowerBrook Capital Partners.

  • Jolie Gems, Warhol, Wine Lure Billionaires to Hong Kong

    Hong Kong is taking center stage on the global conspicuous-consumption circuit this week as billionaires descend on the city to choose from Angelina Jolie’s diamonds, Andy Warhol’s paintings and bottles of Romanee-Conti.

  • Jolie Mastectomy Fuels Debate on Breast Cancer Treatment

    Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy is fueling debate among the thousands of women at risk of developing breast cancer who want to know how, if and when to have their breasts removed.

  • Jolie Has Double Mastectomy to Thwart Cancer Gene Risk

    Angelina Jolie, named the highest- paid actress in Hollywood by Forbes in 2011, said she had a double mastectomy after learning she has a gene mutation linked to breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother at age 56.

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