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The U.K. is piloting a new genetic test developed by Illumina Inc. to help cancer patients and their doctors better identify appropriate treatments and help determine if relatives have cancer risk.
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Computer Sciences Corp. agreed to pay $97.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over alleged false statements about accounting and the company’s performance on a multibillion-dollar contract.
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Four members of the LulzSec “hacktivist” group were sentenced to a total of seven years in prison for disrupting websites at Sony Corp., News Corp. and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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By the time Pfizer Inc., Johnson and Johnson, Elan Corp. and Eli Lilly & Co. announced their experimental medicines had shown limited benefit for Alzheimer’s patients in late-stage testing, the industry and academia had spent more than $30 billion researching amyloid plaque in the brain. Now they are working together to prevent such failures.
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Prime Minister David Cameron suggested he may use parts of the health budget to pay for social care, a sign that he is prepared to erode an area of spending he told voters he would protect.
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Iris scanners aren’t just for airport border-control agents and spy movies anymore.
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The leader of the opposition Labour Party, Ed Miliband, said U.K. government borrowing would rise to fund a temporary cut in value-added tax if he was in power now.
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Don Berwick’s admiration of the U.K. National Health Service didn’t help him among U.S. Senate Republicans when President Barack Obama needed someone to revamp the Medicare health insurance program three years ago. It didn’t hurt him this year when U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron needed someone to recommend remedies for the NHS.
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Tougher restrictions on cosmetic procedures are needed in the U.K. after at least 490 women had their breast implants removed because of a manufacturing scandal in France, an advisory panel told the government.
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Pearson Plc’s Penguin offered to overhaul pricing models for digital books to settle a European Union antitrust probe into whether they blocked competition.
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