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Every time an iPhone is charged or an episode of "Mad Men" plays on a television, puffs of vaporized carbon join the atmosphere, products of power-plant combustion. And every year the world demands more. That era may be nearing an end, as the world approaches “peak fossil fuels,” a phrased used by Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder Michael Liebreich at the group’s annual conference.
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Eli Lilly & Co., whose top-selling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa faces generic competition in October, said it may bid for veterinary products being sold by Pfizer Inc.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co ., the maker of the Plavix blood-thinner, expanded its board by adding Chief Medical Officer Elliott Sigal as a director.
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E. coli that has sickened thousands in Europe has become the deadliest outbreak of the bacteria on record as a rare strain is causing kidney failure in unprecedented numbers, U.S. health officials said.
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Prostate cancer patients seeking Dendreon Corp. ’s new tumor-fighting vaccine, Provenge, face delays of a year or more as hospital waiting lists dwarf the company’s capacity to produce medicine.
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Doctors treating the world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak have little beyond water and dialysis machines to help them clear the contagion from patients, according to infectious disease specialists.
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The first obstacle to launching a news website about sustainability is the word "sustainability." It's the embodiment of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's observation that news stories in this arena lack appeal: "If it isn't boring, it isn't green." In fact, if you rearrange the 14 letters in "sustainability," they declare: "Banality: It is us."
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co ., whose top- selling blood thinner Plavix faces generic competition next year, said fourth-quarter profit decreased 41 percent, missing analyst estimates after higher-than-expected taxes.
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Fujifilm Holdings Corp. will buy two units of Merck & Co. that make biopharmaceuticals as it targets growth in the health-care industry to make up for declining sales in cameras and film.
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Dianne Klefstad’s quilting group may have saved her life.
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