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Witnesses for Intuitive Surgical Inc. testified that heart disease, not a failed robotic procedure, killed a patient whose widow is suing the company over claims that overly aggressive marketing caused surgical errors.
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The space between the curb and sidewalk is often referred to as “no man's land.” But homeowners in many cities have begun a movement to reclaim this trampled slip of land as their own.
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Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia’s 14th-richest person, and his wife, Elena Rybolovleva, have been brawling for almost five years in at least seven countries over his $9.5 billion fortune.
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As more states embrace legalized marijuana, the drug’s growing medicinal use has highlighted a disturbing fact for doctors: scant research exists to support marijuana’s health benefits.
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With its 92-year-old football stadium starting to crumble, the University of Washington began contemplating a renovation half a dozen years ago. One financing idea -- getting $150 million from Seattle-area taxpayers -- ran afoul of state Representative Ross Hunter. The state was reducing college funding, and tuition was surging.
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Tory Galloway thought her negative result on a widely-used test sold by Myriad Genetics Inc. cleared her DNA as a cause for her fallopian tube cancer.
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Raul Labrador, a Tea Party favorite, has emerged as House Republicans’ go-to negotiator on immigration. He is unusually prepared for the task: The Puerto Rico-born Mormon convert is a lawyer fluent in Spanish who has represented undocumented residents fighting deportation.
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Rebecca Riggins, a Georgetown University cancer researcher, has had to freeze her work amid federal funding cuts brought on by sequestration. Literally.
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Toyo Ito, an architect who uses bravura engineering to achieve effortless-looking lyricism, was yesterday named the 2013 laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Intuitive Surgical Inc., the maker of robots used in 367,000 U.S. operations last year, is facing accusations in lawsuits that it put patients at risk by marketing the machinery to doctors without providing adequate training.
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