A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves — cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.
A large study found that people who were taking these drugs when they caught seasonal flu and had to be hospitalized were twice as likely to survive than those who were not on such medicines.
This doesn't prove that statins can cure flu, or that s......
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Shutdown dealers say the dust in Detroit has done anything but settle. Six months later, Colleen McDonald is still seething.
"It's so wrong, but they got away with it," the ex-Chrysler dealer said. "I feel like I'm living in another world, because this can't happen in the U.S. You just can’t take someone's property without just compensation."
Another casualty of the rec......
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the gr......
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturers have taken a beating in the current downturn. Outside of housing and finance, it is hard to think of an industry that has suffered more.
Every measure of the sector's health is flashing red -- from profits and output to plant utilization and employment.
Word from individual manufacturers suggests spending on research and developmen......
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Sales and employment fundamentals are grim, but small business owners are starting to see a glimmer of light ahead.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The fundaments of their businesses are still bad, but for the first time since last year small business owners are hopeful that economic conditions will soon improve, according to a new survey by the National Federati......
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The Obama administration estimates that the economic stimulus plan will create or save 750,000 jobs by early August, a senior administration official said on Monday.
The comments came as the administration's Council on Economic Advisers released a report that explained the methodology behind its estimates for how many jobs will be created by the $787 billion American R......
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. trade gap widened less than expected in March as exports fell 2.4% and imports dropped for the eighth consecutive month, a government report showed on Tuesday.
The trade gap grew to $27.6 billion, from an upwardly revised estimate of $26.1 billion in February, which was the lowest since November 1999.
March was the first time the t......
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Why Ethanol--Not Electric Cars and Hybrids--Is the Answer
Posted Jun 03, 2009 11:57am EDT by Sarah Lacy in Venture Capital, M and A, IPOs, Clean Tech
Times are tough for the biofuel movement. Concerns have been rampant about how much gas it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol and about how much farmland and corn would be needed to produce enough fue......
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