Jakob Oeri-Hoffmann, Roche Director, 86, Dies
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Dr. Jakob Oeri-Hoffmann was a crucial figure at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding and a member of the countryÂs richest industrial dynasty.
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Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the U.N.'s Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said Wednesday. He was 82.
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche Holding AG on Tuesday unveiled a new method using nanotechnology to track patients' responses to treatments by monitoring their genes.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first American expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85.
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Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding Ag said  on Monday that U.S. health regulators approved its Tamiflu  influenza treatment at two lower doses for children in a form  with a longer shelf life that could be an advantage for use in  stockpiling against a flu pandemic.
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Professor Maurice Wilkins, who helped unlock the structure of DNA with Crick, Watson and Franklin, has died aged 88.
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Dr. Francis Crick, a renowned radicular Biologist, died of cancer on July 29, 2004. Prof. D. Wilson Devaprasad, an ardent reader of SOM had the opportunity of listening to his talk on &#39;DNA Helix&#39; at Hyderabad in 1981.
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury on Tuesday found that Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG failed to adequately warn a patient of the bowel disease risks associated with its potent acne medicine Accutane and awarded him $2.5 million in damages.
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Swiss-Swedish Nobel Biocare's Teeth-in-an-Hour implant system may carry more risk of complications than conventional methods, an abstract of a study by Sweden's Karolinska Institutet showed on Saturday.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a groundbreaking cancer researcher whose work cured the disease in mice and gave hope for a cure in humans, has died. He was 74.
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The Cleveland Clinic&#146;s Dr. Steven Nissen is known for calling attention to the cardiovascular side effects of drugs and medical devices.
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Hoffman-La Roche Inc., the US prescription pharmaceuticals unit of Swiss drug maker Roche Group, said Thursday that it will jointly develop and market an asthma drug with biotechnology firm Protein Design Labs Inc.
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Bert Bolin, a Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the Nobel Peace-winning U.N. panel on climate change, has died at age 82.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading  U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear  deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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The Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche, manufacturer of anti-flu drug Tamiflu, said its first-half net profit had increased by 37 percent to 4.54 billion Swiss francs (2.9 billion euros, 3.62 billion dollars).