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Older women in the Central African Republic forager communities suffer most from food shortage
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- Written by Amy Patterson Neubert
West Lafayette, Indiana - Among the Central African Republic forager communities, it is older women who suffer the most from the region's ongoing food shortage, according to an anthropologist from Purdue University.
FTC Requires Teva to Divest Over 75 Generic Drugs to Settle Competition Concerns Related to its Acquisition of Allergan’s Generic Business
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Washington, DC - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to sell the rights and assets related to 79 pharmaceutical products to settle FTC charges that its proposed $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan plc’s generic pharmaceutical business would be anticompetitive. The remedy requires Teva to divest the drug portfolio to eleven firms, and marks the largest drug divestiture order in an FTC pharmaceutical merger case.
Under Secretary Sewall Travels to Guatemala
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Washington, DC - Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall will travel to Guatemala July 27-29.
Study links higher work demand to serious health risk potential
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- Written by Jim Bush
West Lafayette, Indiana - Employees under prolonged workplace pressures face serious consequences to their health, according to a working paper issued by the National Bureau for Economic Research.
Realizing the Potential of Quantum Information Science and Advancing High-Performance Computing
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- Written by White House
Washington, DC - Quantum mechanics describes the behavior and interaction of matter and energy at the scale of individual atoms or subatomic particles. We intuitively understand the collective effects of particles at much larger scales, but quantum behavior can often seem strange and counterintuitive. For example, at the most fundamental level, both matter and radiation (including visible light) behave in some ways like discrete particles and in other ways like continuous waves, resulting in surprising properties.
U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Travel to Morocco
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Washington, DC - U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Dr. Jonathan Pershing will travel July 27-28 to Rabat, Morocco for meetings with Moroccan officials to discuss climate priorities for the year and plans for the upcoming 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-22). Morocco will host COP-22 in Marrakesh, November 7-18, 2016 – the first climate conference since the successful adoption of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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