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• Vioxx risk lingers at least 1 year after using drug
The analysis was conducted by six scientists who worked on APPROVe, plus two statistics experts at the University of Wisconsin who were not involved then, the company said. The eight researchers reported in The Lancet that in the year after the 2,587 ...
• Mitsubishi closes Morgan Stanley investment
The new capital helps Morgan Stanley increase its capital ratio and decrease its leverage ratio, two key statistics used to determine the health of a bank, especially amid the ongoing credit crisis. On a pro-forma basis, Morgan Stanley now has a Tier ...
• Bomb hits Pakistani anti-terror squad building
The statistics also said that 1,368 security force personnel have been killed since late 2001, when Pakistan's former military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, allied the country with Washington in its war on terror. The violence has largely been ...
• Decade after Shepard, no federal hate crime law
FBI statistics show hate crimes motivated by anti-gay bias have remained at a stable level since Matthew's death. Both in 1998 and in 2006, the latest year for which data is available, roughly 1,200 such crimes were reported — about 16 percent of ...
• NYC restaurants slammed by financial crisis
Adding to the malaise is the soaring cost of food — about 9 percent over the last year according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — as well as a fear that the tourism dollars that have buoyed New York's economy may disappear as the crisis goes ...