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Anti-oxidants may help ease pancreatitis...

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:01 -0600

In the double blind trial, published in Gastroenterology, 127 patients with chronic pancreatitis were assigned to placebo or anti-oxidant groups.

After six months, the reduction in the number of painful days/month was significantly higher in the anti-oxidant group than in the placebo group. The reduction in the number of analgesic tablets/month was also higher in the anti-oxidant group. A...

IJN: Safeguarding a price bulwark...

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:00:02 -0600

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — When the cardiothoracic and cardiology departments were hived off from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital in 1992 and corporatised as a government-owned referral heart centre, Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute), one of its explicit missions was to provide high quality services in cardiovascular and thoracic medicine to Malaysian citizens at medium cost.

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Degree may not help you keep your job...

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:00:03 -0600

The unemployment rate of college-educated workers could reach record highs this year, economists say.Summary.

Perhaps the media will start reporting on signs we are recovering when there are actually signs that we ARE recovering...

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Idle ports signal two 'bleak' years ahead in world trade...

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:00:02 -0600

Chris Lytle, chief operating officer of the port of Long Beach, Calif., took in a panorama of the slumping world economy from his rooftop observation deck one day this month.

Shipping cranes stood still, truck traffic trickled and a cargo vessel sat idle, moored to a pier.

"You never see that," Lytle said. "It's quiet. Too quiet."

Port traffic is slowing around the world -- e...

Yellen says Fed far from out of policy t...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:00:01 -0600

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will use all of its tools, including unconventional policy measures, to support the U.S. economy and financial markets, Janet Yellen, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Ba...

Risk Aversion Trading Expected to Return...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:00:03 -0600

Equities attempting to rally more than 25% off their lows after the last two major bounces were confined to less than 20%. In past bear markets, false rallies have extended to as far as 35% before selling re-emerged. The last 3 weeks of 2008 witnessed a moving away from risk-driven trades in currency markets (whereby dollar and yen strengthen during falling equities) and in favour of dollar-spe...

Free insurance for fliers...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:00:00 -0600

Regional airline Flybe is offering free insurance to its customers, enabling them to get a full refund if they lose their jobs.

Under the group's "book with confidence guarantee", people who book flights, car hire and hotels in January and are travelling before October 24 will receive a full refund if they have to cancel their trip because they or a member of their party has been made re...

BCCI plans corporate tournaments...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:00:02 -0600

The BCCI plans an annual inter-corporate tournament, covering both 50- and 20-over formats, with the winners getting Rs 1 crore (approx US$200,000).

This proposal, by the board's working committee, will mark a new area of the BCCI's interest.

A statement after a working committee meeting on Saturday said the tournament was aimed at increasing employment opportunities for playe...

Business Minute: Dow 9000...IndyMac deal...Grim auto sales.......

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:00:01 -0600

NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks staged a solid advance to begin the new year. The Dow soared 258 points to 9,034, the first close above 9,000 in about two months.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say a seven-member group of investors has agreed to buy failed lender IndyMac for nearly $14 billion. The failure of IndyMac, which had $32 billion in assets and branches throughout California, was th...

PM plays down bank bail-out reports...

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:00:04 -0600

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Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:00:02 -0600

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Stalemate or check? The Sandord saga, Part Two......

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:00:01 -0600

Hole in one, dear reader. We continue:Somebody been reading the Sixter's mindwaves again, seems like. I have a nice lady friend who works for the SCESC, and she was telling me the job outlook was somewhere between zero and sub-zero.

Duhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Sanford gets an A+ in being cold hearted. And an F- in being an effective governor, which so far, he ain't.Sanford again has wasted politi...

Britain fails to take count of migrant workers...

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:00:06 -0600

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London, Jan 3 (ANI): At least 170,000 more migrant workers are taking up British jobs each year than official figures show because of undercounting in employment statistics.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS), the main Government tool for m...

Wall Street enjoys upbeat start to 2009...

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:00:01 -0600

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street started 2009 with a big rally Friday as investors, brushing aside a disappointing report on manufacturing, sent the Dow Jones industrials up more than 250 points and to their first close above 9,000 in two months. All the major indexes shot up more than six percent for the week.

The market lived up to the hopes of many analysts that it would have a fresh start...

Oil at $45 per barrel...

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:00:03 -0600

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