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Minnesota sues e-cigarette maker Juul over youth vaping rise

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Juul Labs on Wednesday, accusing the e-cigarette maker of unlawfully targeting young people with its products to get a new generation addicted to nicotine....

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Purdue’s Richard Sackler proposed plan to play down OxyContin risks, and wanted drug maker feared ‘like a tiger,’ files show

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — In the early days of OxyContin, Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the billionaire family that founded and controls Purdue Pharma, learned about concerns that the potent...

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Amazon, maker of racist and sexist facial recog, to suggest regulations for facial recog systems

Now we're really scared Amazon is drafting proposals for the regulation of facial recognition technology.… Source link

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A drug maker courted controversy when it shut out a family-run rival. Now some patients say the medicine isn’t working

Last February, Barbara Moore switched to a new medicine to combat a rare neuromuscular disease that had plagued her for nearly a quarter of a century. She had not planned...

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The Maker of White Claw Is Now a Multibillionaire, Thanks to the Hard Seltzer Craze

Fresh out of college in the early 1970s, Anthony von Mandl opened a wine-importing business in his native Vancouver. He struggled to get Canada’s liquor boards to buy the foreign...

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Amazon, maker of racist and sexist facial recog, to suggest regulations for facial recog systems

Now we're really scared Amazon is drafting proposals for the regulation of facial recognition technology.… Source link

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Africa's top smartphone maker soars 64% in debut on China's tech market

Africa's top smartphone maker soars 64% in debut on China's tech market Source link

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E-Cigarette Maker Juul Stops All Advertising, Replaces CEO

E-Cigarette Maker Juul Stops All Advertising, Replaces CEO Source link

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STAT Plus: Catalyst stock dives, although the fledgling drug maker has no idea why

For the second time in two weeks, Catalyst Pharmaceuticals stock dived substantially, although the drug maker was at a loss to explain the latest drop. Shares were down as much...

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Maker Halts Distribution of Generic Zantac Due to Possible Carcinogen

A distribution halt is not the same as a full recall, and it means that generic Zantac (ranitidine) remaining on store shelves can still be sold, CBS News reported. Source...

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Maker Halts Distribution of Generic Zantac Due to Possible Carcinogen

Maker Halts Distribution of Generic Zantac Due to Possible Carcinogen Source link

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Illinois lawsuit filed against top e-cigarette maker

An Illinois teenager who fell ill with a lung disease after vaping for more than a year has sued a leading e-cigarette maker. Source link

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OxyContin maker reaches tentative opioid-crisis settlement

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative deal Wednesday with about half the states and thousands of local governments over its role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic, but criticism...

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STAT Plus: Drug maker pays $200,000 to settle charges of unfairly disclosing material info to analysts

Talk about playing favorites. A small drug company called TherapeuticsMD (TXMD) agreed to pay $200,000 to settle charges of illegally sharing material, non-public information with analysts after holding discussions with...

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OxyContin maker Purdue agrees to provide research data

The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin has agreed to provide access to propriety research and other data to researchers at Oklahoma State University to help them find causes and...

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FDA Calls Out Zolgensma Maker for Tainted Data

(MedPage Today) -- Agency also miffed that company delayed confessing until drug was approved Source link

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FDA Sends Warning to Curaleaf Inc., Maker of Cannabidiol Products

Company is cited for marketing unapproved cannabidiol products with unsubstantiated claims to treat cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, opioid withdraw-al, pain and anxiety. Source link

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Pimp My PowerApp: Microsoft touts AI Builder and augmented reality tools for low-code apps maker

Bottle-counting machine-learning software demoed at Business Applications Summit Microsoft has crafted a thing called AI Builder, a visual tool to inject some degree of artificial intelligence into programs created using...

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Finally, an AI that can reliably catch and undo Photoshop airbrushing. Who made it? Er, Photoshop maker Adobe

Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper Video  Artificial intelligence built by Adobe can detect how an image may have been manipulated using, er, Adobe Photoshop, and predict what a doctored picture...

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US cop body cam maker says it won’t ship face-recog tech in its kit? Due to ethics? Did we slip into a parallel universe?

Development paused after AI experts sounded alarm. Amazon et al take note, eh? Axon, the largest supplier of body cameras to America's cops, will not add facial-recognition technology to its...

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