Faulty French Fake Boob Boss Freed

French implant boss released, faces bodily harm charge

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – Jean-Claude Mas, the Frenchman who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, was released from police custody on Friday and faces a charge of causing bodily harm, his lawyer said. | Full Article

China cadmium spill threatens drinking water for millions

January 27, 2012 04:45 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) – A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from the river, state media reported on Friday. | Full Article

Rivals see no need to match Roche’s big gene bet

January 27, 2012 09:08 AM ET

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Roche Holding AG’s rivals Sanofi SA and Novartis AG see no need to match the Swiss drug maker in buying a gene-decoding business like Illumina Inc and reckon they can do partnerships instead. | Full Article

Bill Gates injects $750 million into troubled AIDS fund

January 26, 2012 03:31 PM ET

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a further $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives. | Full Article

James Murdoch to quit GSK board

January 27, 2012 07:56 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) – News Corp executive James Murdoch, under pressure from a phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World tabloid, is to quit the board of drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to spend more time on his media roles. | Full Article

French implant boss released, faces bodily harm charge.

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