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One of the largest middlemen in the pharma industry just shed a little light on the murky world of drug pricing

BusinessInsider.com 

Reuters/Gary Cameron

The US prices its prescription drugs with a notoriously opaque system.

Although pharmaceutical companies set nominal list prices for drugs, there isn't a whole lot of guidance into other factors like what discounts are applied and what cut the many players in the supply chain take that affect the actual amount of money paid by consumers.

As a result of those opaquely applied discounts, list prices can grow at a startlingly different rate than actual pharmaceutical spending. Читать дальше...

Facebook is especially vulnerable to Trump's expected crackdown on guest-worker visas (FB)

BusinessInsider.com 

Facebook

Among Silicon Valley’s top tech employers, Facebook could be the most vulnerable to US President Donald Trump’s expected crackdown on guest-worker visas, according to a Reuters analysis of U.S. Labor Department filings.

More than 15 percent of Facebook's US employees in 2016 used a temporary work visa, giving the social media leader a legal classification as a H-1B “dependent” company. That is a higher proportion than Alphabet's Google, Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft.

That... Читать дальше...

Officials: Man who killed officer died by police gunfire

TheRepublic.com 

LITTLE ELM, Texas — An investigation has determined that a man who fatally shot a police detective during a standoff last month at a suburban Dallas home died in an exchange of gunfire with officers. Investigators hadn’t previously indicated whether 46-year-old Rudy Garcia died by police gunfire or whether he shot himself during the Jan.



Bank of America credit outlook revised to positive at Moody's

MarketWatch.com 

Bank of America Corp. credit outlook got a lift by ratings agency Moody's Investors Service, which revised its outlook to positive from stable, meaning the credit rating could be raised in the intermediate term. Moody's rates BofA's credit at Baa1, which is just three notches above speculative grade, or junk status. The new outlook reflects expectations of "improving profitability in the next 12-to-18 months as expense management efforts generate cost savings and rising interest rates boost revenue," Moody's said in its statement Monday. Читать дальше...

Judge who let Brady play offers his congratulations on win

TheRepublic.com 

NEW YORK — The New York judge who ruled against the National Football League in “Deflategate” said Monday that the New England Patriots showed with their Super Bowl victory “never to quit.” U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan congratulated the Patriots in an email to The Associated Press. “Last night, they showed us

More Than 100 People Killed In Afghanistan Avalanches

NPR (npr.org) 

Snow buried homes in multiple provinces around Kabul and in the mountainous northern part of the country this weekend. Officials said rescue crews had not yet reached some affected areas on Monday.

Kobe Bryant memorabilia stolen from ex-NBA star's alma mater

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — Authorities say memorabilia from Kobe Bryant's high school career have been stolen from a display case at the former NBA star's school near Philadelphia. The thief busted a lock on the display case and took Bryant's framed high school jersey, several pairs of signed Nike sneakers and the 1996 state championship trophy and net.

Trump narrows the focus of his...

MSNBC 

Donald Trump hasn't given up on his voter-fraud conspiracy theories, but his posture is suddenly ... different.

Tom Brady's Mom Fought Through Illness to Be at Super Bowl

«Just Jared» 

Tom Brady had an emotional moment with his mom Galynn Brady after his big win at the 2017 Super Bowl and we’re so glad that she was able to be there! Galynn has been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation throughout the 2016 football season and this was the first game she was able to attend. New [...]





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