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Kids and Cars says the government should require automakers to install back seat reminder systems.
[...] the agency is sponsoring public information campaign and more devices are hitting the market that can help prevent kids from being left behind.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed lower on Wednesday, led by sharp declines in health care companies as outrage over the steep price hikes for Mylan's EpiPens escalates.
Rising demand for homes is a positive, but the dwindling supply of listings has pushed up prices, which suggests a market not yet at full health.
In its second deal this week, Pfizer said it's buying rights to Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC's portfolio of approved and experimental antibiotic and antifungal pills.
The acquisition indicates a thawing of relations between the two companies barely two years after London-based AstraZeneca fought off Pfizer's hostile takeover attempt.
(AP) — U.S. communities in eight Appalachian states and Texas that have been hard-hit by coal layoffs are being promised more than 3,000 jobs in several industries through a multimillion-dollar federal grant.
Ford says the fuel pump control modules can fail, and the engines may not start, or they could stall, leaving drivers without the ability to restart them.
The Montgomery County district attorney's office and Douglass Township police say 49-year-old Clinton Arthur Holmes, of Alburtis, has been cited for 28 instances of animal cruelty.
Former director Andreas Georgiou, who headed the reorganization of the Greek statistics agency from 2010 on, is accused by two former agency staff members of overestimating the deficit to the country's detriment for political reasons — to get the IMF to pitch in to the bailout.
(AP) — As a pharmaceutical company run by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's daughter faces scrutiny for hiking prices on life-saving allergy injection pens, Manchin is remaining mum.
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