Goldam Sachs Group Inc. China is moving to acquire 100% ownership of its securities joint venture, deepening its investment in the world’s second-largest economy after a 17-year partnership with domestic brokerage. New York-based bank Goldm Sachs is applying to Chinese regulators for full control of the securities and has signed …
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MSNBC named Rashida Jones as the network’s president, a source said, adding that a major upheaval was caused by a news channel that has raised its profile with political coverage, but has struggled to keep up with rivals this year. Ms. Jones, who is currently serving as senior vice president …
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Hospitals are scrambling for plans to determine if health care workers can receive the Covid-19 vaccine first, with the expectation of an initial supply of the amount needed to vaccinate all high-priority employees. Enough is expected to deliver the December vaccine to about 200 million people, according to federal officials. …
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Governments are moving toward approving the first vaccines to contain Covid-19, but public concerns about dosage safety are threatening to undermine those efforts. A survey by the University of Hamburg found that about 40% of respondents in seven European countries were hesitant or unwilling to prepare for the Covid-19 vaccine …
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Drug development for sickle-cell disease, largely neglected for decades, is becoming a crowded field: two papers published on Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine give promising results from a study of experimental therapies, including Crisper gene editing for the disease. In addition, Beam Therapeutics Inc. The American Society …
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