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The 1 percent drop in drug spending was partly a sign of the rising use of generics, but experts warn that the high cost of specialty medicines could reverse the downturn.
Congress wants a second look at how private firms profit from public research after Pfizer and the National Institutes of Health developed a potentially lucrative new drug.
John Riccitiello, who became chief executive in 2007, fell victim to internal errors and falling sales of traditional video games as consumer tastes changed.
Analysts were breathless waiting for impending disaster from the bailout in Cyprus. But nothing bad happened.
For Pope Francis to change the Vatican, he must tame a hierarchy whose branches are run like medieval fiefs and whose supplicants vie for access and influence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 2013, covering March 19, 2013.
Bruno Mars
Atoms For Peace
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Hillsong United
2013A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.[†]
The 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks were a series of coordinated bombings and shootings across the capital Baghdad and several major cities in the north and central parts of the country. At least 98 people were killed and more than 240 others injured in the wave of violence, which took place on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]