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WASHINGTON AP) ? In an Oct. 21 story about drug labels, The Associated Press erroneously described the Novartis drug Zometa. Zometa was approved in 2001 to treat excessive calcium levels, not to treat a form of osteoporosis in cancer patients. Also, the drug was approved only in a 4 milligram dose, not in both 4 milligram and 8 milligram doses. A corrected version of the story appears below.

Correction: FDA drug label story. WASHINGTON AP) ? In an Oct. 21 story about drug labels, The Associated Press erroneously described the Novartis drug Zometa. Zometa was approved in 2001 to treat excessive calcium levels, not to treat a form of osteoporosis in cancer patients. Also, the drug was approved only in a 4 milligram dose, not in both 4 milligram and 8 milligram doses. A corrected version of the story appears below.

Drug safety experts urge FDA to make drug safety info more accessible to patients. Did you know that Lunesta will help you fall asleep just 15 minutes faster? Or that a higher dose of the osteoporosis drug Zometa could damage a cancer patient's kidneys and raise their risk of death?

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The 2009 Nobel season wraps up Monday with the announcement of the winner of the Nobel Economics Prize, expected to attract special attention in the wake of the global economic crisis.

The 2009 Nobel season wraps up Monday with the announcement of the winner of the Nobel Economics Prize, expected to attract special attention in the wake of the global economic crisis.

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A 100-year-old woman found strangled in a nursing home with a plastic bag over her head loved living at the home, where she happily played bingo and doled out daily hugs to other residents, her son said Thursday.

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Next CEO of BofA still uncertain, but will have to repair damaged relations, balance sheet. The CEO who succeeds the departing Ken Lewis at Bank of America Corp. will have plenty of repair work to do, including mending relationships with regulators and investors after the animosity that followed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. this past year.

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Dartmouth College is the first Ivy League school to inaugurate an Asian-American president.

Dartmouth president describes lessons from childhood at inauguration. Dartmouth College is the first Ivy League school to inaugurate an Asian-American president.

BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co <GE.N> plans to test a new management model in India that the largest U.S. conglomerate believes will help it flourish through a long period of sluggish post-recession growth in developed markets.

Management from major drug developers moves to nano-cap company with cancer drug in development. . One angle of determining the value and likely success of a nano-cap company is to assess its executive management?s history of success. Particularly one might look at their achievements in solid small-cap, mid-cap and blue-chip companies. The reasoning here is basic but profound as an analogy from academia shows: assuming the character and ethics of administrators and teachers were approximately equal, would you be more apt to pay tuition for your child to attend a K-8th grade school that was staffed by individuals with a high school education and perhaps some college or a school that boasted of an array of competent persons with BAs, MAs and PhDs from notable colleges and universities? Surely most would select the later.

Surge in Army ROTC ranks promises more young officers; 3,000 majors and captains needed. Burgeoning ranks of Army ROTC students are filling college classrooms around the nation this fall as the Army seeks to beef up its officer corps with its generous scholarship program that pays the college tuition of students who are commissioned as 2nd lieutenants when they graduate.

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Mass. Rep. Capuano says he will run to succeed Kennedy; targets rival Coakley as untested. U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano said Wednesday he will run for the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, arguing he is the best candidate to continue his fellow Democrat's liberal philosophical tradition and better tested in the national political arena than leading rival Martha Coakley.

President and CEO of investment manager Rockefeller & Co. found dead in Mass.. James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday.

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