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1 in 5 Japanese face ‘death from overwork’

  Tokyo / AFP A fifth of the Japanese workforce faces the risk of death from overwork, according to a new government survey into the country’s notoriously strenuous working culture. Hundreds of deaths related to overwork — from strokes, heart attacks and suicide — are reported every year in Japan, along with a host of serious health problems, sparking lawsuits ...

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Business leaders urge London against ‘hard’ Brexit

Londres / AFP British business leaders on Saturday urged the government to rule out a hard break with the European Union, saying the uncertainty over the terms of Brexit was impacting investment decisions. “What we would like is the ruling out of the really worst options,” Carolyn Fairbairn, the director general of CBI, Britain’s biggest business lobby group, told BBC ...

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Novartis targets breast cancer drug approval to take on Pfizer

  Bloomberg An experimental Novartis AG treatment for a form of advanced breast cancer slashed the risks of death and the disease progressing in a study, paving way for the Swiss drugmaker to seek regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe by the end of the year. Novartis expects to win the first approval for the drug, ribociclib, by the ...

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