While cancer victims usually blame themselves — I shouldn’t have smoked, should have eaten better, should have exercised — or the cruelty of chance, they may now have a new scapegoat: Grandma.
Eating poorly during pregnancy can increase your children’s and your grandchildren’s risk of cancer, even if they themselves eat healthily, a new study on [...]
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Sales growth and cost cutting helped push Shoppers Drug Mart profits higher in the first quarter, the drugstore chain said Wednesday.
Shoppers Drug Mart has already reduced hours at seven London, Ont., outlets in resonse to Ontario’s move to cut payments made for generic drug sales. (CBC)
Shoppers says it earned $116 million, or 53 cents per [...]
The US Federal Reserve has voted to keep interest rates at rock bottom levels for “an extended period” while acknowledging that the American economic recovery is getting stronger.
The Fed has held interest rates in a range from zero to 0.25 per cent since December 2008.
The official statement demonstrated that the Fed’s view of the economy [...]
Palm, a pioneer in the smart phone business, is being bought by US computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $1bn (£657m) cash.
HP said Palm’s webOS operating system would help it expand more aggressively in the fast-growing market for smart phones and connected mobile devices.
When Palm’s debt is included, the deal values the company at $1.2bn.
HP, paying [...]
This year’s “best places for jobs” list is easily the most depressing since we began compiling our annual rankings almost a decade ago. In the past — even in bad years — there were always stalwart areas creating lots of new jobs. In 2007’s survey 283 out of 393 metros areas showed job growth, and [...]