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Abbott Laboratories reports rise in earnings without its spinoff
Abbott Laboratories, in its first quarterly earnings report without its proprietary pharmaceutical arm, said Wednesday that first-quarter income from its continuing operations rose 55 percent, to $544 million, an increase fueled in large part by strong...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Humira (drug), Earnings Forecasts, Thomson Corporation, Earnings
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Non-caucus candidate declares victory in Lake Forest school election
Ted Moorman appeared to be headed for a seat on the Lake Forest High School District 115 school board Tuesday, becoming the first candidate in years to declare victory without an endorsement from the Lake Forest Caucus. With all precincts reporting...
Tags: Technology, Elections, Politics, Science and Technology, Lake Forest College
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New CEO At New Haven's Rib-X Pharmaceuticals
The Hartford CourantIn a reshuffling of executive leadership, New Haven's Rib-X Pharmaceuticals on Wednesday announced that Mary Szela would be the company's new chief executive. Szela worked for two decades at Abbott Laboratories, where at different times she led global...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, New Products, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon's knife
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels. Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many...
Tags: American Heart Association, St. Jude Medical, Inc., Cardiac Arrhythmia, Boston Scientific Corporation, Food and Drug Administration
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J.B. Pritzker calls for large businesses to work closer with startups
J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire venture capitalist whose family founded the Hyatt hotel chain, called on corporations to work more closely with startups and become more familiar with the city's growing technology sector. "By definition, startups are...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, City Club of Chicago, World Ventures Incorporated, Startups, Business
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Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt
If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...
Tags: Fines, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Lawyers, Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Crime
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What you don't know about HIV tests
Statistics show that many who have HIV don't know they're infected, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, along with Abbott Laboratories, is taking to social media to get that message out. "We need people to know their status," Johnathon Briggs,...
Tags: AIDS, National Institutes of Health, HIV, Health Organizations, Elections
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ASK JEFF : Add food to area's industry
Coming off the Thanksgiving holiday and heading into the Christmas season, many of us have food on our mind. A few of us, me included, had a few too many turkey sandwiches and pieces of pie while gathering with friends and family over the holiday. The...
Tags: Food Industry, Kellogg Company, Consumer Goods Industries, Holidays, Christmas
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Former Oriole Doug DeCinces indicted on insider trading charges
Former Orioles third baseman Doug DeCinces was indicted Wednesday, along with three friends, by a federal grand jury in California on securities fraud charges, for allegedly cashing in on inside information about the acquisition of an Orange County...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Lawyers, Economy, Business and Finance, Prosecution, College Sports
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Beyond 'fiscal cliff,' unknowns shaping economy are larger than they appear
The perils of looking too far out in the future when it comes to the economy are evident in a Chicago Tribune story that ran Nov. 8, 1928, two days after Herbert Hoover was elected to succeed fellow Republican Calvin Coolidge in the White House. "See...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, U.S. Congress, Illinois Tool Works Incorporated, Politics, University of Chicago
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Will bogus bio unmake self-made leader of Abbott spinoff?
Richard Gonzalez, it turns out, is more of a self-made man than a lot of us knew. The Abbott Laboratories veteran of more than 30 years, who is pegged to serve as chief executive of the pharmaceutical company spinoff that the North Chicago-based medical...
Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Values, Biology, Economy, Business and Finance, Northwestern University
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Professor's journey for a school is rich in life lessons
Special to the TribuneLaura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces. The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about...Tags: Psychology, U.S. Embassy, Direct Relief International, Separation of Church and State, Teaching and Learning
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Feb 12, 2013
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Dec 7, 2012
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Dec 4, 2012
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Nov 28, 2012
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Nov 8, 2012
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Sep 30, 2012
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Jul 30, 2012
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