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has decided now's the time to sell the 83% of the baby formula producer that it still owns. Who's the sucker that Bristol-Myers is trying to pawn the inflated shares onto?...Investors will have an option of exchanging some or all...

Common heartburn pills Prilosec and Nexium cut the blood-thinning effect of Sanofi-Aventis SA's and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's heart drug Plavix, U.S. officials warned on Tuesday. The stomach drugs inhibit a key enzyme and reduce by almost half the anti-clotting effect...

UK has decreased markedly, but to achieve further gains, specific advice must be given to the public regarding the dangers of co-sleeping arrangements, Dr. Peter Fleming, from the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues emphasize. Their findings stem from a...

Britain's oldest dinosaur will at last be revealed, after being entombed in rock for more than 210m years. A specimen of Thecondontosaurus antiquus was discovered by excavators at a quarry in Bristol in 1834, and at the time was only...

Stand-up comic Jim Davidson, who knew Floyd for 25 years, also attended the service. TV producer David Pritchard, who discovered Floyd at his Bristol restaurant, said: "Before he arrived, most cooking programmes were sensible." Floyd died of a heart attack...

is using some of its stash to boost its pipeline a little more, eschewing the recent megamergers in big pharma. This morning, the drugmaker said it had licensed a phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis drug, ALD518, from privately held Alder Biopharmaceuticals....

Chimpanzees ambushing and eating colobus monkeys, great white sharks leaping clean out of the ocean to catch their prey and the first footage of an entire snow leopard hunt are just some of the wonders of nature made available by...

The devastating impact of asphyxia at birth, which affects more than 1,000 babies a year in the UK, can be averted by applying a hi-tech version of an ice pack to the head, doctors have found. Cooling the brains of...