Healthcare
French lensmaker Essilor to buy Italy's Luxottica for $24 bn
17 Jan 2017
French lensmaker Essilor International SA yesterday struck a deal to buy Italy's Luxottica Group SpA, for about €22.8 billion ($24 billion) in stock, in order to become the world’s largest player in the €95-billion eyewear market
Luxottica and Essilor agree on €45-bn merger of equals: report
16 Jan 2017
Italy's Luxottica Group SpA and France's Essilor International plan to create a giant in the global eyewear industry through a merger of equals
India to foot bill for vaccinating peacekeepers sent to Haiti without cholera vaccination
11 Jan 2017
Obamacare on the block as US Congress session opens today
03 Jan 2017
Though Trump had promised to unite a deeply divided country, the first thing that his Republican party would push for is legislation to undo Obamacare, a health insurance programme which has an expected 13.8 million economically disadvantaged people enrolled in it
