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Courtesy of Gilead Gilead Science’s Sovaldi (Sofosbuvir) has received government approval for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, meaning some patients will not have to deal with the severe side effects of the injected drug interferon. U.S. regulators on Friday approved Gilead Sciences Inc’s Sovaldi, also known as sofosbuvir, as a potential cure for chronic infection with the liver-destroying hepatitis ...

Wong Maye-E/AP In this July 27, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, is followed by his uncle Jang Song Thaek, second from left, and Yang Hyong Sop, left, vice president of the Presidium of North Korea’s parliament, as he tours the newly opened Fatherland Liberation War Museum as part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of ...

Kevork Djansezian/AP Dr. Conrad Murray, seen here in court in 2011, insisted in a new interview that Michael Jackson was responsible for his own death. Michael Jackson and his doctor were bosom buddies. Sort of. In his first interview since getting sprung from prison, Dr. Conrad Murray said he and the King of Pop were unusually close. Kevin Mazur/AP Murray ...

© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters/REUTERS People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey. A meningitis vaccine approved for use in Europe and Australia but not in the United States can be imported to try to stop an outbreak of the disease at Princeton University in New Jersey, federal health officials said. PRINCETON, N.J.— Princeton University officials decided Monday ...

Playboy Brandi Brandt, busting out in this August 1989 Playboy magazine cover, appeared briefly Friday night in a Sydney courtroom after being extradited from California on cocaine trafficking charges. Brandi Brandt, 45, was once a top Playboy model , a TV actress, and the wife of heavy metal bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue. Now she’s in a Sydney jail ...

JOE WARNER/South Jersey Times /Landov “Operation North Pole,” a nine-month sting operation with local, state and federal agents, took down huge and violent narcotics network that moved millions of dollars in heroin and cocaine in Camden, N.J., was announced by state Attorney General John J. Hoffman. Authorities have arrested 34 people and seized drugs, money and a “party bus,” in ...