IN BRIEF.VALLEY INDEX FALLS: The Daily News/Bloomberg Index fell 0.05 to 117.37, led by Westlake Village's Dole Food Co. and Wellpoint Health Networks of Woodland Hills. Dole fell $5 to $29.625. Wellpoint fell $2.25 to $62.625. - Bloomberg News NURSES ON STRIKE: About 275 registered nurses and other health care workers held a one-day strike at Tarzana Medical Center on Friday to complain about conditions at the hospital and their wages. The workers held a one-day strike Sept. 15, when their labor contract expired. The workers want the hospital to buy devices to help prevent them from contracting blood-borne diseases, the right to file grievances over staffing levels and, chiefly, a raise. Tenet Healthcare Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) is an operating company that owns and operates 57 hospitals in the United States [1]. It is based in Dallas, Texas. Its stock ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is NYSE: THC. , the hospital's owner, is offering workers a 2 percent raise this year and 4 percent next year for senior employees, while more junior employees would receive only 2 percent in 1999. - City News Service POWER-ONE OFF: Stock of Camarillo-based Power-One Inc. fell 18 percent by $1.125 to $6.125 Friday after analyst Scott Alaniz at Stephens Inc. downgraded the stock to ``market outperform'' from ``buy'' with a 12-month target price of $7.50. The power-supply producer had reported preadjusted third-quarter earnings Wednesday of $1.2 million, or 7 cents a share, which topped Wall Street estimates. - Daily News BAXTER GETS OK: Baxter Healthcare Corp. got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to manufacture recombinant antihemophilic factor an·ti·he·mo·phil·ic factor n. Abbr. AHF See factor VIII. antihemophilic factor (AHF, factor VIII) Alphanate, Hemofil M, Koate-DVI, Kogenate FS, Monarc-M, Monoclate-P, Recombinate, ReFacto at its new Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. facility. The thumbs-up allows Baxter to increase by up to 40 percent its global supply of recombinant factor VIII factor VIII n. A factor in the clotting of blood, a deficiency of which is associated with hemophilia A. Also called antihemophilic factor, antihemophilic globulin, antihemophilic globulin A, , which is a genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there blood-clotting therapy for hemophilia A hemophilia A n. Hemophilia due to deficiency of factor VIII, characterized by prolonged clotting time, decreased formation of thromboplastin, and diminished conversion of prothrombin. victims. - Daily News |
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