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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, 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 antihemophilic /an·ti·he·mo·phil·ic/ (-he?mo-fil´ik) counteracting hemophilia, or an agent that so acts. factor at its new Thousand Oaks facility.
The thumbs-up allows Baxter to increase by up to 40 percent its global supply of recombinant factor VIII factor VIII
n.
, which is a genetically engineered blood-clotting therapy for hemophilia A victims. 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, proserum prothrombin conversion accelerator.
- Daily News