Hewlett-Packard Profits Soar On Strong PC Sales
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday reported that profits in the second fiscal quarter rose 28%, as consumers and businesses continued to spend more on computers.
Technology sector stocks saw mild gains Wednesday morning thanks to strength from the chip sector as well as Hewlett-Packard Co.., which posted a strong earnings report the previous afternoon.
Those gains offset [...]
Prostate cancer vaccine gets FDA approval
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Provenge, a novel technique for fighting prostate cancer, on Thursday. The treatment involves taking a patient’s own white blood cells and using a drug that trains them to more actively attack cancer cells.
The treatment is intended only for men with so-called “metastatic castration-resistant” prostate cancer, for whom [...]
