WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patton Boggs LLP has hired Dick Thompson, a top executive at Bristol-Myers Squibb with nearly four decades of public policy experience, to strengthen its hand in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. Mr.

By Mary Ann Albright and Matt Wastradowski, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Oct. 14--Common sense holds that preparing meals at home has the potential to be less expensive and more nutritious than dining out.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Peter Gelling Peter Gelling reported from Jakarta and Elisabeth Rosenthal from Rome.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Health experts have asked 33 people in a remote Indonesian village to quarantine themselves at home after the H5N1 bird flu virus killed as many as seven members of a family there earlier this month.

By HELEN BRANSWELL (CP) - A year ago, H5N1 avian flu was ripping through Asian poultry flocks and sparking frequent - and too often fatal - human infections in Vietnam. International health authorities worried that a largely oblivious world might be sleepwalking toward disaster.