Old offices set to become luxury over 50s homes

SAN FRANCISCO: A growing number of city-fringe office blocks are being converted for new lives as luxury apartments.

Residents are lapping up the large floor plates, high ceiling studs, views, carparks and strolls to CBD shopping, dining and entertainment, says a new report.

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Private firms getting up to 100% of profits from hospital parking

NEW YORK: Private firms are profiting from extortionate hospital parking fees an investigation has revealed.

Nearly half of hospital trusts hire private firms to run their car parks and collect fees.

Depending on local arrangements, these firms take anything from a tenth to 100 per Read More »

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New Compound Could Offer Therapy for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

CHICAGO: An international research team has developed a compound that successfully targets and destroys aggregated proteins, leading to hopes for a new class of drugs effective against a multitude of diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

The researchers call the compound ‘molecular tweezers’ because it wraps Read More »

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Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The two hundred and fifty-second entry for the seniors housing Global Award for 2015 has been received.

A senior living community is building a $17-million rehab and assisted living addition that it expects will create roughly 75 jobs.

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