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During the last three years, the market value of Biogen Idec has quadrupled to more than $100 billion as the company successfully launched multiple sclerosis drugs and now the company has new ambitions in its sight.

Last week, the Massachusetts-based company made an announcement that it has received better-than-expected clinical trial results for its experimental Alzheimer's drug, aducanumab.

Now the company has come up with another announcement that it is going to drop Idec from its name and will adopt a new logo. The company merged with Idec Pharmaceuticals more than 10 years ago.

Chief Executive George Scangos said that in future, Biogen will be focused on the development of the drugs, used for some of the hardest-to-treat diseases.

A team of 30 doctors and nurses successfully resuscitated a 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy who slipped onto a fast-moving stream and was swept away with the current.

Gardell Martin was pulled out from an icy creek was revived after an hour and 41 minutes (101 minutes) of CPR, said doctors.

Gardell came back home on March 15 and his doctors said that he has made a complete recovery.

Dr. Frank Maffei, director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Geisinger's Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, said, “It's not only extraordinarily rare that we got the kid back, but what's even more extraordinary is the rate at which he recovered and the completeness of his recovery”.

A study has found that short naps could be helpful in improving memory. After a short nap, one can be able to retain learned material in memory as per the study. The study conducted by researchers from Saarland University in Germany found that sleep of about 45 to 60 minutes could produce a five-fold improvement in information retrieval.

To conduct the study, the researchers divided participants into two groups: The nap group and the control group. The control group involved participants who watched DVDs when the nap group slept. The study found that the nap group performed better on remembering word pairs during a performance test.

On Sunday, an officer helped a woman pass the finish line in a 10k race as she was trying hard to achieve the milestone. The photo, which was captured at the moment, is receiving a lot of appreciation because of the kind act of the officer. The photo shows the woman crossing the line with the police officer and her son.

“When you see the photo, just know that you're worth it. And you can do anything that you put your mind to. I just knew that all of those times that we went to the doctor's office and the doctor told us what could have happened”, said Ford.

Detroit headquartered General Motors Company announced on Friday that it has built a new Teen Driver system that automatically mutes the radio when passenger sitting on the front seat is not buckled up. The new system also gives a report card to parents about their teens' trip. According to the company, the new system will be in on its redesigned 2016 Chevrolet Malibu.

While giving information about the new system, the company said that the Teen Driver system also gives audible and visual warning to the driver if vehicle travels over pre-set speeds by parents. Volume of the radio could also be set to a lower level that cannot be exceeded, as per the company.

It has been reported that Sen. John Thune called out the FCC this week, saying that its recently passed net neutrality rules have exactly the opposite effect on protecting an open internet.

The Federal Communications Commission in last month voted 3-2 in support of reclassifying the Web as a Title II telecom service.

According to Chairman Tom Wheeler, the reclassification of the internet as Title II will be the strongest open internet protections ever proposed.

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Thune during an oversight hearing on Wednesday said that it was also one of the most important and most controversial decisions in the agency's history.