According to a December 6 report issued by the third party set up by the company to investigate Woodford's claims, the company had inflated fees for the 2008 purchase of Gyrus, a UK medical instruments firm.

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Today, Produits du Sud has created an entirely new stream of income for rural Malians to supplement subsistence millet farming and pay for school fees, medical needs, and food in the lean months between harvests.

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Indiana's Evan Bayh is baying for a reduction in the hefty fees to be imposed on manufacturers of medical devices, many of whom are based in his state.

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The money helped re-start businesses closed down by the bombing, paid for some victims' medical costs, post-traumatic counselling and school fees of orphaned children.

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