Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is gastric bypass surgery and how many people undergo it? Gastric bypass surgery is a type of bariatric operation that results in weight loss and stimulates metabolic ...
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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a renewed contract by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to provide Project Management Consultancy services for a portfolio of major upstream projects in ...
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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been appointed by Nexen Petroleum UK Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for their ...
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How can the tiny marmoset – a New World monkey – regularly successfully bear twins and sometimes triplets and quadruplets when much larger humans often face a difficult pregnancy and delivery? The answer, said researchers led ...
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As the cold of winter settles in across the United States, associations that represent the interests of wheat farmers met in many states to review the last year's activities and set plans for the next year. USW officers and staff look ...
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Although measles has been virtually eliminated in the United States, outbreaks still occur here. And they're usually triggered by people infected abroad, in countries where widespread vaccination doesn't exist, federal health officials said ...
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The fourth edition of INGLASS International Architecture Conference will take place in Warsaw on February 4th, 2014. INGLASS is about glass and glass construction, architecture and engineering, facade systems, energy efficiency and ...
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The flu vaccine is less effective for men than women, and researchers at Stanford University believe they've figured out why. The male hormone testosterone causes genes in the immune system to produce fewer antibodies, or defense ...
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A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
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U.S. Sens. Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown and Reps. Bob Latta and Jim Jordan sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Mike Froman urging government ...
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Perfect World Entertainment Inc. has announced a company expansion by creating a console division targeting current and next-gen consoles. Planned console products expected include current and future games from Perfect World Entertainment's ...
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Transport Workers Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said it was disappointing that Qantas had refused to outline where its 1,000 job cuts would fall. Qantas management was asked for details of the 1,000 job cuts at a meeting with ...
A blog post today by board member John Thompson says Microsoft’s search committee has boiled down the candidates from more than 100 to about 20, but that it needs more time to pick the winner. “After defining our criteria, we ...
Celebrating 40 years of success, Barron Lighting Group recently purchased a new 80,000 sq. ft. production facility. The Barron Team is expected to be thriving in its new location in Glendale, Arizona January 2014. "This is truly an ...
Unilife, a medical device and technology company, has announced the signing of an agreement with a global pharmaceutical company seeking to use the Unilife Ocu-ject ocular drug delivery system to deliver a target injectable therapy into the ...
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