Global As part of global efforts to promote efficient lighting, United Nations Environment Programme with the support of the GEF Earth Fund, Philips Lighting and OSRAM GmbH has established the initiative. The initiative seeks to ...
Pop into your local supermarket and pick up a packet of own label chocolate digestive biscuits. Now carefully inspect the packaging. Across the front and back of the pack you’ll find a raft of information that goes beyond brand ...
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The U.S. green building market continues to accelerate, according to McGraw-Hill Construction's 2013 Dodge Construction Green Outlook report. The value of green building has seen growth from $10 billion in 2005 to $78 billion in 2011. In ...
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In the wake of his Belize neighbor's unsolved murder, John McAfee's lurch through the news damaged the reputation of his namesake, the security company McAfee Inc., a brand expert said Thursday. McAfee, 67, founded the firm in 1987 as ...
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Cordis has obtained regulatory approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use its S.M.A.R.T. CONTROL Vascular Stent systems in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) and/or the proximal popliteal artery (PPA). The Stent ...
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More than one in 10 people in the U.S.believe they would be dead today,or severely incapacitated,if not for access to Web-based health information,according to a consumer survey by health technology provider Philips Healthcare. The survey ...
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Nestlé’s confectionery factory in York, UK, has bagged a safety award for a scheme assessing plant design risks that has reduced the frequency of accidents by a third. The confectioner won the National Food and Drink ...
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US-based global specialty pharmaceutical company, Watson Pharmaceuticals has received European Commission's (EC) approval for its pending acquisition of the privately held Actavis Group. Watson president and CEO Paul Bisaro said,"Approval ...
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Mylan and its subsidiary, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, have signed a settlement agreement with Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn Company and Pfizer Health related to Detrol LA patent litigation. The litigation is related to Mylan Pharmaceuticals' ...
Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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Otsuka Medical Devices and Pioneer have joined forces to develop a minimally invasive medical endoscope to reduce patients' physical burden from surgery. For the development of a camera unit of medical endoscope, Pioneer will use its ...
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TAMARAC, Fla. -- City Furniture has opened an employee Health & Wellness Center at its company headquarters here, a new perk designed to help cut health-related expenses for both employees and the company. Keith Koenig, left, and Doreen ...
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German research minister Annette Schavan and her Chinese counterpart Wan Gang have signed an agreement regarding joint research for highly efficient LED technologies. The Technical University of Darmstadt is one of the pivotal research ...
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Residents, environmental groups complain of possible noise, air, water pollution. (CW Group) Objections have been raised against the planned expansion of a limestone quarry in Groβenlüder, Germany, a report from Fulda Info said. ...
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In March 2010, Michelle Obama stood on a stage in Washington and leveled a challenge at the food industry's biggest players. "We need you all to step it up," she told a meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Just a month earlier, ...
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