The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will support dairy producers by buying around 11 million pounds of cheese at $20m through its Margin Protection Program (MPP). The announcement from USDA is aimed at reducing a cheese surplus which ...
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The government of Ontario in Canada is investing around $5.2m in food projects to encourage local food production in the province. The funding is a part of the Ontario government's strategy to increase consumer awareness of and access to ...
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Penn Medicine is the first academic medical center in Philadelphia - one among just a handful of academic medical centers in the U.S.—to launch a program across multiple professional schools and affiliated hospitals at Penn to improve ...
Tags: LGBT, health, medical education, outreach
Cerenis Therapeutics, the biopharmaceutical company, today announced that its Phase IIb CHI-SQUARE (Can HDL Infusions Significantly Quicken Atherosclerosis REgression) study did not reach its primary endpoint in post-Acute Coronary Syndrome ...
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A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
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Multispecialty Physician Partners (MPP), a Renal Ventures Management company, and Rheumatology Associates of Dallas have entered into a joint venture partnership for operating six infusion centers around the Dallas Metroplex. MPP duties ...
May 23, 2013 - Yesterday, Toronto Hydro-Electric System Ltd. celebrated the start of construction on its new $195-million downtown Toronto transformer station: the Clare R. Copeland Transformer Station. "This station will help address the ...
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There will be a change in management at three of the 14 business units of specialty chemicals company LANXESS. Dr. Ron Commander (62), Head of the Butyl Rubber business unit (BTR), will enter retirement at the end of this year and until ...
LANXESS is strengthening its product portfolio for biocides to serve the megatrend urbanization. The German specialty chemicals group has acquired Singapore-based PCTS Specialty Chemicals Pte. Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. The transaction ...
Kala Pharmaceuticals, a developer of products that effectively penetrate the mucosal barrier to treat various debilitating diseases, has received $11.5m in Series A equity financing round, led by new and existing investors. Kala said ...
WTW, a Xylem company, is a manufacturer of portable systems for environmental measurements. WTW’s line up includes the waterproof (IP 67) Multi Line® 3410, 3420 and 3430 handheld meters for either one, two or three parameters at ...
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IDG News Service - China will take the wraps off its latest 8-core Godson processor early next year to show its chip-making ability compared to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM. Loongson Technology, partly funded by the Chinese ...
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Pakistan established themselves this week as firmly ahead of their Indian competitors with a greater aggression to buy at better numbers. Indeed, the Danish built, ABS class, full spares panamax bulker 05TSEE MERCHANT considered to be a ...
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After a decent run that has seen several VLCCs, suezmax tankers and capesize bulkers beached, Pakistan endured an overall quieter week with no market sales to speak of. Despite the 100 plus vessels that have beached recentlv in India, ...
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The solar inverter manufacturer Delta Energy Systems (Germany) GmbH is entering the UK PV market, focusing on residential installations. The string inverter models SOLIVIA 2.5, 3.0 and 3.3 EU G3 with an output power ranging between 2.5 ...
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