Members of the Tempe operations team with Al Fornaro, unit manager (seated middle). MAPEI is committed to the safety and environmental health of its employees throughout the company’s global infrastructure. One testament to ...
Tags: MAPEI, Recognition Program, SHARP, OSHA
While everyone loves a good mystery, keeping engineers guessing as to which breakthroughs will shape future electronic component design can only benefit the makers of antacids. And while it’s hard to predict that a given research ...
Tags: RF Circuits, Graphene-Based
The discovery of seven new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes could lead to new ways of thinking about diabetes and new treatments for the disease, researchers suggest. The findings were among the results of the largest study to ...
Tags: genetic effects, compiled genetic information, biology of the disease
Giving intravenous magnesium to stroke patients soon after the start of symptoms, in an attempt to protect brain cells deprived of oxygen, failed to improve stroke-related disability 3 months later, according to research presented at the ...
Tags: Intravenous Magnesium, Stroke-Related Disability, Stroke Therapy
When I started off in electronics, it was the heyday of lead through-hole technology. I used to love all the colors associated with various components, such as the colored bands on the resistors shown below. It wrote in a September blog ...
Tags: SMT Component, electronics
The spread of obesity and type-2 diabetes could become epidemic in low-income countries, as more individuals are able to own higher priced items such as TVs, computers and cars. The findings of an international study, led by Simon Fraser ...
Tags: Obesity, Diabetes, low-income nation, high-income country
GE (NYSE: GE) announced today it has completed the acquisition of API Healthcare, a healthcare workforce management solutions provider, headquartered in Hartford, WI. API Healthcare's complementary offerings will expand GE Healthcare's ...
Tags: API Healthcare, the acquisition of API Healthcare, GE(NYSE:GE)
The Wall Street Journal examines the gap created by some states deciding not to expand their Medicaid programs and what that decision means for hospitals' bottom lines. Also, Republican lawmakers consider "bailouts" for hospitals after they ...
Tags: Coverage Gap, Medicaid Expansion, Obamacare, GOP
In July last year, Domino Printing Sciences launched a fast-drying ink to accommodate the newly released EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and US legislation. "Under the legislation pharmaceutical product will be authenticated at the ...
A new combination MRI-ultrasound imaging system can result in fewer biopsies and better treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. The technology, called UroNav®, fuses images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ...
Tags: MRI, PSA blood, Prostate Cancer, aggressive tumor, Loyola
The National Retail Federation (NRF) calculated that retail employment was down 21,600 jobs in January 2014, yet up 230,000 jobs year-over-year. December retail employment figures were revised up to a gain of 57,000 jobs. The Bureau of ...
The well-known story of Corning Inc.’s unsuccessful foray into the automotive glass market in the 1960s may have a happy ending sooner than you think. The Fortune 500 company’s development of a superior auto windshield using a ...
Tags: Gorilla Glass, Auto Industry
Detailed structural and functional 'maps' of the human kidney made using advanced scanning technology are to be developed by scientists at The University of Nottingham. The research, funded with -107,623 from the Dr Hadwen Trust, a ...
Tags: Kidney Disease, GFR, vitamin D, kidney healthy
Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. has increased its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2013 expectations after reporting that fiscal fourth quarter 2013 consolidated same-store sales exceeded expectations. The company is also providing ...
Tags: cautious consumer environment, shorter and promotional holiday
Findings suggest drugs can now be developed to stall the growth of K-Ras cancers, previously deemed impossible to treat NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have found a biological weakness in the workings of the most commonly mutated ...
Tags: K-Ras, DNA, radiation, Mutated Gene