Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
Hydrapak said it has doubled the size of its headquarters in Oakland, CA in anticipation a new deal with REI will boost demand for its SoftFlask, reservoir, and insulated bottle products. The expansion comes on the heels of Hydrapak's new ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
While people over the age of 60 account for more than half of all shingles cases, less than 15% get the vaccination that helps prevent the blistering skin rash, which can cause lingering nerve pain. "I awoke with such pain in my head and ...
Tags: EMR, Pharmacist Intervention, Preventative Care of Shingles
In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Project Aims
The challenge for the textile sector of Argentina is to increase production at a rate of 8 percent per annum, while generating jobs, said Argentine Minister of Industry Debora Giorgi after a meeting between textile industry representatives ...
Tags: Argentine Textile, textile sector
A new Aspen Dental office is opening in Jacksonville, FL on Thursday, January 30. Located at 11806 Atlantic Blvd, the conveniently located practice will provide dental services that range from dentures and preventive care to general ...
In November 2013 compared with October 2013, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade rose by 1.4% in the euro area (EA17) and by 1.2% in the EU28, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In ...
Tags: economy, Retail Trade
Annual inflation in the euro area was 0.8 percent in December last year, down from 0.9 percent recorded in November, according to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In December 2012, the ...
Tags: Annual inflation, Mineral
Seventy percent of CIOs plan to change their relationships with technology providers and outsourcing partners over the next two to three years, according to a Gartner survey. The Gartner Executive Program Survey of 2,339 CIOs worldwide ...
Tags: Change Suppliers, Flat budgets
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broadband terahertz (THz) wave generation using metamaterials. The discovery may help develop noninvasive imaging and sensing, and make possible THz-speed ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
Health insurance exchanges in five states with strong enrollment growth are ramping up efforts to reach even more uninsured Americans before the end of the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period on March 31. The March 31 deadline is ...
Truck drivers, cleaning-service employees and mechanics are among the most obese groups of workers, new research contends. Not far behind are health-service workers and administrative and clerical personnel, the study out of Washington ...
The use of biomaterials and more benign chemicals in coatings in Europe is accelerating as whole supply chains give greater priority to sustainablity, particularly as a means of protecting the environment. At the same time, however, ...
Tags: standards for biomaterials, sustainability of products
Smart Lids hope to expand to US market using crowdfunding Australian packaging firm Smart Lid Systems is hoping to expanded their heat sensitive takeaway coffee lids to the US, making the lids available directly to US households through ...
Tags: Smart Lid Systems, heat sensitive, takeaway coffee lids