MEDNAX, Inc., (NYSE: MD) today announced the acquisition of Summit Anesthesia Associates, P.A., a physician group practice primarily based in Summit, New Jersey. The practice will become part of MEDNAX's American Anesthesiology division and ...
On Thursday, the CME Group corn market is leading the way up, soybeans down. At mid-session, the March corn futures contract is trading 1 1/2 cents higher at $4.23. The March soybean futures contract is trading 18 cents lower at $12.76. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Corn, Soybeans
On Thursday, the CME Group soybean market plummeted on improved crop prospects in South America. The March corn futures contract settled 1 1/2 cents lower at $4.20. The March soybean futures contract finished 22 cents lower at $12.70. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Soybeans
Tom Biery/Trans Pixs Tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will increase Jan. 5 by 2% for those paying with E-ZPass and by 12% for those paying cash. The annual increase means that the toll to run the 356 miles of highway that stretches ...
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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a coalition of public health organizations, has ranked New Jersey 51 in the nation, including Washington D.C., in protecting children from smoking and tobacco use. Experts at Robert Wood Johnson Medical ...
Tags: New Jersey, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Tobacco Settlement
Today confirmed that its subsidiary, Warner Chilcott Company LLC, has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market Ethinyl Estradiol and Etonogestrel Vaginal ...
For the week ending Dec. 21, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas reported high flu activity, but in most of the country flu was low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of ...
On the surface Santa Claus may seem an overweight workaholic with an affinity for sweets, but a U.S. geriatrician says Santa may be healthier than he appears. "Because Santa is probably more than 550 years old, a lot of people would say ...
Treating their sleep apnea improved middle-aged men's golf games, according to a small new study. "The degree of improvement was most substantial in the better golfers who have done a superior job of managing the technical and mechanical ...
Meeting with your banker has taken on a whole new meaning at UMB Bank's Kirkwood, Mo. branch, where a robot and computer monitor are used to conduct some account services. UMB is one of a handful of national banks that are investing in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
A New Jersey nursing scholar says bullying occurs not only among elementary and high school students, it also occurs among those in academia. Study co-author Janice Beitz, a professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden, said ...
Stryker will settle four New Jersey lawsuits related to its ABG II and Rejuvenate hip implants for an undisclosed sum. The company expects to pay significant sums of cash to resolve the lawsuits and the hundreds of other similar cases that ...
Farmland Dairies is set to close its milk processing plant in Wallington, New Jersey, affecting jobs of more than 300 people. The latest closure marks the second in the Wallington borough since October when Consolidated Dairies went out ...
For the week ending Dec. 14, U.S. influenza increased nationwide, but Texas was hard hit with more than a dozen critically ill and six dead, officials say. The influenza strain H1N1 -- the same strain that caused the 2009 pandemic -- ...
An index of leading economic indicators increased 0.8%in November after a 0.1%rise in October,the New York-based Conference Board said Dec.19. The increase was more than economists'medium forecast of 0.7%,Bloomberg News reported. "The ...