Replacement activity for older commercial trucks will drive growth in the work truck industry, and the sector will outpace the overall economy thanks to uneven business and consumer confidence, trade industry executives said here. ...
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We really need to talk about bladder cancer Of the top 10 cancers in the UK, bladder cancer is only one where survival rates have been shown to be getting worse. New figures published this month in the Journal of Clinical Urology confirm ...
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Following the deaths of two siblings in Massachusetts, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is renewing its warning to consumers about the dangers associated with storage, cedar, hope and toy chests. Lids on millions of ...
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Maple Leaf Foods Inc. today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Adjusted Operating Earnings(1)(2)(3) for the fourth quarter was a loss of $21.7 million compared to Adjusted ...
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The Bosch Group has laid the foundation stone for its new plant in Russia: from 2015, Bosch automotive technology will also be rolling off the assembly line in Samara. The site itself covers a total surface area of some 200,000 square ...
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Early Earth's accidental deluge via water-carrying comets has long been a stumbling block for those interested in life on other planets. Scientists agree that life needs water to evolve. But if water only arrives through chance impacts ...
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MONDAY Feb. 17, 2014, 2014 -- Women who survive a stroke tend to have a poorer quality of life than male stroke survivors do, a new study suggests. "As more people survive strokes, physicians and other health care providers should pay ...
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The head of BlackBerry’s enterprise services business is plotting an aggressive launch of a new version of the company’s core enterprise server later this year as BlackBerry seeks to regain some of the ground it’s lost ...
Using music and singing in health care can improve quality of life for older people by easing pain, anxiety and depression. According to an article published in Mental Health Practice, the practices can be easily and effectively used as ...
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For seniors, every extra hour a day spent sitting is linked to double the risk of being disabled no matter how much exercise people get, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dorothy Dunlop, a professor of medicine at Northwestern ...
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Ford's first autonomous research vehicles, with protruding sensors and instruments, “kind of look[ed] like a science project” says Chris Attard, a Ford research engineer who works on their replacement. The new one, a Ford Fusion ...
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About one in 10 heart surgery patients has persistent pain for up to two years after the operation, a new study reveals. The study included more than 1,200 patients aged 18 and older who had heart procedures -- such as bypass or valve ...
Juniper Networks has announced a new integrated operating plan (IOP) to refocus the company on high growth segments in the networking industry. The plan attempts to streamline R&D and go-to-market programs, drive efficiencies in all ...
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CNN reports that the White House tamps down expectations that the exchanges will meet CBO's original projection that 40 percent of enrollees would be between the ages of 18 and 34. Also, Politico Pro looks at the large number of states that ...
By Sara Freeman, medwireNews Reporter Elderly kidney cancer patients benefit from sunitinib therapy just as much as their younger counterparts, a retrospective analysis of six clinical trials shows. Median progression-free survival ...
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