Uncertainty surrounding total swine herd losses to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has sent lean hog futures for spring and summer contracts to record-high levels, but it's possible the markets have overreacted, a Purdue Extension ...
Tags: PEDv, Demand for pork, avoid the disease
On Nike’s history of groundbreaking innovation in performance footwear, the radical new Magista Football boot redefines the concept of how football boots look and perform. Providing improved fit, touch and traction, the boot is ...
Tags: Nike, Football Boots, footwear
An alliance that helps developing nations said it will support vaccination of 1.5 million girls in Rwanda, Uganda and Uzbekistan against cervical cancer. The GAVI Alliance, which brings together developing country and donor governments, ...
Over 70 labour rights groups and trade unions have signed up to a joint statement calling on global clothing brands that source from Bangladesh to pay into the Rana Plaza Donor Trust Fund and ensure the survivors and families of victims of ...
Tags: Clothes Campaign, Textile
Cutting-edge mobile phone technology is set to revolutionise the way people shop, bringing a range of new and complex challenges for retailers, according to new research by Dr Emmeline Taylor, senior lecturer in criminology with the ANU ...
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
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
The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Construction
Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows for hamburger meat San Joaquin Valley organic dairy farmer Tony Azevedo's business has dried up—literally. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Organic Dairy
The Worldwide Innovative Network(WIN)Consortium in personalized cancer medicine is proud to announce that AstraZeneca,DKFZ and EORTC have joined the Consortium.WIN is a unique global network of leading academics,industries,payors and ...
Tags: WIN, cancer medicine, DKFZ, EORTC
Research to Focus on Repurposing Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Today the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation(ADDF)and the Alzheimer's Society(UK)announced a new partnership that will provide funding for research ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Repurposing Drugs
Wisconsin farmers didn’t have their best year ever in 2013, but they didn’t miss it by much. “They earned about $3.75 billion in total net farm income, $600 million more than in 2012 and just short of the record of $3.8 ...
Myer performed strongly in retail during the holiday season despite a week-long website outage and heavy competition, including competitive online-only offers from David Jones, new research from Pocketbook shows. An analysis of anonymous ...
Despite tough economic conditions, revenues for the world's 250 largest retailers reached $4.3 trillion in the last fiscal year (June 2012 through June 2013). The average size of the top 250 retailers exceeded $17 billion according to the ...
Tags: Retail Economy, Service
Researchers cite advances in diagnosis and therapy as likely causes for reduction; caution that a significant proportion of devastating eye disease sufferers still progress to blindness The probability of blindness due to the serious eye ...