Health insurer Aetna has reported a net income of $536m, or $1.49 per share for the second quarter of 2013, with an increase of 17% and 13% compared to $457m, or $1.32 per share during the comparable period last fiscal. For the quarter ...
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Canadian manufacturer of over-the-counter (OTC) pharma products Vita Health has announced the recall of three lots of its Compliments Iron Ferrous Gluconate tablets in consultation with Health Canada, over labeling issue. At least one ...
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After making scratchproof glass for smartphones and tablets in past years, Corning is now working on making its famous Gorilla Glass resistant to germs and glare as well, a tech site reported. Mashable said Corning is adding ...
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A report on 14 of the UK's hospital trusts with persistently high mortality rates has found that staff struggled to comprehend data to improve performances. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, and ...
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More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
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The National Retail Federation sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. calling on Congress to pass a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. The ...
Johnson & Johnson, a New Jersey-based health care firm, has reported that its profits in the second quarter of fiscal 2013 has more than doubled, partly due to strong sales of medical-devices and medicines. In the second quarter, the net ...
US regulatory authorities have allowed the marketing of a brain wave test, which can diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents aged between six and 17 years. This device, called Neuropsychiatric ...
Luminex has received approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and EU authorities for the new version of xTAG CYP2D6 (Cytochrome P450 2D6) Kit. An IVD assay, the xTAG CYP2D6 Kit analyses a patient's CYP2D6 genotype from ...
In the first half of 2013, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the Central Party Committee and the State Council have committed to the general tone of making progress while ensuring the ...
In June, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.7 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.6 percent in cities and 2.8 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.9 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 ...
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Chinese have been using the green and leafy andrographis paniculata to treat inflammation, fever and pain for decades, with its cultivation dating back to at least the 1950s in the southern province of Guangdong. The plant, better known ...
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SelecTech, Inc. has recently announced that its signature commercial and industrial static control flooring systems have tested to be the "best in class." In a recent scientific test study conducted by a renowned, independent static ...
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Wound Management Technologies has signed a five-year distribution agreement with Academy Medical, to market its CellerateRX line of products to the Veterans Administration (VA) facilities in the US. The agreement includes a minimum ...
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Metro Supply Chain Group, a leading supply chain and logistics solutions provider in Canada, announced the appointment of William Patterson as the Senior Director of Business Development, Major Contracts. Reporting to Richard Cranwill, Vice ...
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