Implantable heart pump maker HeartWare International recently announced that it has tapped a former Boston Scientific executive as its new chief medical officer, effective September 1. Katrin Leadley, MD, was most recently chief medical ...
The manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes, Philip Morris International, is prepared to sue the UK government if it implements a law requiring plain packaging for cigarettes. The government plans to implement the plain packaging law for ...
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Figures released by the Public Health England PHE have revealed that standardized packaging of tobacco products could help the UK save up to £ 500m. These new figures follow a data released by the Australian treasury in December ...
Indonesian cigarette manufacturers have started printing graphic health warnings on the packs, as the law related to it came into force in the country. To reduce the habit of smoking, specifically among youth, Indonesia has introduced ...
US car maker General Motors (GM) will voluntarily recall 27,051 Spark mini cars in South Korea following a defective transmission mount. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and transport, Korea, the gearbox mount could ...
A federal district judge has issued injunctions against four California companies and six individuals barring them from importing, selling and distributing children's products containing hazardous levels of lead and phthalates and small ...
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"Ireland will be the first country in the European Union to introduce such legislation and the third country worldwide. Australia introduced plain packaging legislation in November 2011 and the New Zealand Bill had its first reading in ...
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Critics of electronic cigarettes have been making efforts to prove that the devices are just like the harmful traditional cigarettes. Choosing to believe these allegations rather than basing decisions according to scientific data and ...
DuPont Nutrition & Health and AB-Biotics have signed a global collaboration and licensing agreement on AB-Life, a probiotic that is clinically documented to maintain healthy levels of cholesterol in at-risk individuals. Under the ...
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File photo. Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said a recent court decision relating to the truck crash that killed two Western Australian men in 2011 serves as a reminder that road safety is more than red tape ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it is awarding the University of California, Berkeley, a $1.5 million grant for work to assess the impact of pollution from household and village-scale stoves on air quality in ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the third edition of a report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States. The report pulls together observed data on key measures of our environment, including U.S. and ...
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American automaker General Motors has issued a recall on 59,628 units of Saturn Aura mid-sized cars in the US and Canada over a problem with the automatic transmission shifters. The recall affects certain 2007 and 2008 model Aura cars ...
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People are forever complaining about how the digital world has robbed them of something or other. Peace. Anonymity. Freedom itself. I just see possibilities. So I've been keen to follow a new kind of connection made possible by the ...
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