US-based Acentia has secured a contract worth $1.25m from the State of Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH) to provide its secure cloud-based national electronic disease surveillance system base system (NBS) for the DOH’s Division ...
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Teamsters union members at YRC Worldwide Inc. voted to a four-year contract extension through 2019, which the carrier called a “key ingredient” toward refinancing $1.4 billion in debt. The result was announced Jan. 26 after ...
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US-based ResearchDx has announced an expansion of its operations to focus on the important Middle East clinical laboratory and diagnostics markets. As part of this initiative,ResearchDx will be exhibiting at the 2014 Arab Health Congress ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Another Cruise Ship Hit by Illness Outbreak Another cruise ship voyage has ended early due to an illness outbreak, the second such ...
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Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania has received an order from Austrian haulier Nothegger Transport to deliver 220 trucks with biodiesel engines. The trucks will be in compliance with Euro 6 requirements and will be for ...
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By Edward Usset, University of Minnesota Extension Soybean plantings will likely increase by two million acres or more in 2014, indicating reason to be nervous about new crop soybean prices in the months ahead. It's reasonable to assume ...
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Canada has announced its second case of the PED virus, also in Ontario. The U.S. ended 2013 with PED on 2,000 farms and has added another 600 this month. The impact of the virus is pushing summer hog futures contracts close to record highs. ...
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National Beef Packing Company announced today that they will be closing their beef processing facility in Brawley, California in early April. The closure is the result of tight margins due to declining cattle numbers. The plant employs ...
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Supply offers nation more import sources, enhances energy security Energy-rich Russia has started delivering crude oil to China as of the beginning of the year after the contract signed between the two countries last June, which will ...
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Gazprom expects to sign a long-awaited gas supply contract with China National Petroleum Corp during the planned visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China in May, despite the ongoing failure of the two sides to agree on a price for ...
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Ballard Power Systems has entered into an equipment supply agreement with Solaris Bus and Coach to supply two zero emission fuel cell power modules, FCvelocity-HD7, for the production of buses. FCvelocity-HD7 power modules will be used in ...
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Magna Steyr, an operating unit of Magna International, has entered into a new manufacturing contract with German luxury carmaker BMW Group. Under the contract, Magna Steyr will continue assembling BMW's vehicles at its plant in Graz, ...
In an effort to escape its pre-existing search agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is fast-tracking an effort to develop search technology, according to a report from Recode.net. It said that that Yahoo has launched two projects, “Fast ...
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Boost Mobile’s ZTE-made BoostMax features a 5.7-inch HD IPS display and price tag of $299. Related Boost Boost Launches Low-Cost Moto G Smartphone Boost Boost Prices Its First iPhones Boost Boost Mobile To Offer iPhones For First Time ...
CATCH CHAIR, Jaime Hayon’s first contribution to &tradition’s collection, launched last year and has already proven to be a great success. It won the prestigious Best of the Year Award 2013 in the category of Seating: ...
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