US-based flexible packaging company Bemis has signed an agreement with Hood Packaging to sell its paper packaging division. As part of the deal, Hood Packaging will acquire offices and manufacturing facilities of the division, situated in ...
Kerecis, a provider of tissue-regeneration materials, has been awarded a US patent for the use of fish skin in medical applications. The Kerecis material consists of sheets of intact, decellularized fish skin that have had all cells and ...
Tryton Medical, a developer of stents designed to treat bifurcation lesions, has received CE Mark for the treatment of left main coronary artery disease. With this approval, Tryton Medical becomes the first company to earn a CE Mark for ...
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The Dixie Group reported financial results for the year ended Dec. 28, 2013. For the year of 2013, the company had sales of $345,066,000 and income from continuing operations of $5,358,000, or $0.40 per diluted share, compared with sales of ...
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Clinical trials investigating new uses for the anti-cancer drug Avastin have produced mixed results. When combined with standard chemotherapy, Avastin extended the survival of patients with advanced cervical cancer by nearly four months, ...
Robots are notoriously horrible at being generalists. The most efficient and effective robots have been purpose-built to do one specific task very, very well. This is why we have Roombas and not Rosies, and it's why robotic telemedicine ...
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Statistics show that, China's overseas immigrants stock has reached 9.343 million people by 2013, which has increased by 128.6% for 23 years. China is the seventh largest immigrant-producing country in 1990, and now is the fourth largest ...
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The world's biggest study offering healthy eating and exercise advice to pregnant women who are overweight or obese has shown a significant reduction in the number of babies born over 4kg (8.8 pounds) in weight. The LIMIT Study, led by ...
Reportbuyer.com just published a new market research report: Global In Vitro Fertilization Market TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) market to grow at a CAGR of 12.12 percent over the period 2012-2016. ...
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University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds ...
For years, obtaining parental consent for clinical research regarding newborn resuscitation in the delivery room has been a challenge. Now, a Saint Louis University pediatric researcher is asking new mothers and pregnant women when doctors ...
Women who drink alcohol at moderate or heavy levels in the early stages of their pregnancy might damage the growth and function of their placenta - the organ responsible for supplying everything that a developing infant needs until birth - ...
Article cites potential to save money on end-of-life care, medical imaging and new drug prices In a review article published Feb. 14 in The Lancet Oncology, Johns Hopkins experts identify three major sources of high cancer costs and argue ...
Los Angeles Times: Democrat Leading In Florida Race Eyed As Test Of Obamacare A Democratic candidate who has explicitly defended Obamacare holds a slight lead in a special congressional election in Florida that both parties are eyeing as ...
One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health issues as less competent or dangerous. But a new ...
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