The US will sell 5 million barrels of sour crude from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a test sale to evaluate its ability to distribute oil in the event of an emergency, the Department of Energy said Wednesday in a Notice of ...
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It's that time of the year again when everyone virtuously swears to lose weight, get into shape and eat healthier. It's also the time of the year when the weight-loss industry kicks into high gear with supplements promising ...
Posted in Implantable devices by Chris Newmarker on November 26, 2013 Investors apparently see promise in retinal implant systems and their potential to make the blind see again. Pixium Vision—a 2-year-old French company ...
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For many suffering from blindness, the perfect Christmas gift has arrived. Next month, the Argus II Retinal Prothesis System by Second Sight is slated to go on sale in the United States. The Argus II by Second Sight can restore sight for ...
Tags: Bionic Eye, blindness
Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp. is expected to continue using LPG as alternative feedstock at its steam crackers until after November when it will switch to fully using naphtha, an industry source said Friday. The plan comes as prices ...
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Alcoa kicked off the much-watched third quarter earnings season with much better-than-expected results. Analysts were calling for the No. 1 aluminum maker to report an adjusted five cents a share profit. Alcoa ended up reporting an ...
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The slide in LPG prices over the past four days on abundant supply and an Asian demand pause has sent physical values to six-week lows and flipped the paper market to the steepest contango structure since early July 2012, market sources ...
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Second Sight Medical Products has secured Medicare coverage for its Argus II retinal prosthesis system (Argus II) designed to treat the patients affected with blindness from the untreatable orphan disease retinitis pigmentosa in both the US ...
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Salutron, a developer of physiological monitoring solutions for wearable devices and exercise equipment, and Azumio, a developer of consumer mobile health applications have announced Azumio's Argus iOS app integration with the new LifeTrak ...
Agriculture and Rural Development MEC Gerrit van Rensburg says the Western Cape could learn a lot from the Chinese, especially in rural development and green technology. Van Rensburg and other stakeholders, including Wines of South ...
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AIXTRON has announced another repeat order from Taiwan’s EpiLEDs Co., Ltd. to support ramp-up of GaN-based LED production for lighting applications. The order for two CRIUS II-L 69x2-inch systems was made in the first quarter of 2013, ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says has announced another repeat order (made in first-quarter 2013) from EpiLEDs Co Ltd of Tainan Science Park, Taiwan to support its ramp-up of gallium nitride (GaN)-based LED ...
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The Asian LPG paper market flipped to a slight contango for the first time since August last year Wednesday, on active selling of August Saudi Aramco propane Contract Price swaps, market sources said Thursday. If the structure steepens ...
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U.S. Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank presented Argus Fire Control of Charlotte, North Carolina with the President's "E" Award for Exports at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. held on May 20, 2013. The "E" Awards are the highest ...
San Francisco, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 26, 2013 -- It was the summer of 1991 when artist and creator Roger Bates ( age 25 ) published issue # 1 called The Beginning.The Black Savior character is a ...
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