Pfizer, Merck and Corning have unveiled a new pharmaceutical glass packaging solution, which is claimed to improve the storage and delivery of the existing drug formulations. Merck and Pfizer have combined their pharmaceutical formulation ...
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“Quest would be the first application of CCS technology for an oil sands upgrading operation,” says John Abbott, Shell’s Executive Vice President of Heavy Oil. “Not only would it allow us to significantly reduce the ...
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Automobile majors have reached an agreement to include automatic emergency braking in almost all the vehicles in the US by September 2022. The agreement by 20 auto majors has been announced by the US Department of Transportation's ...
Kush Bottles has developed a line of child-safe packaging options for electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). Recently, the US President Barack Obama has signed a law, which includes new regulations that require child-proof packaging for e-cigs. ...
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Hundreds of thousands of US stripper wells with production totaling 1 million b/d of crude could be at risk if oil prices fall below $35/b, where prices teetered in recent days, for long, observers say. Stripper wells are wells nearing ...
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JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA says that it continues to expect to spin off its communications and commercial optical products (CCOP) business into the separate, publicly traded company Lumentum Holdings Inc in third-quarter 2015. Existing ...
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott began waging a war against red tape, even launching a website dedicated to the notion. The deregulation of the country’s medical device and pharmaceutical industries has been included in that ...
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Posted in Orthopedics by Nancy Crotti on November 18, 2014 Zimmer Holdings Inc. (ZMH) has agreed to extend the European Commission’s review of its pending $13.4-billion merger with Biomet, Inc. “by a limited number of ...
DALLAS – (July 17, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $60,000 to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation to accelerate the outgoing revitalization of New Orleans’ south shore lake front to help protect ...
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The FDA is providing the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) with nearly $500,000 to conduct research to better understand patient preferences, and how to integrate such preferences into the development of medical devices, the group ...
Huntsman Corporation and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. have completed an important milestone in Huntsman's pending acquisition of Rockwood's Performance Additives and titanium dioxide (TiO2) businesses. The waiting period under the ...
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Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, like many politicians in Washington, hastily reacted to a media report in his home state before researching and understanding the background and facts about safety regulations and precautions in the truck ...
As experts continue to sound alarm bells about the rising resistance of microbes to antibiotics used by humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced it was curbing the use of the drugs in livestock nationwide. "FDA ...
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There's no evidence to support the safety or effectiveness of nearly 8 percent of all components used in hip-replacement surgeries in England and Wales, a new study finds. The University of Oxford researchers said the current regulatory ...
Ivanhoe Energy (TSX: IE; NASDAQ: IVAN) announced today that it has learned that the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) intends to develop a new long-term policy for reviewing shallow steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) applications in ...
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