Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) consist of a diverse group of industrial chemicals and pharmacological agents. Evidence is accumulating that environmental chemicals (ECs) including endo...

MediciGlobal is a specialty patient recruitment-retention organization serving the clinical trials industry

MediciGlobal is a specialty patient recruitment-retention organization serving the clinical trials industry. For more than two decades, the company has led the industry in developing innovative p...

Rheumatology

Rheumatology is the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and management of disease involving joints, tendons, muscles, ligaments and associated structures (Oxford Medical Dictionary). It...

Pediatrics

Pediatrics is the general medicine of childhood. Because of the developmental processes (psychological and physical) of childhood, the involvement of parents, and the social management of conditions...

Ear, Nose & Throat

ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat) or Otorhinolaryngology is a medical specialty that studies the ears, nose and throat and diseases that can affect them. Add the ENT News Channel to your RSS reader;...

Itochu to buy Dole packaged, Asia fresh food biz

The Japanese trading company Itochu Corp. says it has agreed to buy Dole Food Co.'s worldwide packaged foods and Asia fresh produce businesses for $1.7 billion.Itochu said in a brief statement Tuesda...

UPDATE 1-Dole Food sells two businesses to Itochu for $1.7 bln

* Itochu to buy Dole's worldwide packaged and Asian fresh food ops

Competitive Intelligence: Leading Specialty Chemicals Companies Technological Know How

This new report from Venture Planning Group provides technological know-how of leading specialty chemicals companies. The report presents: Internally developed and acquired specialty chemicals and re...

Japan's Itochu to buy Dole Food businesses for $1.7 bln

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Struggling Dole Food Company Inc has agreed to sell its worldwide packaged foods and Asia fresh produce businesses to Japanese trading house Itochu Corp for $1.7 billion in cash....

Itochu to buy Dole businesses for $1.7 billion

Japanese trading company Itochu Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy Dole Food Co.'s worldwide packaged foods and Asia fresh produce businesses for $1.7 billion.Dole's packaged foods business incl...

Competitive Intelligence: Leading Specialty Chemicals Companies Marketing Tactics

This new report from Venture Planning Group provides marketing tactics of leading specialty chemicals companies. The analysis presents: Major promotional strategies. Distribution approaches. Product...

Competitive Intelligence: Leading Specialty Chemicals Companies Strategic Directions

This new report from Venture Planning Group provides strategic directions of leading specialty chemicals companies. The report presents insightful strategic assessments, including: Specific business,...

Air Products & Chemicals buying Indura stake

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. is buying a majority stake in Chilean industrial gas company Indura SA for $884 million.Air Products & Chemicals, which sells specialty gases and equipment to industrial...

Synthetic biology: regulating industry uses of new biotechnologies.

In our view, synthetic biology is an extension of the continuum of genetic science that has been used safely for more than 40 years by the biotechnology industry in the development of commercial produ...

Niche players in health policy: Medical specialty societies in Congress 1969-2002.

Scholars and commentators alike have long used 'organized medicine' as shorthand for the American Medical Association (AMA). However, organized medicine has increasingly shown signs of fragmentation i...

Manufacturing molecules through metabolic engineering.

Metabolic engineering has the potential to produce from simple, readily available, inexpensive starting materials a large number of chemicals that are currently derived from nonrenewable resources or...

When My Eyes Bring Pain to My Soul, and Vice Versa: Facing Preconceptions in Email and Face-to-Face Interviews.

What are the factors influencing the trustworthiness of data produced in email interviews? The main purpose of this article is to reflect on this issue by discussing two examples from my own experienc...

The importance of examining movements within the US health care system: sequential logit modeling.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Utilization of specialty care may not be a discrete, isolated behavior but rather, a behavior of sequential movements within the health care system. Although patients may often v...