Healthcare

Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...

Palliative Care

Palliative care is the active holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness. Management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support is param...

Wound care

Ulcer care

Skin Care

Unilever Hits €50 Bil. Mark, Growing 10.5% In Fiscal 2012

Strong hair-care gains helped drive 10% growth in Unilever’s personal-care unit in fiscal 2012, according to CEO Paul Polman, who called the firm’s TRESemme hair-care rollout in Brazil “one of t...

Unilever Plans $5.4 Billion Hindustan Unilever Share Buy For 75% Stake

Unilever said it plans to buy enough shares of Hindustan Unilever to increase its stake in the India health-products company to 75%, up from its current 52.5%.

Unilever Says $5.4 B Billion Offer For Hindustan Unit Good Through July 4

Unilever said its historic $5.4 billion offer to buy another 22.5% stake in Hindustan Unilever would be begin June 21 and end July 4 as part of its goal to own 75% of the India company.

Unilever Hit With Suit For Negligent Marketing, Recall Of Hair Smoother

Suit filed in New Jersey state court alleges that Unilever PLC’s marketing for a Suave hair-smoothing kit was deceptive and the firm’s response to reports of adverse reactions was insufficient. Un...

Personal Care Propels Unilever To Strong Q3

With new launches and solid sales of hair-care products and deodorants, Unilever saw personal-care category sales rise 15.1% to €4.7 billion ($6.1 billion) for the third fiscal quarter. Despite the...

Unilever selling frozen foods unit to ConAgra

Unilever is selling its North American frozen meals business which includes licensing rights to the Bertolli and P.F. Chang's brands to ConAgra Foods Inc. for $265 million, the companies announced Mo...

UPDATE 2-Unilever highlights resilience after sales growth miss

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever said its breadth of businesses and markets will enable it to ride out the tough environment in Europe after reporting weaker th...

Unilever recalls certain Ben & Jerry's ice cream

Unilever PLC recalled pints of Ben & Jerry's chocolate nougat crunch ice cream because an allergen advisory statement is missing from the packaging.The consumer products company said Tuesday that the...

A "by-productless" cellulose foaming agent for use in imidazolium ionic liquids.

Cellulose foams, or sponges, are produced from solutions in ionic liquids by the aqueous acid mediated decomposition of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-2-carboxylates, where the alkyl group and acid may b...

Effects of lesions of the amygdala central nucleus on autoshaped lever pressing.

Neutral cues paired with rewards often appear to acquire motivational significance, as if the incentive motivational value of the reward is transferred to the cue. Such cues have been reported to modu...

Exploratory study of web-based planning and mobile text reminders in an overweight population.

Forming specific health plans can help translate good intentions into action. Mobile text reminders can further enhance the effects of planning on behavior.

A simple strategy for charge selective biopolymer sensing.

Polysaccharide-induced protein fluorescence 'turn-on' responses have been studied in the presence of similarly charged micelle at pH ∼3. Quenched protein fluorescence is selectively recovered ('on'...

The azimuthal path of myosin V and its dependence on lever-arm length.

Myosin V (myoV) is a two-headed myosin capable of taking many successive steps along actin per diffusional encounter, enabling it to transport vesicular and ribonucleoprotein cargos in the dense and c...