San Antonio has been named one of 10 finalists in Living Cities’ Integration Initiative.

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State development officials have signed off on $5.4 million in tax credit incentives for chemical giant E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. as the company gears up for a $132 million expansion of its Circleville plant.

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Ethicon Endo-Surgery said Tuesday that Devicor Medical Products has made an offer to buy the medical device company’s breast care business. (JNJ)

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Temple University Hospital nurses and allied health workers Monday night rejected the medical center’s latest contract offer.

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Medical-technology developer Philips Healthcare has landed a $77.2 million contract to provide patient-monitoring systems for the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Four Wisconsin hospitals have been included on the annual Thomson Reuters study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance.

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New research from the US suggests there may be two types of multiple sclerosis, each with a different response to beta-interferon, the main drug used to treat the disease. You can read about the study, led by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, online in the 28 March issue of Nature Medicine…
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US researchers working with rats have shown for the first time that the compulsion to overeat that leads to obesity has the same biological mechanism as seen in addiction to drugs like cocaine and heroin abuse: it affects the brain’s pleasure circuitry in a similar way…
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Examining how a new research program may shed light on how climate over millions of years influenced human evolution is the subject of a public event that will discuss the findings and recommendations of the National Research Council report Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution…
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Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen has announced that the Infrafrontier project, funded by the European Union, has been expanded to include six partners from Canada, the Czech Republic, Austria, France and Italy. The new partners will join the effort of the other 22 members of Infrafrontier in building up an international research infrastructure to improve open access to high-quality mouse models…
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