Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
New research from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology finds that nanoparticles of gold and palladium are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation of one of the nation's most pervasive and troublesome groundwater pollutants, trichloroethene or TCE. The research, conducted by engineers at Rice and the Georgia Institute of Technology, w...$5.1 billion would save 6 million children
Six million children could be saved if $5.1 billion in new resources for preventive and therapeutic interventions were provided each year, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions. Approximately 90 percent of all child deaths occur in 42 countries around the world. In those countries, the average cost per child saved would be $887 or...Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of large, intense dust storms plaguing many areas menace the health of people even continents away, international experts warn in a new report. Thick storms rising out of the Gobi Desert affect much of China, Korea and Japan and even reduce air q...UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago
Ten years ago, an international team of scientists reported evidence, in a controversial cover story in the journal Nature, that life on Earth began more than 3.8 billion years ago--400 million years earlier than previously thought. A UCLA professor who was not part of that team and two of the original authors will report in late July that the evidence is stronger than ever. Craig E. Mann...Virginia Tech, Nanjing Institute researchers discover half-billion year-old fossils
Scientists interested in ancient life have a wealth of fossils and impressions frozen in rocks that they can study from as far back as 540 million years ago ?when animals with shells and bones began to become plentiful. But evidence of complex life older than 540 million years is scant and difficult to study. Now, a research team from Virginia Tech in the United States and Nanjing Institut...Gala Biotech among companies sold for $3.3 billion
for $3.3 billio...Fiserv makes over $1 billion, but profits decline
Net income was $116 million, down slightly from the $140 million the company made in the first quarter of 2005 on $973 million in revenues. Fiserve's activities in the first quarter inclu...GE completes $1.2 billion acquisition
Joe Hogan, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, said the combination would lead to expanded product offerings in areas such...$1.45 billion judgment against Morgan Stanley sends message revisit e-mail retention policies
The recent $1.45 billion judgment against Morgan Stanley in the Ronald Perelman case is a clarion call for revisiting your organizations e-mail message retention policies. First, a quick recap of the main points in the case: The financial services firm Morgan Stanley was sued by billionaire financier Ronald Perelman Morgan Stanley could not reliably produce e-mails for the court<b...Multi billion-dollar suit filed against cell phone firm for causing brain tumours
In the United States of America, a lawyer- Peter Angelos, who won millions of dollars as compensation from the tobacco industry in Maryland, has announced that he is dragging Vodafone to court in a billion dollar suit. He is claiming compensation to cell phone users who are said to have developed brain tumours after using the instruments made by Verizon wireless. This case has raised eyeb...Healthcare sector is now a multi billion-dollar industry in India
A Confederation of Indian Industry study has identified the health care sector in India as a potential gold mine. India is poised to develop into a 'regional healthcare hub' with the $17 billion healthcare industry growing at a rate of 13 per cent the study says. With a 16% increase in budgetary outlay the healthcare industry is poised to zoom ahead bringing with it big bucks as returns....Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002
The biotech products market in India is expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002 according to a Rabo India finance report. The big leap is expected to triple the industry's size from its 1999 value of one billion dollars. Biogenerics, biopharmaceuticals, agriculture, food and nutrition sectors are all poised for the big leap, both nationally and internationally. Th...European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’
International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm) will be providing life saving vaccines for millions of poor children’s around the world with the project costing $4 billion to be funded by the European countries. // cBritish finance minister Gordon Brown said the scheme, the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFF), would save the lives of some five million children ov...Generic Drugs Usage In US Can Save $20 Billion – Express Script Surve
Though there is lot of controversies over the usage of Generic drugs in India and other countries.// Now US based company Express Script has done a survey to find out that usage of generic drugs in US could have saved $20 billion in 2004 which would be more in the future. Though it is well known that US policies are also governed by big companies which include pharmaceutical industries, w...