Navigation Links


billion at Biology News

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...

More>>

billion at Biology Products
billion at Biology Technology

Gala Biotech among companies sold for $3.3 billion

for $3.3 billio...

Is your brand worth billions?

Is your brand valuation worth a billion dollars today? Maybe yes or maybe no, but it surely is worth something pretty big. At the end of the day, all the work you have put in pushing your name identity and your range of products and services in your marketplace adds up in an abstract space of the consumer's mind, where it acquires some great value. This equity can be measured as a real, soft asse...

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...

More>>

billion at Medicine News

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...

More>>

billion at Medicine Products
billion at Medicine Technology
Other TagsHiroDermDermDermDermDermGARDGARDGARDVolumetricRDLRDL
(Date:10/13/2008)... -- Today,s autism research draws on a,variety of ...l magnetic,resonance imaging (fMRI) to neural deve...on, "Development and Brain Systems in Autism," 16 ...ill present their latest,groundbreaking findings o...,study that will continue to improve scientists, u...
(Date:10/13/2008)...ke system ,can,t remember anything, study says ,...ur body clock may do more than help guide your dai...le in learning and memory, say Stanford University...und that a functioning circadian system is critica... learned. Without it, they "can,t remember anythin...
(Date:10/13/2008)...TER WITH THE VIPER RESPONDER LE SPECIAL ... VISTA, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ... DEI Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: DEIX ), has joined,th...y of Responder LE,Special Edition 2-Way Vehicle Se...ng Susan G. Komen for the Cure. For each pink Resp...
(Date:10/13/2008)...ay Encourages Latinos to Get Tested, LOS ANGELES,...up almost half of all newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cas...ercent nationally., -- A week of activities aimed...ng and testing to coincide with National Latino AI...ber 14, Our Community, Our Responsibility: Latinos...
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:Carnegie Mellon International Autism Symposium to Feature Groundbreaking Research, Oct. 17-18 2Health News:Circadian Rhythm Plays Role in Memory 2Health News:Supporting Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) During National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2Health News:Supporting Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) During National Breast Cancer Awareness Month 3Health News:Nearly Half of Newly Diagnosed HIV/AIDS Cases in Los Angeles County Are Among Latinos 2
(Date:10/10/2008)...Hospital for Special Surgery researchers have foun... in women who are suffering from pregnancy complic...according to a study in mice. In this autoimmune s...phospholipids, the main components of cell membran...October issue of the Journal of Clinical Investig...
(Date:10/10/2008)...,, INDIANAPOLIS Investigators from the Herman ...na University School of Medicine are focusing on a...key to decreasing the toxic effects of chemotherap...one day help in the development of targeted therap...rs of the blood. , The researchers, led by Krist...
(Date:10/10/2008)...New Haven, Conn. Yale scientists have created nan...lectronics that are both sensitive and specific en...tection, according to a report in Nano Letters . ...highly specific antigens signatures of bacteria, ...ells are activated, they produce acid, and generat...
(Date:10/9/2008)... SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCal...a leading developer of human interface,solutions f...ment devices,announced today that it will report ...2009 on Thursday, October 23, 2008 after the close...conference call for analysts and,investors at 2:00...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Statins may prevent miscarriages 2Statins may prevent miscarriages 3On the trail of a targeted therapy for blood cancers 2Sensitive nanowire disease detectors made by Yale scientists 2Synaptics to Report First Quarter Results on October 23 22008 IN AWE Awards Recognize Cadient Groups Innovative Use of Digital Media 22035 12008 IN AWE Awards Recognize Cadient Groups Innovative Use of Digital Media 22035 2BioXcel Expands Its Capability in Business Analytics Support Services 6040 1BioXcel Expands Its Capability in Business Analytics Support Services 6040 2Cephalon Announces Issuance of Patent for AMRIX 6036 1Cephalon Announces Issuance of Patent for AMRIX 6036 2Cephalon Announces Issuance of Patent for AMRIX 6036 3Vynamic Funds PAs First WARM2Kids Learning Center at Philadelphias R W Brown Community Center 22032 1Vynamic Funds PAs First WARM2Kids Learning Center at Philadelphias R W Brown Community Center 22032 2Vynamic Funds PAs First WARM2Kids Learning Center at Philadelphias R W Brown Community Center 22032 3Vynamic Funds PAs First WARM2Kids Learning Center at Philadelphias R W Brown Community Center 22032 4
Other Contentsendoscopicendoscopicendoscopicendoscopicendoscopicendocrinologyendocrinologyendocrinologyendocrinologyadenoidsadenoidsenlargedenlargedenlargedenlargedenlargedendometriosisendometriosisendometrialendometrialendometrialendometrialendometrialerosionerosionerosionerosion