Muscle Flex Inc. (www.MuscleFlex.com) announced today that it will attend Gridlock’s (www.gridlockla.com) New Years Eve at the Legendary Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles with Adam Lambert headlining the event to ring in the New Decade.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is featured in three pilot episodes of a new series titled Emergency Level 1 on TLC.
Ten years ago, Dale Shippam got a new heart. It’s taken him around the world, and, in the New Year, on a part of an Olympic journey across Canada.
Prince Albert of Monaco, an Olympian himself, led the delegation at the Florida House on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on December 1 in support of Art of the Olympian’s efforts to establish a gallery and learning center in Ft. Myers, Florida where everyone can engage in an educational and cultural exchange while bridging differences [...]
Major League Baseball slugger Aaron Boone will be featured on January’s episode of Sharing Miracles – a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients. Sharing Miracles airs every week on more than 300 television stations nationwide.
For Nukepills.com, specialists in the niche market of radiation emergency preparedness, 2009 was a year of record sales due to events such as Iran’s nuclear program, nuclear plant radiation leaks, Potassium Iodide distribution programs and worries of dirty bombs.
Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: IMA), a global leader in enabling individuals to take charge of their health at home through the merger of rapid diagnostics and health management, announced today that it will attend the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference being held January 11 through 14, 2010 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San [...]
Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced new agreements for computed radiography have been awarded to Agfa HealthCare Corp. of Greenville, S.C.; Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. of Stamford, Conn.; and Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA Inc. of Wayne, N.J.
A new guideline issued by the American Academy of Neurology finds that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), a widely used pain therapy involving a portable device, is not recommended to treat chronic low-back pain that has persisted for three months or longer because research shows it is not effective.
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Few called market turn, fewer predict it will last
NEW YORK — Few analysts forecast this year’s remarkable stock market rebound as major indexes were plunging to 12-year lows last March. Now, with most experts predicting the pace of stocks’ gains will slow in 2010, there’s reason to believe they will be proven correct.
Stocks [...]
Airline attack may mean profits for some companies
JACKSON, Miss. — A recent attempted terrorist attack aboard a commercial airliner could mean big business for companies making body imaging scanners, especially two firms with technology already approved by federal authorities.
Transportation Security Administration spokesman Greg Soule said Rapiscan Systems in Ocean Springs, Miss., and L-3 Communications Holdings, [...]
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New Ill. laws limit texting, expand records access
CHICAGO — Most drivers have their own name for those texters in traffic who seem more interested in their cell phones than their cars — jerk and idiot, to name a couple. Come Friday the state of Illinois will have one, too: outlaw.
A statewide ban on [...]
Oregon cell phone ban has loophole
SALEM, Ore. — Beginning New Year’s Day, Oregon police officers may hear some arguing when they start pulling motorists over for violating a new law banning them from talking on hand-held cell phones while driving.
The new law, passed by the 2009 Oregon Legislature, exempts motorists who are on their hand-held [...]
AT&T is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world’s top golfer, who’s taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.
The phone company hasn’t used Woods’ image extensively in [...]
MI tech, management departments to merge in March
LANSING, Mich. — An order from Gov. Jennifer Granholm consolidating two state government agencies is scheduled to take effect March 21.
The Department of Management and Budget will merge with the Department of Information Technology unless the Legislature rejects the order within the next 60 days, which is considered [...]
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IPO comeback in 2009 sets stage for busy 2010
NEW YORK — The pipeline of initial public offerings for 2010 looks promising as private equity firms look to cash in on their investments after coming back to the nearly defunct market in the fall.
Online networking companies may take center stage. So far, the company [...]
AT&T ends sponsorship of Tiger Woods
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture and Gillette in dropping support for the golfer after numerous allegations of infidelities.
The phone company hasn’t used Woods’ image extensively in advertising, but its logo appeared on his golf bag, and he was the [...]
International growth seen boosting stocks in 2010
NEW YORK — Companies with international operations are set to take advantage of a global economic recovery in 2010, continuing the rally that began in 2009.
As the new decade begins, industrial and material companies could be set for the biggest yearly gains as the world’s emerging markets rapidly build [...]
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TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands names of sources
WASHINGTON — As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.
TSA special [...]