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SPI Report examines medical industry's plastic dependence.

2015-11-24 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

In its "Plastics Market Watch: Healthcare & Medical Devices" report, SPI discusses advances in plastics that enabled said material to displace traditional medical devices made of other substances. Report uses healthcare's dependency on plastics and draws on multi-generational marketing expert Ken Gronbach's work to explain future market and its driving population. "The growth of the medical device market is almost synonymous with rising demand for plastics,” said SPI's William R. Carteaux.

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Colombia must reduce its dependence on coal exports

2015-10-29 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Countries around the world will meet in Paris at the end of this year to negotiate a global agreement on climate change. For the first time in the history of these negotiations, all countries are expected to present a contribution where they outline their domestic plans for reducing emissions. Colombia presented its contribution to the Paris agreement on 7 September, where it committed to reduce its emissions by 20% based on a business-as-usual scenario by the year 2030. Although Colombias...

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MediciNova Announces New NIDA Grant for MN-166 (ibudilast) in Opioid Dependence

2014-09-08 02:29:34| Biotech - Topix.net

MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company traded on the NASDAQ Global Market and the JASDAQ Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange , today announced that Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute was awarded new grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to continue clinical research on MN-166 in opioid dependence. The new grant will support the completion of a Phase 2a clinical trial of MN-166 in opioid dependence, for which positive interim results were previously reported by MediciNova on August 18, 2014.

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Chile inaugurates $300m windfarm to reduce dependence on fossil fuel

2014-08-29 01:00:00| Power Technology

Chile has inaugurated a $300m wind farm around 250 miles from the capital Santiago, as part of its strategy to cut down its dependence on fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy.

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