Octel says it has changed its name to Innospec Specialty Chemicals (Cheshire, UK) to reflect its "growing emphasis on researching and developing new and innovative specialty chemicals." The company's petroleum specialties business will be renamed fuel specialties; its tetra ethyl lead business will be called …
President-elect Barack Obama has waded into Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff, recording a radio ad supporting Democrat Jim Martin, but there's still no word on whether the president-elect will make a personal appearance.
In the spot, Obama thanks Georgians who voted for him Nov. 4, then urged support for Martin.
"The elections aren't over," Obama said. "I want to urge you to turn out one more time and help elect Jim Martin to the United States Senate."
Martin is locked in a hotly contested Dec. 2 runoff with first-term Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. The Georgia race has taken on national significance as one of two unresolved …
Tf you are finding rising regulatory requirements are chewing up time and staff, you are not alone. A KPMG survey of 170 Canadian CEOs, presidents and chief operating officers found top executives believe regulatory requirements have drawn their financial department's attention away from other areas of responsibility. The consulting firm found 73% of surveyed executives think concentration on regulatory issues has hurt both the growth and profitability of their companies during the past 18 months.
The good news is that most of these companies intend to ease the burden by investing in new technologies and in additional training for financial personnel and by restructuring their …
BioWorld International Correspondent
Prosensa Therapeutics BV and GlaxoSmithKline plc are moving forward with three additional exon-skipping antisense oligonucleotides as part of their alliance in Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD).
London-based GSK had gained options on the three compounds, PRO044, PRO045 and PRO053, under the potential [pounds sterling]428 million (US$675 million) alliance it entered with Leiden, the Netherlands-based Prosensa almost two years ago. (See BioWorld International, Oct. 14, 2009.)
The lead compound from that pact, PRO051, began a 48-week Phase III trial earlier this year. PRO051 addresses about 13 percent of the DMD …
Compared to other PCs around $1600, the MiTAC's biggest letdown is that it doesn't include a monitor. Instead, MiTAC throws in a media card reader and a pair of small speakers.
A Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 motherboard houses the Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz CPU and 1GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM. MiTAC scored an overall 96 in the WorldBench 5 test, which shows that the machine will be capable of handling current software and should continue to be a good performer over the next few years, as long as your computing needs don't get too extravagant.
The 64-bit CPU can run either the 32- or 64-bit version of Windows Vista. The ATI Radeon X5500-based graphics card, which is DirectX …
Byline: John Caher Staff writer
The chasm separating Catskill from Hudson is more than a river, as the planned closure of Greene County's only emergency room and intensive care unit has sparked a legal, medical, ethical and emotional debate.
On Thursday, an already tense situation became critical when a state judge ordered that the Columbia-Greene Medical Center's Catskill facility continue accepting emergency patients, and the medical center issued a statement informing medics that patients would be better treated elsewhere.
Greene County residents are fighting a plan by Columbia-Greene Medical Center to close the acute- care portion of its …
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 28-Jan. 3:
Dec. 28: Actor Lou Jacobi is 95. Comic book creator Stan Lee is 86. Actor Martin Milner is 77. Actress Nichelle Nichols is 76. Actress Maggie Smith is 74. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 70. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 62. Rock singer-musician Alex Chilton is 58. Actor Denzel Washington is 54. Country singer Joe Diffie is 50. Country musician Mike McGuire is 50. Actor Chad McQueen is 48. Country singer-musician Marty Roe is 48. Actor Malcolm Gets is 44. Actor Mauricio Mendoza is 39. Comedian Seth Meyers is 35. R&B singer John Legend is 30. Actress Sienna Miller is 27. Actor Thomas Dekker is 21. …
