Work will involve bio-refining, and developing different processes to turn crops such as rye grass, miscanthus (a perennial grass), oats and artichokes into products ranging from fuels to cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, bio-plastics, food and health products.
Novartis' consumer health unit includes over-the-counter medications such as Benefiber, Excedrin and Theraflu, along with CIBA Vision's contact lenses and eye care products and Animal Health's companion and agricultural animal care products.
Mobile is an enabler of new direct-to-consumer products already, in industries such as car services, food delivery, and home health products.
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Other retailers also are likely to take steps similar to Target's plan, according to Deborah Weinswig, Citigroup retail analyst, who mentioned the letter in a research note Friday and said it was likely to have gone to suppliers of consumer electronics, health and beauty products and food.
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We are creating a complete service delivery ecosystem, which connects informal rural health providers to qualified doctors and provides people with access to a wide range of critical health services and products, in part through telemedicine.
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And it goes beyond simply building robust distribution networks for health products and services.
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The company sells medical and surgical supplies, skin infection prevention products, dental products and health information systems in this sector.
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For example, this year we are seeing Ultra High-Definition televisions, digital health and fitness products, a variety of mobile-connected devices, and new in-car technologies from eight of the top 10 automotive makers.
And Safeway will also launch a wellness initiative in the second quarter by providing health products and services to tap the huge growth potential opportunities in the vastly growing healthcare market.
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And it's a sector that, at great financial risk, develops and makes products critical to the public health and the reduction of health care costs.
Established in north Wales in 1974, Meridian produces a range of health foods and organic products.
Defense contractors can use AeroTech's software, but so can telecommunications, health care and consumer products companies.
It requires more entrepreneurship so health products and services can more easily reach the urban and rural poor in Africa, Asia, and South America.
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Humana is a benefits solutions company that offers an array of health and supplemental benefit products for employer groups, government benefit programs and individuals.
It is enjoying increased traffic in high-value technology items and in health-care products (an area in which all four firms are developing specialist divisions).
AdvaMed member companies produce the medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems that are transforming health care through earlier disease detection, less invasive procedures and more effective treatments.
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The data will allow parents and public health officials to identify which products are selling well among teenagers and work to reduce teen smoking.
Recently I had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable to discuss opportunities and challenges relating to the export of Health Information Technology (Health IT) products and services.
These entrepreneurs and innovators embody the spirit of a country that continuously innovates its way to an ever brighter future, and can take health data and turn them into amazing new products and services that are already helping millions of Americans, contributing to economic growth, and creating jobs.
MetLife, one of the largest insurance providers in the U.S., competes with AIG and Hartford Financial to provide life insurance, health insurance, retirement planning products and auto and home insurance to both consumers and corporations.
The website GoodGuide.com provides a free iPhone app that rates and compares tens of thousands of products on their environmental, health and social impacts.
Since it was introduced in August, the labeling program has been criticized by nutrition experts and health advocates for selecting unlikely products as healthy alternatives.
Guertin's group designs new health insurance products and related marketing campaigns, sold under the Blue Cross Blue Shield umbrella to corporations and individuals in 14 states.
My stock recommendations represent a fairly diversified portfolio, from financial services, information services, consumer products, and health care to defense, real estate, energy and commercial services.
Instead, Wyeth seems to be putting as much bad news as it can on the table: Sales of vaccines, animal health treatments and consumer healthcare products are also slowing.
Conducting research in the areas of cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, immunology and infectious disease, oncology, respiratory diseases and women's health, its best-selling products are Vytorin, Zetia, Remicade and Nasonex.
The public sector can also work together with corporations and NGOs to organize complementary networks of small and medium enterprises to take on the challenge of increasing the distribution of and demand for quality, affordable products and services to improve maternal and child health.
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As well as the insurance section, Quinn Group includes companies selling other products including cement and health cover.
Federal health authorities and regulators say those products appeal especially to young people and are thought to attract new smokers.
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