High score for Taiwan’s world-class machinery

Defying global recession and a somewhat sluggish domestic economy, Taiwan’s biggest trade event for the plastics and rubber industry, TaipeiPlas, closed its latest edition with 2,518 international visitors and 13,361 domestic visitors in attendance. Now considered the no.3 leading trade shows in Asia, TaipeiPlas showed off more than 2,300 booths,13% higher than in the previous edition. Ten other countries participated through their own pavilions, including for the first time, China, thus demonst

Vietnam as world’s leading rubber exporter

Public health talk tackles angioplasty and bypass surgery

Latest information and developments in angioplasty and bypass surgery in public health talk hosted by Hong Kong cardiac patient support association

New website focuses on widely used form of SIRT for liver tumours

SIR-Spheres microspheres – a form of Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) – is also the world’s widely studied form of SIRT for all cancers in the liver

FDA clears Ivera's passive disinfection device

US FDA expands Zytiga's use for late-stage prostate cancer

Drug can now be used before treatment with chemotherapy

Adult sickle cell patients rely more on ER

Moving from childhood to adulthood, patients with sickle cell disease rely more on emergency care, according to a new study

To make old skin cells act young again, boost their surroundings

Independent study gives a new perspective on the importance of the extracellular matrix in the aging process

Nursing’s Blueprint for the Future, Part 3

Winter 2012 marks the final instalment of Johns Hopkins Nursing’s three-issue series which explores the impact of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 2010 report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

Stanford scientists develop new technique to visualize blood flow

Fluorescence imaging technique allows visualization of pulsing blood vessels in living animals with unprecedented clarity

Billionaires Row, Charles Mignon release the Pink Diamond of Champagne

Mauna Kea's optical biopsy probe receives CE Mark