Global engineering plastics market worth $76.8 billion by 2017

Health-conscious seniors drive demand for health food

Aging population focused on foods to preserve health now, treat conditions later

2,000 transplants and counting: UCLA's heart <br>transplant programme reaches major milestone

Founded in 1984, UCLA's heart transplant program has been a world leader in the field and was recognsied in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources as the nation's best heart transplant programme

Nestlé takes part in Global Obesity Forum

Nestlé joins call for more community-based programmes to prevent childhood obesity

Chicago hospital offers latest laser-assisted <br>cataract surgery

Specialised MRI scans assess value of anti-cancer <br>chemotherapy long before tumours shown to shrink

Faster assay for targeted chemotherapy’s success against deadly liver cancer saves lives, and could speed lifesaving switch to alternative drug therapies for well-known pancreatic cancer

IFT honors four innovations at Food Expo

Study suggests Tasers don’t cause cardiac complications

A review of 1,201 cases of real-life Taser found none in which the devices could be linked to cardiac complications, even when the probes landed on the upper chest area and may have delivered a shock across the heart

Newly designed solo case packer

QComp provides customers with state-of-the-art robotic solutions within the packaging industry

Billionaire Deripaska targets China to expand Russian food sales

Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element plans to start producing 10,000 to 15,000 metric tons of pork in Siberia to ship to China and other Asian countries

SAITEX – platform for business opportunities in South Africa

Africa’s biggest expo takes place at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand from 15 to 17 July

Moderate coffee consumption offers protection against heart failure

A review finds that moderate coffee drinkers, who drink two 8-ounce servings of coffee per day, were at 11% lower risk of heart failure