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CHICAGO, April 9 (Reuters) – Shares of St Jude Medical Inc fell nearly 5 percent on Monday on concerns that a drumbeat of negative news about its heart rhythm products will hurt sales of the medical device company’s main franchise. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers
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April 5 – Overview — U.S.-based medical device company Cooper’s financial profile has meaningfully strengthened over the past few years as a result of debt paydown, sales growth, and margin improvement — We are raising our rating on Cooper to ‘BBB-’ from ‘BB+’ — Our stable rating outlook reflects our expectation that the company will
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PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) – French drugmaker Sanofi has agreed to buy U.S. medical device company Pluromed to expand its presence in biosurgery, it said in a statement on Friday. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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Somewhere, somehow, the Wright Brothers are smiling. Jarnos Smeets, a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands, has been plugging away on his Human Birdwings project for many, many months now, and his latest breakthroughs are absolutely worthy of a peek. Put simply, the bloke has married an HTC Wildfire S, a Wii remote and bookoodles of
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We’ve had the opportunity to ride some crazy contraptions over the years here at Engadget, like the skateboard-cum-tank Shredder and the self-balancing two-seater from GM called the EN-V. Today we carry on that tradition with another thing that can keep itself — and its occupant — perched upright. It’s called the Ryno, an all-electric single-wheeled
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Filed under: Ford, Natural Gas Westport Innovations, a self-described global leader leader in alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologies, announced last Wednesday that it will transform select Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks into bi-fuel versions of their former selves in 2012. Westport Innovation signed an agreement with Ford Motor – its second tie-up with a major
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Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol Global production of biofuels soared to an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons U.S.) in 2010, according to research conducted by Worldwatch Institute for the website Vital Signs Online. That output represents a 17-percent increase in compared to the estimated 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons) that were
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David Hu, mechanical engineer at Georgia Tech, wanted to understand the basic physics of how water striders glide. By filming them stride on food coloring and building his own robotic strider, he found out that the secret to the stride is in the paddle. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Bookmark on Delicious Digg
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, Japan, UK, USA 2011 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery In late July, Carlos Ghosn, Nissan chief executive officer, reportedly stated that “with more than 10,100 electric Nissan Leaf vehicles already sold worldwide” the Japanese automaker is “clearly the global leader in zero emission mobility.” However, since we
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, Europe/EU, Japan, USA While unveiling Nissan’s China growth strategy in Beijing, Nissan chief executive officer, Carlos Ghosn, stated: We see a clear need for cars that are affordable, practical, spacious and zero emission. Nissan is clearly the global leader in zero emission mobility, now with more than 10,100 electric Nissan Leaf
