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West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. today announced that management will be presenting at two upcoming conferences:

Beckman Coulter, Inc. , a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of products that simplify, automate, and innovate complex biomedical testing, announced today that Scott Garrett, Beckman Coulter's chairman, president and chief executive officer, w

What's real and what's hype in infomercial fitness machines; plus tests of 40 exercise equipment machines include 6 Consumer Reports Best Buys

StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of Americans, will visit Institute on Aging's Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Center on JANUARY 13, 2009 to celebrate the stories of the center's participants as part of

Nektar Therapeutics' President and Chief Executive Officer, Howard W. Robin, is scheduled to present at the upcoming 27th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference inSan Francisco at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Survey of 21,000 readers reveals six stay-thin strategies; Tips for healthful meals on a budget

Johns Hopkins and other researchers report what is believed to be the first direct evidence in lab animals that the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil amplifies the effects of a heart-protective protein.

Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected anyway, a team of researc