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BA Close to Joint Venture With American and Iberia
By John Bowker LONDON (Reuters UK) - British Airways BAY, American Airlines AMR and Spain's Iberia IBLA are close to applying for antitrust immunity to form a transatlantic joint venture, the Financial Times said on Thursday. The airlines aim to reach an agreement on profit and...
Tags: American Airlines, Antitrust, Immunity, Agreement, Iberia, Antitrust Immunity, BA, AMR Corp., Continental Airlines Inc., US
News items 2008-07-03
Employers Fire Back at Law Making It a Felony to Ban Guns on Company Premises
Unlike legislation introduced in other states, the Florida and Wisconsin bills grant employers immunity from liability in lawsuits brought by anyone injured in a workplace shooting as long as they have made a good-faith effort to prevent violence in their workplace. To make sure they qualify for legal immunity, and...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Crain Communications Inc., violence, workplace, training
White papers 2006-01-30
The Effects of Long-Term Total Parenteral Nutrition on Gut Mucosal Immunity in Children With Short Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review
Short bowel syndrome SBS is defined as the malabsorptive state that often follows massive resection of the small intestine. Long-term survival without parenteral nutrition depends upon establishing enteral nutrition and the process of intestinal adaptation through which the remaining small bowel gradually increases its absorptive capacity. The purpose of this...
Tags: BioMed Central, nutrition
White papers 2005-02-01
Vaccines: Their Use, Handling, and Care
This fact sheet describes the types of vaccines and their uses, how to handle them, and how to protect them from elements that could decrease their potency. Vaccines are used to produce immunity to livestock diseases. The immunity that is produced will vary in its protective ability due to the...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, immunity, virus
White papers 2003-10-21
Can State Claim Immunity From Same-Sex Harassment And Retaliation Suit?
A University of Alabama campus police officer complained to the chief that his boss, the deputy chief, was sexually harassing him. Instead of disciplining his subordinate, the chief fired the complainer. When the former cop sued, university administrators ducked under the cloak of immunity, claiming Congress had lacked the power...
Tags: harassment, supervisor
White papers 2003-05-18
Internet Service Provider Liability For Contributory Trademark Infringement After Gucci
After the Gucci America v. Hall Associates case in 2001, the contributory trademark infringement with regard to Internet Service Providers ISPs has come up for discussion. In that case, the US district court for the Southern District of New York held that the Communications Decency Act CDA did not grant...
Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Business services, Regulations, Duke University, Communications Decency Act, immunity, Internet service, Internet Service Provider, service provider, Internet, intellectual property
White papers 2003-01-01

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Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to Recession
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Nielsen Reports on Consumer Goods Categories That Are Most Immune, Most Vulnerable to RecessionC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As the economic downturn causes consumers to reprioritize their spending habits and forces consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers to reevaluate their consumer marketing strategies,...
Articles 2009-06-08
Another reason to hit the dairy aisle
* Yogurt has been touted for boosting your immune system, but there's another reason it may keep you smiling. A study in the fournal of periodontology found that people who consumed 2 ounces or more of lactic acid-rich foods, such as yogurt and kefir, had a 60 percent lower risk...
Articles 2008-07-01
Portland firms feel pinch of tightening economy
The most recent Architecture Billings Index shows demand for architecture services in the United States continues to slump, in tandem with a slowing economy caused by surging fuel prices, tightening credit conditions and the threat of inflation. The Portland market isn't immune from the downturn. The billings...
Articles 2008-06-26
Commentary: Oregon Task Force takes big look
For years, Oregon's land use planning program has been internationally and nationally touted as the model for coordinated land use planning, preservation of natural resources, protection of the environment and the management of growth. The Oregon system was the vision of Gov. Tom McCall in the early 1970s and has...
Articles 2008-06-26
AIG Executive Liability® Introduces Public Entity Plan and Trustee Protector
Policy Protects Government Employee Benefit Plan Trustees Against Today's Fiduciary Liabilities NEW YORK -- AIG Executive Liability([R]), a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, today introduced Public Entity Plan and Trustee Protector, a policy that protects individuals who manage public entity employee benefit plans from fiduciary liability exposures. ...
Articles 2008-06-25
Aethlon Medical Announces "First-In-Man" HIV/AIDS Treatment Study
SAN DIEGO -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to initiate the "first-in-man" clinical study of a medical device to treat the Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS. The Aethlon Hemopurifier[R] is a medical device created to provide...
Articles 2008-06-24
FierceBiotech Names GlobeImmune as One of the "Fierce 15" Biotech Companies of 2008
FierceBiotech and GlobeImmune, Inc.announced today that GlobeImmune has been named to the annual FierceBiotech"Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top biotech companies of2008. The editors of FierceBiotech evaluated hundreds of privately heldfirms based on company vision, revenue potential, quality of deals,strength of technology, partnerships, and competitive market...
Articles 2008-06-24
Vaccine Stops Colon Cancer's Spread in Mice
A new vaccine to treat and prevent metastatic colon cancer appears to work in mice, researchers report. The vaccine has one unique property: It acts on the immune system in the intestines, a separate immune system from the one that protects the body generally. "There are two independent immune systems...
Articles 2008-06-24
New Scheduler Helps Track Kids' Shots
A new computerized program that helps parents and pediatricians adjust childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccinations are missed has been developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It's common for children to miss getting vaccines at the recommended time. About 28 percent of toddlers haven't...
Articles 2008-06-24
Low-Power Silicon Oscillator from STMicroelectronics Saves Parts-Count and Streamlines Design
STCL1120 silicon oscillator technology is tougher than quartz, smaller and faster than ceramic, and saves power compared to alternative silicon devices GENEVA, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The STCL1120 family of silicon oscillators from STMicroelectronics , a world leader in analog and mixed-signal ICs, combines fast start-up and...
Articles 2008-06-24
Tolerx Named as One of the 'Fierce 15' Biotech Companies of 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Tolerx, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel therapies for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases, announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceBiotech "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top biotech companies...
Articles 2008-06-24
Cuba unveils lung cancer vaccine
HAVANA AFP — Cuban scientists on Tuesday unveiled a therapeutic lung cancer vaccine which they say is the first in the world and extends the lives of victims by up to five months. Gisela Gonzalez at the Havana Molecular Immunological Center, where the unveiling was held, said that...
Articles 2008-06-24
DIREVO Receives Broad European Patent Protection for its Protease Optimization Platform
DIREVO Biotech AG, a world-wide leader inhigh throughput protein and strain engineering, announced today receipt ofnotice from the European Patent Office that the post-granting oppositionperiod had ended without a filed opposition against Patent Grant No. EP150411. This patent, entitled, "Process for Generating Sequence-SpecificProteases by Directed Evolution", broadly claims methods for...
Articles 2008-06-24
Study Shows That Small Protein Can Broaden Immune Response in Humans
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE text PUBLIC "-//The Gale Group//DTD Mercury Version 1.0//EN" "Article.dtd"> <Text rich="yes"> <P> Treating cancer patients with interleukin-7 (IL-7), a small protein that can stimulate the immune system, leads to an increase in lymphocytes, key to the production of effective immune responses,...
Articles 2008-06-23
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