SYDNEY, Dec. 1 --AsiaNet/InfoQuest
IDEMA GLOBALIZES...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.: The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials
Association (IDEMA USA) and its subsidiary, IDEMA Asia-Pacific, will combine
operations with IDEMA Japan to form one global organization, IDEMA.
http://www.idema.org
AIDS PARTNERSHIP...
WASHINGTON: The China Foundation and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF),
two respected international non-profit organizations, have set up a pilot
project for HIV testing, AIDS treatment and training of healthcare
professionals in Yuncheng City in China's Shanxi Province, where blood selling
of villagers and farmers led to widespread HIV infections and increased number
of AIDS cases.
http://www.aidshealth.org
NAME CHANGE...
TORONTO: India's Harbance (Mickey) Kumar, hailed by in-flight BWIA magazine
as the pioneer and the most successful moviemaker in the West Indies, has
changed his name to Mickey Nivelli.
DESIGN PLATFORM...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California and BANGALORE: Synopsys, Inc., the world leader in
semiconductor design software, Tuesday announced that Sasken, a world-class
embedded telecommunications technology solution provider, has used Synopsys'
Galaxy Design Platform to develop a reference flow to enhance the
implementation and signoff process for its complex designs.
http://www.sasken.com
http://www.synopsys.com
CANCER DRUG...
BASEL: Roche and Genentech, Inc. Tuesday announced that Avastin
(bevacizumab, rhuMAb-VEGF), a new innovative anti-angiogenesis drug, has shown
for the first time that it significantly increases survival in patients with
metastatic colorectal cancer when used in combination with a standard
oxaliplatin-containing chemotherapy regimen.
http://www.roche.com
http://www.gene.com
http://www.health-kiosk.ch
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