Blogs Posts on "Acs"

Wait until 50 for mammograms by Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on Nov 17, 2009We seem to make cancer screening recommendations only to realize that we are wrong. Breast self-exams are not beneficial so we should not be telling out patients to do them. Mammograms should start at age 50, not 40. False positive results end up lea...

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Breaking Changes for .NET Services in Azure by The .NET Addict's Blog on Nov 2, 2009If you want the full gory details, check out the .NET Services team blog post here. What follows below are some of the things that I think are most crucial to understand both for new developers and for developers unfortunate enough to be in a positio...

Xerox to Buy Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 Billion by Free INFO on Sep 28, 2009Xerox Corp. agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion in its biggest purchase, shifting to computer services as sales of its traditional printing equipment decline. The transaction will help triple sales from services to about...

Xerox in $6B deal to expand tech services business by Take A Plunge on Sep 28, 2009Xerox Corp. is buying Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion in cash and stock. According to Xerox the deal will create a $22 billion business which will combine Xerox’s copiers, printers and document management services with the &#...

Dragados lanza una OPA sobre el 65,53% de la constructora polaca Pol-Aqua by Enllave on Aug 21, 2009Dragados ha notificado a la Comisión Europea su intención de hacerse con el control de la constructora polaca Pol-Aqua y Bruselas tiene hasta el 17 de septiembre para decidir si da vía libre a la operación. La filial de ACS ha presentado una R...

La constructora argentina Dycasa reduce en 22% su ganancia en primer semestre by Enllave on Aug 13, 2009La constructora Dycasa, filial argentina del grupo español ACS Dragados, dijo que en el primer semestre del año obtuvo una ganancia neta de 6,7 millones de pesos (1,7 millones de dólares), un 22% menos que en 2008. En una nota enviada a la Bolsa d...

FDA finally approves Effient (prasugrel) by Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on Jul 10, 2009The FDA has finally approved Effient (prasugrel), a thienopyridine that is similar to Plavix (clopidogrel). In fact, prasugrel has been compared to clopidogrel. The TRITON-TIMI 38 study (comparing prasugrel against clopidogrel) was published in the N...

Officer Recruitment for Grade B Position in Reserve Bank of India by AllBankJobs on Jul 6, 2009Published by DK Goyal for allbankjobs.blogspot.comReserve Bank of India (RBI)MumbaiAdvt. No. 1A/2009-10Applications are invited from Indian Citizens and certain other categories of persons for appointments to the following posts. The details of the p...

Breastlight and Breast Self-Exams by Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on Jun 10, 2009Medgadget has a story on a fancy flashlight-type medical device called the Breastlight. It shines a light through breast tissue so that you can almost see inside your breasts and look for suspicious areas that might suggest breast cancer. This device...

What’s a Growth Stock Anyway? by The Markets Up Chuck on May 28, 2009I once read somewhere that someone asked Warren Buffett if he was a growth or value investor. His alleged response was: I am neither and both, I would never invest in anything that I didn’t believe would grow, and I would never pay more for an in...