Chief financial officer William Zerella is leaving Vocera to become CFO of a Silicon Valley consumer wearables company, and will stay on as a consultant through the transition while the company searches for a successor. Bob Zollars has moved from executive chairman to chairman of the board.
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Top-Tier Technology Companies and Non-Profits Rally Behind NCWIT to Meet Global Demand for Tech Talent
Apple, AT&T, the Clinton Foundation, DevelopHer, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Rapt Media are backing NCWIT's 10th anniversary summit in Newport Beach, May 19-21. The event draws more than 500 social scientists, educators, entrepreneurs and executives working on women in computing.
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Chelsea Clinton to speak at NCWIT Summit
Chelsea Clinton will address the 2014 NCWIT Summit on women's role in technology and the Clinton Foundation's No Ceilings project, then take questions from NCWIT CEO Lucy Sanders. The summit runs May 19-21 in Newport Beach and draws more than 500 attendees.
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CREATe.org Announces Five-Step Framework to Protect Trade Secrets
CREATe.org is offering companies a free five-step framework to identify trade secrets, assess threat actors and vulnerabilities, rank secrets by value, weigh the economic impact of a loss, and secure the portfolio. It comes from a broader report written with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Why Are They Injecting Pregnant Sheep with Alcohol?
A letter from the Physicians Committee asks readers to urge Texas A&M's president to halt federally funded experiments in which pregnant sheep are injected with alcohol and their near-term lambs are killed so the brains can be studied.
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Time Flies: Don't Waste It By Tanning
The American Academy of Dermatology released television and radio public service ads aimed at teen girls and young women, one showing a sunbather trapped inside an hourglass. The Academy notes melanoma is the second most common cancer among people aged 15 to 29.
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Special Needs Group and Sun & Fun Cycles Team Up
Special Needs Group partnered with Sun & Fun Cycles to rent wheelchairs, mobility scooters and beach lounge wheelchairs on Hollywood Beach Broadwalk in Florida. The companies say that makes it the only South Florida beach area offering special needs equipment rentals.
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Medtronic Applauds AACE/ACE on Their Updated Insulin Pump Therapy Consensus Statement
Medtronic welcomed the updated AACE and ACE consensus statement on insulin pump therapy, which recognizes the value of pumps for intensively managed insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes as well as type 1. The company objects to payer rules requiring patients be C-peptide negative.
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APEC Trade Ministers adopt Qingdao Statement
APEC trade ministers closed a two-day meeting in Qingdao with a statement setting out actions on trade and growth across the Asia-Pacific, covering the multilateral trading system, regional economic integration, the Bogor Goals, global value chains, services, investment and connectivity.
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APEC key to global trade progress
APEC's Alan Bollard and the WTO's Roberto Azevedo said trade is improving but needs sustained effort. They pointed to trade facilitation work that cut APEC transaction costs 10% from 2002 to 2010 and could add $350 billion to $1 trillion to global trade a year.
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APEC advancing blueprint for improved regional connectivity
APEC economies are drafting a regional connectivity blueprint covering physical infrastructure, institutional links and people-to-people ties. Senior officials, technical experts and business representatives worked through the details in Qingdao, and trade ministers are deciding the next step.
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Gao: Accelerate Asia-Pacific integration
Opening the APEC trade ministers' meeting in Qingdao, China's commerce minister Gao Hucheng said the world recovery is picking up but instabilities remain and more risks are gathering. He urged members to back the multilateral trading system and speed Asia-Pacific integration.
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Labetalol Hydrochloride Injection 100 MG/20 ML (5MG/ML), 20 ML, Multidose Vial by Hospira: Recall - Visible Particulates
Hospira is recalling one lot of labetalol hydrochloride injection after finding stainless steel embedded in the glass vials and iron oxide particles floating in the solution, which could delay therapy or cause injection site and blood vessel reactions.
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FDA MedWatch - Ventlab Resuscitator Bags: Recall - Possible Health Risk
Ventlab is removing certain resuscitator bags from the market after complaints that a sticking duckbill valve left the bag delivering no air to the patient. The failure can delay treatment and cause hypoxia; users should stop using affected lots and contact the company.
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HIV/AIDS Update - Changes to the Trivicay (dolutegravir) product labeling
FDA approved labeling updates for Tivicay (dolutegravir) covering its effects on renal transporters and interactions with calcium carbonate and ferrous fumarate. The new text notes dolutegravir inhibits OCT2 and MATE1 and may raise levels of drugs cleared by those transporters.
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Recall Of One Lot Of Labetalol Hydrochloride Injection
Hospira is recalling one lot of labetalol hydrochloride injection nationwide after a confirmed customer report of particles embedded in the glass vial and floating in the solution, identified as stainless steel and iron oxide. No adverse events have been reported for the lot.
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FDA’s Latest Report on Imported Pet Treats from China Shows Weakness of our Trade Policies
Food & Water Watch's Wenonah Hauter says FDA's latest update counts 4,800 pet illnesses, 1,000 dog deaths and three human illnesses tied to Chinese pet treats, with the cause still unknown, and argues trade policy is overriding health protections. She calls for halting the imports.
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Trade Matters
The Center for Food Safety released a report on how the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could affect food and farming, covering GE crops and labeling, animal drugs and hormones, livestock antibiotics and chemically washed poultry. EU negotiators reach Arlington, Virginia, May 19-23.
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