In a special report, fDi Intelligence looks at the trends that have developed over the past five years and analyses how the findings can be put to work in 2009 and beyond.

The trend for amalgamation within the pharmaceutical sector is creating ever bigger and stronger companies, writes Lara Williams.

Heading up fDi’s rankings for medical device manufacturing are Shanghai, New York and Istanbul with Shanghai also topping the quality rankings for life sciences R&D.

A rarity among major capital cities in that it does not aspire to be a financial services centre, Berlin is reaping the benefits of its role as a hub for the health industry, which has fared well during the recession.

The global of president Bausch & Lomb’s pharmaceutical division tells Lara Williams how the company’s global presence has helped it defy the economic slowdown, and that it now has Asia-Pacific, eastern Europe and Latin America in its sights.

It was telling that one of the first actions of Barack Obama on entering office was to herald a sea change in the US government's policy on climate change and carbon emissions. Within 100 hours of his inauguration he had

Schools have always been noisy places, and it is perhaps not surprising to learn that teachers form a disproportionate percentage of those who attend hospital clinics with voice injuries. Prolonged use of the voice coupled with a frequent need to

Large corporations are consistently being challenged to adopt ground-breaking social responsibility and environmental policies. Engineering and technology experts Siemens put these philosophies into practice by using its own products throughout its estate, achieving impressive energy-savings as well as outstanding working

Over 4,000 fires occur in retail outlets every year and on average larger fires cause over £5m of damage annually. Following the outbreak of a small fire in a shop, it can take less than three minutes to fill a

There are two ways in which New Hampshire's home market has been greatly affected by the growing number of homes in . One, only one percent of all properties occupied by their owners represent foreclosure homes and two, 25 percent

The area has been generally considered by real estate analysts as a potential model for housing market recovery. But according to foreclosure tracking service , over 20,000 in the area can become foreclosures homes in the next several months. These

Just like in many other U.S. states, home prices in declined in March compared to the same month in 2008, as the number of increased across the state.

One in eight homeowners across the nation was behind in mortgage payments or already in in the first quarter, according to a report released by the Mortgage Bankers Association this week. MBA cited unemployment as the main factor.

Recession has severely damage the economy of the United States. It created a flood of and massive layoffs. No place can better demonstrate the impact of recession and bank foreclosure property crisis than the city of in .

Investing in real estate is the current craze, especially for ones wounded from Wall Street madness. Remember when good income properties required only 10, 5 or even 0 percent down? These coveted numbers haven't been feasible for some time-Until Now!

RISMEDIA, June 2, 2009-The Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) continued a trend of modest improvement in May rising to 29, up from 27.6 in April. While the ESI is up nearly seven points from its all-time low of 22.2

Warsaw-based Five Star Bank announced the appointment of Vice President Mark DeBacco to commercial real estate executive. The Webster resident joined Five Star Bank in 1999 after serving as a real estate lender with M&T Bank and the former Fleet