IBT Staff Reporter

Carmakers Daimler, Renault and Nissan are redoubling their electric cars effort in the race for market share in a world of tighter emission rules.

Kia Motors, South Korea's No.2 carmaker, plans to produce 2,000 units of its new electric vehicles by 2012, an executive at its affiliate Hyundai Motor said on Tuesday.

Toyota Motor Corp will offer a plug-in version of its Prius positioned to be the cheapest green car of its kind by 2012 and could have two electric cars in the U.S. market by that time, executives said on Monday.

Toyota Motor Corp plans to introduce six new hybrid vehicles by the end of 2012 and bring an electric vehicle to the U.S. market that year also, a top research and development executive said on Monday.

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which last month completed its purchase of Volvo from Ford Motor Co, may build as many as three plants in China to make the Swedish brand, a Geely spokesman said on Tuesday.

People taking opioid painkillers for extended periods of time are at greater risk of problems if they have been prescribed more potent forms of these drugs, new research shows.

Nearly half of surgeons who earned more than $1 million from companies that make orthopedic devices did not disclose it when they published medical journal articles, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Cancer patients who die at home do so more peacefully -- and their caregivers end up doing better emotionally, too, researchers reported on Monday.

Patients who cross borders in search of cheaper, more available fertility treatment can now choose from more than 100 countries but may be putting themselves and their babies at risk, experts said Tuesday.

Even seemingly gentle antibiotics may severely disrupt the balance of microbes living in the gut, with unforeseen health consequences, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Fewer than half of U.S. mothers breastfeed their newborns for even half as long as advised and just 22 percent still do so at one year, government researchers reported on Monday.

It may be possible to predict which women will develop a dangerous complication of pregnancy called pre-eclampsia weeks before they ever show the first symptoms, an international team of researchers reported Monday.

The food industry is jeopardizing U.S. public health by withholding information from food safety investigators or pressuring regulators to withdraw or alter policy designed to protect consumers, said a survey of government scientists and inspectors.

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Watch out for the 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS at the Paris Motor Show this fall. Months before its debut, the company teased potential customers with a cryptic sculpture at the Detroit Auto Show and by revealing the striking Shooting Break concept at the China show.

The world's rich countries need to extend initiatives to boost spending and support employment to fix a dire labor market that could threaten entire societies, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

The IMF's latest push for more spending on job creation and care for the poorest in society shows it is more than just a tough-love provider of economic aid in return for austerity measures, its boss said on Monday.

Green taxes are among ways to spur jobs and economic revival despite less focus on environmental solutions since the U.N.'s Copenhagen summit in 2009, Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress have a late chance to show frustrated voters they are trying to boost the sluggish economy with a plan to extend help to small businesses before the November midterm elections.

The United States' job market is recovering at a better rate than it did after its past two recessions despite high unemployment, a senior Treasury Department official was quoted as saying on Monday.

The pace at which teenagers, men in their prime and older workers re-enter the U.S. work force as the economy recovers will shape how quickly the unemployment rate falls, researchers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve said on Monday.

U.S. safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into reports that fuel tanks from 1997 to 2001 model year Ford Motor Co F-150 pickups have dropped onto the road due to rusted support straps.

General Motors Co's new chief executive, Dan Akerson, will receive a $1.7 million cash salary as well as stock grants, the U.S. government-owned automaker said on Friday.

Strengthening dealer networks, successfully launching a redesigned Jetta, and boosting used-car sales are top priorities for Volkswagen America Inc under Jonathan Browning, the unit's new chief executive.

Morgan Stanley on Friday said Jay Mantz would be vice chairman of its real estate investing group.

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