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Colon Cancer Screening Laws Now Cover Half of U.S. Population

Five States Passed Laws in 2007, but 26 Still Earn D's or F's on Legislation Report Card WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, more than half of the U.S. population is now covered by state laws that require insurance providers to cover t...

Research by Case Western Reserve University, VA earns cover of prestigious science publication

CLEVELAND An interdisciplinary team from the department of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and the NASA Glenn Research Center earned the December 2007 cover of Nature Nanotechnology, one of the worlds most pre...

Professor Strauf's research is Nature Photonics’ cover article

HOBOKEN, N.J. Stefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, along with colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University (Netherlands), has authored the article, High-frequency single-photon...

New Optical Breast Cancer Imaging Technology Garners Cover Story in National Radiology Magazine

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: IMDS) a pioneer in laser optical breast cancer imaging systems, announced that its CT Laser Mammography (CTLM(R)) system, designed as an adjunct to x-ray systems to detect breast can...

KV Pharmaceutical Announces Stockholder Action to Amend By-Laws is Invalid

...ith the SEC on April 30, 2009, as well as certain other of the Company's SEC filings; (23) the possibility that insurance proceeds are insufficient to cover potential losses that may arise from litigation, including with respect to product liability or securities litigation; (24) the informal inquiry initi...

One of the Nation's Leading Analytical Testing Laboratories is Now Easier to Access -- Pace Analytical Launches New Web Site to Showcase Its Three Business Divisions

...nd medical device testing, and onsite laboratory operation and management services. Pace Analytical's laboratory network performs services designed to cover the needs of a diverse range of businesses, industries and government sectors. ### Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/...

Palatin Technologies, Inc. Receives U.S. Patent Allowance for Heart Failure Drug Candidate

...he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its U.S. Patent Application Number 11/694,260, titled "Cyclic Natriuretic Peptide Constructs." Allowed claims cover a family of cyclic compounds that bind to natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPRA), including PL-3994, Palatin's lead heart failure drug candidate. Palat...

OmniComm Systems Acquires EDC Assets of Leading Phase I Clinical Software Vendor - Logos Technologies, Ltd.

...etplace. The Logos software complements OmniComm's TrialMaster(R) software, which is primarily used in later stage clinical trials. The Logos products cover all aspects of the Phase I process from subject recruitment and clinical workflow management to laboratory sample management. Regular EDC solutions fo...

IIVS Announces Initiation by EPA of a Pilot Program to Evaluate Non-Animal Eye-Irritation Methods

...ply appreciate the credence the EPA's leadership gives to in vitro methods and hope that this will lead to EPA guidelines that will more permanently cover this type of approach." The goal of the EPA's pilot program is to evaluate the effectiveness of a non-animal testing method to replace the cur...

Micromet Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock

...s expected to take place on August 4, 2009. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,100,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Piper Jaffray & Co. is acting as the sole book running manager with RBC Capital Markets and Merriman Curhan Ford as co-m...

Stemline Therapeutics CEO to Present at IBC's New Frontiers in Cancer Drug Development Conference

... is significantly influencing current decision making with respect to oncology drug development. With this in mind, Dr. Bergstein's presentation will cover novel pre-clinical and clinical development paradigms, including human trial design, of drug candidates that target cancer stem cells. The talk will ...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Exercise of Overallotment

...s option to purchase 4,399,816 additional shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase up to 1,099,954 additional shares of its common stock to cover overallotments. The exercise of the underwriter's overallotment option results in the issuance in this offering of an aggregate of 33,731,923 shares ...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants

...on to purchase up to 4,399,816 additional shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase up to 1,099,954 additional shares of its common stock to cover overallotments, if any. The net proceeds to the Company after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, exclu...

Study Published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Demonstrated Once-Daily Vyvanse(R) (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) CII Provided Significant Improvement of ADHD Symptoms for Children at 13 Hours After Administration

...sed on weekly branded prescription volume. Additionally, Shire has executed agreements with 10 of Shire's top 11 managed care organizations (MCOs) to cover Vyvanse in a preferred formulary position. Vyvanse is a therapeutically inactive prodrug, in which d -amphetamine is covalently bonded to l-...

Cellular Dynamics International In-Licenses Key Patent Portfolio for Using Stem Cell-Derived Cells in Drug Testing

...using stem cell-derived cells for drug screening. First, the Field patents cover a cell purification strategy that enables greater than 90 percent purity of any type of cells. Secondly, the Field patents cover the use of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for drug testing. Financial te...

Material world: Graphene's versatility promises new applications

...f the material has proven trickier. Graphene is remarkable in terms of thinness and resiliency. A one-atom thick graphene sheet sufficient in size to cover a football field, would weigh less than a gram. It is also the strongest material in natureroughly 200 times the strength of steel. Most of the excite...

OncologyRx Care Advantage(TM) Specialty Pharmacy Passes $15 Million Milestone in Patient Financial Assistance

...apy Adherence & Prescription Education Support program that monitors patients taking oral oncolytics and helps them access financial assistance to cover costly co-pays. Reeder's comment to his Care Advantage patient access coordinator, Meg Asher, "Help me get to see my great grandbaby." Three year...

Unexpectedly long-range effects in advanced magnetic devices

...imum practical size for the magnetic islands that record data on hard disk drives, according to NIST metallurgist Robert Shull. The key trick is to cover a thin layer of a ferromagnetic material, in which the magnetic direction of electrons, or "spins," tend to order themselves in the same direction, wi...

Study Showed VYVANSE(R) (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) CII Provided Significant Efficacy at 14 Hours After Administration in Adults with ADHD in an Adult Simulated Workplace Environment

...sed on weekly branded prescription volume. Additionally, Shire has executed agreements with 10 of Shire's top 11 managed care organizations (MCOs) to cover VYVANSE in a preferred formulary position. Approximately 95 percent of prescriptions are approved by health plans at the national average copay of $3...

PROLOR Biotech Awarded Two U.S. Patents for Its Longer-Acting Human Growth Hormone and Longer-Acting Erythropoietin

...) has issued two new patents for the company's long-acting CTP-enhanced human growth hormone (hGH-CTP) and human erythropoietin (EPO-CTP). The patents cover the composition of PROLOR's proprietary pharmaceutical compounds as well as certain associated methods. PROLOR's CTP technology is based on a short a...

Video: Varicose Veins, Much More Than a Cosmetic Issue, Can Prove a Health Risk

...re does not require hospitalization or complicated surgery and typically takes less than an hour. Most health-insurance policies cover varicose vein treatment. To learn more about varicose veins or available treatment options, please visit www.veinclinics.com or call 866-617-VEIN. ...

Hill-Rom Innovative Envision(R) E700 Wound Surface Receives Gold Medical Device Excellence Award

...ric with crush resistant channels increasing air circulation and flow beneath the patient. In turn, the high moisture vapor permeable, stain resistant cover improves the ability to manage heat and moisture directly beneath the patient. The product also offers PressureSmart(TM) Sensing Technology that sense...

DNA2.0 Awarded US Patents for Breakthrough Gene Optimization Technology -- Company's Unique Algorithm Enables Expression Yields up to 50 Times Greater than Competing Approaches

...n. New genes designed using these properties expressed well, confirming the validity of the algorithms. The claims in application 12/184,240 broadly cover the use of this successful and powerful approach to optimize sequences for expression in any organism. "Our overarching gene design technol...

EUCODIS Bioscience Launches Beta-Lactamase for Antibiotics and Diagnostics Industries

... development of our organization," said Rudy Pandjaitan, PhD, CEO of EUCODIS Bioscience. "The EUCODIS Bioscience team has demonstrated its capacity to cover the whole value-chain of an integrated enzyme supplier, from enzyme development, to manufacturing, and to marketing. This success adds momentum to our...

SPO Medical Expands Professional Product Offering

...sident and Chief Executive Officer of SPO Medical commented: "By expanding our sensor offerings with the hand-held PulseOx 6100(TM) we are now able to cover a broader range of adult and pediatric patient population. The new sensor has been designed to be soft and comfortable with an ergonomic thimble to en...

Medivation Announces Pricing of Public Offering

...ese shares on or about June 2, 2009. The company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase 412,500 additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. is acting as sole book-running manager of the offering. The company currently expects ...

Cephalon Prices 5 Million Shares of Common Stock and $435 Million in 2.50% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes in Public Offerings

...egate principal amount of 2.50% convertible senior subordinated notes due 2014. Cephalon has also granted the underwriters a 30-day option, solely to cover over-allotments, to purchase up to an additional 750,000 shares of common stock, with respect to the common stock offering, and to purchase up to an a...

Cephalon Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock and Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes

...nvertible senior subordinated notes due 2014 through two concurrent public offerings. Cephalon will grant the underwriters a 30-day option, solely to cover over-allotments, to purchase up to an additional $45 million of common stock, with respect to the common stock offering, and to purchase up to an addi...

GenVault Receives Four Critical U.S. and E.U. Patent Allowances for Key Biosample Management Technologies

... biobanks or biorepositories. GenVault is also pleased to announce notice of allowance of the first of several key patents in its portfolio which cover novel matrices to stabilize biospecimens in the air-dried state. The allowed claims in "Stable Protein Storage and Stable Nucleic Acid Storage i...

Beckman Coulter, Inc. Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering

...ve granted the underwriters of the common stock offering an option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares of Beckman Coulter's common stock to cover over-allotments; provided that Beckman Coulter may elect, in its sole discretion, in lieu of having the forward purchasers grant such option to the un...

PharmAthene Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial and Operational Results

...h the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The scope of work under the BARDA contract, which took effect April 1, 2009, will cover ongoing stability studies, development of potency assays, as well as certain manufacturing technology transfer and scale-up activities for SparVax(TM)...

Dendreon Announces Common Stock Offering

...ole manager for the offering. Dendreon has granted Deutsche Bank Securities an option to purchase an additional 1,279,166 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Dendreon intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to develop manufacturing facilities, a distribution network, ...

Spectros Corporation Protects Its Cool White LED Spectroscopy Technology Against Alleged Infringement by Thermo Fisher Scientific

... and pending patents in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, forming one of the largest biophotonics intellectual property collections. Spectros' core patents cover optical spectroscopy, fluorimetry, and imaging for use in blood analysis, contrast-targeted cancer surgery, lab-on-chip systems, and benchtop life-sci...

ChanTest Awarded $4.8 Million Through the Ohio Third Frontier Research and Commercialization Program

... channel and GPCR services (both automated high-throughput and GLP), cell lines, differentiated human stem cells, membranes, and related products that cover nearly half of the known drugable genome, along with cell line construction and scale-up, membrane preparation, and large-scale cryopreservation of ce...

Senesco Technologies Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2009 Financial Results

...1, 2009, the Company had cash and investments in the amount of $2,677,581, and working capital of $2,594,256. Senesco estimates that such amount will cover its expenses for approximately the next four months from March 31, 2009. About Senesco Technologies, Inc. Senesco Technologies, Inc. is a ...

CryoLife Reports Record First Quarter Revenues of $26.7 Million

...hysicians have been and may be reluctant to implant or use our preserved tissues or products, our existing insurance policies may not be sufficient to cover our actual claims liability, current economic conditions may impact demand for our tissues and products, intense competition may affect our ability to...

Bavarian Nordic Announces its Interim Report for the Period 1 January to 31 March 2009

...he first quarter, the company decided to reduce the outstanding foreign exchange contracts. The remaining foreign exchange contracts of USD 46 million cover the expected USD income from the RFP-3 contract in 2009. The reduction in the outstanding foreign exchange contracts has been executed in order to eli...

ULURU to Present Clinical Evidence and Advanced Research on Altrazeal at the Society for Advance Wound Care Conference for 2009

...baric and Limb Salvage Center, Meridian, Mississippi and co-author of two posters on the surgical procedure stated, "The development of a technique to cover and protect a mesh skin graft using a single product without staple or suture fixation will aid in patient comfort and could provide important benefit...

The Biotechnology Industry Organization Honors Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as Governor of the Year

...mate change and biofuels. In addition, this year's BIO Exhibition will cover will cover an estimated 200,000 net sq. ft. and host more than 2,000 exhibitors. ...

Z Therapy Is The First In North Texas To Offer Revolutionary Treatment Option For Neck Pain Sufferers

... Services include rehabilitation, physical and specialized massage therapy. Payments are accepted through automobile and health insurance, which can cover up to 100 percent of treatment. For more information, please call 214-361-8700 or by visiting Z Therapy Whiplash Treatment Center . ### Read th...