Disaster in Biological Technology

Sinovac Receives Healive(R) and Bilive(R) Purchase Orders from Provincial CDCs for Earthquake Disaster Areas

BEIJING, June 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Amex: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, today announced that the Shanxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered 257,100 doses of Healive(R), the inactivated hepatitis A vaccine manufactured by Sinovac. O...

New study examines effects of Graniteville, S.C., chlorine gas disaster

A new study examining the aftereffects of a chlorine gas disaster in a South Carolina town gives larger metropolitan areas important insight into what to expect and how to prepare emergency response systems for an accidental or terrorist release of the potentially deadly gas. The study is now avai...

Millstone Medical Outsourcing Relocates Memphis Distribution Center Within 72 Hours of Tornado Disaster

FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Millstone Medical Outsourcing announced today that the company continued service with minimal interruption after last week's tornado by relocating operations to a new distribution facility. The Distribution Center address is 4740 Shelby Drive, Memphis...

Triage study challenges notions of emergency medical response to disaster

NEW YORK (Oct. 31, 2007) -- In the face of terrorism and catastrophic natural disasters, modern regional trauma systems that improve survival for critically injured patients are more vital than ever. Yet many fundamental assumptions underlying these systems -- such as the notion that it is im...

ORNL 'resilience' plan to help Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina communities beat disaster

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 4, 2007 A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change. The new Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) will be implemented in Gulf...

Fiserv announces Disaster Recovery Services

BROOKFIELD, Wis. Fiserv Imagesoft , a unit of Fiserv, Inc. , has developed a new disaster recovery services offering for its clients that have licensed the Nautilus image-enabled enterprise content management suite. The new multiple-option service is designed to ensure that financial instituti...

Madison company urges disaster warning upgrades

Madison, Wis. - An improved warning system could have lessened the negative impacts of Hurricane Katrina, say representatives of a Madison company involved in emergency communications. "There was a three- to four-hour delay after the levees were breached, where people could have been alerted t...

Hurricane Katrina: Many disaster recovery systems were outdated

Despite predictions and preventative measures, Katrina caught many businesses and people off guard. Asks adjunct Northwestern professor James Carlini, what disaster recovery plans do you really have in place for your business and your home and how updated are they? While most of the news covera...

State initiative prepares Wisconsin IT systems for a disaster

Wisconsin may never have a disaster on the scale of September 11 or Hurricane Katrina, but technology experts in state government are making continuity plans to ensure the Badger State responds more like New York City than New Orleans. The state's Enterprise Emergency Management Planning Project...

ETC Biomedical Announces Chamber Sale in India

...; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation, and; (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and...s included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers...

MUSA Technology Partners Introduces Linux/Open Source Service Desk

...olutions to the Life Sciences industry in the areas of Regulatory Management, Clinical Management, Manufacturing, R&D, Validation, GxP Compliance, disaster Recovery and Business Continuance - solutions that are transferrable to many other industries. MUSA's insistence on a North American-based staff provi...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Promotion of Don R. Webber to VP of Sales for their BioMedical Division

...; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation, and; (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and...s included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Sale of Additional Monoplace Hyperbaric Chambers

...; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation, and; (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and...s included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers...

Monitoring water through a snake's eyes

... Abraham Katzir of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy. To combat the threat of contamination due to industrial spillage, natural disaster or sabotage, the physicist has developed a new system to monitor the safety of a building or community's water supply in real time. Modifying spec...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Division to Exhibit at Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Meeting

...; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation, and; (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and...s included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Division Achieves Foreign Manufacturer Accreditation in Japan

...t; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation; and (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and...s included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Additional Hyperbaric Monoplace Chamber Sale to St. John Wound Center

...light; (2) high performance jet tactical flight simulation; (3) driving and disaster simulation systems, and Control Systems (CSG) which includes: (1) steam and...s included in TSG are Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) and flight simulators, disaster management systems and entertainment applications. CSG includes sterilizers...

Elsevier / MC Strategies Online Courses Named in the 15th Annual Communicator Awards

... Entered into this year's competition and winning the gold Awards of Excellence in Interactive Media in the area of corporate training were ReadyRN: disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness, Mosby's Neonatal Nursing, and Mosby's Perioperative Nursing. Also entered into this year's competition and winning...

Disabled and other vulnerable groups more susceptible to terrorism fears

...from loss of well-being or security to injury, illness or death caused by a disaster associated with terrorism and national terrorism policies," the researchers conclude. "The disaster burden associated with terrorism and consequent policies may fall dispropor...

Monitoring water through a snake's eyes

... Abraham Katzir of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy. To combat the threat of contamination due to industrial spillage, natural disaster or sabotage, the physicist has developed a new system to monitor the safety of a building or community's water supply in real time. Modifying spec...

Fifth Annual SemTech Conference Highlights How Semantics Power Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, and Other Life Science Solutions

... Texas- Houston, on "Adaptive and Integrative Structured Data Entry: Ontology Driven, and Just-in-Time Information Collection and Integration for disaster and Bioterrorism Preparedness" Mark Musen and Natasha Noy, Stanford University, on "BioPortal: A Web Repository and Services for Biomedic...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Expands BioMedical Systems Division Sales Staff

... vast experience to our team." ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

MMR Offers Free Surgical Masks to Call Attention to Importance of Personal Health Records in Preparing for Possible Swine Flu Pandemic

...sharing is a critical element of any emergency and disaster preparedness program, MyMedicalRecords features a ... and blood type, and also identify the person in a disaster situation where they may be separated from family,...ains an electronic safe deposit box for a family's disaster plan for any emergency. To set up a family Pe...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Exhibiting at the Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society

...it in booth #1105 at the show. ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

Disabled and other vulnerable groups more susceptible to terrorism fears

...from loss of well-being or security to injury, illness or death caused by a disaster associated with terrorism and national terrorism policies," the researchers conclude. "The disaster burden associated with terrorism and consequent policies may fall dispropor...

Siemens Healthcare Announces Planned Collaboration with Harris Corporation

...anies align to leverage technologies for PACS data disaster recovery CHICAGO, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCa...Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) disaster recovery to support business continuity. (Lo...re providers clearly recognize the need for such a disaster recovery plan, they often lack the infrastructure ...

Publication of Shire plc's Annual Report 2008

...its business operations The Group operates several complex information systems upon which it is dependent. The Group has back-up procedures and disaster recovery plans in place to enable the business to continue its normal operations and to mitigate any loss in the event of a failure. However, in the e...

Disabled and other vulnerable groups more susceptible to terrorism fears

...from loss of well-being or security to injury, illness or death caused by a disaster associated with terrorism and national terrorism policies," the researchers conclude. "The disaster burden associated with terrorism and consequent policies may fall dispropor...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Participation at APWCA National Conference

...apwca.org/apwca2009/index.cfm ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

Repair Stem Cell Institute Weighs in on Reversal of Embryonic Stem Cell Policy

... for lab research, by using what The Institute heartily endorses, adult cells. Sixth, economics: there is no way anyone can make money from the disaster known as embryonics. Just ask those who tried to cash in on the Geron hype a few weeks ago." If a loved one suffers from something "in...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Division's Hyperbaric Chambers Address U.S. President Obama's Initiative to Computerize Medical Records

...ntegration of O.S.C.A.R.(TM)." ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Division Announces Sale of Two Monoplace Hyperbaric Chambers

...lved in the field of research. ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces the Sale of Two BARA-MED(R) XD Monoplace Hyperbaric Chambers

...nology of EMR closer together. ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Placement of Two Monoplace Chambers at St. John Wound Center; First Computer-controlled Hyperbaric Chambers in Oklahoma

...in a competitive market. ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

Applied Biosystems SOLiD System Named Life Science Innovation of the Year : The Scientist Magazine Cites the Technology's High Throughput, Lower Sequencing Cost, and Rapid Technology Innovation for Unlocking New Approaches to Clinical Research

...ies' leveraged position and ability to service debt; risks associated with international operations; third-party software risks; terrorist and natural disaster risks; anti-takeover risks and other factors; as well as other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in Life Technologies' Securities and...

Cryo-Cell Renews Upromise Industry-Exclusive Agreement

...iness of stem cell preservation obsolete; any material failure or malfunction in our storage facilities; any natural disaster such as a tornado, other disaster (fire) or act of terrorism that adversely affects stored specimens; the costs associated with defending or prosecuting litigation matters and any mate...

Amgen Foundation Announces $2.5 Million Expansion of Amgen Scholars Program to Europe

...nprofit organizations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Europe that impact society in inspiring and innovative ways. It has also supported disaster relief efforts both domestically and internationally. Contacts Kristen Davis, (805) 447-3008 (U.S. media) Annette Condon, +353 87 284 1951 (E...

AmeriCares Presents 'Power of Partnership' Award to Baxter

.... Parkinson, Jr., Baxter chairman and chief executive officer. "In times of disaster and for others in need, organizations like ours must band together to make ...ld." About AmeriCares: AmeriCares is a private, nonprofit international disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization, which delivers medicines, medical...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Staff Addition to Its BioMedical Systems Division

...cine and EMR with O.S.C.A.R.(TM). ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat and general), disaster management training systems and services, entertainment products, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers and...

SRA Awarded $56 Million Contract by Pentagon Force Protection Agency

...ubsidiaries have expertise in such areas as air surveillance and air traffic management; contract research organization (CRO) services; cybersecurity; disaster response planning; enterprise resource planning; environmental strategies; IT systems, infrastructure and managed services; logistics; public health p...