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Winter Park Home to World's Foremost Producers of Large-Scale Decontamination Equipment

On Friday, August 7, 2009, at 10 a.m., the City of Winter Park, Fla., will demonstrate how its partnership with AeroClave, LLC, can help stop the spread of disease and infection. The revolutionary new system that AeroClave has produced can mitigate the threat of healthcare-associated infections s...

Cadient Group Brings Home the Gold and Two Bronze Aster Awards

Interactive Agency Recognized for Excellence in Healthcare Marketing WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadient Group , the premier strategic interactive marketing agency serving the healthcare industry, today announced that it was honored at the 2009 Aster Awards with the ...

Sixth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference to Focus on Remote Monitoring, Home Telehealth & eHealth for Chronic Care Management & Wellness Promotion

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sixth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition, organized by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), will feature the coming together of consumer and healthcare technologies to facilitate participatory medicine . The Conf...

Tips on how to build a better home for biological parts

Blacksburg, Va. Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have compiled a series of guidelines that should help researchers in their efforts to design, develop and manage next-generation databases of biological parts. The stakes are high: the concept of biologica...

Tips on how to build a better home for biological parts

Blacksburg, Va. Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have compiled a series of guidelines that should help researchers in their efforts to design, develop and manage next-generation databases of biological parts. The stakes are high: the concept of biologica...

Hooper Holmes' Heritage Labs Division Launches New Home Diabetes Test

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Heritage Labs, a division of Hooper Holmes (Amex: HH ), today introduced the Appraise(R) Home A1c Kit, a new at-home consumer product that measures the average blood glucose level of diabetics and potential diabetics. The Appraise(R) Home ...

Gentiva Reports Strong Second Quarter led by Home Health Segment

Raises Full Year Financial Outlook MELVILLE, N.Y., July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV ), the nation's leading provider of comprehensive home health services, today reported strong second quarter results, led by double-digit increas...

NxStage Announces Access to Demographic and Outcomes Information for the Growing U.S. Daily Home Hemodialysis Patient Population

LAWRENCE, Mass., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM ), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced ongoing public access to current summary information derived from a registry of NxStage patients with end-stage renal-disease (ESRD...

Fifth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference to Focus on Remote Monitoring, Home Telehealth & eHealth for Disease Management & Wellness Promotion

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif., June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Fifth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference and Exhibition, hosted by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), will feature the coming together of consumer and healthcare technologies to promote wellness and to help manage d...

Governor Perdue Announces Georgia Selected as Home for New National Health Museum

Institution adds to Georgia's growing stature as crossroads of global health SAN DIEGO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Sonny Perdue today announced that Georgia will be home to the new National Health Museum (NHM). The museum, which will be located in downtow...

InterCure Supports AHA Endorsement of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

American Heart Association announcement validates the critical role of self-care in the treatment of high blood pressure NEW YORK, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: INCR), today announced its support...

Cadient Group Brings Home the Gold at 2008 Aster Awards

Cadient Group campaigns receive two gold awards and one silver award for ground-breaking strides in healthcare marketing WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadient Group, the premier strategic interactive marketing agency serving the healthcare industry, announced today i...

World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology: Germany Home to Top Biotech Research and Investment

BERLIN, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Processes and products based on biomass and industrial biotechnology offer significant business potential for the chemical industry in a wide range of applications such as bioplastics. A panel on developments in the field of industrial biotechnology in Germany ...

Medicare Approves in Home Sleep Apnea Testing

Insurance Companies Expected To Match Medicare Policy SAN CARLOS, Calif., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have approved at-home sleep testing for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Previous policy had mandated that suspected sleep apnea s...

China Shenghuo to Market 12Ways(R) Skin Care Products in the U.S. through Agreement with Home Shopping Group

KUNMING, China, Feb. 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. ("China Shenghuo," "the Company") (Amex: KUN), which is engaged in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of pharmaceutical, nutritional supplement and cosmetic products in the People's Re...

'Come Home to Kansas' Announced by KTEC

Program aims at recruiting tech talent and investors to state TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) announced today a "Come Home to Kansas" initiative that focuses on recruiting bioscience and information technology professionals and inv...

Biomerica Introduces a New 15 Minute Home Test for Allergies to Cats and Receives CE Mark Approval for Home Use

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Biomerica, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BMRA) has introduced a new 15 minute home test for allergies to cats and announced that it received CE mark approval to market and sell the product directly to consumers through drug stores in the Eur...

Apria Healthcare Chooses Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry for Use in the Company's Home Health Care Business

Ability of Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology to significantly reduce false alarms without missing true hypoxic events cited as the reason for choosing Masimo over all other technologies IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the inventor of P...

Culligan's New Aqua-Cleer Advanced Drinking Water SystemProvides Clean, Quality Water Customized for Every Home

Over two-thirds (67%) of Americans are generally concerned about the quality of their household water supply, according to a 2008 National Consumer Water Quality Association (WQA) Research survey. News headlines warning of contaminants1 (i.e. lead, radium, chlorine) and pharmaceuticals in tap wat...

Trade deficit hits home in Wisconsin

Terry Hicks, president of the AFL-CIO in western Wisconsin, doesnt expect to see many of his railroad brethren hanging around the union hall these days. Theyre all working overtime handling the tremendous volume of freight traveling the nations rails. The trains arriving from the coasts are fu...

New Silicon Pastures director envisions more home cooking for Wisconsin angels

M ilwaukee, Wis. - Teresa Esser sees incredible opportunity for private equity business investors in Wisconsin and, as the new director of the Milwaukee-based Silicon Pastures angel investment group, she aims to see more of that opportunity realized. While others are talking about brain ...

Taking your work home

What are you doing to become a better husband or wife, daughter or son, sister or brother? No, I'm not trying to turn my e-mail into a confessional. I've just been thinking about the IT/business relationship. When I talk to folks who have been making that relationship work, it's funny how freq...

Searle spirit lives on in Chicago as alumni celebrate at former home

Back on May 12, 2003, I wrote on an article on "The Final Death Knell of Chicago's G.D. Searle". At that juncture, the writing was on the walls of the demise of Searle due to the latest Pfizer announcement of closing down the final remaining Searle facilities in Chicago. Since then, the Searle na...

Impact of e-medical records will be felt at home

Madison, Wis. - It seems like we do e-everything these days. We make phone calls over the Internet. We shop, listen to the radio, buy music, even make friends, all online. We have every piece of information about ourselves in one e-form or another. Yet our medical records - arguably the most i...

Biotech executive books a career flight that's closer to home

Madison, Wis. - Gregg Fergus can tell his fellow travelers a thing or two about commuting. The Madison native has joined Baird Venture Partners as an executive-in-residence and one of its portfolio companies, Caden Biosciences , as senior vice president of corporate development. Gregg ...

NxStage Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...er, even within the current economic environment. home revenue for the second quarter of 2009 was $15.2 m...tance and demand for NxStage's products, growth in home and/or daily hemodialysis, unanticipated difficult... and cost reductions, changes in reimbursement for home and daily hemodialysis, changes in the regulatory ...

ETC Biomedical Announces Chamber Sale in India

... Contact: Duane D. Deaner, CFO Tel: 215-355-9100 (ext. 1203) Fax: 215-357-4000 ETC - Internet home Page: http://www.etcusa.com ...

America's Organic Home-Fueling Movement Begins in Los Angeles

...t 1, 2009 -- The future of filling up your tank at home has arrived! The first of the revolutionary portable home micro-refinery systems that turns organic waste in...ol fuel for cars was installed Thursday night at a home in Pacific Palisades, near Los Angeles, California...

Nektar to Announce Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2009 on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, After Close of U.S.-Based Financial Markets

...Pacific Time (PT). The press release and a live audio-only Webcast of the conference call can be accessed through a link that is posted on the home page and Investor Relations section of the Nektar website: http://www.nektar.com . The web broadcast of the conference call will be available for...

R-Tech Ueno Notifies R&D Items

...in the dermatological field, and diabetic neuropathy in the neurological field. We plan to report on the development status of each item on the home page of R-Tech Ueno. *VAP-1 inhibitor Vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) is also called semicarbazide-sensitive amine oxidase (SSAO). T...

Cynosure Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... Cynosure signed a multi-year, funded cooperative agreement with Unilever Ltd. to develop and commercialize light-based devices targeting the emerging home use personal care market. The initial focus of this development agreement will be on the skin rejuvenation market. The company introduced the m...

GreenHouse Debuts the World's First E-Fuel MicroFuelerTM in Los Angeles

...e provides green building services and products, including the revolutionary at-home E-Fuel Microfueler™. GreenHouse offers consumers effective home improvement products that not only improve the environment, but also benefit homeowners financially through lower energy bills and reduced maintenance...

Digitas Health Expands Adding Two Key Locations

...unications, public relations and journalism, and she has led marketing efforts for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical brands. The UK is home to two of the leading 10 pharmaceutical corporations, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, who, in 2007, comprised 10.1% of the global market share. (1) ...

The MedZilla Report: June 2009 Employment Outlook for Biotech/Pharma/Health

...ions (The Boston Globe, 6/12/09). Interestingly, Massachusetts was also home to the biggest month-to-month jump in candidate search activities -- that i.... "The dramatization of the sales rep who bring in a full lunch and go home with a signed contract was never really accurate," said Hopps, "b...

Miami Beach Real Estate Attorney Opens Miami Real Estate Brokerage for International Luxury Miami Beach Condo Buyers From Distressed Sellers

... Cash buyers from Europe, Canada, and Russia requiring confidential, direct buyer representation for a luxury Miami Beach condo or waterfront home use specialized services of Board Certified real estate attorney and Lic. Real Estate Broker, Christian N. Folland, Esq. Folland, acting as Miami Bea...

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

... Contact: Duane D. Deaner, CFO Tel: 215-355-9100 (ext. 1203) Fax: 215-357-4000 ETC - Internet home Page: http://www.etcusa.com ...

Karl Strauss and GreenHouse Partner to Create Alternative Fuel from Beer Waste

...r waste and distribute it throughout California to home and business-owners where, using the E-Fuel MicroF...icing of each MicroFueler unit at customers’ home or business. The MicroFueler is a portable micro-r...ovell. The Company also offers consumers effective home improvement products that not only improve the env...

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Submits Comments to Hit Policy Committee About Meaningful Use and Electronic Health Record Certification

... The full text of AMIA's comments is available at: http://www.amia.org/public_policy About AMIA AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics. AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in heal...

Cardium's InnerCool Therapies Business to Be Acquired By Royal Philips Electronics

...00 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 26 billion in 2008, the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal well-being and pleasure with...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Sale of Additional Monoplace Hyperbaric Chambers

...pany. Contact: Duane D. Deaner, CFO Tel: 215-355-9100 (ext. 1203) Fax: 215-357-4000 ETC - Internet home Page http://www.etcusa.com ...