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BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why Does Your Urine Smell so Different After You've Eaten Asparagus?

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- It doesn't take long after you've polished off a plateful of the delicious vegetable before you are forcefully reminded of it in the restroom. Some people are surprised by the strange odor rising from the bowl after urinating. The unmistakable olf...

Sigma-Aldrich Honored With CIO 100 Award for Innovative Web Research Tool, Your Favorite Gene powered by Ingenuity

ST. LOUIS, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL ) announced today it has received CIO magazine's 2009 CIO 100 award for Your Favorite Gene powered by Ingenuity ( http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/yfg ), a powerful web-based biological search tool that provides scientists...

Speaker Pelosi, Call Your Science Advisor!

WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) apparently couldn't resist injecting divisive politics into her speech at the unveiling of a statue of President Ronald Reagan today on Capital Hill. And in doing so, Speaker Pelosi got her facts all wrong, mis...

For Medical Device Makers, a New Software Technology Report, Time to Get Rid of Your Old Code from Full Spectrum Software

Many medical device makers have older products, with old yet still functional software code bases. In this Software Technology Report, Full Spectrum Software offers a guide to updating documentation for existing code and creating the software specifications to write new modern software for your m...

US Oncology Encourages Your Right to Decide

April 16, National Healthcare Decisions Day, your choice in times of despair HOUSTON, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- US Oncology, Inc .( www.usoncology.com ), supporting the nation's foremost cancer treatment and research network working with providers, payers and manufacturers to advance can...

Sigma-Aldrich Launches Your Favorite Gene Powered by Ingenuity

Web Portal Provides Access to Dynamic Library of Life Science Research and Enables Experiment Modeling ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL ) and Ingenuity Systems today launched Your Favorite Gene powered by Ingenuity, a Web-based biological search port...

Exclusive Conference on Managing Your Online Brand: Shaping the Noise from the Blogosphere

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Health-focused social networks, blogs, wikis and community sites are pharmaceutical and biotech companies' biggest challenges but can be their biggest opportunities. A marketing executive from a large biopharmaceutical company will discuss increasing impo...

Family Medicine Cabinet: Free, New On-Line Tool Helps Track Your Medication Safety

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to the health of their children and even parents, many moms feel it's their responsibility to be as educated as possible about health and medicine. With the many different medicines out there, it is hard to keep track of who in the family is taking wh...

Vasomotor Symptoms? Create an Individual Treatment Plan for Your Patient

Managing the transition from perimenopause to postmenopause MONTVALE, N.J., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The increasing frequency and intensity of vasomotor symptoms is a challenge for women experiencing menopause. OBG Management and The Journal of Family Practice have recently published a ...

Is Your Decaf Really Decaf?

Use New 'D+CAF(TM) Caffeine Test Strips' to Know for Sure Studies show that up to 30% of coffees ordered as 'decaf' contain high levels of caffeine MONROVIA, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ever wonder whether the coffee you had after dinner was really decaf...

Is Your Decaf Really Decaf? Use New "D+CAF (tm) Caffeine Test Strips" to Know for Sure

Studies show that up to 30% of coffees ordered as "decaf" contain high levels of caffeine. Now you can know for sure with D+CAF, the first do-it-yourself caffeine test strip from Silver Lake Research, the leader in at-home water quality testing ( www.caffeinetest.com ). ...

Free White Paper Now Available: How to get the most from your visit to electronica 2008 in Munich

A free paper helps visitors to electronica 2008 in Munich and covers topics such as finding multilingual help, electronica information available on the visitor hotline, sources of pre-show information useful in planning a trip, online registration benefits, a summary of focus areas, conferences a...

Suzanne Somers To Promote Growing Importance of Storing Your Own Adult Stem Cells Under Alliance With NeoStem, Inc.

Successful Actress, Author, Businesswoman and Medical Advocate to Assist NeoStem in Public Awareness Program NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (Amex: NBS ) has announced an alliance with Suzanne Somers to create a multi-year awareness program to help e...

BioElectronic's ActiPatch(TM) Product Chosen as 'One of 9 Medical Breakthroughs That May Change Your Life'

FREDERICK, Md., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ActiPatch(TM), the product marketed by Bioelectronics Corp. (Pink Sheets: BIEL), is changing the face of medicine and the way we heal. Recently chosen as "One of 9 Medical Breakthroughs That May Change Your Life," by MedicalHeadway.com, ActiPatc...

Developing Sales Leaders: Benchmarks Reveal Tactics that Will Propel Your Business

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- For 88 percent of companies, front-line and mid-level leaders participate in sales leadership development programs, which cover a variety of development skills but focus strongly on techniques for leading, influencing and coaching others. Yet only ...

Win a $10,000 Education Fund for Your Miracle Child

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Announces 2008 My Little Miracle Essay Contest PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 9, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- If you are a parent who has successfully given birth using Ferring Pharmaceuticals' fertility products, you can win a $10,000 education fund to support your child's future. E...

Sigma-Aldrich Partners With Sunset Molecular Discovery to Expand Your Favorite Gene Search Tool

Website Enables Researchers to Source Bioactive Small Molecules through Gene-based Search ST. LOUIS, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced the addition of 1,300 bioactive small molecules to its gene-based search tool, Your Fav...

Remarkable new clothing may someday power your iPod

Nanotechnology researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a shirt that harvests energy from the wearer's physical motion and converts it into electricity for powering small electronic devices worn by soldiers in the field, hikers and other users. The research, funded by ...

The Library of Congress in your wrist watch?

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Every advance in memory storage devices presents a new marvel of just how much memory can be squeezed into very small spaces. Considering the potential of nanolasers being developed in Sakhrat Khizroevs lab at the University of California, Riverside, things are about to get a ...

Gentelligent, Inc. Asks 'Is your DNA in Excel?'

BELMONT, Calif., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Gentelligent, Inc. today announced the launch of BasePro 1.0, the world's first Excel-based software to handle DNA, RNA and protein data. A downloadable add-in, Base Pro provides over 40 functions for rapid and intuitive manipulation of biological seque...

Free CME-certified Webcast: Making Your Case: Up-to-date Answers for Developing Trends in PCI

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Interventional cardiologists operate in an environment of great flux, and as such face many challenges in the provision of optimal patient care. New devices, continuing debate over the use of drug-eluting versus bare metal stents, and evolving procedures inv...

Candid Details on Hospital's Quality of Care Are Now at Your Fingertips - Just Like It Should Be

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- During a hospital stay, what is your chance of acquiring a blood stream infection that could prolong your length of stay? What is the likelihood of a heart attack patient receiving aspirin upon arrival at the hospital to improve the chance of su...

Is Your Company Risk Appropriate?

The Big Question I have often said: The problem is that too many companies are out seeking risk capital that isn't appropriate for them. How can I support this statement? After all, entrepreneurship is the primary driver of growth and job creation in the US. From 1979 to 1995, th...

GYA: Grow Your Assets

On a pleasant June day in Fitchburg, Secretary of Commerce Cory Nettles talked about a diverse portfolio approach to economic development. His logic? Invest in Wisconsins economy as you would your personal investments: some moderate but time tested winners, some intermediate growers, and a few b...

Detecting Your Companys Early Trouble Signs

CHICAGO, IL Growing up, "life turns on a dime" was one of my mother's favorite expressions. She always told me that life could change in the blink of an eye. Personally, this happened to me in May 1995 when I woke up and had blurry vision. A few days later, I was diagnosed with diabetes. That ...

Eau Claire Manufacturer Drives Your PC

Eau Claire, WI - Getting a tiny magnetic head to ride consistently on a cushion of air just 15 nanometers above a spinning hard drive is hard enough. But, try to do it profitably when the technology you thrive on starts to work against your bottom line. This is the dilemma for Hutchinson Techn...

Are You Prepared To Lose Your Identity?

MILWAUKEE -- Attacks on computers, phone systems, and other such technologies are coming from anywhere in the world at any time. Attacks are launched from within the enterprise as well out. The frequency, variety and severity, of these computer attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, a panel of...

How to Quit Your Midwest Technology Job

CHICAGO Can it be that things are looking up in our Midwest tech economy? Headhunters are a little more optimistic this fall. Monster.com and HotJobs are a little more interesting. Hiring managers are still deluged with inquiries from job seekers but working harder to fill some of their positions,...

The Top 10 Musts That Should Be in Your Business Survival Kit

CHICAGO In the bubble days of the 1990s, it used to be that every company needed great office space, fancy furniture and the best foosball money could buy to launch their business. It was more important to look like a real company than to be one so you could attract great employees and lots of...

File Swapping: Download at your own Risk

In recent months, entertainment companies have hit universities and colleges across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with complaints documenting alleged copyright infringement of both movies and music over their networks. Last February, Universal Studios sent several c...

How Usable is Your Web Site?

Users should not have to ask: How do I? Where am I? What is this? Why did they call it that? -- Patrick Bieser MILWAUKEE, WI. - Visitors to your companys Web site had better not have to work very hard find what they are looking for, according to Patrick Bieser, founder of Northwoods So...

Its Your Midwest Technology Wake, Stupid

CHICAGO This column isnt just for Midwestern technology job seekers. Its also for all Midwestern technology folks. Why have we concentrated so hard on job seekers here? Because so many of us are job hunting? That's only part of the reason. More than that, it's because theres so much to say on ...

Are You Your Business Card?

CHICAGO When I meet a businessperson, one of the first rituals after shaking hands is to take my other hand and reach out for his or her card. In the business world, it is a reflex reaction. In Japan, the practice is even more ritualistic. When I visited Japan a few years ago, I had to underst...

Is Now the Time to Go on Your Own?

CHICAGO, IL - I heard from my friend Marie the other day: Thats it! This makes the third time Ive gone to a promising company only to have it be bought, and see my job go away. Im done Im going out on my own. Harsh economic climate notwithstanding, people are still leaving the corporate world ...

Save money while your data grows

Not all data is created equal. Information lifecycle management, a fresh concept in data storage technology, suggests data should be be categorized and placed them into tiers associated with different costs and performance capabilities. For example, wide ranges of data, from customer orders to pict...

Does your web site have visibility?

There are three locations on an Internet search page: top, middle and down. A search engine report sometime fits onto a single page and other times its 100 feet long. Today, e-commerce is like a deep ocean: If your Web sites identity is successful, only then will it will float on the surface and be...

Who does your IT staff work for?

You probably know who signs the paychecks in your organization. Most of us can read an organization chart and figure out who reports to whom. We might even know one or two board members, shareholders or major contributors. But that might not tell you much about who your IT staff is really working f...

Beyond the screws and gears: Protecting your products by protecting your software

Companies that do not specialize in software, but incorporate software-based components (such as microprocessors or microcontrollers) into their products, more often than not, overlook the importance of protecting that software. The software may not be the biggest feature or the most prevalent feat...

Protecting your intellectual property in overseas markets

Gov. Jim Doyles recent trade mission made clear that China represents phenomenal opportunities for Wisconsin companies. But we also learned that Wisconsin companies doing business in China and other parts of the world must take important steps to protect their intellectual property and technology....