Pharmacomechanical Thrombectomy Procedure Adoption to Accelerate Due to More Aggressive Treatment of Deep Vein Thrombosis, According to Millennium Research Group

WALTHAM, Mass., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, pharmacomechanical thrombectomy (PMT) procedure adoption will accelerate over the next five years due to growing physician interest in treating deep...

Unique Collaboration Between TB Alliance and Tibotec To Accelerate Tuberculosis Drug Development

Collaboration will focus on the development of TMC207 and the discovery of new drugs to treat tuberculosis SEATTLE, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A new landmark collaboration between the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance), a not-for-profit, product development partnership, and Ti...

Broadlane Selects Silver Creek Systems To Accelerate Core Business Analysis And New Client Services

Leader in Product Data Mastering Chosen by Leading Healthcare Cost-Management Company Westminster, Colo. (PRWEB) June 16, 2009 -- Silver Creek Systems®, the pioneer and leader in automated Data Mastering, including product data quality, integration and governance an...

GE Launches Program to Doctors, Hospitals to Accelerate EMR Adoption; First $100 Million of healthymagination Commitment

Offers Healthcare Providers Interest-free Funding for Immediate Access to Electronic Medical Records, Commits to Stimulus Warranty Electronic Medical Records Can Help Improve Patient Outcomes, Reduce Medical Errors and Costs FAIRFIELD, Conn., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GE (NYSE: ...

Allscripts and SYNNEX Corporation Form Distribution Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of Electronic Health Records

CHICAGO and FREMONT, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX ), a leader in software, services, information, and connectivity solutions for physicians and hospitals, and SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX ), a leading business process services company, today announced that...

GHX Launches the Health ConneXion(TM) GDSN-Certified Data Pool to Accelerate Use of GS1 Standards in Healthcare

GHX data pool is publishing supplier data to the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) and making it available to providers and other data subscribers; market adoption of the healthcare-focused data pool is increasing LOUISVILLE, Colo., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- GHX, LLC has l...

GAA Applauds Global Fund's Decision to Accelerate Support for Treatment Strategies to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

"The Global Fund now has within its reach the potential to end pediatric AIDS." WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At its spring meeting in Geneva, the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), today agreed to enhance the Fund's res...

Compressus Launches Partnerships With Two Avnet HealthPath(TM) Partners to Accelerate Access to Interoperability Solutions

SIS, Micro Solutions and Logicalis Initiate Collaborative Sales Agreements Designed to Facilitate Comprehensive Productivity Implementations and Access to Federal Healthcare IT Stimulus Funds CHICAGO, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Compressus, a leader in interoperability of disparate healthcare IT ...

Susan G. Komen For The Cure(R) to Invest $60 Million in Research to Accelerate Breast Cancer Cures, Eliminate Disparities, Improve Diagnoses

Leader of Global Breast Cancer Movement Continues Unprecedented Investment in Research Despite Troubled Global Economy DALLAS, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Committed to caring for those coping with breast cancer while trying to rid future generations of the disease, Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R),...

EMD Serono and FAST FORWARD, LLC Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Development of Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis

-- EMD Serono and Fast Forward agree to work together to speed research development on a select group of high potential MS research projects with support of up to $19 million in funding ROCKLAND, Mass. and NEW YORK, March 18/PRNewswire/ -- EMD Serono, Inc., an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmsta...

American Heart Association Urges Congress to Accelerate Efforts to Enact Comprehensive Health Care Reform

And Increase Research Funding to Prevent Setbacks in the Fight Against Heart Disease and Stroke WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With thousands of Americans losing health coverage each day, the American Heart Association warns lawmakers that recent progress in reducing the prev...

Reduce Risk, Achieve Compliance and Accelerate Time to Market with hiQual and Hiemstra Product Development

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Hiemstra Product Development, a premier product design and development company, announced today the debut of hiQual, its proprietary electronic quality management system (eQMS). With the integration of hiQual, Hiemstra's development team can reduce...

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and The University of Kansas Cancer Center Announce Innovative Partnership to Accelerate Drug Development

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and KANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and The University of Kansas Cancer Center have announced a partnership to translate discoveries by LLS-funded researchers into Phase I clinical trials. Currently, The University of K...

New Survey Shows Continued Progress in Reducing Youth Smoking; Congress, States Can Accelerate Declines by Implementing Proven Solutions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO ) It is good news for the nation's health that the 2008 Monitoring the Future...

GHX to Become GDSN-certified Data Pool to Accelerate Use of GS1 Standards in Healthcare

Established hospital-supplier connectivity and experience in healthcare data integrity and synchronization will help enable the use of standards quickly and cost effectively WESTMINSTER, Colo., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- GHX, LLC has announced plans to become part of GS1's...

VirtualHealth Technologies, Inc., Announces That Its Associate, Private Access, Will Be Partnering with Genetic Alliance To Accelerate Medical Research While Protecting Privacy

Private Access and Genetic Alliance Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Medical Research While Protecting Privacy Through an innovative public/private partnership, Private Access will launch its suite of web-based privacy management and clinical trials recruitment tool...

World research leaders gather in Finland to accelerate the development of bioactive paper

Researchers working to develop inexpensive paper that can destroy, deactivate and detect deadly pathogens, such as salmonella and SARS, will share their expertise with the world as the first ever international conference on bioactive paper kicks off next week in Espoo, Finland. More than 80 scienc...

Microsoft Announces Alliance to Accelerate Consumer-Centered Delivery of Health and Human Services

Connected HHS Framework will speed service delivery to most-vulnerable citizens. WASHINGTON, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition an alliance of partners unveiled its work on a comprehensive, multivendor conn...

Statement by Steve Case, Co-Founder, AOL and Chairman of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (www.ABC2.org) on News of Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain Cancer Diagnosis

WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Steve Case, Co-Founder, AOL and Chairman of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure on news of Senator Ted Kennedy's brain cancer diagnosis: "I was deeply saddened to learn that Senator Kennedy has a brain tumor. Just two wee...

Medical Cost Increases to Accelerate Worldwide Over Next Five Years, Watson Wyatt Poll Finds

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical cost increases for employers throughout the world are expected to accelerate over the next five years, according to a poll of insurance companies conducted by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm. The poll also found that...

Aflac Incorporated to Accelerate Share Repurchase in 2008; Authorizes Additional Share Repurchase and Increases Quarterly Cash Dividend 17.1%

COLUMBUS, Ga., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL ) announced today that it intends on conducting an accelerated repurchase of approximately 12 million shares of its common stock in the first quarter of 2008. This accelerated share repurchase will be funded with i...

Primus Innovations and Health Robotics Launch Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Transformation in Chemotherapy Compounding

Shared vision for improving patient and staff safety and minimizing waste of pharmaceuticals. FRISCO, Texas, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The convergence of a world-class sales and service organization and a manufacturing organization will allow both companies to drive new g...

Pregnancy may slow -- not accelerate -- progression to AIDS

A new study may help put to rest fears that pregnancy accelerates progression to full-blown AIDS in women with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy. The study, published in the October 1st issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and now available online, revealed that pregnancy may, in fact, s...

The Sage Group Widens Strategic Role to Assist HemispherX Biopharma in Pandemic Influenza Initiatives as Pacific Rim/Japan Treatment/Prevention Programs Accelerate

CLINTON, N.J., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sage Group, a privately held international health care consulting group, announced today that HemispherX Biopharma has expanded the mandate for The Sage Group to include, in addition to the strategic partnering efforts related to Ampligen (an experimental ...

Inhaled Anesthetics Accelerate the Onset of Neurodegenerative Diseases Like Alzheimer's

Researchers have discovered that common inhaled anesthetics increase the number of amyloid plaques in the brains of animals, which might accelerate// the onset of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Roderic Eckenhoff, MD, Vice Chair of Research in the University of Pennsylvania's Dep...

Biocon To Shift Focus On Innovation To Accelerate Growth

Biocon Ltd, India's largest biotechnology firm, has made a paradigm shift from being a generic drug manufacturer to innovation to drive its future growth aggressively. // "We are rapidly transforming from a generics API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) manufacturer into an innovator for deve...

Malaria infection can accelerate HIV infection and disease progression

Malaria and HIV infections are both of great public health importance in tropical countries. James Kublin and his colleagues have found that acute malaria episodes are associated with transient increases of HIV-1 viral load in the blood,// and they speculate that malaria episodes might accelerate H...

Air Pollution Found To Accelerate Heart Disease

Air pollution may cause and accelerate the narrowing of carotid arteries, according to a recent study. Researchers have found // an association between long-term air pollution and the early stages of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). They say that air pollution, similar to smoking, may c...

GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Six Month 2009 Financial Results and Provides Operational Update

...ealth (NIH), awarded in late 2007, and the equity financing facility with Fusion Capital Fund II, LLC. We are pursuing a number of funding options to accelerate our therapeutic vaccine clinical trials program. The latest of which was a proposed cooperative arrangement with Cook County (metro Chicago), the Coo...

US Oncology Reports Second Quarter Operating Results

...nt. Our continuing objectives remain clear: continue to grow our network of affiliated physicians, improve our organization's productivity, and accelerate the expansion of our national businesses, all while maintaining focus on our mission." Broussard concluded, "Our ability to raise $775 million ...

EntreMed Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... "Our second quarter financial results reflect the diligent efforts the team has put forth in the first half of the year to execute on our strategy to accelerate the development of our priority program, ENMD-2076, and to reduce non-priority expenses at every level in the organization. Our current cash position...

Outsourcing of IT Requirements by Healthcare Organisations Promotes All-Round Benefits, Says Frost & Sullivan

...een evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants. Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best in class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO...

Cambrex Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...tement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. About Cambrex Cambrex provides products and services to accelerate the development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics including APIs, advanced intermediates, enhanced drug delivery, and other product...

Innovator's Studio launches new forum for Chief Strategy Officers October 26-27, 2009

...ons are explored in-depth," Corrigan said. "The structured process, creative environment, collaborative culture, tools and action frameworks accelerate adoption of future-ready practices. In other forums, we've engaged executives from major companies that include Microsoft, Best Buy, Starbucks, Unilev...

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

...researchers have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases like cancer. Their study appears in the Aug. 21 edition of the journal L...

NutraCea Announces Additions to Management Team; Chief Operating Officer Extends Employment Contract

...hening our existing management team with the addition of executives of the quality of Eli and Bill will help Leo, me and the rest of the NutraCea team accelerate a refocusing of our business on core competencies and quickly exit non-core businesses." About NutraCea NutraCea is a world lead...

TGen-led team is 1 of 7 selected for $1 million skin-cancer grants

...37 of the most promising melanoma research programs worldwide, totaling more than $16 million (including $6.9 million awarded July 30) in an effort to accelerate progress toward a cure. "We are energized by the quality of proposals we continue to receive from the melanoma research community. In this latest ...

Medical Services of America Selects Authentidate's Inscrybe Healthcare to Standardize Healthcare Order Process Management

...latform, Inscrybe is inherently scalable and easy to implement, providing for business expansion at minimal cost. "Inscrybe Healthcare helps to accelerate the trend toward efficiency already occurring at a growing number of physician practices seeking to optimize the provision of patient home care. Medi...

Knome Selects Sterling Communications as Agency of Record

...loping nascent markets, and Sterling was an ideal fit. We believe the team's strategic counsel will not only enhance awareness of Knome, but also help accelerate the overall rate of innovation in personal genomics." "We're delighted to be assisting Knome in the march toward truly personalized medicine," ...

Innovator's Studio offers Social Media Strategy Intensive Sept 16-17, 2009

... definitely not a lecture - it's a hands-on, working laboratory designed to accelerate the knowledge, adoption and management of social media innovations in healt... definitely not a lecture - it's a hands-on, working laboratory designed to accelerate the knowledge, adoption and management of social media innovations in healt...