Gold in Medical News

X4 Labs to Create Solid Gold Male Enhancement Device for Rich Saudi Man

MONTREAL, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's wealthiest Saudi Arabian businessmen recently placed a custom order for what is now considered the world's most expensive male enhancement device. Made of solid 18kt gold, this adult novelty product is reminiscent of the goods made for ...

To Save Payors Time, Effort and Resources, MEDai and Gold Standard Collaborate on New CMS Medication Therapy Management Initiative

ORLANDO, Fla., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDai, Inc. and Gold Standard, Inc., two Elsevier companies, today introduced MTM 360 , a complete medication therapy management (MTM) system that enables health plans, benefit sponsors and other payors to successfully meet CMS's expanded MTM Program requ...

WellPoint Captures Gold for Its Associate Wellness Program

National Business Group on Health honors company's Choose Better Health associate wellness program INDIANAPOLIS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP ) announced today that it was been recognized as one of the best employers for healthy lifestyles by the National Business Grou...

CVS Caremark Recognized with Gold Award from National Business Group on Health for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles for Employees

WOONSOCKET, R.I., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS ) is proud to announce that it has been named as one of the nation's leading corporations for innovative programs promoting a healthy workplace and for helping its employees and their families to make better choices about thei...

Lumenis' High Speed LightSheer(R) Duet(TM) Featured on ABC's Good Morning America Health as the New Gold Standard for Laser Hair Removal

Recommended for Fast & Comfortable Treatment with Low Risk & High Value SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumenis' High Speed LightSheer(R) Duet(TM) for permanent hair reduction was featured yesterday on ABC's Good Morning America Health with Dr. Doris Day, a leading U.S. D...

Thumbs Up at ARVO for Diaton Tonometer - New Through Eyelid Glaucoma Test Clinical Study Presented, Results as Accurate as Gold Standard

Unique Transpalpebral and Transcleral Diaton Tonometer is presented at The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ARVO by BiCOM Inc. New Clinical Study presented "Accuracy of Transpalpebral Tonometer Diaton Compared to Goldmann Applanation Tonometer in Normal and Glaucomatous...

Bob Gold & Associates Steps Up as Marketing & PR Agency for Bay Harbor Podiatry Group

Agency Gains Foothold in Healthcare with Launch Campaign for Bay Harbor Podiatry Group's Revolutionary Laser Treatment for Toenail Fungus LOS ANGELES, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Bob Gold & Associates, Inc ., a Southern California boutique public relations and marketing agency, announced to...

Beeston To Pursue Gold And Silver Royalty Interests

MIAMI, FL, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Beeston Enterprises Ltd. ('Beeston") (OTC-BB:BESE) a resource base company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties, in a move to expand its current activities, announces that it will pursue a separate program focused ...

Twin Sisters Set Their Sights On Biathlon Gold At The 2010 Winter Games

Identical twins, Tracy and Lanny Barnes are ranked among the top competitors in the world for Biathlon competitions. As former Olympians, they're striving to grab the gold at the 2010 Winter Games to be held in Vancouver, Canada. Lanny and Tracy are crediting Sinus Buster, a natural nasal spray m...

Baxa Corporation Wins Two 2009 Colorado BMA Gold Key Awards

Baxa campaigns awarded 2009 Business Marketing Association Gold Key Awards for Best Strategy and Best Integrated Campaign. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation, a Denver-based manufacturer of software and devices for healthcare systems, has won two Business Marketing As...

Joint Commission Awards TeamHealth Teleradiology Second Consecutive Gold Seal of Approval(TM)

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamHealth Teleradiology has earned its second consecutive Gold Seal of Approval(TM) from The Joint Commission, the company announced today. "Organizations awarded this Gold Seal of Approval(TM) undergo a credible, rigorous evaluation that ensures in...

Olivier Voinnet awarded 2009 EMBO Gold Medal

Heidelberg, Germany, 22 April 2009 - Olivier Voinnet from the CNRS Institute of Plant Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France, is awarded the 2009 EMBO Gold Medal. The researcher receives this medal for his pioneering work on the mechanisms and roles of gene silencing via RNA in plants. With th...

Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist and Pro Beach Volleyball Player Misty May-Treanor Launches 3rd Annual Calm-A-Sutra of Tea Scholarship Competition

Tea Council of the USA, Inc. Sponsors $15,000 Nationwide Scholarship NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tea Council of the USA, Inc. proudly announces the 3rd Annual Calm-A-Sutra of Tea(TM) Competition, giving college students an opportunity to win a $15,000 educational scholarship. Mist...

MedQuist Names Alan J. Gold as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedQuist Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDQ ) has announced it has named Alan J. Gold as its new Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Gold will be responsible for client relationships, new business development, and the positioning and promotion of ...

Organic Left Standing as the Gold Standard for Consumers Looking to Avoid Food Produced With Synthetic Growth Hormones

Federal court rules that truthful information regarding organic production practices may not be explicitly shared with consumers on product labels in Ohio GREENFIELD, Mass., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers in Ohio and elsewhere who are seeking to avoid milk and other dairy products produce...

Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological sensors and other applications as well. The hollow gold nanospheres developed in...

Society of Interventional Radiology honors Dotter lecturer, announces gold medalists

FAIRFAX, Va.Matthew A. Mauro, M.D., FSIR, delivered the 2009 Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting last week in San Diego, Calif. This award, supported by the SIR Foundation, honors an interventional radiologist's extraordinary co...

Olympic Gold Winning Supplement Lands in the US

RHINEBECK, N.Y., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In the last few years, millions of consumers have begun taking omega-3 fish oil ( http://www.recoup90.com ) in hopes of improving their cardiovascular health. Recent studies like the ones released by American Journal of Preventive Medicine and American H...

Aurora Wins Gold Well Workplace Award for Commitment to Employee Health and Well-Being

MILWAUKEE, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- At Aurora Health Care , finding ways to keep the workforce healthy is not just for businesses that rely on the health care provider for health and wellness services. Aurora is committed to the health and well-being of its own employees, and that commitment recen...

Cash for Gold USA Firmly Supports Fight Against Breast Cancer

SHARON, Mass., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Cash for Gold USA is firmly supporting the fight against breast cancer through their alliance with the National Breast Cancer Foundation. This alliance was a long time in coming and now culminates the company's recent search for an important philanthropic pro...

Babylon Ltd., the International Leading Provider of Translation and Dictionary Software Company, Ranks No. 1 and Took the "TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award"

NEW YORK, February 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Babylon LTD (TASE: BBYL), a world leading provider of online and offline dictionary and translation solutions, has ranked No. 1 in the review of the 2009 translation software carried out by TopTen Reviews and ranked above the competition and took...

SOLX Announces 1000th Gold Shunt Implantation Milestone for Glaucoma Treatment

- Clinical Performance Indicates a 40% Reduction of Intraocular Pressure at Two Years - WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- SOLX, Inc. announced today that it has surpassed 1000 implantation procedures with its proprietary SOLX Gold Shunt(R), a drainage device that reduces intraocular pre...

LCA-Vision Announces Consent Solicitation Deadline; Urges Stockholders to Return Gold Consent Revocation Card

CINCINNATI, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LCA-Vision Inc. (Nasdaq: LCAV ) today announced that it has received an executed written consent from Craig Joffe dated February 9, 2009. Based on the date of this consent, the expiration date of the consent solicitation will be April 9, 2009. ...

High and Super-High Potency Topical Corticosteroids Will Remain Decision Resources' Clinical Gold Standard Through 2017 for the Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis

A Once-Daily Topical Agent With a Novel Mechanism of Action and Efficacy Advantages Over Elidel Would Earn Higher Patient Share in the U.S. Than in Europe, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading r...

Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer Unveils Dental Health Education Campaign at Local Elementary School

Vanderkaay Administers 'Oath to Oral Health' to 400 Students ROYAL OAK, Mich., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Peter Vanderkaay, Michigan's own 2008 and 2004 Olympic gold medal swimmer, today unveiled a dental health education campaign during an event at a Royal Oak Elementary School in con...

AstraZeneca's Drug Will Become the New Clinical Gold Standard by 2012 for the Treatment of Metastatic Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

Differences in Prescribing Patterns Were Observed Between U.S. and European Oncologists, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issue...

GlaxoSmithKline's Drug Will Become New Clinical Gold Standard by 2012 for the Treatment of Relapsed/Refractory CLL

An Agent Showing Improvement in Overall Response Rate Would Earn Higher Patient Share in U.S. Than Europe, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceu...

Team Designs Gold Nanoparticles to Deliver Multiple Drugs

New technique might better control treatment of diseases like cancer, AIDS FRIDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a drug-delivery system using gold nanoparticles that, when exposed to infrared light, can release multipl...

Why Are So Many Americans Wearing Gold Earrings on their Right Ear?

The #1 U.S. New Years resolution is to stop smoking: Over 60 million Americans want to stop smoking, including U.S. President-elect Obama JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Cigarette smoking related diseases claim an estimated 438,000 lives per year, including thos...

Melanoma Foundation of New England Wins Gold Triangle Award From the American Academy of Dermatology

"No-Tanning Pledge" Program for the Prom a Winner, Features Kelli Pedroia CONCORD, Mass., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Dermatology has announced that the Melanoma Foundation of New England is a 2009 recipient of its prestigious Gold Triangle Award given for "s...

The Salvation Army Receives First Gold Coin of the Season

CHICAGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The gold coin tradition continues for The Salvation Army. This is the 26th year gold has been dropped into the red kettles, with the first coin appearing this past weekend. The one-ounce 2005 Liberty $50 coin was wrapped in a $2 bill and deposited in a Sa...

Omnicell Attains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Omnicell, Inc., (Nasdaq: OMCL ) a leading provider of system solutions to acute healthcare facilities, today announced that it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Certified Partner (MCP) program, with competencies i...

BioMed Realty Trust CEO Alan Gold Named National Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 by Ernst & Young LLP in the Real Estate, Construction and Hospitality Category

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR ) today announced that Alan D. Gold, BioMed's President and Chief Executive Officer, was named the national winner of the Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award in the Real Estate, Constructio...

Hill-Rom Wins Gold Brandon Hall Learning Award

BATESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC ), a leading worldwide manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related services for the health care industry, today announced that the company has won a coveted Brandon Hall gold award for excellence in the Bes...

Mangos Wins Two Gold Awards

MALVERN, Pa., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Mangos, a full-service advertising agency, recently received two prestigious gold awards from Medical Marketing & Media (MM&M), a leading healthcare publication. The competition recognizes exceptional creativity and effectiveness in healthcare marketi...

Adair Greene-McCann Wins Gold with 'Relief'

ATLANTA, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Adair Greene-McCann walked off with top honors at the 2008 Medical Marketing and Media (MM&M) Awards for its consumer TV commercial for Sarna(R), an over-the-counter line of lotions for the relief of itching created for the Consumer Health Division of Stiefel L...

Corbett Worldwide Scores Gold at the 2008 MM&M Awards

CHICAGO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Corbett Worldwide Healthcare Communications, a leading advertising/promotions business unit of the Corbett Accel Healthcare Group, received a Gold award at the recent Medical Marketing & Media (MM&M) Awards celebration, confirming that their creative MarketMovi...

Preferred Care Gold Ranked Number One Medicare Advantage Health Plan Nationally In U.S. News & World Report/NCQA 'America's Best Health Plans 2008' Listing

SCHENECTADY, N.Y., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In a listing of U.S. News & World Report/NCQA "America's Best Health Plans 2008," announced in the publication's November 17 edition, Preferred Care's Gold Medicare Advantage plan is ranked number one nationally, with an overall quality and customer s...

Mike Bridges Takes Home Four Gold Medals at IPF Masters World Powerlifting Championships; Says NutraCea's RiSolubles(R) is an Essential Part of his Training Regimen

PHOENIX, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- NutraCea (OTC Bulletin Board: NTRZ), a world leader in stabilized rice bran (SRB) nutrient research and technology, announced today that world champion powerlifter Mike Bridges received four gold medals for his performances in the squat, bench press and dead li...

KidsPeace Awarded Gold Seal of Approval by Joint Commission

Nation's Oldest, Largest Standards-setting and Accrediting Body Notes Quality and Safety LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Oct. 17 By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission's national standards for health care quality and safety, the 126-year-old national children's crisis charity KidsPeace ha...