Cleveland Residents Lining up to Help Save a Life with Free Donor Kits

Clevelanders interested in signing up as marrow donors can visit giftoflife.org/give, and enter the promotional code 2009CLEVE to get their $54 marrow cheek-swab kit at no cost. (Vocus) June 15, 2009 -- Two-year-old Eve is one of the 35,000 Americans diagnosed with Leu...

Carestream Molecular Imaging Releases Western Blot Kits For Added Convenience, Better Performance

Carestream Molecular Imaging today released convenient, cost-effective kits for performing western blots -- a popular analytical technique used to detect proteins. New Haven, CT (Vocus) February 23, 2009 -- Carestream Molecular Imaging, a division of Carestream Health, ...

MDS Analytical Technologies Announces Validation of Two More Kits for High-Throughput Detection of Melamine in Food

Protocols developed for assay kits from Beacon Analytical Systems and Romer Labs for use on SpectraMax(R) microplate readers with SoftMax(R) Pro analytical software SUNNYVALE, CA, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Analytical Technologies, a leader in innovative solutions for ...

Roche Announces Significant Price Reduction of Two ACCU-CHEK(R) Glucose Monitoring Kits to Help Customers With Diabetes During These Difficult Economic Times

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche announced today that people with diabetes will see a significant price reduction on the price of both the ACCU-CHEK(R) Aviva and ACCU-CHEK(R) Compact Plus Meter Care Kits, effective immediately. "We are pleased to be able to provide our custome...

Pennsylvania to Offer Free Nicotine Replacement Therapy Kits Beginning Feb. 2

'Determined to Quit' Week to be observed Jan. 25 - 31 HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To support Pennsylvanians who have made quitting smoking a personal goal for 2009, the Department of Health announced today that a limited number of free nicotine replacement therapy ...

Hooper Holmes' Heritage Labs Division to Manufacture Biospecimen Kits for the National Children's Study

Heritage Labs Awarded Multi-Year Contract from Westat BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hooper Holmes (Amex: HH ) today announced that its Heritage Labs division was awarded a contract to manufacture biospecimen kits for the National Children's Study (NCS) by Westat, an...

Check Your Emergency Preparedness Kits When You Set Your Clocks, Says American Public Health Association Campaign

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a destructive hurricane season that reminded us of the importance of being ready for disasters, the American Public Health Association (APHA) wants to ensure that you and your loved ones are prepared for winter storms and any other potential ...

Whatman, Now Part of GE Healthcare, to Distribute GenVault DNA Recovery Kits in North America

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- GenVault Corporation, the leader in dry-state, room temperature biosample management solutions announced on May 29, 2008 that Whatman, Now part of GE Healthcare, will become a non-exclusive distributor of GenVault's GenSolve DNA recovery kits in North A...

Check Your Emergency Preparedness Kits When You Set Your Clocks, Says New American Public Health Association Campaign

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As we eagerly prepare for the arrival of spring, the American Public Health Association (APHA) wants to ensure that you and your loved ones are prepared for a possible public health emergency. With this in mind, APHA today launched a new campaign ...

BIOSAFE Labs and Glycemion to Provide Free Diabetes Risk Assessment Kits to U.S. School Children

LAKE FOREST, Ill., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOSAFE Laboratories, Inc., the developer of the BIOSAFE Diabetes Risk Assessment, and Glycemion, the United States distributor, have announced the availability of a limited number of test kits for use in schools to help identify diabetic and pre-diabe...

Medical Services International Agrees to Retail the VScan Hepatitis B&C Test Kits in SE Asia

EDMONTON, Alberta, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical Services International Inc (Pink Sheets: MSITF) wishes to announce that it has agreed to supply VScan Hepatitis B&C test kits for retail sales. The kits will be available on an individual basis through retail pharmaceutical outlets i...

Multicountry review shows that Bug Buster Kits reduce head lice and social stigma

Working with parents and schools to provide a bug busting approach to head lice is helping to reduce infestation levels, tackle health inequalities and reduce healthcare costs, according to a review in the October issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing. A team from the UK charity Community Hygien...

Drug Detection Kits Manufactured By IDenta Corp. Shown During French Television Broadcast (at TF1) - Product Aids French Police In Bust of 600 Kilograms Of Cocaine

JERUSALEM, September 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDenta Corp. (OTC: IDTA.PK) announced today that identa - stinger drug detection kits appeared during a recent French television news broadcast. TF1, the leading French television station, broadcast the story on August 7, 2007 during an evening...

Giving CPR Kits to Kids Nudges Parents to Learn

Danish study found seventh graders trained an average of 2.5 friends, family members MONDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Distributing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) kits to schoolchildren is an effective way of getting parents -- who are the most likely to need the lifesaving skill -- to b...

Quest Diagnostics to Pay U.S. $302 Million to Resolve Allegations That a Subsidiary Sold Misbranded Test Kits

Quest Subsidiary, Nichols Institute Diagnostics, Pleads Guilty to Felony Misbranding WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and its subsidiary, Nichols Institute Diagnostics (NID), have entered into a global settlement with the United States to resolve...

LegalView Developing Cranial Implant Information Portal Detailing the Recall of Stryker Cranial Implant Kits

LegalView recently created a new information portal detailing the recall of approximately 322 cranial implant kits that were implanted in patients suffering from face, jaw and cranium injuries. The kits have been recalled due to controversy on the sterility of the implants. ...

Cardinal Health, SRI Surgical Sign Five-Year Agreement For Surgical Kits

DUBLIN, Ohio and TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health and SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. today announced a five-year supply and co-marketing agreement to offer surgical kits that include disposable health care products from Cardinal Health and reusable health care products fro...

Cell Biosciences Introduces First Protein Analysis Kits

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Biosciences, Inc., a provider of protein detection and characterization systems to life science researchers, today announced the launch of its first assay kits for the Firefly 3000(TM) Protein Analysis System. The Firefly 3000 is an ultrasensitive...

BiomagScience Introduces Breakthrough Health Therapy Kits

Regenerating nerves, waking people from a coma, 6 year chronic sciatica back pain, 15- and 25-year chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia, whiplash, carpel tunnel, and rotator pain -- all these conditions were overcome using advanced magnetic therapy techniques developed by BiomagScience. ...

China Sky One Medical, Inc. Successfully Develops Semi-Quantitative Automatic Inspection Device for Diagnostic Kits

HARBIN, China, May 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: CSKI), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company for external use, over-the-counter drugs in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today a...

Panacea Pharmaceuticals Initiates GMP Manufacturing of Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Test Kits

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has initiated manufacturing of PC Detect(SM) kits, the Company's diagnostic test for prostate cancer, under GMP conditions. Data on the performance of the PC Detect(SM) kit will be included in a Premarket Approval (PMA) a...

CutisPharma Selected by Medicine Shoppe International as Preferred Vendor for Unit-of-Use Compounding Kits

WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- CutisPharma, Inc. has been selected by Medicine Shoppe International, Inc. (MSI) as its preferred vendor for unit-of-use compounding kits. CutisPharma's FIRST(TM)-Unit-of-Use Prescription Compounding Kits will allow more Medicine Shoppe(R) and Medicap Ph...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

A noted India-born AIDS researcher in the US says that defective or sub-standard medical kits supplied by the government's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) for testing HIV in different blood banks and hospitals in India has put a large number of Indians at serious health risk. Kun...

Australians Opt for DIY Kits to Test for Diabetes

To visit doctors to check for diabetes? No, thank you, we can do it on our own, Australians seem to be saying increasingly . THOUSANDS of Australian shoppers are turning to supermarket shelves to get the do-it-yourself (DIY) kits. More than 39,000 of them, which measure blood sugar levels, hav...

New Test Kits for Dengue, Hepatitis Developed

New Delhi: Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal Friday unveiled two test kits that can diagnose dengue and Hepatitis-C diseases in just an hour.// The kits, developed by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) here, use specially designed synthetic an...

Rajasthan Government to Distribute Free Education Kits to Students

Rajasthan government has planned to distribute free education kits to students, which will include nail cutters.// The government will distribute the kits under the 'Sarva Siksha Abhiyan' (Programme for Universal Education). These kits will include textbooks, geometry boxes, erasers, pencils, ...

Flu Kits Kick Up Unwholesome Flak

Flu kits are being distributed to Health workers by the Ontario government, to beat a possible flu outbreak. This move has attracted a lot of flak from critics // , who see this is politically motivated rather than a sincere attempt at combating a flu pandemic. The opinion doing the rounds is that...

GAO Investigation Questions Validity of DNA Testing Kits

Home DNA testing kits claiming to analyze consumers' DNA for genes which affect diseases like heart disease, cancer, or diabetes are misleading because they provide// results that are ambiguous, medically unproven, or both, according to federal investigators. These were the results from an inv...

Madhya Pradesh Doctors Demand HIV Kits

Following the exposure of three doctors to an HIV-positive patient in a government hospital here, the Junior Doctors Association (JDA) has said its members// would not perform any surgeries unless they were provided kits to protect them from the disease. "The JDA is of the opinion that it sh...

Rapid Swine Flu Test Misses Many Infections

...AY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors can't rely on rapid tests to diagnose the pandemic H1N1 swine flu, say U.S health officials who evaluated three kits and found that they miss many infections. The tests do a better job detecting seasonal flu than H1N1 flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Par Pharmaceutical Reports EPS of $0.71 for Second Quarter 2009

...due to trade buying patterns, which included the release of backorders. Par remained the exclusive supplier of generic Imitrex(R) 4mg and 6mg starter kits and 4mg prefilled cartridges and had one competitor in the 6mg prefilled cartridges throughout the second quarter. Meclizine: Net...

Diabetes Screening Comes Home with A1c Testing

...ts tens of millions of Americans. BioIQ's A1c test kits can be distributed at an employer wellness event o...ent regiments," Dr. Kahn said. BioIQ's test kits enable employees and dependents to conduct diabe... The company's affordable and innovative home test kits are commonly used to monitor or screen for diabete...

University HealthSystem Consortium Recognized as a Company That Cares for Sixth Year in a Row

...unity service initiatives in 2008: Cleaning the York Woods Forest Preserve in Oak Brook, Ill Collecting school supplies as part of the kits for Kidz program for children attending Chicago public schools Purchasing books for students at Madison Elementary School in Lombard, Ill ...

Avidas(TM) Pharmaceuticals and LaRon(TM) Pharma Inc. Announce Co-Promotion Agreement

...nce-free, non-irritating shampoo designed to be used daily on all hair types. "We are pleased to add the Avidoxy DK and Scalacort DK defence kits to our product portfolio as we expand on our commitment towards a healthy population," said Ronnee Adesanya, MD, CEO of LaRon Pharma Inc. "We see this...

Waters Drives Efficiency in the Clinical and Research Laboratory and Showcases New MassTrak Systems at AACC 2009

...sants XE RUO Kit provides laboratories an alternative to immunoassay test kits for research laboratory analyses. This and other Waters system platform sol...is for clinical research laboratories seeking an alternative to immunoassay kits for quantitative measurement of immunosuppressant drug levels. Each kit inc...

MO BIO Laboratories, Inc. Launches PowerFood(TM) Microbial DNA Isolation Kit

...solation Kit stands out from other commercial food kits with its easy-to-use protocol that allows for isol...obial nucleic acid purification, MO BIO's Power(R) kits contain patented Inhibitor Removal Technology(R) f...ypes. Also for clinical samples, the Bi O stic(TM) kits provide solutions for higher yields and purity of ...

Kendle Announces Details Regarding Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

...on capabilities and broad therapeutic expertise, to meet our customers' clinical development challenges. Additional information and investor kits are available upon request from Kendle, 441 Vine Street, Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45202 or from the Company's Web site at www.kendle.com . ...

New SAFC Hitech(R) Product Roadmap Plots Route for Future Generation Semiconductor Materials

... About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and as key components in pharmace...

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Partners With Cell Culture Media Specialist SAFC Biosciences(R) to Provide World-Class Fluid Management and Liquid/Powder System Solutions

....com. About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Its chemical and biochemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development and as key components in pharmace...

Ridge Diagnostics Wins Growth-Promoting Loan From Biotech Center

...ric disease diagnostics. Ridge Diagnostics' tests are provided through its CLIA certified laboratory in North Carolina, with plans for diagnostic test kits sold worldwide. The company's research and clinical laboratories are headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with administrative offices in San ...