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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Michigan Attorney General and Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation Near Agreement on Rate Increases on Under Age 65 Individual Products

DETROIT, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), the Michigan Attorney General and the Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation are near an agreement that would conclude the Attorney General's and Office of Financial and Insurance Regu...

ViroPharma Announces Support by Advisory Committee of The Office of Generic Drugs Proposed Guidelines for Developing Generic Versions of Oral Vancomycin Hydorchloride

EXTON, Pa., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM ) today announced that the Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology Advisory Committee supports the FDA's Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) draft guidelines on bioequivalence (BE) f...

North Highland Opens First Asia Office in Shanghai

ATLANTA, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Global management and technology consulting firm North Highland announced today the opening of its first Asia office in Shanghai, China , as part of its ongoing expansion strategy both in the United States and abroad. The new office will sup...

United States Patent Office Issues Decision in Re-examination Proceedings

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. , July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith & Nephew Inc.'s Advanced Wound Management division (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN ) announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Office) has issued actions in re-examination proceedings involving thr...

BT Office Launches 10% Discount on Multi-Adjustable Ergonomic Office Furniture

POOLE, England, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- BT Office is currently offering a 10% discount on its ergonomic office furniture ( http://www.btoffice.com ). Professionally designed to improve health and wellbeing at work, ergonomic desks and chairs are a cost-effective solution to improve staff perfo...

Turner Selected by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Manage Construction of 311,000 Sq. Ft. Office Facility Adjacent to CDC Headquarters in Atlanta, GA

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Construction Company, the nation's leading general builder, has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide design/build services for a $93 Million, 311,000 sq. ft. office complex. The project, "Building 24" is adja...

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT Signs Agreement to Purchase 16 Building Medical Office Portfolio

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT, Inc. (to be renamed Healthcare Trust of America, Inc.) (the "REIT"), a self-managed non-traded real estate investment trust announced the execution of a purchase and sale agreement (the "Agreement") to acq...

Press Ganey Announces Opening of Boston Office

Health Care Improvement Firm Opens Strategic Location for Information Technology, PatientFlow Staff South Bend, IN (PRWEB) July 7, 2009 -- Press Ganey Associates, Inc. today announced it will open an office just outside Boston to house its growing information technolog...

Chiltern Opens Office in Budapest, Hungary

LONDON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Chiltern International Limited (Chiltern), a global clinical research organization (CRO) announced that it has opened a new office in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Attila Lorinczi will lead this operation. Dr. Lorinczi is a member of the Hungarian Medical Society a...

Chiltern Expands European Operations With a New Office in Belgium

LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Chiltern, a leading global clinical research organization, announced that it has opened a new office in Brussels and is pleased to have appointed Mr. Maurizio Passinisi as our new country manager for Belgium and The Netherlands. Mr. Maurizio Passanisi rec...

Palomar Successful in U.S. Patent Office Re-Examination of Hair Removal Patent

Palomar to Seek Re-Start of Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Candela BURLINGTON, Mass., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PMTI ), a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, announced today that the U.S. ...

Randall Terry: How Tiller's Death and office Closing Can Help Propel Pro-Life Movement, Derail Sotomayor and Overturn Roe; Four Key Senators Will Be Targeted to Vote Against Sotomayor; Catholic Bishops Will Play a Role to Defeat Sotomayor

Press conference 1 PM, Thursday, to announce details of how Pro-life groups can derail Sotomayor, and root out hypocrisy in pro-life ranks. Also: Emergency Pro-life leadership training to be held in DC, June 12-14, with Randall Terry, Dr. Alan Keyes, Norma McCorvey, and Fr. Norman Weslin. Pro...

United States Patent and Trademark Office Accepts CoolTouch's Re-examination Request for Cynosure '873 Patent

On May 22, 2009 the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) accepted CoolTouch's request to re-examine the '873 Paolini laser lipolysis patent based on prior art by Dr. David Apfelberg and Mr. David Hennings. Roseville, CA (PRWEB) June 2, 2009 -- On May 22,...

Law Offices of Bruce Egert Opens New Office in Hackensack

Full-service law office with focus on personal injury matters opens up New Jersey office to better serve Bergen County clients Hackensack, NJ (Lexis Nexis) May 16, 2009 -- Bruce Egert, an experienced attorney with special expertise in the area of personal injury law , ...

Hair Transplant Office Expands Serviceable Area

Nashville hair transplant center, PAI, would like to announce their new campaign focused on expanding their serviceable region. PAI Nashville is starting new marketing campaigns for Memphis, Knoxville, Clarksville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Jackson. Nashville, TN (PR...

'Blood Covered' Abortion Protests at Notre Dame: Pro-Lifers to Deliver 'Blood Covered' Dolls in Baby Carriages to Fr. Jenkins' Office While Notre Dame Trustees Meet

SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue: On Friday, May 1, 12 Noon, protests will occur on Notre Dame campus while ND Board of Fellows and Board of Trustees meet. At least one dozen pro-life acti...

Better Hearing Institute Joins HHS, Office on Women's Health in Promoting National Women's Health Week and Hearing Health

The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) announced today that it is joining the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Women's Health (OWH), in promoting National Women's Health Week, which kicks off May 10th. The effort is part of BHI's campaign to promote hearing health during...

Global AIDS Alliance Fund Welcomes Eric Goosby to Office of The Global Aids Coordinator

And urges him to take immediate action to keep the Obama Administration from breaking its promises to increase global AIDS treatment and prevention funding WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Eric Goosby, who will be named Global AIDS Coordinator on Monday, has a unique opport...

The Office on Women's Health at HHS and Women's Policy, Inc. to Hold Congressional Briefing on Women's Health Issues on Monday, April 27

Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, nation's leading health experts and advocates to celebrate 10 years of advances in women's health and prevention WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Join the Office on Women's Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

Groups: Sebelius Unfit For Office in Wake of New Revelations

WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Life League, Human Life International, Pharmacists for Life International, Pro-Life Action League, Women Influencing the Nation and Pro-Life Unity released the following statement regarding the nomination of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to Health ...

Forest Laboratories, Inc. Reports Fiscal Year 2009 Fourth Quarter Reported EPS of $0.31 Including $0.45 Per Share Charge Related to the Ongoing United States Attorney's Office Investigation

Company Provides Fiscal Year 2010 EPS Guidance in the Range of $3.45-$3.55 Per Share NEW YORK, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX ), a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, today announced that earnings per share for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009 w...

INDUS Corporation Awarded Army Office of the Surgeon General Contract

VIENNA, Va., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- INDUS Corporation, a leading Federal Information Technology (IT) solutions provider, announced today that it has been awarded an IT data analysis and administration contract by the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG). Supp...

Former Head of Office of Lilly CME, Steve Davidson, RPh, Named Medical Education Specialist at CME Enterprise

CARMEL, Ind., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Davidson, RPh, has recently joined CME Enterprise, an ACCME-accredited provider of continuing medical education (CME), as a Medical Education Specialist. Davidson has over 20 years of continuing medical education experience. Prior to joining CME Enterpr...

Carefx Expands International Presence with New Office in London

Carefx's Fusionfx allows UK hospital clinicians to experience clinically relevant views of patient information from across disparate information systems CHICAGO, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Carefx Corporation, whose Fusionfx solution suite aggregates patient information across existing syste...

Grants Office CEO Available for Media Interviews on Stimulus Funding

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Paddock, CEO of Grants Office, LLC and a national leader in providing Stimulus-related funding information, is available for on-camera and telephone interviews. Over the past several months, Grants Office has worked to develop an extensive pool...

United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Rules in Smith & Nephew's Favor and Confirms Patent Claims Infringed by Arthrex Inc.

ANDOVER, Mass., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) overruled Arthrex's validity challenges to the claims of a medical device patent exclusively licensed to Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN ; LSE: SN) by Dr. John O. Hayhurst of Portland, Ore. ...

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America Lauds Kerlikowske as New Director of Office of National Drug Control Policy

NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nonprofit Partnership for a Drug-Free America supports President Obama and Vice President Biden in choosing Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske as the next Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). "Chief Kerlikowske's...

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT Acquires 185,000 SF Wisconsin Medical Office Buildings Portfolio

SANTA ANA, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Wisconsin Medical Office Buildings Portfolio, an aggregate of four medical office buildings located in the Greater Milwaukee area. With buildings in Menomonee Falls, Milwaukee, Ri...

MakroCare opens new office in Tokyo

MakroCare, a global clinical services firm, opens office in Tokyo. (PRWEB) March 1, 2009 -- MakroCare, US based multidisciplinary knowledge and technology driven global clinical services firm, which provides clinical research support services to pharmaceutical, biotechn...

Winner Medical Receives European Patent Office Approval for PurCotton(TM) Production Method

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Winner Medical Group Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WMDG; "Winner Medical", the "Company"), a leading manufacturer in the Chinese medical dressing industry (medical and wound care products), today announced that the European Patent Office has decided to...

Latherow Law Office Filed Suit In Salmonella Poisoning Case That Hospitalized Child

CHICAGO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A lawsuit was filed today by Latherow Law Office on behalf of a 10 year-old boy who contracted salmonella poisoning after eating at a Blueberry Hill Restaurant in LaGrange, Illinois, on October 5, 2008. The child was hospitalized for three days as a result of ...

United States Patent Office Rejects KCI's Patents

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith & Nephew's Advanced Wound Management division (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN ) announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Office) has rejected as unpatentable three of KCI's negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) pa...

Local Infertility Specialist, Dr. Rachel Bennett, Westchester Reproductive Medicine, Opens New Office in Mount Kisco

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Rachel Bennett, a noted infertility specialist, has relocated the office of Westchester Reproductive Medicine from Yorktown Heights to Mount Kisco, effective this month. Since 2006, Westchester Reproductive Medicine has provided a full range of infert...

As SEIU Prepares Hostile Takeover of United Healthcare Workers, Surveillance of Local Union Office Ends in Assault by Off-Duty Police Officer

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Days before national SEIU officials are expected to launch a hostile takeover of United Healthcare Workers (UHW), an off-duty police officer apparently hired as a private investigator aggressively photographed members of the local union and assau...

Kendle Expands Asia/Pacific Operations with Opening of Additional Office in India

CINCINNATI, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kendle (Nasdaq: KNDL ), a leading, global full-service clinical research organization, today announced the opening of a second office in western India in the city of Ahmedabad, further expanding its presence in the country and executing on its pl...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Issues Mylan's Specialty Division, Dey L.P., Three Additional Patents Protecting Perforomist(R) Inhalation Solution

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL ) today announced that its subsidiary Dey L.P. has been issued several additional U.S. patents protecting the company's Perforomist(R) Inhalation Solution, a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment. U...

Silverman, McDonald & Friedman Opens New Office in New Castle to Serve Legal Needs of Delaware Families

Full-service civil law firm with focus on personal injury, workers comp and estate planning expands with second office in state, also adds new attorney in Wilmington office Wilmington, Del. (Lexis Nexis) January 6, 2009 -- Silverman, McDonald & Friedman, one of the ...

HealthCare Partners Opens a New Medical Office in Monrovia, CA

HealthCare Partners Medical Group, a top-rated multispecialty medical group in Southern California, announced the opening of its newest medical office at 831 E. Huntington Drive, Suite 101, in Monrovia. Torrance, CA (PRWEB) December 16, 2008 -- HealthCare Partners Medic...

US Oncology Applauds Senator Daschle's Appointment as Director of President-Elect Obama's New White House Office of Health Reform

Daschle's Extensive Health Care Policy and Legislative Background Assures Strong Leadership for Office's Mission to Drive Widespread Health Care Reform WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- US Oncology, which supports one of the nation's largest cancer treatment and research net...

Comment of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on President-elect Obama's Choice of Former Senator Tom Daschle to Head The Department of Health and Human Services and A New White House Office of Health Reform

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President-elect Obama has made another superb choice in selecting Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services as well as a new White House Office of Health Reform. Tom Daschle is a born leader and a skilled policymaker, and he has ...