Ray in Medical News

EVO Merchant Services, CEO, Ray Sidhom Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in Metro New York

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- EVO Merchant Services, a leader in the payment processing industry, announced that Ray Sidhom, CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year ((R)) 2009 Award in Metro New York. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outs...

Boston Scientific Announces Retirement of Jim Tobin and Appointment of Ray Elliott as New President and CEO

NATICK, Mass., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) announced today that President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jim Tobin will retire from the Company, and that its board of directors has appointed Ray Elliott the new President and CEO, effective July...

Joslin Diabetes Center Names Boston Celtics Star Ray Allen to Board of Trustees

World's preeminent diabetes center looks to prominent father of child with type 1 diabetes to shine spotlight on the epidemic of the 21st century BOSTON, May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joslin Diabetes Center today announced that it has appointed Boston Celtics star guard Ray Allen to its B...

iMedica Appoints Dr. Ray Fabius, Global Physician Executive, to Board of Directors

iMedica Corporation, a leading developer of healthcare software solutions for physician practices, announced today the appointment of Dr. Raymond J. Fabius to its board of directors. Dr. Fabius is a global physician executive who has served as a medical leader in academics, private practice, mana...

UHW Statement on Ray Marshall Trusteeship Recommendations

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from United Healthcare Workers (UHW): "The bottom line is that SEIU Trusteeship Hearing Officer Ray Marshall ruled against a trusteeship. This is the first time since the founding of the Service Employees Inter...

Statement by UHW on SEIU's Claims Regarding SEIU-Trusteeship Hearing Process Chaired by Ray Marshall

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This is a sad day for the American labor movement and those who believe that social movements should be led from the bottom up, rather than the top down. SEIU's press release and the cherry-picked quotes from the decision are predictable. I...

Vital Images Names Healthcare Veteran Ray Ghanbari Executive Vice President of Strategy and Products

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vital Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTAL ) , a leading provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, has named Ray A. Ghanbari, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Strategy and Products, a new position at ViTAL...

Hearing Officer Secretary Ray Marshall to Set Additional Date(s) for United Healthcare Workers-West Trusteeship Hearing

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to ensure a full and fair process, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, the outside hearing officer in the proposed trusteeship of United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W), today announced that he will be issuing a notice of additional...

Hearing Officer Secretary Ray Marshall Sets Process For United Healthcare Workers-West Trusteeship Hearing

Process Expected to Last Several Weeks; Decision Anticipated in November WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, the outside hearing officer for the trusteeship hearing for United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W), Monday night set a multi-we...

Medline Receives Force Majeure Notice From Hong Ray Enterprises

MUNDELEIN, Ill., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Ray Enterprises of Shijiazhuang, China, the world's largest manufacturer of vinyl exam gloves and a major manufacturer of nitrile gloves, has notified Medline Industries, Inc., and other U.S. customers that they are facing "force majeure conditions"...

Opus Healthcare Solutions Names Ray Bechtold as Controller

AUSTIN, Texas, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a leading national provider of clinical information systems, has named Ray Bechtold, CPA, as controller. Based at the company's Austin headquarters, Bechtold will be responsible for overseeing all accounting and financial a...

Flower power may bring ray of sunshine to cancer sufferers

The grants came from Queensland Cancer Research, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the National Health and Medical Research Council. We are interested in this miniprotein as a potential treatment of prostate cancer, in particular for those patients who relapse, said Dr Harris. The best thi...

Mary Matalin and John Ray Join the Cheney Cardiovascular Institute Board of Directors

WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascular Institute today announced that Mary Matalin and John Ray have joined the Institute's Board of Directors. As directors, they will help shape strategic direction for the Institute. "Mary Matalin...

PartsSource President & CEO A. Ray Dalton Named Harvard School of Business Entrepreneur of the Year

AURORA, Ohio, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PartsSource, the nation's leading supplier of replacement medical repair parts for hospital equipment President & CEO, A. Ray Dalton has been selected as the Harvard School of Business "Entrepreneur of the Year" for 2007. The "Dively Award" is given to exe...

'Beam of Light' is ray of hope for Israeli-Jordanian cooperation

Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2007 An Israeli-Jordanian-U.S. cooperative project aimed at measuring air quality in the area between the neighboring southern cities of Aqaba in Jordan and Eilat in Israel has been launched by scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem together with scientists from the...

PartsSource President & CEO A. Ray Dalton Wins Innovation in Business Award

AURORA, Ohio, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PartsSource, the nation's leading supplier of replacement medical parts for hospital equipment, President & CEO, A. Ray Dalton has been selected as a winner of the Smart Business Magazine's "Innovation in Business" award. This honor is given to executives ...

Carnegie Mellon Establishes Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology

Robert F. Murphy Appointed Director, First Ray and Stephanie Lane Chair PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University announced today that it has received a $5 million gift from Ray and Stephanie Lane to establish the Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology. T...

HealthBarn(R) USA Founder Shares Secrets For Healthy Eating With Rachael Ray

Antine's Hands-On, Innovative Farm Program Gets Children to Eat More Vegetables WYCKOFF, N.J., March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Stacey Antine, MS, RD and founder of HealthBarn(R) USA was honored today on The Rachael Ray Show as part of Ray's Incredible People & Healthy ...

UV light brings a ray of hope for asthmatics

Scientists at Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research conducted a series of tests on mice where the effects of ultraviolet rays on patients with symptoms and// signs of asthma such as inflammed airways and lungs were studied. Initial results show that when the mice were exposed to...

MSM: A ray of hope for arthritis patients

Arthritis is a painful degenerative disease which is affecting a large number of people throughout the world. It is no longer limited to old people even the younger generation is falling prey to this disease.// But there is some good news for those affected. A recent clinical trial confirmed ...

A ray of hope in treating blindness and other eye disorders

A recent study has focused on the communication processes between cells that could perhaps be extrapolated to prevent the spread of damaged cells, leading to blindness. Normally cells have a blood supply to send nutrients from // one cell to the other, enabling communication. For cells that d...

Fight against Fungus - A new ray of hope

Fungal infections, for many of us, though very annoying, are just a harmless fact of life. But this harmless fact turns fatal for many sick people who have weakened immune systems and cannot put up a strong defense against// attacks launched against their blood vessels and internal organs. Doc...

A ray of hope in Angioplasty dilemma

A new technique to keeping heart arteries flowing easily after angioplasty shows fantastic success in early testing, visibly solving a major weakness of the common procedure.Doctors released the longest follow up with the new technique - the drug-coated stent. In testing on 30 patients over three ...

A ray of light on Cardiology

The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor ramipril, used for the treatment of hypertension, can retrieve, and may even prevent, left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), thereby lowering the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction (MI), a new study has shown.Results from the landmark Heat Outcom...

Another ray of hope for Arthritis Sufferers

Arthritis causes inflammation of a joint or joints and the surrounding tissues and affects millions of people all over the world. Anti-arthritic drugs can cause side effects and surgery can be expensive, however there is hope from a natural product liquid glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates. Some ...

Carnegie Mellon develops innovative method to detect genetic causes of complex diseases

...ses, understand the role of genes in determining the severity of disease and develop improved methods for diagnosing disease." Xing, a member of the ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon, is working with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...

Clarient Reports Second Quarter Revenue Up 40 Percent

...vities. At June 30, 2009, the Company's cash and cash equivalents totaled $7.9 million compared with $1.8 million at December 31, 2008. ray Land, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, said, "As expected, we were able to complete the second tranche of our private placement of c...

Boston Scientific to Participate in BMO Capital Markets Health Care Conference

...tific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) is scheduled to participate in the BMO Capital Markets 9(th) Annual Focus on Health Care Conference, August 5. ray Elliott, President and Chief Executive Officer, will make a 20-minute presentation on Wednesday, August 5(th), beginning at approximately 8:30 a.m. E....

TrinityCare Senior Living Announces Funding Agreement for Fifth Senior Living Facility

... in Knoxville, which opened in 2007, currently enjoys a 100% resident occupancy rate." TrinityCare's equity partner in Trinity Heights will be ray Mays, a local developer who has significant experience in healthcare ventures. "Working with TrinityCare presents a significant opportunity for the C...

Mayor Menino Joins The Salvation Army to Celebrate the Groundbreaking of the Kroc Community Center

...reas of education, wellness and workforce development." About the ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers The Kroc Corps Community Center is the vision of the late Joan Kroc -- widow of McDonald's founder ray Kroc -- a long-time supporter of The Salvation Army. Mrs. Kroc saw the lif...

Case Western Reserve University receives $3.7M NIH grant to study autonomic nervous system link to painful bladder syndrome

...he five-year study are University Hospitals (Drs. Chelimsky and Jeffrey Janata), The Ohio State University (Dr. Tony Buffington), Cleveland Clinic (D. ray Rackley), and Summa Health System (Dr. Brad Fenton). Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) causes severe bladder pain and extensi...

National Science Foundation Announces $20M Research Award to South Carolina

...RA will serve as fiscal agent of the award. "Dr. Markwald is to be congratulated on his leadership of this broadly based team effort," said ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., MUSC President. "South Carolina has brought together strengths from many institutions and the collective effort has placed us ...

Can the relationship between doctors and drug companies ever be a healthy one?

... "everyday credo" to make sure interactions ultimately benefit the care of people living with disease and further medical scientific understanding. ray Moynihan of the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, argues that transparency is not enough to ensure that physicians' prescribing beh...

Boston Scientific Announces Results for Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2009

...t, Urology/Gynecology seven percent "I am excited about joining the Boston Scientific team and to help report a very good quarter," said ray Elliott, President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Scientific. "We delivered sales and earnings at the high end of our guidance range with almo...

MUSC Earns $20 Million Award From National Institutes of Health

...est priorities at the Medical University. We see great opportunities with this new award to build upon our established successes," said MUSC President ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D. "Given the great disparities in health within the population of South Carolina, our focus, appropriately enough, will be on man...

Doctor Mortgage Alliance, The National Real Estate Referral Firm That Specializes In Finding Real Estate Loans, Has Just Expanded Their Services

... the qualified clients the information they need in order to pursue these particular mortgages. Researching the site certainly provides a much-needed ray of sunshine in an industry that continues to struggle. For more information, visit www.doctormortgagealliance.com . About Doctor Mortgage Allian...

VAP(R) Cholesterol Test Highlighted in Groundbreaking Book on Longevity

...a longer life. TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever (Rodale, 2009) by anti-aging authority Terry Grossman, M.D., and world-renowned futurist ray Kurzweil, identifies the VAP advanced lipid profile as one of the future technologies in cardiovascular risk assessment. Grossman, the book's co-...

Boston Scientific to Webcast Conference Call Discussing Second Quarter Financial Results

...nce call discussing financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009 on Tuesday, July 21, at 8:00 a.m. ET. The call will be hosted by ray Elliott, incoming President and Chief Executive Officer, and Sam Leno, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The live webcast and...

Wound Management Technologies, Inc Announces Conference Plans and Presentations on Advanced Wound Care Product

... Healthcare System. Dr. Rothenberg is also one of the featured speakers and will be presenting "Prophylactic Surgery in the Diabetic Foot and Partial ray Amputation Outcomes." Also being presented is "CellerateRx(R) An Evidence Based Skin Tear Study: Interim Evaluation" by Dr. Jane Fore, MD, FAP...

Minnesota Sinfonia to Perform Kids Concert 'Save the Planet!' at Camp Courage July 9

...mpairments, and who are deaf and hard of hearing. For more information about Courage Camps visit www.couragecenter.org/camps . Contact: ray Fishman, Minnesota Sinfonia 612.871.1701, mnsinfonia@aol.com Maria Schugel, Camp Courage 320-963-411...