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Portola Pharmaceuticals Announces Several Scientific Presentations at International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis XII Congress

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced several scientific presentations at the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) XII Congress in Boston that will feature its investigational antiplatelet drug elinogre...

Tempe-Based Marketing Agency Receives Prestigious National Healthcare Marketing Award, Several Regional Awards

Mindspace, a full-service advertising, public relations and new media agency, has been recognized by PRSA with a Bronze Anvil for its media relations efforts for Catholic Healthcare West's Emergency Room Campaign Tempe, Ariz. (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 -- Mindspace , a full-...

Team Full Throttle Twinlab(R) Racing Nabs Podiums in Several Divisions at the 2009 Robert J. Aaron Memorial Mighty Montauk Triathlon

NEW YORK, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Twinlab is proud to announce the success of Team Full Throttle Twinlab Racing at the 2009 Robert J. Aaron Memorial Mighty Montauk Triathlon. With winners in most divisions, Full Throttle Twinlab Racing exemplified a team dominating performance. The race consiste...

12th Annual Health Confidence Survey: Americans Show Support for Several Health Coverage Options, But Their Views Could Change as More Details Emerge

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Congress prepares to debate a major overhaul of the nation's health care system, Americans already have formed opinions in support of several proposals to expand coverage that have been part of the preliminary discussion, according to the 12th annu...

Growth in the Parkinson's Disease Drug Market, Fueled by the Launch of Several New Therapies, Will be Offset by Generic Erosion of Key Agents

Overall Market Will Increase by a Modest $300 Million From 2008 to 2018, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that gro...

Major statin study reveals several important findings for reducing prostate cancer and disease

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, may have protective effects on prostate health. This large Mayo Clinic cohort study looked at three different aspects of urological health -- prostate cancer, erectile dysfunction and prostate enlargement. Initial resear...

Tucson's Soft Commercial Real Estate Market Offers Tenants Several Options To Save On Occupancy Costs

Still reeling from the tech downturn and subsequent economic recession, Tucson's corporate real estate market continues to experience declining rental rates and increasing vacancy. Like markets all across the country, Tucson is experiencing high vacancy rates of more than 10 percent in retail, of...

Business Growth Continues in Fairfield, CA With Several Companies Choosing to Locate in the Bay Area City

FAIRFIELD, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairfield, CA continues to attract companies despite the slow economy. Businesses are drawn to the San Francisco Bay Area city for its strategic location and affordable and readily available office space. AAA Northern California has signed a 10-yea...

ePharmaSolutions Adds Several Industry Clinicians to its Rater Certification and Data Monitoring Department

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ePharmaSolutions, a leading provider of clinical services and trial management technologies, announced the addition of several key industry veterans to support the expansion of its global CNS Rater Services Department. Marian Ormont, MD and Theresa B...

LegalView Continues to Offer Updated News on the Recent Peanut Butter Recall Linked to Salmonella Poisonings and Several Deaths

LegalView updated its peanut butter recall information portal to provide consumers with up-to-the-minute news on the salmonella poisonings that have become fatal for several consumers. Nearly 500 Americans have now been affected by the tainted peanut butter. Denver, CO ...

LegalView Updates Peanut Butter Recall Information Portal with Info on Salmonella Contaminations Among Several Tainted Food Products

LegalView recently reported on the outbreak of salmonella poisoning among Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) brands of peanut butter across the country. Five consumers have died linked to the rash of tainted peanut butter, which is expected to affect more Americans. De...

LegalView Informs Parents of Crib Recall Following Several Infant Deaths Caused by Asphyxiation from Improper Crib Mechanisms

LegalView recently reported a Delta Enterprise crib recall following the deaths of several children because of faulty crib mechanisms causing asphyxiation among infants. The drop side of several of the cribs has been the alleged cause of the recent recall. Denver, CO (P...

Adult-onset diabetes slows mental functioning in several ways, with deficits appearing early

WASHINGTON Adults with diabetes experience a slowdown in several types of mental processing, which appears early in the disease and persists into old age, according to new research. Given the sharp rise in new cases of diabetes, this finding means that more adults may soon be living with mild but...

Novel therapeutic approaches may improve patient outcomes in several platelet disorders

(SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2008) Four studies that highlight significant advances in treatment and survival outcomes for patients with various forms of thrombocytopenia, a group of bleeding disorders characterized by a low number of platelets in the blood, will be presented in a press conference...

Long-Term Care Workers Celebrate Victory and Involvement in Several Elections Throughout California

'This is a great time for all working people!' - Jerry Jackson, member of SEIU 6434 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- One week after historic voter turnouts, members of SEIU Local 6434 -- the United Long-Term Care Workers' Union (ULTCW) and its sister organizati...

Houston Northwest Medical Center Receives Clinical Excellence Awards for Several Service Lines

Houston Northwest Medical Center's quality awards rank its care among the top 10% nationally Findings are based on HealthGrades' 11th Annual Hospital Quality in America Study HOUSTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Houston Northwest Medical Center today announced that it has received th...

New vegetarian food with several benefits

A new vegetarian food that boosts the uptake of iron and offers a good set of proteins. This could be the result of a doctoral dissertation by Charlotte Eklund-Jonsson at the Department of Food Science, Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden. The food, called tempe, is moreover a whole-gr...

London Luxury Receives Asthma & Allergy Friendly(TM) Certification for Several of Its Bedding Products

Allergy and Asthma Sufferers Can Now Sleep Protected and at Ease With Asthma & Allergy Friendly(TM) Bedding NEW YORK, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- London Luxury LLC, a leading manufacturer of innovative and premium home textile products, today announced that several of its luxurio...

Derma Sciences Announces Several Clinical Presentations on MEDIHONEY(TM) Wound & Burn Dressings at Upcoming APWCA Conference

Evidence Base for MEDIHONEY(TM) Dressings Growing PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Derma Sciences, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DSCI), a provider of advanced wound care products, announced today that four abstracts detailing the clinical usage of its newly released ME...

Merck Pays More Than $400 Million to Settle Federal, State Medicaid Fraud Investigation Sparked by Qui Tam Whistleblower Case Detailing Marketing Schemes for Vioxx(R), Zocor(R), Several Other Drugs

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's largest drug manufacturers, Merck & Co., Inc. ("Merck"), has agreed to pay more than $400 million to the U.S., 49 states and the District of Columbia to settle qui tam whistleblower-led allegations that the pharmaceutical giant illegally ...

Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KgaA File Lawsuits Against Several Companies for Patent Infringement

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX ), Forest Laboratories Holdings, Ltd., Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KgaA, and Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH announced that they have filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against several co...

Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Initiates Voluntary Recall and Replacement Program for Several Robitussin Products and Children's Dimetapp Cold & Chest Congestion

- Dosage Cup Being Replaced, No Issue with Medicine - MADISON, N.J., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE ), today announced it has initiated a voluntary recall and replacement program for all U.S. retail outlets that sell severa...

RxPop.com Announces Corporate Sponsorships with Several of the Nation's Leading Health Charities

LONGVIEW, Texas, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- RxPop.com is a proud sponsor of several of the nation's leading Health Charities, including American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, among several others. "Sponsoring Health Charities is only one of...

Governor Rendell Announces CHIP Enrollment Clinics at Several Rite Aid Stores

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today said the Pennsylvania Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, will have information and enrollment booths at specific Rite Aid stores in south central Pennsylvania on Thursday, Sept. 27, from 2 p.m. to 6 p...

New Drug Could Keep High Blood Pressure Under Control for Several Months

A bio-technology pharma company from Zurich, Switzerland has developed a drug that can reduce high blood pressure for several months at a time . The drug cleans up angiotensin II, a natural peptide that raises blood pressure by contracting vessels, by inducing antibodies. In the tri...

Trauma Exposure can Affect Brain Function Several Years After Event

Exposure to trauma may create enough changes in the brain to sensitize people to overreact to an innocuous facial gesture years later , even in people who dont have a stress-related disorder, says new research. It appears that proximity to high-intensity traumas can have long lasting effects on th...

Philadelphia Researchers Found A Novel Way To Fight Several Kind of Cancers

Researchers in Philadelphia have found a ground breaking method of fighting cancer. Their research has brought them to be able to trigger the Epstein-Barr viruses// inside tumors. This will help them identify patients whose infections can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors. It is believed ...

A Single Biological Mechanism Behind Several Autoimmune Disorders

A recent study has found supporting evidence to implicate insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-1R) in the development of Graves’ disease.// In a previous research, Terry J. Smith, M.D. and Raymond Douglas, M.D., Ph.D. had identified the interaction between immunoglobulins and IGF-1R as a ...

Diabetes- a Threat to Several Indigenous Populations

With traditional habits being replaced by Western lifestyles and diets, diabetes now looms as a deadly threat to several indigenous populations across Asia, the Pacific// and the Americas, according to medical experts. Professor Martin Silink, head of the Brussels-based International Diabetes ...

ACTOS Linked to Several Cardiovascular Benefits

Studies presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) has revealed that ACTOS? (pioglitazone HCl), an oral// antidiabetic medication, demonstrated significant cardiovascular benefits such as reducing the risk of heart attack and/or C and acute cor...

Drug Denial may Leave Several Thousands Blind

A sight saving drug that has been approved in Scotland, is being denied to the people in England and Wales//. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of blindness. Macugen, the drug used for its treatment, has been approved yesterday by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (...

Weight Loss Surgeries Often Accompained by Several Complications

Weight-loss surgeries are accompanied by complications like abdominal cramping, hernia or pneumonia in 40% of patients in the six months after the procedure according// to a recent study. Researchers have proposed that such complications often run into thousands of dollars to patients' medical bill...

Hike in drug licence fee could hit several SSI units in TN

The recent hike in the drug manufacturing licence fee and product inspection fee could badly hit several small scale drug units in Tamil Nadu. According to industry sources here, the steep hike in the licensing fees has come at a time when the industry in the state is reeling under tight market con...

The Lupus Foundation of America Applauds New Legislation that Caps Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs

...nts take five or more medications. "It has been 50 years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a medication for lupus. There are several potential new treatments in the near-term pipeline that may provide a better quality of life for people with lupus. But these anticipated new treatmen...

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

...at promise. The GeoVax Vaccine would cost a fraction of the cost of current treatments and, to date, has not elicited serious adverse side effects in several human trials. A population vaccinated with an effective HIV-1 vaccine would be expected to significantly decrease the prevalence of AIDS over time. ...

Susie's Big Adventure Explores Plastic Surgery In Saudi Arabia

...ml Susie's other blog, Jeddah Daily Photo, publishes a new photo every day from Saudi Arabia. This past week's entries include peeks inside several different businesses. http://susieofarabia.wordpress.com/ ...

The Dannon Company Awards The I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center the Fourth Annual Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant

...un, Fit & Healthy! will directly reach more than 275 children in Salt Lake County between the ages of 2 to 12 years old, and is expected to reach several thousand though the implementation of the grant. "We often read that obesity is a critical issue among children and the best way for our com...

Photo: New Survey Results Show Most Moms Are Aware Their Pre-teens and Teens Need Vaccines

...n Northeast Ohio. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Dr. McDavid serves on the committee of several national organizations including the Grant Review Committee and Peer Review Group at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National...

Midwest Medical Aesthetics Helps Defy Nature and Wrinkles with Artefill

...rinkles. Kathleen Stegman, RN, M.A. has been an avid Artefill user the past several years due to its proven success and effectiveness for the long lasting corr...same great product that physicians and patients have embraced over the past several years. For more information visit http://www.artefill.com/co n...

Arizona Pain Specialists Contend Recent Vertebroplasty Studies are Misleading: Studies Actually Show it is Effective at Reducing Pain

...l spine fractures, is not effective. According to several authorities in the field, this is incorrect, as bo...l spine fractures, is not effective. According to several authorities in the field, this is incorrect, as bo...l assessment. "Vertebroplasty is only one of several effective treatments, but for some patients it is ...
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