Minority Business Accelerator 2.5+ Client Strong Tool Lands Multimillion Dollar Deal With GE Healthcare

CLEVELAND, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- By diversifying its customer base with the assistance of the Minority Business Accelerator 2.5+, Strong Tool Company , has landed a three-year, multimillion-dollar contract with GE Healthcare. Strong Tool, a distributor of metalworking products and ...

Hard To Treat Diseases (HTDS.PK) Reasserting Multi Million Dollar IP Ownership Rights

SHENZHEN, China, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS.PK) www.htdsmedical.com - announced today and as previously released on June 24, 2009, the Company is in the process of reasserting its ownership rights to certain intellectual property, which was inappropriately conve...

NIA Says Health Care Will Cause U.S. Dollar Collapse

FORT LEE, N.J., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association today released the following statement to its http://inflation.us members: "It is becoming increasingly likely that health care will be the straw that causes the U.S. Dollar to collapse. There is no doubt ...

Baylor Research Institute Receives Multi-Million Dollar Grant To Develop Flu Vaccine

NIH Grant will also Fund Research of Advanced Technologies for Early Disease Detection DALLAS, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR) in Dallas, part of Baylor Research Institute (BRI) and the Baylor Health Care System, announc...

Connecticut Resident Pleads Guilty to Multi-Million Dollar Tax Fraud Conspiracy Involving New York City Hospital

WASHINGTON, April 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Trumbull, Conn., resident who was involved in operating three businesses in Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Justice announced today. Krzysztof Koczon pleaded guilty ...

Enlighten Up! Peeks Behind the Curtain of Yoga, a Practice Powered by a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Enlighten Up!, a film for yoga lovers and skeptics, will open on April 1 at New York's IFC Center. The film takes a fresh look at yoga through the curious, irreverent eyes of journalist Nick Rosen, as documented by filmmaker and yoga devotee Kate Churchill. ...

What the Billion Dollar Beauty Industry Does Not Want Leaked: That One Can Actually Reverse Aging for Free by Moving Only to the Right. We Smell a Nobel.

Tired of Putting Money in the Hands of Beauty Corporations for Botox, Pills, Creams, unused Gym Memberships, Plastic Surgery, and / or Counseling to Remain Youthful? Now one does not have to. New Book '6 Newly Discovered and Never Before Published Secrets to Eternal Youth and Immortality' gives ...

Genesis Successfully Defends Multi-Million Dollar Arbitration Filed by CRG and CRGP; Related Parties Withdraw Remaining Demands for Arbitration Against Genesis

LAIYANG, China, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Genesis Pharmaceuticals Enterprises, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GNPH) ("Genesis" or the "Company"), a U.S. pharmaceutical company with its principal operations in the People's Republic of China, today announced that the American Arbitration ...

Genesis Pharmaceuticals Successfully Defends Itself in a Multi-Million Dollar Arbitration, Two Other Arbitration Proceedings Against Genesis are Withdrawn

LAIYANG, China, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Genesis Pharmaceuticals Enterprises, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GNPH) ("Genesis" or the "Company"), a U.S. pharmaceutical company with its principal operations in the People's Republic of China, today announced that an American Arbitration A...

Global Action for Children Announces Half Million Dollar Grant From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Grant to support Global Action for Children's work with African partners to ensure African governments meet commitments of 15 percent of national budget for health WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Global Action for Children (GAC) today announced that it has received a $...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces Grant Recipients for $18 Million Dollar Initiative to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence

Nationwide initiative aims to engage 6th to 8th grade youth in groundbreaking community-wide approach to build healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence and abuse Blue Shield of California Foundation joins Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in one of the largest national investme...

WVU Announces Creation of Multimillion Dollar Pediatric Research Institute

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- West Virginia University announced today the creation of the multimillion dollar WVU Pediatric Research Institute. The institute builds on a strong history of pediatric research at WVU. "We are exhilarated to be able to take our research t...

Local Organization Receives Multi-Million Dollar Grants for Natural Family Planning, HIV Testing and Family Planning Services for Men

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Family Planning Council was recently awarded three grants from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for a total of $3 million. These grants will support state-of-the-art research in three important health care areas: the use of Nat...

ECRFPlus Achieves Milestone Multimillion Dollar Enterprise Agreement With CRO and Launches e-CRF+(TM): a CTMS and EDC Web Platform With ECG Analysis and Cardiac Safety Module.

Seattle-based software company provides "total eSolution" to clinical trials industry. ISSAQUAH, Wash., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- ECRFPlus, a software company focused on developing web-based integrated clinical trials management systems (CTMS), announced today it has ...

Samplify Evolves Business Model From IP Developer to Semiconductor Supplier; Now Targets Multi-Billion Dollar Market

New Class of Silicon Merges High-Performance Data Conversion With Real-Time Signal Compression SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Samplify Systems, Inc., provider of mixed-signal compression solutions, today announces its move from intellectual property (IP) p...

Jefferson awarded multi-million dollar grant from National Eye Institute for new clinical trial

PHILADELPHIA Researchers at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University were recently awarded a $3.7 million grant from The National Eye Institute to study d...

Multi-million Dollar Campaign for Kids' Health Program is Launched

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An issue campaign aimed at strengthening and reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was launched yesterday by America's Agenda: Health Care for Kids, a new, non-partisan organization of labor and business leaders. Hea...

Lead Poisoned Family Reaches Two Million and Fifty Thousand Dollar Settlement of Lawsuit

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michael Stewart Frankel Law Firm in New York City, recently settled a protracted lead poisoning litigation for the sum of Two Million and Fifty Thousand Dollars against the New York City Housing Authority. The suit entitled Wendy Robles, and her four minor...

Mindray Releases Historical Financial Results Converted into US Dollar Terms

SHENZHEN, China Aug. 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mindray Medical International Limited (NYSE: MR ), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices in China, today released select historical financial figures converted from Chinese Renminbi to U.S. Dollars. As anno...

French Agency Receives 10 Million Dollar Grant From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Support the Establishment of National Vaccine Advisory Committees in Africa and Asia

PARIS, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The French agency Agence de Medecine Preventive (AMP) has received a grant of 10 million dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the development of National Vaccine Advisory Committees in Africa and Asia. These Committees will help the Nationa...

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Awards Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide $1.4 Million Dollar Contract

Campaign Will Work to Educate Adult Caregivers WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Washington, D.C. office of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (Ogilvy PR), an integrated global communications firm, announced today that it has been awarded a $1.4 million dollar contract from t...

Select Medical Corporation Makes Historic Multi-Million Dollar Gift to Harrisburg University

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Select Medical Corporation, a leading provider of specialty health care with headquarters in Mechanicsburg, has announced a $2.6 million gift to Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. The gift is the largest philanthropic inves...

UVA Health System part of Armed Forces multi-million dollar effort to help soldiers

A procedure currently performed all over the world for cosmetic purposes might also improve wound healing and limb function for soldiers who are severely hurt and scarred during combat. Dr. Adam Katz, plastic surgeon and researcher at the University of Virginia Health System, will conduct research...

Alleged Multi-Million Dollar Fraud Ring Target of Federal Lawsuit

Allstate Insurance Company Uncovers Suspected Five-State Scheme IRVING, Texas, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- An Arlington, Texas based chiropractic company and its owner lead a list of 66 defendants in a federal fraud lawsuit filed Thursday in Dallas. The suit alleges deception and coe...

Comprehensive Pharmacy Services Awarded $80 Million Dollar Pharmacy Services Contract for the State of Massachusetts

TEWKSBURY, Mass. and MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Comprehensive Pharmacy Services (CPS) with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)/State Office for Pharmacy Services (SOPS) are pleased to announce their new relationship as of February 2008. CPS will pro...

Farmers and ranchers pay top dollar for inadequate health insurance protection

Waltham, MAA new report issued today by The Access Project and Brandeis University found that farm and ranch operators, like many Americans, are seriously challenged by the cost of health care. While the vast majority of farm and ranch operators had insurance coverage, one in four said that healt...

FalconStor Software Inc. Founders Make Multi-Million Dollar Donation to North Shore-LIJ Health System for Asian Community Health Center in Flushing

MELVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The North-Shore LIJ Health System announced today it has received a multi-million dollar donation from the founders of Melville, NY-based FalconStor Software Inc. (NASDAQ-FALC), a leader in network storage software solutions. The gift will b...

NIH awards Einstein multimillion dollar grant to extend studies of exceptional longevity

Sept. 17, 2007 -- (BRONX, NY) -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has been awarded a grant of more than $9.25 million from the National Institutes of Health to further the medical schools study of centenarians and the biology of aging. Led by Dr. Nir Barzilai, directo...

Team-based diabetes care fetches more value for dollar

Diabetes patients undergoing team-based care do not save more in treatment costs under Medicare and Medicaid than other patients, but they are healthier, according to a recent study. "Chronic conditions impose a substantial financial burden on patients, payers and employers," said Dennis Scanl...

Clinton to Launch 70m Dollar Hospital Project in Malawi

Former US president Bill Clinton will on Friday launch a multi-million dollar hospital project in impoverished Malawi, where health care is dogged by poor facilities and a brain drain . "Former president Clinton will perform a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the modern hosp...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

The Nigerian government took a seven billion dollar (5.2 billion euro) negligence suit against the world's biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer to court Tuesday, as the US giant demanded the charges be dismissed. But the government's case suffered an early setback when the court rejected ...

Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002

The biotech products market in India is expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002 according to a Rabo India finance report. The big leap is expected to triple the industry's size from its 1999 value of one billion dollars. Biogenerics, biopharmaceuticals, agriculture, food and...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

An anonymous donor has gifted 100 million dollars to Johns Hopkins University in the United States of America to set up a malaria institute. This would be the world’s foremost center for malaria research in the world. Public health experts say the Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute will put the uni...

CIBER Completes Commercial Software Redesign; Awarded New Contract From TeleTracking Technologies

... PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR ) announced the completion of a 4-year, multi-million dollar re-architecture and redevelopment project with TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. CIBER has also been awarded a new contract to assist with the design a...

NBCH Calls for Cost Containment and System Transformation in Health Care Reform Legislation

...ders including specific recommendations to reinforce the importance of establishing a health care system built on value, with a clear return for every dollar spent. The letter to the President can be viewed on NBCH's web site here . "We can all agree that the current path we are on is unsustainabl...

CBI Announces the Agenda for Their Upcoming Access Federal Stimulus Incentives for Electronic Health Records Conference

...sions include: -- Understanding Health IT Privacy and Security Provisions in the Stimulus Legislation -- How to Capture Every Single dollar of Stimulus Money -- Certification of Electronic Health Records Systems -- Regional Health IT Extension Centers -- Financia...

SXC Health solutions announces record second quarter financial results

...al 2009 - Closed a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Prime Therapeutics LLC ...gin and adjusted EBITDA have increased in absolute dollar terms, but have declined as a percentage of total ...changes do not affect profitability on an absolute dollar or per share basis. About SXC Health Solution...

CareFirst Joins Partnership of Blues Plans as Owner of NASCO

...d financial resources through NASCO is a significant advantage in an industry facing considerable change and a necessity to maximize the value of each dollar spent on the delivery of care." NASCO has been providing health care claims and membership solutions for several Blue Cross and Blue Shield...

Multi-state Medicare Fraud Crackdown Focuses Attention on Recovery Payoffs to Defray Health Reform Costs

...ted out that, with the Federal government's strengthened efforts to fight Medicare fraud in particular, the system has received a $15 return for every dollar spent on investigations and prosecution. As Congress wrangles over the cost of President Obama's health reform proposals, the beneficial financ...

ICBS to focus on pharmaceutical and environmental markets

...in BioSpec Global Solutions. These companies have entered a multi billion dollar market place in recession proof industries. ICBS will continue to acquire... licensing rights to two new potentially revolutionary drugs in the billion dollar ophthalmic arena. The drug for the treatment of Glaucoma is being developed...