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FRC Action's Tony Perkins Challenges Planned Parenthood President to Debate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins re-issued his invitation to Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to debate the question -- Does the President's health care reform plan include a mandate for abortion coverage a...

FRC: The Truth Hurts Planned Parenthood and NARAL

Perkins challenges Planned Parenthood President to Debate WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins today urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee to approve amendments to protect the conscience rights of health car...

New BioTrends Report Explores Anticipated Treatment Pattern Shifts Expected with the Proposed Bundled Payment Structure Planned for 2011

EXTON, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- BioTrends Research Group, Inc. recently released its baseline report assessing awareness of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed dialysis bundled payment plan among Medical Directors and Renal Administrators in dialysis units across...

FRC Deplores House Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the House of Representatives voted down an amendment offered by Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) that would have prevented family planning funds under the Health and Human Services appropriations bill from going to Planned Parenthood...

Schering-Plough Reports Proposed Settlement in Litigation Involving Planned Merger with Merck

KENILWORTH, N.J., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP ) today reported a proposed settlement, subject to Court approval, to resolve litigation seeking to enjoin the planned merger with Merck & Co., Inc., and other forms of relief. The consolidated c...

FRC Says Planned Parenthood, Desperate to Hide Agenda, Attacks Hatch and Hides Intent

WASHINGTON, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins responded today to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's patently false attack on Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Hatch last week drew attention to Sen. Barbara Mikulski's (D-MD) attempt to...

Ohio Supreme Court Strikes a Blow to Planned Parenthood in Upholding Regulation of 'Abortion Pill'

CHICAGO, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pro-life forces won an important battle yesterday when the Ohio Supreme Court ruled to uphold a state law regulating that abortion centers must properly follow FDA guidelines in administering RU-486 (also known as the "abortion pill") in order to protect ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Completes Planned Patient Enrollment in Bavituximab Phase I Cancer Trial

- Completion of Phase I Paves Way for Expanding Bavituximab Cancer Program - - Inclusion of Patients with Diverse Advanced Cancers Along with Promising Interim Phase II Data Suggest Bavituximab Could Have Broad Anti-Cancer Utility - TUSTIN, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pereg...

18 More Anti-Abortion Activists Arrested at Notre Dame on Saturday; More Arrests Planned for Sunday

Notre Dame warns TV networks that they will "cut the feed" of any network that covers disruption of Obama Speech on Sunday. Dr. Alan Keyes to be available soon for interview -- judge grants hearing and posts $1,000 bond each for 5 pro-lifers that have been held in jail without bond. They wi...

Arbitrator Calls Fresno Board of Supervisors' Planned Cuts to Homecare Workers 'Perverse'; Orders Cuts Reduced

FRESNO, Calif., April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ten thousand homecare workers won a partial victory today as an independent Arbitrator called the Board's financial reasoning behind proposed wage cuts "perverse" and ordered the board to lessen the severity of the cuts from an immediate $1.10 an...

Anesiva Announces Planned Rights Offering

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anesiva, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSV ), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on pain management, announced today that it is planning to commence a rights offering of notes to its stockholders, which, would if fully subscribed, produce ...

Arizona Attorney General to Investigate Sexual Abuse Cover Up at Planned Parenthood Clinics

PHOENIX, March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Arizona Attorney General's Office has opened an investigation into Planned Parenthood after the student-led nonprofit Live Action released videos with undercover footage from three Planned Parenthood of Arizona clinics. The footage shows two Planned...

Rallies in Five Cities Planned on Friday the 13th to Protect CA Families From the Bad Budget Deal and Permanent, Deep Cuts to Homecare, Education, and Other Vital Services

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Governor and legislators announced a budget deal that includes temporary revenues in exchange for deep cuts and a budget cap that makes them permanent, SEIU members and community allies from around the state plan to rally in front of th...

New Undercover Video Shows Tucson Planned Parenthood Hiding Rape of 15-Year-Old Girl

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New hidden-camera footage from Tucson, AZ, implicates a third Planned Parenthood clinic in a multi-state child abuse scandal. In the video, UCLA student Lila Rose and her friend Jackie Stollar enter a Tucson Planned Parenthood clinic where Rose te...

Abuse Pattern Develops as Second Indiana Planned Parenthood Covers Up Statutory Rape of 13-Year-Old

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Undercover footage from a second Indiana Planned Parenthood clinic shows an emerging pattern of abuse, as more clinic counselors evade their legal responsibility to report the statutory rape of young girls. The new footage is the second video in Liv...

Indiana Residents Call for Planned Parenthood Investigation

STATUTORY RAPE COVER-UP MUST END, PRO-LIFERS SAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the American Life League: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081105/DC44231LOGO ) WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, 9:30 a.m. ...

Live Action: New Video Shows Indiana Planned Parenthood Covering Up Rape of 13-year old Girl

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New footage released today from an undercover camera inside an abortion clinic in Bloomington shows Planned Parenthood staff deliberately violating the state's mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse. The footage shows Lila Rose, a U...

[video] Hojabr Alimi, CEO of Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. Discusses Reduction of Planned Expenses on WallSt.net's 3-Minute Press Show

PETALUMA, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCLS ), a biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a family of products based upon the Microcyn(R) Technology platform, today announced that the company's CEO, Hojabr Alimi,...

AHCA-Alliance Praise Bush Administration for Reversing Planned Medicare Cuts, Protecting Seniors

Senate, House Members Demonstrate Strong, Bipartisan Leadership in Helping to Avert $770 Million FY 2009 Cut in Medicare Funding for Care of America's Seniors WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Health Care Association (AHCA) and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home ...

SPOKESPERSON AVAILABILTY: Planned Parenthood President Available for Interviews on Proposed HHS Regulations

NEW YORK, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to recent reporting, including today's Washington Post article ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR20080730 03238.html), the Bush administration is circulating a draft proposed regulation that, if enacted, ...

American Life League Applauds Congressional Action Against Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON, July 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Life League applauds the members of the U.S. House of Representatives who called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood on Wednesday evening. Calling it a "big box retailer of big abortion," Reps. Michelle Bachmann, Chris Smith, Jim Jo...

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Ignores Community, Environmental Concerns With Planned Expansion of Mission Hills Facility

Project proceeds despite non-compliance with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). LOS ANGELES, May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (PHCMC) today went ahead with the planned expansion of its Holy Cross Medical Center even as S...

Komen Foundation Support of Planned Parenthood 'Self-Defeating'

Marie Hahnenberg: "By giving money to Planned Parenthood, the Komen Foundation is defeating its own mission of defeating breast cancer." WASHINGTON, March 31 -- American Life League denounced the claims made in a recent Waco Tribune-Herald editorial that attacked Pro-Life Waco's new billbo...

Government Puts $114 Million in Planned Parenthood Savings Account

Jim Sedlak: "Taxpayer money represents 33 percent of Planned Parenthood's income" WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "It is absolutely incredible," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, "but the annual report just released by Planned Parenthood Federation of...

American Life League: Planned Parenthood Scandals 'Widespread'

Jim Sedlak: "Allegations that Planned Parenthood affiliates in Florida have been falsifying their annual reports over the past three years show that what happened in California is not an isolated incident." WASHINGTON, March 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Life League renewed its c...

Closer Analysis Shows Consumer Groups Make Gains in Stem Cell Patent Challenges Against WARF; Appeal Still Planned Against Narrowed Claims

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Closer analysis of the patent office "non-final" decision on a human embryonic stem cell patent held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) shows the following gains made for researchers: -- The original broad patent was...

PLC Systems Files IDE Supplement to Begin Pivotal Study of RenalGuard(TM) and Provides Update on Planned Development Timeline

FRANKLIN, Mass., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PLC Systems Inc. (Amex: PLC ) announced today that it has submitted an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) supplement with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its RenalGuard Therapy(TM) and RenalGuard System(TM). This supplement ...

Hillenbrand Announces Mailing of Proxy Regarding Changing of Company Name in Conjunction with Planned Separation

Name change will keep Hillenbrand name as part of new parent company for Batesville Casket Company Stand alone medical technology company will emerge as Hill-Rom Holdings doing business under well-known Hill-Rom brand BATESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-Fi...

Texas Health Care Association Urges Texas Congressional Delegation to Fight Planned Federal Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare

Federal Budget Reductions Would Further Undermine Texas Seniors' Nursing Home Care AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Commenting on a New York Times news article that appeared January 31 reporting the Bush Administration's FY 2009 budget will include federal Medicaid and Medi...

American Life League Praises Colorado Efforts to Stop Planned Parenthood Abortion Facility

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- "We are excited about the strong efforts in Denver to stop the construction of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "Planned Parenthood operates the largest abortion chain in the nati...

DuPont Selects South Carolina Site for Planned $500 Million Investment to Expand Production of High-Performance Kevlar(R) Fiber

CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DuPont has selected its Cooper River plant to receive the planned $500 million investment it recently announced to significantly expand production of high-performance DuPont(TM) Kevlar(R) para-aramid brand fiber for industrial and military us...

Schering-Plough Receives Clearance From U.S. Federal Trade Commission for Planned Acquisition of Organon Biosciences N.V.

KENILWORTH, N.J., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP ) today announced that it has received antitrust clearance from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its planned acquisition of Organon BioSciences N.V. from Akzo Nobel N.V., as announced M...

40 Days for Life Reaches Halfway Point; Planned Parenthood Now in Crisis Mode

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "I would have never guessed that some of the best advertising for the nationwide program of pro-life prayer vigils would come from Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in the United States," said David Bereit, national campaign director ...

Flextronics Announces Redemption and Change of Control Repurchase Offer for Solectron 8.00% Senior Subordinated Notes and Planned Change of Control Repurchase Offer for Solectron's 0.50% Senior Convertible Notes

SINGAPORE, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Flextronics International Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX ) today announced that, in connection with Flextronics's previously-announced acquisition of Solectron Corporation on October 1, 2007, Solectron Global Finance Ltd. notified holders of its outstanding 8.0...

International Consulting Firm Health Fitness Dynamics Hired to Oversee Springbrook Inn's Planned New Spa

NEWBERG, Ore., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of internationally recognized consultants will plan and oversee development of the luxury spa that will open in the spring of 2009 along with an equally luxurious inn at the Springbrook Development in northeast Newberg. Joan Austin, president of ...

The Obesity Society Hails Republican Platform; Forum Set for Sept. 2 to Continue as Planned

Lesley Stahl to Moderate Panel With Huckabee, Thompson, Clegg in St. Paul SILVER SPRING, Md., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gary Foster, President of The Obesity Society applauded the GOP Platform Committee's action, stating: "The growing awareness of the obesity epidemic is leading to new...

Furore Over Spa Planned on Active Philippines Volcano

A project to build a spa on the rim of one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines was in danger of being scuttled Wednesday by government regulators . A South Korean group, Jung Ang Interventure, stands to lose its government permit to build a 72 million-peso (1.57 million-dollar) ...

Long-term Care Should Be A Planned Affair

Most people do realize that they will live longer than their ancestors, but do not realize the range or the quality of services that are available// for long-term care. “We spend more time doing research about a car we want to buy than we do when selecting a nursing home or assisted living fac...

Health Service Reform Planned To Cut Bureaucracy: Public Opinion Sought

Implementation of the proposed reform in health services in Northern Ireland is expected to reduce the number of Health and Social Service (HSS) Trusts from the existing 18 to as little as five. // The new trust would resume operations by April 2007, according to Shaun Woodward, Health Minist...

Biotechnology Initiatives Planned In Hyderabad

An international institute of life sciences is to be launched in the Indian city of Hyderabad, establishing its position as the country’s biotechnology hub. // This will be a biotech incubation center meant for start-ups, and an animal resource facility which will come up to international standards...