QHR Associate Named Chair of Kentucky Hospital Association Board of Trustees
Terry Peeples, CEO of Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky. and a 22-year veteran of Quorum Health Resources (QHR), the nation's largest hospital management company, was recently appointed chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Hospital Association. ...WellPoint Captures Gold for Its Associate Wellness Program
National Business Group on Health honors company's Choose Better Health associate wellness program INDIANAPOLIS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP ) announced today that it was been recognized as one of the best employers for healthy lifestyles by the National Business Grou...MedThink Hires Associate Scientific Director to Support Its Growing Health Care Clientele
RALEIGH, N.C., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MedThink Communications, a full-service health care communications agency, has hired a doctorate-level associate scientific director to support its rapidly expanding medical communications services. Todd A. Parker joins two scientific directors at MedT...University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Institute Welcomes Erik Gordon as Associate Director
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies / Center for Venture Capital & Private Equity Finance, today announced the appointment of Erik Gordon as Associate Director of the Institute. In this new role, Gordon will...Regular Yoga Practice Is Associated With Mindful Eating
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Using new techniques for rapidly scanning the human genome, researchers have associated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, two fats in the blood, to 18 genetic variants, six of which represent new DNA regions never before associated with the traits. The findings, appearing in the January 13 ...Advances in lung cancer research announced at conference
...Healthcare this week announced two significant advances in treating lung cancer at an international cancer research conference. Dr. Weiss, M.D., an associate Investigator in TGen's Cancer and Cell Biology Division and Director of Thoracic Oncology at TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare,...Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals
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... study suggests that additional efforts are needed to encourage physicians to follow these national recommendations," said Jessica Kahn, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been mired in co...Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk
...who have participated in a very comprehensive and well thought-out genetic counseling, testing and management program," said Claudine Isaacs, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and co-director of the Fisher Center for Familial Cancer Research, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University...Beautiful plumage: Feather color and sex start the species revolution
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WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadient Interactive , a Cadient Group company specializing in custom-created digital campaigns, tools and services, today announced that it has expanded the depth of its award-winning creative team appointing Bethany (Beth) Hartzell to associate...Ratcliff Promotes Jorge Burbano to Senior Associate; Tess Kavanagh and Tony Keung to Associate
EMERYVILLE, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ratcliff promoted Jorge Burbano to senior associate and project architects Tess Kavanagh and Tony Y. Keung to associate this month. The award-winning firm ( http://www.ratcliffarch.com ) provides a broad array of architectural, interior design and pl...UW-Madison associate dean, active in stem cells, leaves
Mulcahy Madison, Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced on Friday that it will be losing one of its leaders in the field of stem-cell research. R. Timothy Mulcahy, a professor of pharmacology and associate dean of graduate biological studies, will be leaving UW-Madison to become v...UCLA welcomes startup to new incubator space at California NanoSystems Institute
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...nlight that they absorb into usable electricity and can be easily manufactured. A research team headed by David Ginger, a University of Washington associate professor of chemistry, has found a way to make images of tiny bubbles and channels, roughly 10,000 times smaller than a human hair, inside plastic so...In Situ Pan-Caspase Assay Kit from CHEMICON
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