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St. Christopher's Foundation for Children Ronald McDonald Care Mobile(R) Dental Program to be Celebrated at Foundation's Apple Blossom Ball

PHILADELPHIA, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Christopher's Foundation for Children (SCFC) will celebrate the Foundation's Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Dental Program during the fifth annual Apple Blossom Ball fundraiser on May 14, 2009. Since its inception in 2001, the Foundation's dental program has p...

Kaiser Permanente Physician Celebrated for Contributions to Locally Grown Food Movement

EatingWell in Season cookbook will help readers find healthier ways to shop, cook and live OAKLAND, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente physician Preston Maring has been recognized by EatingWell, publisher of the award-winning EatingWell Magazine and EatingWell books, for...

National Pharmacy Technician Day Celebrated with Focus on Quality -- Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) Touts Importance of Certified Technicians

The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) celebrates the contributions that pharmacy technicians make on the 18th annual National Pharmacy Technician Day. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) October 21, 2008 -- Today marks the 18th annual National Pharmacy Technician Day....

AUDIO from Medialink and Pfizer: Community Health Centers Celebrated for Making Quality Care Available to Uninsured Americans

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- It's National Health Center Week, an annual event that recognizes the important role that community health centers play in making quality health care accessible to uninsured, underserved and low-income patients. Health centers have a significant impact on our ...

On 30th Anniversary, Angioplasty Celebrated as Modern Medical Breakthrough in Stopping Heart Attack

Next Horizon: Using Angioplasty and Stents to Stop Stroke ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty years ago this week, a German doctor working in Switzerland used a small tube with a tiny balloon on the end, called a balloon-catheter, to open his patient's blocked heart art...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

Disappearing trees, a polluted river and a handful of concerned citizens. Delhi, burning under the scorching summer sun, heralded World Earth Day Sunday, //by raising its voice on various issues that are pricking our fragile ecosystem. 'We are on the brink of a challenge,' said Ravi Aggarwal ...

Indian Doctor Wants March 21st To Be Celebrated As World Down Syndrome Day

Balbir Singh, president of Down Syndrome International (DSI), is an Indian origin Singapore doctor who got involved in the Down Syndrome fraternity after the birth of his daughter Jaspreet 25 years ago who had Down’s syndrome. Down Syndrome Association (DSI) Singapore, founded by Singh// some 25 ye...

Frank Sepe's New 'Fitness as a Lifestyle Collection' Sells Out Within 3 Hours of Airtime During First-Ever HSN Debut

...e System. In addition, IDL has broadened its scope by managing and also designing product for the award-winning guitar virtuoso Esteban, icon and most celebrated super-model IMAN, Tennis Legend Serena Williams, world-renowned celebrity American Idol judge Paula Abdul, and chef and restaurateur Todd English, i...

Electronic Healthcare Network Announces Multi-State Expansion, Beginning in Buffalo, NY

...izations that will allow it to aggressively pursue further expansion throughout New York and other states. In addition, the Company announced that it celebrated its 6th anniversary on July 1, 2009. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080813/NYW083LOGO ) HealthTransaction Network(...

SynCare, LLC Honored as Indiana Company to Watch

...lturally competent delivery system, integrated social services component, and overall outcomes focus. SynCare and other recipients will be celebrated in an awards event Thursday, August 27, 2009, at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis. ABOUT SYNCARE LLC SynCare, LLC(R) is an inno...

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Video: Partnership Unites UCB with Consumer Product Innovator OXO(R)

...s ATLANTA, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- In a long-term partnership agreement, UCB, a global biopharmaceutical leader, has teamed up with OXO(R), a celebrated consumer products company, to offer patients a syringe and packaging components that take into account some of the challenges many rheumatoid arthriti...

BIOCOM's 4th Annual DeviceFest Honors Companies

...ORNIA'S TECHNOLOGY INNOVATORS NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 200 members of Southern California's life science community celebrated the 4th annual DeviceFest on May 7th, featuring panel discussions on product innovation, venture capital fundraising options, as well as showcasing th...

MGuard(TM) Coronary Stent System Approved in Israel

...d lowering the likelihood of restenosis. Since MGuard(TM) received CE Mark approval in November 2007 the product has been met with much enthusiasm and celebrated by leading interventional cardiologists worldwide. "We are very excited about MGuard(TM) being approved for use in Israel so soon" stated Dr. Asher Ho...

BASF Officially Launches the Collaborative Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University

... - Opening celebrated with inaugural Symposium on Biofilms CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and LUDWIGSHAFEN, G...ve new frontiers of scientific discovery. The opening of the initiative was celebrated with an inaugural two-day Symposium on Biofilms held in Cambridge, Massachu...

Aspirin Named 8th World Wonder by Majority of Americans

...s visit http://www.The8thWorldWonder.com and send an e-card stating why aspirin is the 8th world wonder. "The discovery of aspirin deserves to be a celebrated moment in time," says Dr. Michael Roizen, co-founder of RealAge.com, author of The Real Age Makeover: Taking Years Off Your Looks and Adding Them to Y...

Breast Cancer and HER-2/neu: Diagnostic Tools for Targeted Therapy

...nosis of Her-2/neu positive tumors, is that specific therapies such as adriamycin have proven more effective for patients with these tumors. The most celebrated medication, however, is probably Herceptin, (trastuzumab) a chimerized human-mouse monoclonal antibody that binds an exposed portion of the Her-2/neu ...

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Gumma

...oma that has a necrotic center and is enclosed by an inflamed fibrous capsule Gumma , situated in the northwest of the Kanto plains, abounds with celebrated ... Gumma is also blessed with places known for their scenic beauty, such as Yugama, ... A gumma is a soft, tumor-like growth of the tissues (...

Delusion

... can truly take hold, the truth has to disappear. ... This review is from: The God Delusion (Hardcover) ... In THE GOD DELUSION , Dawkins, the celebrated evolutionary biologist, Oxford ... Shop for a Delusion (reprint) (paperback) and other Paperback items from Target.com. Shop for Delusion ...

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Excellence in open access research celebrated at BioMed Central awards dinner

The winners of the 2007 BioMed Central Research Awards were announced yesterday at an awards ceremony at the Royal Society of Medicine. The event was attended by shortlisted authors, eminent researchers from around the world, open access advocates and science journalists. The Research Awards, n...

Open access research celebrated

The winners of BioMed Central's 3rd Annual Research Awards were announced at an awards ceremony at London's Barbican Centre last week. The event was attended by shortlisted authors, eminent researchers from around the world, open access advocates and science journalists. The Research Awards, n...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

...h of Carolus Linnaeus, who initiated the modern system of plant and animal names and classifications. The 300th anniversary of his birth on May 23 was celebrated worldwide in 2007. Last year marked the 250th anniversary of the beginning of animal naming. There are an estimated 1.8 million species that have b...

Scientists announce top 10 new species; issue SOS

...h of Carolus Linnaeus, who initiated the modern system of plant and animal names and classifications. The 300th anniversary of his birth on May 23 was celebrated worldwide in 2007. Last year marked the 250th anniversary of the beginning of animal naming. There are an estimated 1.8 million species that have b...

'Annals of the ESA' selected as one of 100 most influential journals

... them. In the poll, 686 DBIO members participated, choosing Annals as the overwhelming winner of the "Journals of Land Invertebrates" category. Annals celebrated its 100th year anniversary last year, and all back issues are available online for free to ESA members, along with ESA's other journals. "It is alw...

Dinner, lecture series to honor legacy of distinguished UH professor

...er semester. One in particular, which covers reaction engineering, has been on his calendar since his days as an assistant professor, Harold said. celebrated UH researcher and national academy member Neal Amundson, known as the "father of chemical engineering," was Luss' Ph.D adviser back in Minnesota and h...

UC Riverside rice geneticist receives high honor from US Department of Agriculture

...hree scientists are, or have been, principle investigators on grants the USDA has awarded them for rice research. Their research achievements will be celebrated at a ceremony at UC Riverside from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, in Rooms 205/206, Engineering II. Bailey-Serres, a professor of genet...

NJIT professor's research suggests changes in underwater data communications

...mous and unmanned underwater vehicles. My new receiver would allow for a smaller, more nimble and easier- to-use product." In the 15th century, the celebrated artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci conducted the first underwater communication trial. By hearing the sound of distant ships, Da Vinci discovere...

October 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

...nce of Ediacaran fossils turned out to be not inferior or different to that seen in their counterparts found in clastic sediments, indicating that the celebrated weirdness of Ediacaran fossils is not due to unusual preservational circumstances. On the other hand, the Ediacaran fossils are excluded from a taphon...

Scientists team up in Houston to tackle global challenges

...tations, lectureships, and plenary sessions are built around ten challenging issues set forth by the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) agenda. celebrated from 2007-2009, IYPE is an initiative of the International Union of Geological Sciences and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organ...

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MGuard(TM), InspireMD's Novel Coronary Stent System, was Celebrated by World Leading Interventional Cardiologists at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) in Washington DC, USA, October 12-17 2008

TEL AVIV, Israel, November 10 /PRNewswire/ -- InspireMD, developers of the novel MGuard(TM) coronary stent system, announced today that MGuard(TM) was successfully implanted in a complex lesion in a live case at the TCT '08. The procedure was performed by Dr. Dariusz Dudek and was broadcast fr...

ROCK STARS OF SCIENCE: Prana's Co-Founding Scientist, Rudy Tanzi Teams up with Star-Powered Cast in GQ Photoshoot

...esearchers, who have played a vital role in the development of treatments for diseases such as cancer, HIV and Alzheimer's disease, are pictured along celebrated artists Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban, Will.i.am, Joe Perry, and Seal. The spread is part of the "Rock Stars of Science" campaign, a philanthropic pro...

Covaris Installed Instrument Base Reaches 500 Units

... WOBURN, Mass., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Covaris Incorporated today announced that during the summer of 2008, the company celebrated the shipment of its 500th instrument unit and continued another successful year throughout 2008. To accommodate this rapid business growth, Covaris i...

NJTC Celebrates the `Power of Technology' in NJ

... SOMERSET, N.J., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Jersey Technology Council celebrated the power technology, networking and membership at the 2008 NJTC Gala Award...ered right here in our own backyard," said Ballen. "And, this year, we also celebrated the power of working together and supporting each other as a community. Tha...

Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute Hosts First-Ever International Forum on Memory and Memory Disorders and Dedicates New $30 Million Research Facility

...h on Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders. The first-ever International Forum on Memory and Memory Disorders will highlight the work of nine celebrated scientists whose research has advanced the study of the aging brain, Alzheimer's disease, and patients suffering from memory loss and memory disorders...

The Modern DeBakey VAD™ To Be Introduced For the First Time in the U.S. : HeartAssist 5™ Pediatric VAD Features Industry Exclusive Direct Blood Flow Measurement System

... than three months after the internationally renowned surgeon's death from natural causes. Dr. DeBakey passed away at age 99 on July 11. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday on September 7, 2008. Rodger G. Ford, who led the buyout of then public MicroMed Cardiovascular, Inc. and took the company pr...

OncologySTAT Advisors Name Year's Top Developments in Cancer Treatment and Research

...e web site featuring high-quality, scientifically based research and cancer care information for oncologists and other healthcare professionals, today celebrated its one-year anniversary by releasing a list of the most influential oncology developments of the past year chosen by an expert physician panel. Two o...

Inaugural Kavli Prize ceremony and symposia: Sept. 8-11 (Oslo, Norway)

... Overview: The inaugural year of The Kavli Prize will be celebrated with a special ceremony that features H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon Magnus pre... Oslo, Stavanger and Trondheim Throughout the week, the Kavli Prize is celebrated with lectures, panel discussions and presentations from acclaimed scientist...

ARUP Laboratories' ARUP Consult(R) Recognized as a Computerworld Honors Program Laureate

...c progress. These identified organizations are asked to contribute a case study to the program's collection, and the donation of these case studies is celebrated with a formal medal ceremony in June where an accepted case study Laureate from each organization is publicly recognized. ARUP Laboratories was one ...

Chindex International, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2008 Year End and Fourth Quarter Results

...r in our United Family Healthcare network speaks to the growing potential of the market as well as our increased service offerings in both markets. We celebrated the 10th anniversary of our hospital operations in Beijing and expect the growth to continue even as we are planning the next phases of geographic and...

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Apoptosis

... "Worms, Life and Death", delivered on 8 Dec. 2002 [14] . Programmed cell death had been known long before "the worm people" began to publish their celebrated findings. In 1964 Richard A. Lockshin and Carroll Williams published their contribution on "Endocrine potentiation of the breakdown of the intersegmen...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

... evolution. In 1861 , for example, Darwin wrote: "Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on the subject excited much attention. This justly celebrated naturalist first published his views in 1801. . . he first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all changes in the orga...

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Ampulla

...mpulla /am·pul·la/ (am-pul'ah) pl. ... ampulla chy'li cisterna chyli. ... AMPULLA (either a diminutive of amphora, or from Lat. ... The most celebrated ampulla in history was that known as la sainte ampoule, in ... The small mound of tissue is called the Ampulla of Vater. ... is stimulated an...