New York City's World Product Centre Announces Initial Charter Partners
Future Midtown Manhattan healthcare center offers a highly visible, neutral and transparent platform for healthcare industry to conduct commerce, host educational events, clinical training, and leverage unique facilities and resources to collaborate NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- World Prod...First DHI-Licensed Door Inspection Software Solution Ships to DOORDATA Solutions' Charter Members
DOORDATA Solutions, Inc., today announced the release of its first two software products for streamlining the annual fire door inspection process for fire-rated swinging doors. Fire DOORDATA and Mobile DOORDATA have shipped to the company's charter members. Salinas, Cal...European Ministers Sign Groundbreaking Charter on Health System
TALLINN, Estonia and COPENHAGEN, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Charter Brings Equity, Performance and Accountability to Health Sector Ministers of health from 53 countries (1), which make the WHO European Region, today signed a new charter on health systems, committing themselves to concre...Patient charter ensures that reports on physicians are meaningful, reliable and fair
PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2008 The American College of Physicians (ACP) has joined other leading medical, consumer, labor, and employer organizations to endorse the Patient Charter for Physician Performance Measurement, Reporting and Tiering Programs. These organizations believe that health plans th...Patient charter ensures that reports on physicians are meaningful, reliable, and fair
PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2008 The American College of Physicians (ACP) has joined other leading medical, consumer, labor, and employer organizations to endorse the Patient Charter for Physician Performance Measurement, Reporting and Tiering Programs. These organizations believe that health plans th...National Business Coalition on Health Endorses Patient Charter for Physician Performance Measurement
Patient Charter requirements will be integrated into NBCH's common RFI, eValue8(TM) WASHINGTON, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), a non-profit, membership association of 60 business and health coalitions, representing a national network of 7,00...URAC Announces Support for Principles of Disclosure Project's Patient Charter
Accreditation organization revising standards to include review of physician quality measurement programs to enhance transparency WASHINGTON, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- URAC, one of the nation's leading independent accrediting organizations, announced today its support for th...Top Medical Research Centers Form Velos Advisory Group for Service-Oriented Architecture
...databases already in place. "We are pleased at the formation of this Advisory Group and gratified to see institutions of such high stature as its charter members," said John S. McIlwain, President and CEO of Velos. "The Velos platform will be critical to strategic directions that include collaboration w...Queen's University Chooses Xceed's Ziplex(R) System for Translational Research
...d in Toronto, Ontario, with executive offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts. About Queen's University ( http://www.queensu.ca ) Established by Royal charter of Queen Victoria in 1841, Queen's University was the earliest degree-granting institution in the united Province of Canada. Today, Queen's is one of ...Immtech Announces Interim Analysis in Phase III African Sleeping Sickness Trial
...d medical oversight for the trial. The DSMB operates under a trial-specific charter and also according to the trial protocol. The DSMB could recommend disconti... observe any significant safety or efficacy problems for the test drug. The charter also allows the DSMB to recommend halting the trial if enrollment is inadeq...Sexual orientation and medicine
...ople 2010 [4] 2004 New York Medical College revokes the charter of the its LGBT medical student group after the applies to change its name ... 2006 Touro University , a medical school in California, revokes the charter of its LGBT student organization . After an outcry of protest from various...EMBO pioneers pension plan for internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers
...s than ten per cent of fellows contributed to a pension scheme, while nearly all of them were insured against health risks and accidents. The European charter for Researchers, released by the European Commission (EC) in 2005, called for "adequate and equitable social security provisions" as a basic entitleme...American Society for Microbiology honors James W. Snyder
...s for the training of frontline clinical microbiologists to be prepared for detection and identification of possible bioterrorism agents. He is a charter member of the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) that was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Association of Public He...Yellowfin tuna biz concept a winner
...try. Originally from Miami, Stieglitz received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from the University of Denver. Following years of charter fishing experience and Florida Keys/Everglades fish population research, he entered the University of Miami's Aquaculture Program in 2007. Stieglitz w...George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences
...George Whitesides, a chemist who has generated so much value to society based on his innovative chemistry research. It reflects the Dreyfus Foundation charter admirably." Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and Chair of the Dreyfus Scientific Affairs Committee, noted, "...K-State using Second Life island to help high school students learn earth science
...hat TerraWorld and the coming WaterWorld have on student learning and attitudes about science. The programs are being piloted at Tolbert and Brookside charter high schools in Kansas City, Mo. In the fall, about 400 ninth-grade students at Junction City High School will start using the program. Creating Te...Penn biologists demonstrate that size matters... in snail shells
...007. Finding samples from 1915 proved to be easy, thanks to the work of Harold Sellers Colton. Colton, a professor of biology at Penn until 1926 and a charter member of the Ecological Society of America, collected about 12,000 shells from 107 sites in Maine, depositing them for safe keeping at the Academy of...Pest management specialist Charles Summers wins prestigious Woodworth Award
... develop the Agricultural Experiment Station, which later became the UC Davis Department of Entomology. Born and educated in Illinois, Woodworth was a charter member (1889) of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, which later merged with the Entomological Society of America. ...Satellites helping aid workers in Honduras
... rapidly following activation of the International charter on Space and Major Disasters. Tens of thousands...cations Programme (UNOSAT) asked the International charter on 'Space and Major Disasters', referred to as 'Th...sidered a precursor to the Charter. Today, the charter has 10 members, including ESA, CNES, CSA, the Indi...NASA picks ASU research team to guide study of search for life
... 10 research teams from across the country to be awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each. ASU previously operated as an NAI team and was a charter member of the NAI when the program was founded in 1998. The team is centered in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, an academic unit in ASU's C...Duke to lead new NSF, EPA center to study the environmental implications of nanotechnology
...th those desirable properties.'' CEINT will also collaborate with the newly formed International Alliance for NanoEHS Harmonization (IANH) , whose charter is to establish protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cultured cells and animals. Universal standards for nanomate...New Educational Website Celebrates the Accomplishments of Engineers
...ent on the application of engineering resources to social, economic, and security problems. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. Draper Lab is a nonprofit engineering research and development laboratory serving the nation...DuPont and State of Delaware Unveil $80 Million Innovation Center Partnership
...logy evolution conducted by DuPont scientists and Department of Education personnel while nearly 120 high school students and teachers from public and charter schools across Delaware attended a biotechnology career path seminar. DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, D...Professor-turned-producer learns the movie biz
...s Cory Mandel at Technicolor and Ampersand, as well as Patricia and David Keighley at DKP 70MM Inc. and IMAX Corp. Along the way, Siegel also became a charter member of the Giant Screen Cinema Association, which was solidifying as an organization just as Oxy, Hydra, and Hydro's new adventure was moving from ...Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Announces Addition of Mark T. Giles to its Board of Directors
...raded Houston, Texas financial institution. Prior to joining Sterling, he had been President of Charter National Bank- Houston and its parent company, charter Bancshares, Inc., a publicly traded Houston financial institution he had joined in 1986 as Chief Financial Officer. Until 1986, he had practiced law w...Pharmos Corporation Announces Board and Management Changes
...ntures, a foundation focused on funding improvements in the educational system; and Vice-Chairman of Center for Education Reform (CER) an advocate for charter schools. Mr. Johnston received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from New York University. S. Colin Neill S. Colin Neill who becom...Murray Leads Delegation in Securing $2.1 Million for Proton Therapy Center
...uable treatment option for the physicians and cancer patients in our community," said Gregg Davidson, CEO of Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, a charter member of the SCCA's growing network of affiliated hospitals and physicians throughout the Northwest. About Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Seattle C...Zimmer Holdings Announces Support for Elimination of Super-Majority Voting Requirements
...ajority vote is currently required to amend certain provisions relating to stockholder action and Board of Director matters. Previously, the Company's charter also required a super- majority vote to remove a director from office, but this provision was amended earlier this year. If the proposal is approved b...Thoratec Announces Appointment of Steven H. Collis to Board of Directors
...ated in South Africa, Collis holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He received his charter Accountancy license, the South African equivalent of a Certified Public Accountant license. "We are very excited to have someone with Steve's extensi...