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Six DaVita Clinics in Colorado Receive Silver Award for Clinical Excellence

DENVER, July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA ), a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), today announced six of its dialysis facilities in Colorado have received the 2009 End Stage Renal Disease (ESR...

Project C.U.R.E. and MillerCoors to Welcome the First Lady of Ghana to Colorado for First Ladies' Luncheon in Denver

DENVER, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Local nonprofit Project C.U.R.E. announced today its third-annual First Ladies' Luncheon will be held in Denver July 23 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. This year's luncheon, sponsored by MillerCoors, will honor and welco...

Genworth Financial Simplifies the Process of Purchasing Affordable Long Term Care Insurance for Colorado AARP Members

RICHMOND, Va., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Long term care costs in Colorado continue to rise at a rate outpacing inflation, putting significant financial pressure on those in or near retirement. As a leader in the long term care insurance industry, Genworth offers a suite of insurance produc...

Squeamish Colorado Dental Patients Get Drilled By Self-Interested Regulators

Colorado dental patients are being harmed by the very State regulators who are appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to protect them, a newly formed group, Holorado, contends. Self-interested Colorado regulators have "mile-highjacked the process" to place their own financial interests ahea...

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Benefit Concert Helps Colorado Disabled Iraqi War Veteran and National Sports Center for the Disabled Athletes

--Monday, June 29, 2009 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre-- --Choir's first appearance in 25 years at Red Rocks -- DENVER, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) will host a benefit concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Sq...

ZyDoc Medical Transcription Wins Colorado Mental Health Institute Contract Award

ZyDoc Medical Transcription has been awarded a 5-year contract to provide medical transcription service to the State of Colorado Department of Human Services, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) May 13, 2009 -- ZyDoc Medical Transcription h...

Resurgent Health and Medical Recognized Among Colorado Companies to Watch

GOLDEN, Colo., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Resurgent Health and Medical, leader in automated hand hygiene technology, today announced it has been recognized by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade as a Colorado Company to Watch. Resurgent will be honored on June 25, 2009 a...

Partnership for Prescription Assistance Prepared to Help Colorado Workers Hurt by Recession

DENVER, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 'Help is Here Express' bus tour will be stopping in Colorado throughout the week of May 11 - May 15 at various cities in order to help uninsured and financially-struggling Coloradans access information on programs that provide prescription medicines for...

Baxa Corporation Wins Two 2009 Colorado BMA Gold Key Awards

Baxa campaigns awarded 2009 Business Marketing Association Gold Key Awards for Best Strategy and Best Integrated Campaign. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation, a Denver-based manufacturer of software and devices for healthcare systems, has won two Business Marketing As...

Radon Mitigation and Remediation Systems Recommended in Denver, Littleton, Broomfield Colorado Homes

Air Quality Control Agency is recommending radon gas testing, remediation, and radon removal systems for homes in the Greater Denver area. Some of the Colorado towns affected by radon gas are Denver, Littleton, Boulder, Broomfield, Aurora, Longmont, Fort Collins, Parker, Arvada, Englewood, Lovel...

Colorado in Medical Technology

MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards Hit Mid-2009 With Over $1 Million Funded in High-Risk/High-Reward Approaches to Parkinson's Disease

...- a status quo we are determined to improve on." Highlights of the 2009 program include: Curt R. Freed, MD, of the University of colorado has discovered that phenylbutyrate, a drug already approved by the U.S. FDA to treat kidney disease, prevents brain deterioration in pre-clinical mod...

Inspiration for 'My Sister's Keeper' Speaks Out

...children for fear they'd die of FA too. That's the reality." Dr. Schoolcraft, an internationally recognized expert in reproductive medicine whose colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (CCRM) was able to allow the Nash's embryos to live longer outside the womb so they were more likely to survive, agre...

Cequent tkRNAi Technology to be Presented at the Centennial Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research

...ram Committee, which rated the abstract in the top three to four percent of those submitted. The AACR meeting will be held April 18 - 22, 2009, at the colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. Sunday, April 19 Characterization of a Multiple Hairpin Expression Construc...

Pharmacyclics Initiates Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Novel Oral Btk Inhibitor for Refractory B-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

...rally Occurring Canine Lymphoma. Lee A. Honigberg, Ashley M. Smith, David J. Loury, Joseph J. Buggy, Douglas H. Thamm. Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, CA, colorado State University Animal Cancer Center, Fort Collins, CO About Pharmacyclics' Btk Inhibitor Program PCI-32765 is currently targeted for...

New Report Shows Record Number of Medicines in Development to Treat Leading Causes of Cancer

...he President's call to cure cancer resonates powerfully in our state," said colorado Lt. Governor Barbara O'Brien. "We are proud that the cancer medicines now in the research pipeline in colorado are contributing substantially to the incredible progress made in the last ...

Leader in Prostate Health Urges Prostate Cancer Screening in Face of Contradicting Data

...ord, one of the principal investigators of the prostate component of the PLCO study and head of the Urologic Oncology Department at the University of colorado Health Sciences Center . Dr. Crawford is also the founder and chairman of the PCEC. "Since the Prostate-Specific Antigen test was made availabl...

Task Force Recommends Using Aspirin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease When the Benefits Outweigh the Harms

...ential risk of gastrointestinal bleeding," said Task Force Chair Ned Calonge, M.D., who is also chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for the colorado Department of Public Health and Information. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. It is the underlying o...

YM BIOSCIENCES ANNOUNCES NIMOTUZUMAB PRESENTATIONS TO BE MADE AT THE 100TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH AND EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

...enal and epidermal cells", has been accepted for presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research's (AACR) 100th Annual Meeting in Denver, colorado on April 20th, 2009 (Abstract # 2763; Hall B-F, Poster Section 31; Session ID: Clinical Research 10). The abstract of this poster has been published...

Congressional 'Sting' Operation Uncovered By Coast IRB

...nstituted measures to prevent a recurrence. Coast IRB is one of the largest independently owned IRB's and was founded in 2002. It is located in colorado Springs, Colorado. CONTACT: The B&B Media Group, Inc. Diane Morrow dmorrow@tbbmedia.com 800-927-1517 or cell 817-319-9805 ...

Quark Pharmaceuticals Presents at Asia TIDES Conference

...velop additional RNAi drug candidates. Quark is headquartered in Fremont, California and operates research and development facilities in Boulder, colorado and Ness-Ziona, Israel. Additional information is available at www.quarkpharma.com . Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The Ruth Group (...

Colorado in Medical Dictionary

West Nile Virus

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Unintended Pregnancy

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Serum

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Rett syndrome

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Pediatrics

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EKG

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Colorado in Biological News

IADR Wilmer Souder Award presented to University of Colorado professor

Alexandria, Va. The 2009 Wilmer Souder Award is being presented to Dr. Jeffrey Stansbury, from the University of Colorado, Aurora, USA. The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) will present the award at its 87th General Session & Exhibition in Miami, Florida, USA, on April 1, 2009...

Avian flu becoming more resistant to antiviral drugs, says University of Colorado study

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested. The avian flu, an Influenza ...

University of Colorado at Boulder awarded $1 million for biofuels research

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy to develop rapid solar- thermal chemical reactor systems for the conversion of biomass material like switchgrass and algae to synthesis gas. The three-year...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

A novel "Flu Chip" developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder that can determine the genetic signatures of specific influenza strains from patient samples within hours may help world health officials combat coming epidemics and pandemics. Tests last month on the new technology by the Cent...

U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming

Editor : Visit this webpage for pictures and videos! With their long stalks and feathery arms, marine animals known as sea lilies look a lot like their garden-variety namesakes. Perhaps because of that resemblance, scientists had always assumed that sea lilies stayed rooted instead of moving...

Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study

Microbes living in the brilliantly colored hot springs of Yellowstone National Park use primarily hydrogen for fuel, a discovery University of Colorado at Boulder researchers say bodes well for life in extreme environments on other planets and could add to understanding of bacteria inside the human...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

...ay: Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA; also at Department of Atmospheric Science, colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (JGR-D) paper 10.1029/2009JD011785, 2009; htt...

Animal and plant communication at the ESA Annual Meeting

... These insects, in the family Coreidae, roam freely on one species of Acacia and feed on the plants' leaf tissue. Susan Whitehead of the University of colorado wanted to know just what makes these bugs seemingly invisible to the watchdog ants. Whitehead hypothesized that the bugs might be acting in some w...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...f their location. Mapping potentially asbestos-bearing rocks using imaging spectroscopy G.A. Swayze et al., U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, colorado 80225, USA. Pages 763-766. Rock and soil that may contain naturally occurring asbestos (NOA), a known human carcinogen, were mapped in the Sierra N...

Noise pollution negatively affects woodland bird communities, says CU-Boulder study

... A new University of colorado at Boulder study shows the strongest evidence yet that noise pollution negatively influences bird populations, findings with implications for the fate...

Colorado in Biological Technology

Colorado Stem Cell Awareness Rally to Take Place in Denver, Colorado on June 13th, 2009

DENVER, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on the momentum of their previous events, the Stem Cell Awareness Association ( http://www.stemcellaware.com ) will hold the sixth Stem Cell Awareness Rally in Denver, Colorado on June 13th, 2009. The group's last event, in Punta Gorda, Florida, drew past a...

Matthew B. Wiener, CEO of Pharmatech, Inc., Is Awarded the Cancer Leadership Award From the Colorado Cancer Coalition

DENVER, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Matthew B. Wiener, PharmD, Chief Executive Officer of Pharmatech, Inc., was recently awarded the Outstanding Cancer Leadership Award from the Colorado Cancer Coalition. The award is being presented to Dr. Wiener for his development of the Just-In-Time (JIT) enrol...

NIH Funds $1M Research at Quest Product Development and University of Colorado for New Digitally-Controlled Endoscopes

DENVER, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Product Development, with partner University of Colorado, has been awarded a $1,000,000 Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the development of a next-generation endoscope. MicroFlex technology, der...

Baxa Corporation Wins Two Colorado BMA 2008 Gold Key Awards

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation, a Denver-based manufacturer of medical devices for healthcare systems, has won two 2008 Business Marketing Association Gold Key Awards for its integrated direct mail campaign featuring the PadLock(R) Set-Saver product. One of Colorado'...

Baxa Announces Colorado BioScience Association Sponsorship

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation announces its 2008 sponsorship for the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA). CBSA Board Chair Jack Wheeler (founder of MicroPhage Inc.) recognized Baxa, along with the other 2008 Association sponsors, during the CBSA Annual All-Member ...

Kaiser Permanente Colorado Opens Center for Health Dissemination and Implementation Research

DENVER, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of health care in this country depends on quality research being integrated into practice and health policy. But putting research into practice often doesn't always happen and can sometimes slow the pace of cutting-edge care. Kaiser Permanente Colora...

Dynamic Signs Asset Acquisition Deal With Cannex and Brings Onboard Leading Medical Cannabis Research Scientist Dr. Robert Melamede, Former Chairman of the Biology Department, University of Colorado

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dynamic Alert Limited (OTC Bulletin Board: DYMC) (the "Company") is an emerging biotechnology leader specializing in the commercialization of medical cannabis-based pharmaceutical products. Today the Company is pleased to announce it has signed ...

Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy

...to advance a technology developed by University of colorado Professor M. Karen Newell called "metabolic disrup... Dr Karen Newell and her team at the University of colorado at colorado Springs have performed over 400 metabolic disrupti...

International Milk Genomics & Human Health Symposium Speaker Program Announced

...mson of the University of Sydney, Christophe Lefevre of Deakin University, Mark Thomas of University College London, Peter Henson of the University of colorado Health Sciences Center, Felicie Faucon of the Institute de l'Elevage-CNEIL, Johan van Arendonk of Wageningen University, Marion Boutinaud of the Insti...

First U.K. Stem Cell Awareness Rally to Take Place in Manchester, England on August 9th, 2009

...ed I'd witnessed the start of a significant medical advance." Shel Morse, stem cell advocate and mother of Macie Morse, will be attending from colorado to share the story of her daughter, Macie, who regained vision after stem cell treatment in China. Macie, at 15 years old, was denied a driver's permi...

Colorado in Biological Dictionary

Variety

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Serum

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Entomology

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