Healthcare Companies Compete for Industry's Most Coveted Titles

~ 20 prestigious titles to be bestowed at the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Excellence in Healthcare Awards ~ SINGAPORE , March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual Frost & Sullivan Healthcare gala is the premier banquet in Asia Pacific which recognizes companies operating in the ...

Nature's Cure Acne Products Land Coveted Expert Endorsement of Michael Maddox

OAKLAND, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Nature's Cure has finalized an endorsement agreement with Michael Maddox, a world-renowned modeling coach, fashion show producer and image consultant. Maddox, who is always looking for products to help his clients, approached Nature's Cure due to his per...

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Receives Coveted 4-Star Rating for Sound Fiscal Management From Charity Navigator

BETHESDA, Md., March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced today it has received a coveted 4-star rating for sound fiscal management from Charity Navigator, the largest charity evaluator in the United States. The Foundation earned four out of four possible ...

ORTHOWORLD Releases Position Paper on Healthcare Reform

... Inc. Founded in 1992, ORTHOWORLD is the only publisher in the world solely focused on the global orthopaedic market. Its product offerings are coveted for the immediate, usable knowledge their succinct and contemporary industry coverage produces. The orthopaedic portal, www.orthoworld.com, houses and...

Holy Family Memorial Health Network Bolsters Patient Care Quality and Safety in Achieving Stage 6 on HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model(SM) Scale

...o supporting day-to-day operations, CareTech offers clients expert services across the entire patient data lifecycle. CareTech Solutions won a coveted 2008 Best in KLAS award for the IT Outsourcing (Extensive) category, as ranked by healthcare executives and professionals in the 2008 Top 2...

Moores UCSD Cancer Center Luau & Longboard Invitational Celebrates 16 Years of 'Surfing for a Cure' to Raise Funds for Cancer Research

...side with a surf legend - by fundraising through Active.com. Anyone interested in joining a team must commit to raising $2,500, which will earn them a coveted spot in the competition as well as two tickets to the Luau. "Many people have asked how to get involved and how to do more," said John Kay, ev...

THE ORTHOPAEDIC INDUSTRY ANNUAL REPORT Highlights the Burgeoning Demographics of Orthopaedics and the Continuing Health of the Industry

...nc. Founded in 1992, ORTHOWORLD is the only publisher in the world solely focused on the global orthopaedic market. Its product offerings are coveted for the immediate, usable knowledge their succinct and contemporary industry coverage produces. The orthopaedic portal, www.orthoworld.com , houses...

Nine CareTech Solutions Client-Hospitals Named 2009 Most Wired Winners

...supporting day-to-day operations, CareTech offers clients expert services across the entire patient data lifecycle. CareTech Solutions won a coveted 2008 Best in KLAS award for the IT Outsourcing (Extensive) category, as ranked by healthcare executives and professionals in the 2008 Top 20 Best i...

CareTech Extends IT Outsourcing Contract with The Christ Hospital

...supporting day-to-day operations, CareTech offers clients expert services across the entire patient data lifecycle. CareTech Solutions won a coveted 2008 Best in KLAS award for the IT Outsourcing (Extensive) segment, as ranked by healthcare executives and professionals in the 2008 Top 20 Best in...

New Jersey Dietetic Association Names Ketchum's Jaime Schwartz Young Dietitian of the Year

... Practice Catalyst award in 2007, and led the execution of two different public relations campaigns that won the Public Relations Society of America's coveted Silver Anvil award. Her 2006 research, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association , was the focus of an Associated Press story and...

Coveted in Medical Technology

Research Supported by Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Discovers Mode of Action of Arsenic-Based Drugs in Destroying Cancer Cells

...s. The Foundation derives most of its support from individual contributions. For the third consecutive year, Charity Navigator has awarded SWCRF its coveted four-star rating, indicating that the Foundation operates in the most fiscally responsible way possible to utilize its resources to attain its goal of...

Coveted in Medical Products

Moore Hyperopic Flap Conformer, 48 Diopter

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Moore Hyperopic Flap Conformer, 44 Diopter

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Moore Hyperopic Flap Conformer, 40 Diopter

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Caro/Avalos LASIK Flap Smoother

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Fukasaku Hockey Knife

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Gulani Neumann Hyperopic LASIK Flap Dissector

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Desmarres Corneal Dissector

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Anis™ Suction Ring

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Buratto LASIK FlapRetractor and Spatula

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Caro LASIK Flap Elevator

Description:... German Craftsmanship have produced the finest surgical instrumentation in the world. Ocutek® now makes them available to you! Only holders of the coveted Meisterbrief certificate, which requires and eight-year apprenticeship, are qualified to become Ocutek instrument makers...Assuring you of the highest...
Company:Medtronic

Coveted in Biological News

Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow

The IShow is for young inventors what "American Idol" is for young performers, and a pair of local researchers has won a coveted spot in the IShow finale in Palm Desert, Calif., this weekend. If their unique health-monitoring device wins at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovatio...

Smithsonian scientists receive coveted BBVA Ecology and Conservation Award

Outstanding leaders in tropical biology and conservation, William F. Laurance, senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Thomas E. Lovejoy, research associate at the Institute and Biodiversity Chair at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Envi...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...on 46 of the 100 awards given out this year by R&D Magazine for the most outstanding technology developments with promising commercial potential. The coveted awards are presented annually in recognition of exceptional new products, processes, materials or software developed throughout the world and introduc...

Rosenstiel students come out on top

...Rosenstiel School alumnus currently at Pennsylvania State University. For two consecutive years, students in Baker's laboratory have received these coveted fellowships. Last year, Rachel Silverstein and Nitzan Soffer were recognized with Graduate Research Fellowships from the NSF. Sean Bignami receiv...

Study finds blood cells can be reprogrammed to act as embryonic stem cells

.... The findings were prepublished online in Blood , the official journal of the American Society of Hematology. Embryonic stem cells have long been coveted for their potential to treat a multitude of diseases as a result of their unique properties of nearly indefinite self-renewal and pluripotency (the ab...

Two innovative University of Texas at Austin biologists become HHMI Early Career Scientists

...s and microbiology, became the first faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin to be named an HHMI Investigator. This highly prestigious and coveted award is funded by a different support program at HHMI that gives established faculty the funding and flexibility to tackle their most ambitious, risk...

Researchers make breakthrough in the production of double-walled carbon nanotubes

... edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology , two researchers from Northwestern University outline a new process for efficiently gathering up these coveted double-walled carbon nanotubes. For more information on the team's work, go to http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/12/nanotube.html ....

Celebrated UH researcher invited to Caltech as distinguished scholar

...eived more than $10 million in research funding from state and federal sources and has published more than 250 scientific papers. He has received four coveted awards in fluid dynamics from the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Society of Mecha...

NARSAD announces 2008 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Research on Mental Health Disorders

...York, Oct. 16, 2008) NARSAD, the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research, will award its annual prizes tomorrow -- among the most coveted in psychiatry and neuroscience to six prominent scientists whose research in the areas of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression, childhood ...

Fujitsu Scanners Selected as 'Editor's Choice' in Better Buys for Business 2008 Scan-to-File Guide

...and scanners. The publication evaluates hundreds of models from all major manufacturers, but selects only one or two from each category to receive the coveted "Editor's Choice" award -- gifted only after rigorous analysis of functionality and ability. This independent resource aims to aid organizations and c...

Coveted in Biological Technology

SleepQuest Achieves Coveted Accreditation

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SleepQuest is proud to announce it has earned the highly valued accreditation from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) by demonstrating compliance with national standards for health care quality and safety. ...

Transport Pharmaceuticals Receives Coveted Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Transport Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in combination drug/medical devices for the topical treatment of dermatological conditions, today announced that it has been awarded the 2007 Frost & Sullivan North American Technology Innovation of the Year Aw...

Richard Schulz Receives the Coveted GCPj Award for Best Clinical Researcher of the Year

LONDON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Chiltern, a leading global research organization, is pleased to announce that last night Richard Schulz, Chiltern's Country Manager for the Czech Republic, received GCPj's "Best Clinical Researcher" of the year award. The award ceremony was held in London's hist...

Paragon Bioservices, Inc. Wins 2009 Lilly Global Supplier Award

... BALTIMORE, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Bioservices, Inc., a contract research and manufacturing organization (CRO/CMO), has been awarded the coveted 2009 Lilly Global Supplier Award for exceptional performance in support of Lilly's strategic objectives. "It is a great honor to be recognized in...

LaVoie Group Selected by Vaccine Developer, Profectus BioSciences, as Agency of Record

...dustry leaders in life sciences such as Vertex Pharmaceuticals, ESBATech AG, and Agile Therapeutics. In March 2009, LaVoie Group was awarded the coveted 2008 Impact Award for "Best Industry-Exclusive Agency," sponsored by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP). LaVoie Group is ranke...

LaVoie Group Adds Bio-Surgery Company, Pegasus Biologics, to Its Life Sciences Agency Roster

...dustry leaders in life sciences such as Vertex Pharmaceuticals, ESBATech AG, and Agile Therapeutics. In March 2009, LaVoie Group was awarded the coveted 2008 Impact Award for "Best Industry-Exclusive Agency," sponsored by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP). LaVoie Group is ranke...

Clarient Granted Exclusive License to Commercialize Breast Cancer Biomarker by Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation

...munity setting. Our dedication to translating cancer discovery and information into enhanced patient care is evidenced by our ability to license such coveted IP from prestigious institutions." "FOXA1 has also demonstrated an ability to differentiate between unique sets of breast cancer characteristics,...

P2R Associates Presented with Eight MarCom Awards for Client Strategic Communication Programs

...g, publications, marketing/promotion, public service/pro-bono, creativity and electronic/interactive. These awards come on the heels of another coveted award presented to P2R for its integrated strategic public relations and marketing communications approach. Earlier this year, P2R was recognized by ...

Shasta Regional Medical Center Awarded Full Accreditation from the Joint Commission

...d safety," continued Dr. Prem Reddy, "We sincerely thank all the physicians, nurses and employees of Shasta Regional Medical Center for achieving this coveted recognition." "Shasta Regional Medical Center's approval by the Joint Commission truly exemplifies the quality of the physicians, nurses, and ...

Rutgers physicist earns prestigious Packard Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship

...Science and Engineering, which provides $625,000 in research funding for five years. This marks the first time the Packard Foundation has awarded this coveted fellowship to a Rutgers University professor. Yuzbashyan is among 20 fellows that the foundation selected from nominations at 50 of the nations top...