Triple-S Management Corporation Completes Acquisition of La Cruz Azul de Puerto Rico, Inc.
Unified Blue Cross Blue Shield Brand Strengthens Competitive Position in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Triple-S Management Corporation (NYSE: GTS ) today announced that Triple-S Salud, Inc., its manage...Longs Drug Stores Donates Supplies to Victims of Santa Cruz Mountain Fires
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Longs Drug Stores Corporation (NYSE: LDG ) announced today that it has donated bottled water and nutritional bars towards the support relief efforts for victims of the fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. "Many of our customers have been d...New Study Measures Benefits of More Involved Fathers
... support from the Stuart Foundation, and gathered evidence from family resource centers in five California counties: Yuba, Tulare, Contra Costa, Santa cruz and San Luis Obispo. The researchers note in their paper that the factors that contribute to more violent behavior in the home are exacerbated when fa...CAeHC Demonstrates NHIN-enabled Gateways Among Five California Health Information Exchanges
...Connect NHIN Gateway • Santa cruz HIE -- using the Axolotl NHIN Gateway The demonst...9, tlaino@redwoodmednet.org. About the Santa cruz Health Information Exchange The Santa cruz Health Information Exchange is one of the oldest a...Brazil proves developing countries can use generic medicines to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic
...ls of their findings will be published in the July/August issue of Health Affairs . Francisco Bastos, a well-known AIDS epidemiologist at the Oswaldo cruz Foundation in Rio de Janiero, and Elize da Fonseca at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland also participated in the research. Senior author Sofia G...California Department of Public Health Reports Large Increase in Pet Euthanasia
...ay and neuter legislation and report success in reducing shelter intake and subsequent euthanasia. Henry Brzezinski, general manager of the Santa cruz County Animal Services Authority, which has had spay and neuter legislation in effect since 1995, reports, "We have decreased euthanasia over 64 perce...Successful Demonstration of Health Information Exchange Opens ARRA Stimulus Options for California
...R Connect- Orange County, Redwood MedNet and Santa cruz HIE verified the ability to share patient clinical...R Connect- Orange County, Redwood MedNet and Santa cruz HIE. The participants exchanged electronic a cli...9, tlaino(at)redwoodmednet.org. About Santa cruz Health Information Exchange The Santa...Western Groundfish Conference to be held in Santa Cruz on Feb. 4-8
More than 200 participants, representing state and federal fishery agencies, regional management councils, universities, conservation groups, and fishing and other marine industries, will meet at the Cocoanut Grove conference center in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Feb., 4 8, for the fifteenth Western G...DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009
...Southern California (Doheny Eye Institute), California Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, the University of California at Santa cruz and Second Sight Medical Products LLC.) FemtoScope This time microscope dramatically improves the performance of traditional recording devices i...Noise pollution negatively affects woodland bird communities, says CU-Boulder study
...walls and berms should be considered to help preserve such communities." Co-authors on the Current Biology study included CU-Boulder Professor Alex cruz and Fort Lewis College faculty member Catherine Ortega, who received her doctorate from CU-Boulder under Cruz. The study was conducted in a parcel of...Seventy-three scientists elected to the American Academy of Microbiology
...mington Jonathan W. Yewdell, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD Jonathan P. Zehr, University of California, Santa cruz ...Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight
...iver of Pennsylvania State University; and Miriam Lopez of Clnica del Sur, La Paz, Bolivia. Dr. Yamashiro is also affiliated with Clinica Siran, Santa cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia and Dr. Moore is also affiliated with Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Birth weight differences High...4,000-year-old coral beds among world's oldest living things, prof says
...reatures on Earth. The team, directed by Brendan Roark of Texas A&M's College of Geosciences, and colleagues from the University of California-Santa cruz and Australian National University in Canberra, have had their work published in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The pr...150 years of Darwin's landmark book spawns international conference
...ersity of California, Berkeley (paleontology); Brian Hall of Dalhousie University (diversity); and David Deamer of the University of California, Santa cruz (origins of life and astrobiology). Steven Benner, of the University of Florida's Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology, will deliver a ...Ecological Society of America criticizes administration's overhaul of the Endangered Species Act
...ties." The Endangered Species Act protects more than 2000 of the United States' rarest plants and animals. Ranging from green sea turtles to Santa cruz cypress trees, these species are not only national treasures, but also biological resources and often integral parts of their ecosystems. Under t...A nutritional supplement could improve the clinical situation of ICU patients
... out by Jimena Abils , and headed by doctor Elena Planells ( Departament of Physiology of the University of Granada ), doctor Antonio Prez de la cruz (head of the Nutrition and Dietetics Unit of the Ruiz de Alda Hospital in Granada) and doctor Eduardo Aguayo (specialist in the Intensive Cure Unit...New and Expanded Free Tutorials on UCSC Genome Browser Now Available
... University of California, Santa cruz and OpenHelix announce the free availability of online free tutorial suites... (PRWEB) June 3, 2009 -- University of California, Santa cruz and OpenHelix today announced the free availability of tutorial suites on t...Loma Linda University Partners With Larta Institute for Technology Marketing Program
...rnia-Riverside, University of California-San Diego, San Diego State University, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of California-Santa cruz and University of Southern California. For more information about the NSF PFI Award, please contact Carol Grande, Director of Intellectual Property ...PNAS paper and its authors honored for scientific excellence
... EVANSTON, Ill. --- The editors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have awarded a paper by Monica Olvera de la cruz and Graziano Vernizzi from Northwestern Universitys department of materials science and engineering the prestigious 2007 Cozzarelli Prize. Olvera d...Ardea Biosciences Establishes Scientific Advisory Board for HIV Program
...isa Clinica Evandro Chagas HIV/AIDS Clinical Research Centre of the Oswaldo cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a faculty member of the ...d PhD Degree Program on Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases at Oswaldo cruz Foundation. Dr Grinsztejn is the Principal Investigator of the NIH Clinical...Oak Ridge leads DOE INCITE effort in 2008
... in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Later in the year, National Geographic featured the work of NCCS users from the University of CaliforniaSanta cruz and the University of Arizona in a discussion of the exploding stars known as supernovas. Also, a team of fusion researchers from ORNL, the Massac...Inducing RNAi with siRNA Cocktails Generated by RNase III
...ic primary antibodies (anti-GAPDH from Ambion; anti-La from Transduction Laboratories; anti-c-FOS from Santa cruz Biotech). A FITC-conjugated donkey anti-mouse IgG secondary antibody (Jackson Immuno Research) was used for ...New Mammalian Two-Hybrid System Detects Protein-Protein Interactions
...is using anti-GAL4 DNA-binding domain monoclonal antibody (Santa cruz Biotech) and anti-NF- k B polyclonal antibody (Santa cruz Biotech), respectively (data not shown). These results demonstra...Wrapping Film (case) from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
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