Leapfrog Group's 2008 Top Hospitals Excel at Patient Safety

26 Hospitals and 7 Children's Hospitals Earn Recognition WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-six hospitals and seven children's hospitals have been named 2008 Top Hospitals, based on results of the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The survey is the nation's premier hospital patient sa...

Registry unveils 'real-world' data on novel excel stent

CHICAGO, Ill. (March 31, 2008) Real-world use of a novel drug-eluting stent coated with a biodegradable polymer is associated with good clinical outcomes, according to one-year data from a large international registry. Results of the CREATE study, which focused on the sirolimus-eluting Excel sten...

Diuretics excel in drug comparison trial involving hypertension/metabolic syndrome

HOUSTON(Jan. 28, 2008)Diuretics were associated with reduced heart disease in a drug comparison trial involving 23,077 people with both high blood pressure and the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart disease, report researchers from The University of Texas School of Public Heal...

Pharmaceutical Product Commercialization: Enabling Teams to Excel

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmaceutical product teams have the power to make or break the launch of a new product. The problem is launch teams often lack the right structure, tools and processes to run effectively and therefore only produce a sub-optimal launch. In fact, phar...

Ability to process information as a baby continues into adulthood

... CLEVELAND--Infants who excel at processing new information at 6- and 12-months-old, typically excel in intelligence and academic achievements as young adults in their 20's, ...

Career Step Launches New Exam Prep Course for Medical Transcription Industry Credential

...w Career Step RMT Prep course teaches students test-taking strategies specific to the RMT exam and reviews the materials students will need to know to excel on the exam, including medical terminology, principles of healthcare documentation, and body systems. Upon completion of the course, students will hav...

Louisiana Optometrists Partner With Sens. Landrieu and Vitter, U.S. House Leaders in Improving Infant Eye and Vision Care

...n skills. The curriculum, taught by leading eye care practitioners from around the country, gives participants the skills and confidence necessary to excel in today's professional practice. The Vision Care Institute has hosted students from all 19 of the schools and colleges of optometry throughout North...

Central DuPage Hospital Ranks 35th in Orthopaedics in U.S. News Media Group's 2009-10 America's Best Hospitals

...orthopedics; psychiatry; rehabilitation; respiratory disorders; rheumatology and urology. "I have watched our orthopaedic services continue to excel at CDH," says CEO Luke McGuinness. "To be listed to U.S. News & World Report for the third consecutive year is a testament to the caliber of the...

University HealthSystem Consortium Recognized as a Company That Cares for Sixth Year in a Row

...h include: Sustaining a work environment founded on dignity and respect for all employees Developing great leaders, at all levels, who excel at managing people as well as results Encouraging individual pursuit of work-life balance In addition to meeting these standa...

EAP Strengthens Service Offerings Through Deal With Broadspire

...elderly or special needs children are competing for their attention," said Annette Sanchez, chief marketing officer for Broadspire. "Our care managers excel at making sure family members get the attention they need. It may be as simple as a ride to the doctor's office, but it gives the employee peace of m...

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Excel in Medical Technology

Atrium Medical Corporation Announces First Implant of First-in-Man CINATRA(TM) Voclosporin Coated Coronary Stent

...latest ISO13485 Quality Standards, state-of-the-art manufacturing and automation, cell biology and biomaterial discovery programs, Atrium continues to excel in those healthcare segments that require more advanced surgical intervention for improvements in patient outcome. For more information, call 800-370-...

ISAR-REACT 3 Pits Bivalirudin vs. Unfractionated Heparin in PCI

... Will direct thrombin inhibitor excel with high-dose clopidogrel on board? CHICAGO, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A large randomized trial will shed light on the ideal combination of medicati...

New Data for Cytogen's QUADRAMET Reported at Annual ASCO Meeting

...H), Islamabad, Pakistan (Abstract No. 461, Tuesday June 5, 2007, 3:18 PM) "ProstaScint imaging - Reviewing the fundamentals", by Sureshbabu, et al., excel Diagnostics Imaging Clinics, Houston, Texas (Abstract No. 2103, Monday June 4, 2007, 2:30 PM) "Use of SPECT/CT in tumor localization: SPECT/CT versu...

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Excel in Medical Products

CUSA EXcel Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator

Description: The CUSA EXcel system provides tissue fragmentation, irrigation, aspiration, and the unique patented TissueSelect technology. The CUSA has been the leading ultrasonic surgical aspirator for over 25 years....
Company:Integra Radionics, Inc.

OmniSight™ EXcel System: Image-Guided Surgery

Description: The Radionics OmniSight EXcel image guided surgery system offers full-featured image guidance while maintaining simplicity in design and use. It provides unparalleled three-dimensional visualization, allowing the surgeons to localize critical anatomy and plan optimal surgical trajectories. This new...
Company:Integra Radionics, Inc.

CoolGlide Excel Nd:YAG Laser

Description: CoolGlide Excel's high-power, long-pulse Nd:YAG technology provides practitioners with the ability to treat a full range of vascular lesions and perform permanent hair reduction on all skin types and tanned patients. The adjustable spot size feature allows the practitioner to instantly switch to a ...
Company:Cutera, Inc.

CUSA Excel Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator

Description: The Valleylab CUSA EXcel system is the recognized world leader, providing rapid, selective tissue fragmentation with superior tactile feedback and exceptional visualization of the operative site. This unique surgical modality combines tissue fragmentation, irrigation, and aspiration capability to p...
Company:Valleylab

Excel Care™ ES Bariatric Bed

Description:... excel Care ES bed is especially designed to make your bariatric patients feel com... standing can be challenging to caregivers and disheartening for patients. excel Care ES bed offers features to make these and other tasks simpler and safer...
Company:Hill-Rom Services, Inc.

Excel Freehand Diamond Knives

Description:... The excel Series from DGH-KOI is an excellent choice for the ophthalmic surgeon perfo... ophthalmic procedures. With a broad range of blade options and our special excel Exchange Program, no knife offers better value....
Company:DGH Technologies, Inc.

PANALOK Anchors and Instrumentation

Description:... suture options (PANACRYL- the first long-term braided absorbable suture, and PDS II monofilament suture) and non-absorbable braided options (ETHIBOND excel in green or white)....
Company:Ethicon, Inc.

Micro Anchor

Description:...anchor on the market allowing exceptional flexibility in placement into even the smallest bones. This anchor comes pre-loaded with 3-0 or 4-0 ETHIBOND excel suture with a choice of tapered or cutting swaged needles. The kit includes a disposable inserter and drill bit....
Company:Ethicon, Inc.

Mini Anchor and Instrumentation

Description:...is an exceptionally strong, versatile anchor. This anchor comes in either a load-your-own or QUICKANCHOR format, preloaded on either 2/0 or 0 ETHIBOND excel suture with swaged needles....
Company:Ethicon, Inc.

FASTIN Threaded Anchors and Instrumentation

Description:...hor for you. Features Self-drilling providing simple and easy insertion. Self-tapping eliminating the need for additional instrumentation. #2 ETHIBOND excel suture and inserter....
Company:Ethicon, Inc.

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Excel in Biological News

New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

...ystals, Inc., Gigaphotonic, Inc., GSI Group, Inc., excel Technology, Inc., IPG Photonics Corp., JDS Uniphas...7. Recent Industry Activity II-38 GSI Acquires excel Technology II-38 Trumpf Acquires SPI Lasers II... (Japan) II-61 GSI Group, Inc. (USA) II-61 excel Technology, Inc. (USA) II-61 IPG Photonics Cor...

Cancer Genomics Browser gives cancer researchers a powerful new tool

... the basis of any feature of interest, such as age, gender, response to therapy, estrogen-receptor status of breast cancers, and so on. Because humans excel at visual pattern recognition, correlations in the data tend to jump out as the user manipulates the browser display. "The ideas behind it are sim...

MIT: Why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives

... CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area,...

Study to evaluate success of parental involvement in early childhood education

...learning process. I am excited about the possibilities," she said. "This grant will help future generations of economically disadvantaged students excel so that they may be on equal footing with their peers," said Giuseppe Colasurdo, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and dean of the UT Medica...

High Performance, Low-Cost VoIP Chips Address Critical Performance Issues Such as Echo, Latency, and Packet Loss

... recognizes that one size does not fit all. By providing the source code option, Adaptive Digital empowers the manufacturer to customize, innovate and excel in the marketplace. About Adaptive Digital Technologies, Inc. Adaptive Digital ( www.adaptivedigital.com ) develops/licenses highly optimized...

Pregnancy not turning minds to mush: Study

...acity and less fear responses than non-mothers. The rat data suggests that mother rats navigate mazes more efficiently, have less anxiety and fear and excel at multi-skilling. That sounds to me like almost every mother I know and I hope that the human effects eventually mirror those findings," she said. ...

SNM awards $300,000 to support molecular imaging research

...and biomedical imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. "As a society, we have a tradition of creating opportunities for researchers to excel in the field. These new awards will create further opportunities for young scientists to pursue cutting-edge research in the emerging field of molecul...

UC Riverside bioengineer receives high honor from chemical engineers

...ehavior towards new and desired outcomes," Schultz said. "This is potentially a new and exciting area in bioengineering, and UCR is well positioned to excel in biocellular engineering." Schultz started his academic career in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan (1964-1987...

Iowa State-ConocoPhillips collaboration advances 26 research projects in first year

...y, biophysics and molecular biology who is studying natural enzymes called cellulosomes, enzymes found in termites and the first stomachs of cows that excel at breaking down cellulose from plants. A grant from ConocoPhillips is helping him develop a method to make synthetic cellulosomes that are efficient ...

Mechanisms of plant-fungi symbiosis characterized by DOE Joint Genome Institute

...ability to generate large amounts of biomass or store carbon is underpinned by their interactions with soil microbes known as mycorrhizal fungi, which excel at procuring necessary, but scarce, nutrients such as phosphate and nitrogen. Most of these nutrients are transferred to the growing tree. When Laccar...

Excel in Biological Technology

GSI Group Accepts Shares in Tender Offer for Excel Technology and Commences Subsequent Offering Period

BEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GSI Group Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIG ) announced today the expiration of the initial offering period of the tender offer by its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Eagle Acquisition Corporation (EAC) for all outstanding shares of common stock of Excel Te...

ChemAxon Launches JChem for Excel

BUDAPEST, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Introductory Webinar, July 21st, 11am EDT - End User Workshop at US User Group Meeting; September 15-16, San Diego, CA ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics, today announced the launch of JChem for Excel. The add-in for M...

Informex Rebrands Into Separate Pharmaceutical and Specialty Chemical Segments to Better Serve Exhibitors and Attendees

...globe. Its brands are represented in more than 30 countries and are organized into specialist teams that serve their business communities helping them excel in their market by working effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.unitedbusinessmedia.com ...

Thomson Reuters Partners With Sagient Research

...drug approvals, monitor upcoming events that will affect those approvals, and provide multiple perspectives on sales forecasts, including downloadable excel models that allow customers to tailor with their own assumptions. "With increasing licensing activity and more scrutiny on drug development, ...

Pioneer Hi-Bred and Beck's Hybrids Enter into Research and Distribution Agreements

...ioneer, an organization with one of the premier germplasm development programs in the world, enables synergy between us to identify seed products that excel in Beck’s geography,” said Scott Beck, vice president -- Beck’s Hybrids. “These agreements allow us to create, test and ident...

Five Cord Blood Transplant Centers in Catalonia and Valencia Join a Study to Test a New Technique to Treat Leukemia and Lymphoma

... in Barcelona and two in Valencia, have joined the excel study. Participating clinical sites includ...harmaceutical Industries (NASDAQ: TEVA ). excel is a study that gives clinicians the opportunity t...ww.gamida-cell.com . For information regarding the excel study: http://www.stemexstudy.com . Press ...

Satyam Wins Consumer Health World Award for Tele-Ophthalmology Program

...al delivery model to help clients transform their highest-value business processes and improve their business performance. The company's professionals excel in engineering and product development, supply chain management, client relationship management, business process quality, business intelligence, ente...

Perceptive Informatics Receives Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award

...st & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award. Frost & Sullivan presented the award to Perceptive Informatics in recognition of its commitment to excel in the field of clinical technology solutions. The Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award recognizes Perceptive Informatics for demonst...

Fadel Partners Announces 13% Growth Despite IT Services Industry Downtrend

...ss of the Fadel Partners IPM Suite for intellectual property management. "Many companies that rely on licensing as a source of revenue are still using excel or even paper tracking methods," explained Fadel. "We address the challenges and enable companies to collect all of the royalties or licensing fees th...

Lilly Highlights Transformation Strategy for Wall Street, Reviews Robust Pipeline and Sets 2009 Financial Guidance

...arketed medicines, provided investors with sales and earnings guidance for 2009, and reviewed the transformation efforts that the company is making to excel in an increasingly challenging healthcare environment. "Lilly continues to deliver strong financial results to our shareholders through an att...

Excel in Biological Products

Balancetalk XL from Labtronics, Inc.

Description:... BalanceTalk XL provides balance data collection and automation that is controlled from within Excel. Complete integration with Microsoft excel Pre-configured library of interfaces for balances, scales and moisture analyzers New balances can be added and configured by the user Collect...
Company:Labtronics, Inc.

Collect XL from Labtronics, Inc.

Description:...Collect XL provides RS232/Serial data collection and automation that is controlled from within Excel. Complete instrument integration with Microsoft excel Pre-configured library of interfaces for balances, pH meters, titrators, density meters, force gauges, spectrophotometers, etc New RS232 and ser...
Company:Labtronics, Inc.

Safire 2 from Tecan

Description:...with stacker module Easy processing of up to 50 microplates High sensitivity for short measurement times XFluor software for direct control from excel included with each Safire Magellan software additionally offers full data reduction Advanced QC-tools and IQ OQ documents available ...
Company:Tecan

PsiPort ™ Mass Directed Auto Purification Software from Shimadzu Biotech

Description:...net Information Services). Sample log-in and acquisition Chemists may submit samples either using a spreadsheet from an external database (Microsoft excel for example) or a wizard function for a limited number of samples. Each sample contains all the user defined acquisition information (for example targ...
Company:Shimadzu Biotech

PROTEINEER sp: Automated Spot Picker from Bruker Daltonics

Description:... x,y-coordinates, together with the corresponding position of the excised spot on the microtiter plate, is automatically transferred into an Microsoft excel spreadsheet. PROTEINEER Suite Integration Gel and excised gel spots are identified via electronic transponders mounted on the gel frame and well plat...
Company:Bruker Daltonics

Beacon 2000 Data Mgmt Software from Invitrogen

Description:...ulate data imported directly from the instrument. These data can then be copied and pasted into commercially available spreadsheets, such as Microsoft excel or Lotus 123, or into a curve-fitting program. The Data Manager Software also automatically displays and graphs data points in "real time" as they are...
Company:Invitrogen

RNA OligoMix from LC Sciences

Description:...l sequences and we offer additional bioinformatics services for sequence design. Ordering is simple and easy; just send us your sequences in a text or excel format and in two-three weeks receive your RNA OligoMix or individual RNA sequences ready for your applications. Routinely available RNA OligoMix wi...
Company:LC Sciences

DNA OligoMix from LC Sciences

Description:...ces and costs 20 less than conventional synthesis; savings is even more dramatic on long sequences. Simple Simply email your sequences in a text or excel format and obtain synthesized sequences quickly. All sequences are delivered in one tube significantly increasing your experimental throughput. There ...
Company:LC Sciences

Excel in Biological Dictionary

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