Physicians Hail Arkansas Court Victory Against Baptist Health

Court finds patient-physician relationship is entitled to "exceptional protections" LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a legal victory that preserves the patient-physician relationship and promotes competition, an Arkansas state court has ruled that Baptist Health, Arkan...

Physicians Hail VNUS Device for Closing Diseased Perforating Veins

ClosureRFS Stylet 'Ideal' for Treating Condition Affecting Four Million Americans SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VNUS(R) Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNUS ), a worldwide leader in medical devices for the minimally invasive treatment of ...

Marine Corps Launches Inaugural Marine Week in Chicago, May 11-17

...nation." Nearly 11,000 service members from Illinois are deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, thousands of whom hail from Chicago. Marine Week Chicago will honor these brave men and women as well as the many citizens of Chicago who have provided their support from t...

Wilmer Valderrama to Co-Host Cielo Latino with Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza

...e Latino Commission on AIDS is honored and joyful to have the talent and support of Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza and actor Wilmer Valderrama, who both hail from Venezuela, in our annual fundraising effort and our global fight against HIV/AIDS," said deLeon. Following his role as "Fez" in "That 70's...

FDA Fireside Chat @ The 8th Annual MedTech Investing Conference May 6-7, 2009

... offers members unique opportunities to network and collaborate and provides them with a strong, unified voice at the state and federal level. Members hail from all life science industry sectors, including medical device, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, health care providers and insurers, agricultural ...

Singapore Offers Grants to Research Scientists to Start Labs Here

...een awarded research grants from the National Research Foundation ( www.nrf.gov.sg ) to help them start their own labs in Singapore. These scientists hail from six nations including China, Estonia, Japan, Turkey, Singapore and Switzerland. The research grants allow the scientists to start thei...

Praise for Sebelius, DeParle From Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Roger Hickey

... Encouraged That Obama Is Moving Quickly On Health Reform, Progressives hail Choice of HHS Secretary and White House Health Reform Office Director WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Campaign for America's Futur...

MedTech Investing Conference (8th Annual) May 6-7, 2009

... offers members unique opportunities to network and collaborate and provides them with a strong, unified voice at the state and federal level. Members hail from all life science industry sectors, including medical device, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, health care providers and insurers, agricultural ...

Sharing The Arts & Ridgewood High School Present Musical Production of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

...q- and Triple x Syndrome. One of the children - who plays Augustus Gloop - is completely non-verbal, yet signs to communicate. The children and teens hail from Northern New Jersey, Rockland County and New York City. More than 15 high school volunteers are also involved with the production, tak...

$100,000 Winners of Nation's Premier High School Science Competition to be Announced

...0,000 to $50,000 will be awarded to teams and individuals placing sixth through second place. WHO: This year's eighteen National Finalists hail from California, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Oregon. These remarkable stude...

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Ocean research officials hail completion of modernization for US scientific ocean drilling vessel

Senior officials from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Implementing Organization for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program today marked the occasion of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution sailing off from Singapore for science sea trials and transit to Honolulu, after a complete...

65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet, say scientists from the U.S., U.K., Italy, and New Zealand in thi...

AGU journal highlights -- Dec. 31, 2008

...ave now conducted simulations of severe tornadic thunderstorms using a grid of 100-meter (328-feet) spacing. They find that when the sizes of rain and hail drops are large, weaker cold pools due to reduced evaporative cooling/melting over smaller geographic regions result. Such weak cold pools are found t...

Diatom genome helps explain success in trapping excess carbon in oceans

...team has demonstrated that when iron deficiency occurs processes such as photosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation are suppressed. Other studies, which hail diatoms as champions in capturing carbon dioxide, suggest a bold strategy of using iron as a fertilizer to provoke massive diatom blooms. "Once they ...

Europe rallies behind nanotechnology to wean world from fossil fuels

...likely to lower costs in the long term, using cheaper semiconductor materials to produce robust flexible sheets strong enough to resist buffeting from hail for example. Although less efficient than the very best silicon or thin film cells using current technology, their better price/performance has led th...

More research needed to make good on biofuel promise, experts say

...ng mistakes we're likely to later regret." Michigan State University researcher G. Philip Robertson was lead author of the Science article. Authors hail from universities and institutions from two countries and 16 states. "Business as usual writ larger is not an environmentally welcome outcome," the...

AGU journal highlights -- August 6, 2008

...2008GL034264 2. Is climate change reducing hail over China? Hail, defined as precipitation of ...tate. To determine whether precipitation trends in hail have changed on regional scales, Xie et al. study ...ch year, the authors calculate the average "annual hail days" (AHD), which is the average amount of days e...

Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive computing

... Khaleel, director of Computational Sciences and Mathematics at PNNL, which is leading the project. Other researchers in the software collaboration hail from Sandia National Laboratories, Georgia Institute of Technology, Washington State University and the University of Delaware. These new machines ...

The Parkinson's Disease Foundation awards $950,000 in seed grants

...almost 100 candidates by a scientific review committee led by Stanley Fahn, M.D., PDF's Scientific Director. This year's outstanding awardees, who hail from around the world, include two who are investigating paths to new potential therapies for Parkinson's disease (PD): Matthew Goldberg, Ph.D., and S...

Research forecasts increased chances for stormy weather

...used climate models to examine future weather conditions favorable to formation of severe thunderstorms - those that produce flooding, damaging winds, hail and sometimes spawn tornadoes. "It seems that areas in the U.S. prone to severe thunderstorms now will likely have more of them in the future," sai...

Hail in Biological Technology

Nanotechnology: Will it drive a new innovation economy for the US?

... research, and ensure the competitiveness of U.S. technology based industries and workers. Nanotechnologywhich some scientists and business leaders hail as ushering in the next technology-driven Industrial Revolutionpromises to be one of the critical foundations for this new innovation economy. Nanotec...

2008 National Ergonomics Conference Schedule Announced, Features Four New Tracks of Programming and Focus on Corporate Sustainability and Productivity; Most Product Debuts in Expo's 14-Year History

...s future opportunities for ergonomists and the ergonomics industry as a whole. Other industry leaders sharing their secrets to ergonomics success will hail from Boeing, Ford, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., JetBlue, Liberty Mutual, Marsh, Mayo Health Systems, MHIA, Pacific Gas & Electric, Raytheon, Traveler...

Wisconsins insurance companies use advanced IT to speed relief

...le to the community when land lines or cell phones arent functioning. The vehicles have also been used as a drive-in claims center, especially when hail damages thousands of policy-holders' automobiles, and Scheper estimates the company can process 192 vehicle damage claims in a day. Another use of ...