Streamline Health Appoints Jon Phillips Chairman of the Board of Directors

CINCINNATI, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: STRM ) today announced that, in an effort to further implement best practices for corporate governance, the Company should have an independent, non-management dir...

'Sharing Miracles' Television Program to Feature Boston Red Sox Star Pitcher Jon Lester

WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the 2009 Major League Baseball season opens this month, Sharing Miracles, a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients, will feature Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester. Shari...

The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, Scientists Mina J. Bissell and Susan Band Horwitz, and Philanthropist Jon M. Huntsman to Receive American Cancer Society Highest Honor for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Fight

Society's Medal of Honor to be Awarded on November 21 NEW YORK, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society -- the nation's leading voluntary health organization and largest non-governmental funder of cancer research and discovery -- will present its highest honor, the...

Red Sox Pitcher Jon Lester Wins 2008 Hutch Award(R)

SEATTLE, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Left-handed pitcher Jon Lester, who came back from an off-season battle with cancer to pitch the winning game for the Boston Red Sox in the 2007 World Series, will receive the 2008 Hutch Award. The award is given annually to a Major League Baseball player who b...

Garth Brooks, Jon McLaughlin, and Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo Raise Their Voices to Help Starkey Hearing Foundation Raise More Than $5 Million at Annual Fundraiser

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Through emotional and energetic performances, Garth Brooks, Jon McLaughlin, and Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo helped the Starkey Hearing Foundation, a world leader in promoting hearing health awareness, raise a record $5,045,000 at its annual "So the...

Kelsey Grammer, Ben Stiller, Maroon 5 and The Roots Added to COMEDY CENTRAL's(R) Live On-air Charity Special 'Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education' Hosted by Jon Stewart on Sunday April 13, at 8 p.m. ET

Appearances By Will Arnett, Matthew Broderick, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Susie Essman, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Kevin James, Conan O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnell, Amy Poehler, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Triumph The Insult Comic Dog And Many More To Be Announced NEW YORK...

COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Announces Live On-Air Charity Special 'Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit For Autism Education' Hosted by Jon Stewart on Sunday April 13, at 8 p.m. ET

Appearances By Will Arnett, Matthew Broderick, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Susie Essman, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Kevin James, Conan O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnell, Amy Poehler, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Triumph The Insult Comic Dog And Many More To Be Announced 'Night O...

Inverness Medical Innovations to Present at the Canaccord Adams Global Growth Conference on August 11, 2009

...ay that it will attend the Canaccord Adams Global Growth Conference being held on August 11 through 13, 2009 at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston. jon Russell, Vice President, Finance, will attend. Mr. Russell's presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. By develop...

Electronic Health Records Help Cardiac Patients Remain Healthy

...ontrol, patients can then be discharged and followed virtually with the same success. Other authors on this study include: Thomas Delate, PhD; jon Rasmussen, PharmD; Tammy L. Humphries, PharmD; and John A. Merenich, MD; for the Kaiser Permanente Colorado Clinical Pharmacy Cardiac Risk Service Stu...

Pilot study: Workplace yoga and meditation can lower feelings of stress

... the result, and the sample collection technique will be changed in subsequent studies. Klatt said mindfulness-based stress reduction, developed by jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, has been studied widely and determined to be useful in lowering symptoms ranging from de...

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BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Results of Shionogi & Co. Sponsored Phase 3 Studies of i.v. Peramivir for Influenza

...epresents a significant milestone for BioCryst -- the first Phase 3 studies successfully conducted with a drug candidate discovered by BioCryst," said jon P. Stonehouse, President and Chief Executive Officer of BioCryst. "We congratulate Shionogi on the success of these rapidly completed studies, which ...

Jazz Pharmaceuticals and UCB Announce Second Phase III Study of Sodium Oxybate in Patients With Fibromyalgia Meets Primary Endpoints

.... "Fibromyalgia is a chronic illness, characterized by widespread pain, unrefreshing sleep, chronic fatigue, and psychological distress," said I. jon Russell, M.D., Ph.D., lead investigator in the first Phase III study and Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumato...

Aethlon Medical to Present at the 2009 RedChip Small-Cap Investor Conference on June 16, 2009

...com or Jim Joyce Chairman, CEO 858.459.7800 x301 jj@aethlonmedical.com Investor Relations: RedChip Companies, Inc. jon Cunningham (800) 733-2447, Ext. 107 info@redchip.com ...

Quest Diagnostics Introduces First Commercial Laboratory Test for Identifying the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus

...help health care professionals and public health authorities identify infected patients more quickly, promoting earlier diagnosis and treatment," said jon R. Cohen, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer, Quest Diagnostics. "This capability could be particularly important if the novel H1N1...

BioCryst Provides Peramivir Update and Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...e HHS. "BioCryst is working diligently with government agencies to provide i.v. peramivir as a treatment option for an influenza emergency," said jon P. Stonehouse, President and Chief Executive Officer of BioCryst. "With its parenteral route of administration, peramivir has the potential to help p...

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals to Announce Peramivir Update and First Quarter 2009 Financial Results on May 8, 2009

...call and Web cast at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the financial results and provide an update on the Company's programs. The call will be led by jon P. Stonehouse, President and Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Grant, Chief Financial Officer and Dr. William P. Sheridan, Chief Medical Officer. T...

An Independent Study Reports on the Utility of ImmuKnow(R), the Cylex(TM) Immune Cell Function Assay, for Monitoring Heart Transplant Recipients

... with ImmuKnow to determine whether ImmuKnow assay values can be correlated with the incidence of infection or rejection. The lead investigator, jon Kobashigawa, MD, favorably remarked, "These results suggest that ImmuKnow as a non-invasive immune monitoring is indeed a promising means for individu...

Record 'Door-to-Balloon' Time at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas

...es damage to the heart muscle. "Not only is this the best time ever for our hospital, it ranks among the best times regionally and nationally," said jon Gardner, Presbyterian's director of the Heart & Vascular Service Line. "But the record isn't what's important. The importance of this is that it's ano...

BioCryst Announces Initiation of Phase II Study of Intramuscular Peramivir for the Treatment of Seasonal Influenza

... with our new, more concentrated formulation allows us to test peramivir in the outpatient setting at a higher dose than previously evaluated," stated jon P. Stonehouse, President and Chief Executive Officer of BioCryst. "We are confident the results of this study will move us one step closer to offering...

BioCryst Updates Peramivir Clinical Development Plan

...reinforced our belief that adequate and consistent systemic exposure to peramivir is critical to demonstrate the clinical benefits of peramivir," said jon P. Stonehouse, President and CEO of BioCryst. "This strategy allows us to test a higher dose, utilize a new formulation and make the adjustments in ne...

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Wolf Prize in Medicine

... This box: view • talk • edit Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Medicine : 1978 George D. Snell , Jean Dausset , jon J. van Rood 1979 Roger W. Sperry , Arvid Carlsson , Oleh Hornykiewicz 1980 Cesar Milstein , Leo Sachs , Sir James L. Gowans 1981 Barbara...

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Sucrose

...ut sucrose in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... sucrose - a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a ... jon Barron_ s natural health newsletter on the heavy use of high fructose corn syrup and sucrose contributing to the increased rates of obesity an...

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Geographic tongue

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Corn

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Study: Illegal fishing harming present and future New England groundfish fisheries

...ine Policy . Among their findings, environmental economists Dr. Dennis King of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Dr. jon Sutinen of the University of Rhode Island detail nearly a doubling of the percent of total harvest taken illegally over the last two decades in the No...

New journal on advanced glass research to debut

...orld. "I am delighted that ACerS has given Wiley-Blackwell the opportunity to extend our partnership by publishing this new journal together," said jon Walsmley, vice president and managing director, professional publications, of Wiley-Blackwell. "This is a hot subject-area with significant potential....

Milestone in live microscopy focus of $2 million NIH grant

...confident that we will be able to do so." Five UC Davis colleagues will collaborate with Browning on the project: Peter Armstrong, Jodi Nunnari and jon Scholey, professors of molecular and cellular biology; Wolf Heyer, professor of microbiology; and Stephen Kowalczykowski, distinguished professor of m...

Collaboration leads to success: Most powerful computer of its kind in western N.Y. available worldwide

...was brought on-line by Kevin Cleary, systems administrator in the UB Department of Computer Science and Engineering, with guidance and assistance from jon Bednasz, senior systems administrator in the UB Center for Computational Research. ...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 13 top young investigators

...d skin cancers. These studies may lead to novel therapeutic targets to limit or prevent metastasis. Jason Michael Crawford, PhD, with his sponsor jon Clardy, PhD, at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, is developing DNA-based methods to discover novel compounds from microbes, such as bact...

Decline of shorebird linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs

...the food supply for red knots at a critical period in their annual cycle, and this led to a dramatic decline in population size," said USGS scientist, jon Bart, one of the authors of the study. There is a long tradition in Delaware Bay of harvesting horseshoe crabs for use as bait in various fisheries...

Mama whales teach babies where to eat

..."Southern right whales consume enormous amounts of food and have to travel vast distances to find adequate amounts of small prey," says study coauthor jon Seger, professor of biology at the University of Utah. "This study shows that mothers teach their babies in the first year of life where to go to feed...

Federal scientists recognized for contributions to knowledge of bird ecology and habitat

...otted Owl Populations and Habitat. Other partners who will be recognized at the awards ceremony with Forsman are Ray Davis, Umpqua National Forest; jon Martin, Tongass National Forest (formerly with Region 6 of the Forest Service); Shawne Mohoric, Region 6, Forest Service; Joseph Lint, Bureau of Land...

Nations that sow food crops for biofuels may reap less than previously thought

...'s according to a study led by Matt Johnston and Tracey Holloway of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and jon Foley of University of Minnesota, which drew on actual agricultural data from nearly 240 countries to calculate the potential yields of 20 different b...

Dartmouth researchers find new protein function

...Before this study, it had been shown that kinesin motors either walked along their microtubule tracks or functioned to break microtubules apart," says jon Kull, the senior author on the paper, associate professor of chemistry at Dartmouth, and a 1988 Dartmouth graduate. "This work describes a novel mode ...

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Campbell Alliance Adds Industry Veterans Jon W. McGarity and David Lilley as Executive Vice Presidents

RALEIGH, N.C., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Campbell Alliance, the leading management consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, today announced that it has appointed industry veterans Jon W. McGarity and David Lilley as Executive Vice Presidents. Both gentlemen will work...

Trusted LASIK Surgeons Welcomes Leading Laser Expert and Inventor Jon Dishler, M.D., to Its Unique LASIK Eye Surgeon Directory for Consumers

Trusted LASIK Surgeons launched its revolutionary Trusted LASIK Surgeons directory service and website at www.TrustedLASIKSurgeons.com in order to provide a resource for consumers seeking to improve their vision and find a highly qualified surgeon who can help improve their chances of attaining...

InSet Technologies Appoints Jon Tremmel to its Board of Directors

MT. OLIVE, N.J., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- InSet Technologies, an emerging leader in the development of implantable drug infusion pumps for targeted delivery of medications, announced today the addition of Jon Tremmel to its Board of Directors. Before retiring from Medtronic Inc. after nearly 30...

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals announces launch of Quill SRS product codes for laparoscopic gynecology procedures

...and include our newly designed 36 mm needles. The use of Quill SRS in laparoscopic gynecology surgery was first reported by James Greenberg, MD, and jon Einarsson, MD, MPH, of the Centre for Women's Surgery at Brigham Women's/Faulkner Hospitals and Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts in the ...

America's Organic Home-Fueling Movement Begins in Los Angeles

...es Fisher and Corey Feldman; Hollywood producers Marshall Herskovitz and jon Sheinberg ; football great Chuck Muncie; visionary Tom Quinn; and ethanol p...l responsibility," said Hollywood film producer and GreenHouse partner jon Sheinberg. "We are proud to lower the carbon footprint in the Los Ange...

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals to Announce Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on July 30, 2009

...all and Web cast at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the financial results and provide an update on the Company's programs. The call will be led by jon P. Stonehouse, President and Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Grant, Chief Financial Officer and Dr. William P. Sheridan, Chief Medical Officer. ...

FDA Grants First Authorization of a Commercial 2009 H1N1 Flu Test for use During Pandemic Flu Emergency to Quest Diagnostics' Focus Diagnostics Business

...gical assessments, can aid physicians in diagnosing patients infected with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus versus other influenza A virus strains," said jon R. Cohen, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer, Quest Diagnostics. "This capability could be critically important in aiding clinician...

Thomson Reuters Partners With Sagient Research

...licensing activity and more scrutiny on drug development, our customers need to assess sales potential of new drugs more often than ever before," said jon Brett-Harris, EVP of Life Sciences, Thomson Reuters. "The partnership with Sagient is an important investment in Thomson Pharma Partnering , which wi...

Sparta Systems' TrackWise(R) Solution Delivers Workforce Training and Learning Initiatives for Cangene Corporation

...arks or registered trademarks of Sparta Systems, Inc. All other marks are trademarks of their respective companies. PR Contacts: jon Rabinowitz Director of Marketing Sparta Systems, Inc. Tel: 732.203.0400, ext. 121 jon.rabinowitz@sparta-systems.com Katy Zack ...

Lytix Biopharma and KAEL-GemVax Announce Joint Clinical Trial to Combine LTX-315 and GV1001 Cancer Immunotherapy

...pecific vaccination - these two novel agents should have the potential to function as an efficient immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer," says Mr jon Amund Eriksen, Director of Product Development, Oncology at Lytix Biopharma. Mr Eriksen is also one of the key persons, together with Professor Gustav...

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Genomics

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Cerebellum

...n, lying posterior to the pons and medulla oblongata and inferior to the Cerebellum Group Members: Joey Mudd , Will Chatham , Drew Daniel , jon Cook , Tim Furnish Similar Artists: Slint , Bitch Magnet , Bastro , Squirrel The cerebellum (Latin: "little brain") is a region of the brain that...