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QHR Client Hospitals Lauded for Consistently High Quality Standards, Exceeding Patient Expectations

QHR client hospitals Littleton Regional Hospital (Littleton, N.H.), North Valley Hospital (Whitefish, Mont.), Northwestern Medical Center (St. Albans, Vt.) and Trigg County Hospital (Cadiz, Kent.) were recently named "Overall Best Performers" by Avatar International, an industry leader ...

Appointment of Margaret Hamburg to Lead FDA Lauded by Gov. Lowell Weicker, President of the Board of Trust for America's Health

WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Governor Lowell Weicker, Jr., former Governor and three-term U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and President of the Board of the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) on the appointment of Margaret A. (Peggy) Hamburg, MD, to ...

New commission on health-care disparities lauded by American College of Physicians

Washington (Feb. 29) Noting that its Board of Regents last month added health care disparities as one of its strategic priorities, the American College of Physicians (ACP) today commended the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for launching the Commission to Build a Healthier America. The Americ...

Canadian Lung Cancer Study Lauded As Major Advance in Cancer Fight

The American Society of Clinical Oncology has chosen 11 research efforts as major advances in the fight against cancer for the year 2005. Prominent// among them is the finding that Herceptin is effective in preventing the recurrence of HER-2-positive early-stage breast cancer. A Canadian resea...

National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Lauded

The Department of Health has announced the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, which will cover the country over the next three years.// The British Society of Gastroenterology has unanimously welcomed the introduction of this program. "Although it is starting rather later than expect...

American Academy of Dermatology Commends Reclassification of Tanning Beds as Carcinogenic

...e a tanning bed. Nearly 30 million people tan indoors in the United States annually and of these, 2.3 million are teens. The Academy recently lauded the state of Texas for being the first in the nation to prohibit the use of indoor tanning devices for all children and adolescents under the age of 1...

Catterton Partners Acquires Leading Cosmeceutical Brand StriVectin

.... StriVectin is a leader in the global skincare market, which is expected to reach $58.2 billion by 2012, an increase of 17.6% since 2007.(1) lauded as the "stretch-mark cream turned anti-wrinkle phenomenon" since being introduced in 2003, StriVectin is the fastest growing anti-aging brand and one ...

Nation's Largest RN Union Endorses Trumka to Lead Labor as President of AFL-CIO

... care and RN layoffs. "When our patients' safety, and our members' livelihoods were on the line, Rich Trumka was there," said McVay. DeMoro lauded Trumka's achievement in winning retiree health protections for miners, especially those affected by on the job health injuries, which she called "an i...

Quest Diagnostics India Recognized as Laureate by the Computerworld Honors Program

... Quest4Health.com lauded in Healthcare Category for 'Visionary Application of Information Technology to Promote Positive Social and Economic Progress' MADISON, N.J., Jun...

American Airlines Applauded for Its Fundraising to Support Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R), Promise Grant to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

... Year of Funding DALLAS, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) today lauded thousands of American Airlines AAdvantage(R) members, employees, and Celebrity Golf and Tennis supporters for helping American meet its promise to fun...

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Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow

...e rather than just a research exercise." Marco J. Mariotto, UH's dean of graduate and professional studies and co-director of the Abramson Center, lauded the student-driven effort to deliver a low-cost, technology-driven health aid "for addressing the management of chronic disease, especially for unders...

Business, scientific, higher education groups laud President Obama's commitment to science

...letter recently sent to President Obama, more than 200 organizations, representing the nation's business, scientific and higher education communities, lauded the President for his outstanding leadership in advancing scientific research, innovation, and science and math education. Read the letter below. ...

UC Davis chemical ecologist wins major award

...onmental protective, biorational methods for pest and disease control." Colleague Ring Card, chair of the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside, lauded Leal as "one of the leading scientists worldwide studying the chemistry of pheromone communication in insects and related arthropods." A pioneer ...

Molecular Biology of the Cell celebrates 25 years of publication

... Since the first edition published 25 years ago, Molecular Biology of the Cell has become the leading cell biology textbook, lauded as the most influential cell biology textbook of its time [1] . It has been read by well over one million people around the world. The new fifth ...

Stem cell transplants explored at Stanford as a possible treatment for hearing loss

...oming crisis and what can be done about it." James Battey, MD, director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, lauded Heller as "one of the leading auditory neuroscientists" and points to his stem cell regeneration research as a high priority for the institute. ...
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Physics professor lauded for NSF efforts with prestigious award

Kent State University Professor of Physics Dr. Satyendra Kumar recently was honored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with its Directors Award for Excellence for recognition of exceptional performance in coordinating merit review of interdisciplinary condensed matter physics proposals. In a...

Physics professor lauded for NSF efforts with prestigious award

Kent State University Professor of Physics Dr. Satyendra Kumar recently was honored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with its Directors Award for Excellence for recognition of exceptional performance in coordinating merit review of interdisciplinary condensed matter physics proposals. In a...

Stem Cell Industry Insider Mercedes Walton Discusses President Obama's Stem Cell Executive Order

...kthrough cures and treatments for a multitude of life-threatening and devastating diseases in the future," said Walton. The Executive Order is lauded as affirming the American government's belief in scientific progress and offers hope of better treatments and cures to millions of Americans suffering...

North Carolina's Biotechnology Investment Tops Billion-Dollar Mark; Battelle Study Quantifies Economic Dividends and Jobs

...80,007 jobs when all spending by those companies and their employees, termed indirect and induced impacts, are counted. The Battelle analysis lauded the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, saying it "has clearly generated a comprehensive and well thought-out series of programs and initiatives that...

Professor-turned-producer learns the movie biz

...still in distribution worldwide and is currently in the process of being translated into several different languages. The award-winning movie has been lauded by both educators and science advocacy groups as a triumph. Director V. Owen Bush, producer Kurt Przybilla, and art director Chris Harvey of the "Ridi...

CBI and PharmaVoice Announce Recipients of the Strategic Patient Adherence Awards

...ard winners, received awards for the Best Branded Compliance Program. The Health Inform(R) Programs for Crestor, Symbicort and Nexium medications were lauded for measurement of each program's effectiveness. "I really liked the way in which they measured and published their results," said Robert Nauman, BioP...

Northwest Wis. Manufacturing Outreach Center honored by DOC, NIST

... Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership to obtain continued state funding for small- to medium-sized Wisconsin manufacturers. NWMOC was also lauded for managing the partnership of technical colleges throughout the state. The panel recognized NSMOC for creating a beneficial partnership structure to...

Doyle names business and technology successes, plans for 2005

...nition to both Democrats and Republicans. WTN compiled this point-by-point guide to his stances on business and technology. Forbes ranking : Doyle lauded Madison for ranking first among cities for business and careers in Forbes Magazine , with other cities including Appleton and Milwaukee making strong...

New facility giving API needed room to grow

... night reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony that was attended by Werner Wolpert, executive director of the Hartford Area Development Corp. Wolpert lauded the development and praised the business "as monumental evidence that technology businesses can succeed in the United States."...

Cellular Dynamics getting $2 million in Wisconsin financing

... focus on the heart cells, it could branch off to other cells, Thomson said. Bob Palay, managing member of Tactics II Ventures and chairman of CDI, lauded the state for its investment in the company, and pointed to at least one other success with such state investing - NimbleGen Systems Inc . of Madison...
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