Hooper Holmes Appoints Leslie Hudson, PhD, to Board of Directors

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hooper Holmes, Inc. (AMEX: HH ) today announced that Leslie Hudson, PhD, Interim President and CEO of Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: NABI ), has been reappointed to the Company's Board of Directors. Dr. Hudson was previously a memb...

National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP), the Largest Insurance Subrogation Association in the World - Announced Today that Leslie Wiernik has Joined the Organization as Director of Education

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leslie is past president of NASP and has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance, subrogation and legal industries. She was previously the national subrogation manager for Crum & Forster Insurance and has worked in multi-line claims for...

State Regulation of Massage Therapy Will Improve Public Health, Safety

...operly licensed. For additional information visit www.dos.state.pa.us and follow the link to "Professional Licensure." CONTACT: leslie Amoros or Charlie Young, 717-783-1621 ...

Multi-state Medicare Fraud Crackdown Focuses Attention on Recovery Payoffs to Defray Health Reform Costs

... partner, Ken Nolan are available to discuss healthcare fraud, and emerging health reform trends, in further detail. To schedule an interview, contact leslie Valenza at (202) 258-3223 or lvalenza@levick.com " target="_new"> lvalenza@levick.com . ...

Patients Issue Summer Call to Action: 'We Need You to Donate Blood -- NOW'

...Clinical, Transfusion, and Hemophilia Services) through our medical professionals and transfusion medicine physicians. Contact: leslie Gonzalez lgonzalez2@nybloodcenter.org (212) 570-3304 Office (646) 342-3038 Mobile ...

Pennsylvania Commission for Women Rallies Against Senate Budget Proposal

...complete elimination of the commission -- are a chilling reminder of how vulnerable the women of Pennsylvania are," said commission Executive Director leslie Stiles. "While some legislators do support the commission and the programs we provide for more than six million Pennsylvania women, we fear there is n...

The Gift of Life Flows Through Your Veins!

...ograms (Clinical, Transfusion, and Hemophilia Services) through our medical professionals and transfusion medicine physicians. Contact: leslie Gonzalez lgonzalez2@nybloodcenter.org (212) 570-3304 Office (646) 342-3038 Mobile ...

The next health tsunami: Noncommunicable diseases

...tsunami didn't arise yesterday; it evolved over time and is getting worse. We need a revolution to change the trajectory if we are serious," stated Dr leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Health, Guyana at this morning's WHO Ministerial breakfast meeting. The World Economic Forum's 2009 Global Risks report supports...

Who Says Negatives Can't Be Positive?

... programs (Clinical, Transfusion, and Hemophilia Services) through our medical professionals and transfusion medicine physicians. Contact: leslie Gonzalez lgonzalez2@nybloodcenter.org (212) 570-3304 Office (646) 342-3038 Mobile ...

Business, Health Care Leaders Call on Texas Employers to Cover Smoking Cessation Benefits for an Additional 100,000 People by 2010

...proving health, increasing productivity and saving health care dollars. "Smoking is a significant health care cost driver for businesses," said leslie Lockett, director of public affairs for H-E-B. "The decision to offer smoking cessation benefits makes good bottom line business sense, and it's the r...

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Economy is Driving Many Osteoporotic Women to Retire Later - But Their Ability to Work May Be Undermined by Sub-Optimal Management of Their Disease

...er Rabinowitz National Osteoporosis Foundation (202) 721-6359 Karen Young Society for Women's Health Research (202) 496-5001 leslie Bryant Hill & Knowlton (310) 633-9435 References (1) National Osteoporosis Foundation. America's Bone Health: The...

Fruitfly Model of a Neuropathic Disease Demonstrates Novel Role for Proteins in the Family of aTyr Pharma's Product Class

...ase. The large team of scientists on the study included Professors Paul Schimmel and Xiang-Lei Yang, scientific co-founders of aTyr Pharma, and leslie Nangle, Director of Research at aTyr Pharma, and was led by Albena Jordanova of the University of Antwerp. Other scientists contributing to this pape...

USC Keck School of Medicine's Dr. Alan Epstein Receives Prestigious National Cancer Institute RAID Award for Breakthrough IL-2 Molecule Therapeutic

...nsed from USC . For more information, visit www.pivotalbiosciences.com . Media Inquiries: Elisa Wiefel Schreiber leslie Ridgeway USC Stevens Institute for Innovation Keck School of Medicine of USC University of Southern California 323-442-2823 p: 213-...

Boston Scientific Data Show Real-World Survival Rates for Implantable Cardiac Device Patients Exceed Rates From Clinical Trials

...ators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) were presented at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in Boston by leslie Saxon, M.D., F.A.C.C., Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute, University of Southern California , and chairpers...

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Unveils Six-Month Efficacy Data for EUFLEXXA(R) for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis Knee Pain

...f Hyaluronan and its chemically cross-linked derivative (Hylan G-F20) in normal rabbit knee joints. Clin Exp Rheumatol 20, 445-454. (4) Goomer RS, leslie K, Maris T, & Amiel D (2005). Native hyaluronan produces less hypersensitivity than cross-linked hyaluronan. Clin Orthop Relat Res 239-245. ...

Elusys' Anthrax Anti-Toxin, Anthim(TM), Enters Second Phase I Clinical Study

...ults are consistent with several previous rabbit and primate studies that Elusys has conducted and show the dramatic protective effect of Anthim. Dr. leslie Casey, Vice President of Research, commented, "Anthim has shown significant life-saving potential even when given in a single dose to symptomatic anim...

Medgenics Announces Positive Data From Phase I/II Clinical Trial of EPODURE Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease

..., Inc. Phone: +972 4 902 8900 Dr. Andrew L. Pearlman Grayling Global United States Phone: +1 646 284 8472 leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt, Email: lwolf-creutzfeldt@hfgcg.com Investor Relations Ivette Almeida, Media Relations Phone: +1 646...

Study Shows EUFLEXXA(R) Patients Report Significant Improvements in Osteoarthritis of the Knee Pain over a Six Month Period

... of Hyaluronan and its chemically cross-linked derivative (Hylan G-F20) in normal rabbit knee joints. Clin Exp Rheumatol 20, 445-454. (3) Goomer RS, leslie K, Maris T, & Amiel D (2005). Native hyaluronan produces less hypersensitivity than cross-linked hyaluronan. Clin Orthop Relat Res 239-245. (4) Leop...

New Research Shows Promise for Finding A Cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis

...earch that is not being done elsewhere, and supporting scientists and doctors who are most prepared and motivated to work on finding a cure," said Dr. leslie J. Crofford, president of the REF. "The quality and value of the studies in progress is evidence that the Within Our Reach campaign to is critical and...

Pharmacopeia to Present at BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2008

...irstCall/ -- Pharmacopeia (Nasdaq: PCOP), an innovator in the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics, today announced that Dr. leslie J. Browne, President and Chief Executive Officer, will deliver a corporate presentation at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2008. The conference will...

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Researchers from around the globe coming to K-State June 21 for workshop on Fusarium fungus

... is now in its third printing. With colleagues, leslie has identified and named four species of Fusarium...rium that will be able to attack it," he said. leslie said that the potency of the fungus lies in the di... the contamination level is too high," he said. leslie and colleagues initiated this incarnation of the w...

DOE makes largest Danforth Campus research award in history

... The team of principal investigators from the Danforth Center include Jan Jaworski, Ph.D., Sam Wang, Ph.D., Toni Kutchan, Ph.D., Oliver Yu, Ph.D., leslie Hicks, Ph.D., as well as Ed Cahoon, Ph.D., of the University of Nebraska, David Gang, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona and Yair Shachar-Hill, Ph.D....

MBL director and CEO and cell biology pioneer Gary Borisy elected to National Academy of Sciences

...point in the field." In 2006 Dr. Borisy became the MBL's 13th Director and 3rd CEO. Previously he was Associate Vice President for Research and the leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Uni...

New explanation for a puzzling biological divide along the Malay Peninsula

...s. Current species of mammals are much younger than that. Instead, David Woodruff, professor of biology at UC San Diego and former graduate student leslie Turner, now at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen, Germany, say that more than 58 rapid sea level rises in the last 5 million ...

40 minority scientists receive travel fellowships to Experimental Biology 2009 in New Orleans

... - Arizona Osteopathic School of Medicine Vabren L. Watts, Meharry Medical College Letitia Weigand, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health leslie D. White, University of Flordia-College of Medicine Justin L. Wilson, Howard University ...

NTU seals global partnerships on environmental sciences R&D

...sity Council Chairman, GUCAS, on 17 February 2009. A week earlier, on 10 February, NTU Provost Prof Bertil Andersson inked the collaboration with Prof leslie D Field, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), UNSW while on 16 December 2008, he formalised the partnership with HUJI Rector, Prof Sarah Stroumsa. Th...

UCSB scientists show how certain vegetables combat cancer

...ich the active substances in these vegetables inhibit cell proliferation was unknown until now. Scientists in the UC Santa Barbara laboratories of leslie Wilson, professor of biochemistry and pharmacology, and Mary Ann Jordan, adjunct professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental...

In just 5 years, gene discovery to clinical trial of potential treatment

...l trial that is evaluating a FTI drug in children with HGPS. He is director of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Pediatric Medical Neuro-Oncology; o leslie Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., parent of a child with the disease and medical director of the Progeria Research Foundation, which is funding the clinical trial ...

USGS Science Picks

...e Earth's crust. For more information on USGS presentations at the conference, you can view our tip sheet at http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom or contact leslie Gordon at 650-329-4006 or lgordon@usgs.gov. For meeting information, visit http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/ . A Kiss is Just a Kiss Mistletoe ...

Proteomics study yields clues as to how tuberculosis might be thwarting the immune system

...itled: "Membrane proteomics of phagosomes suggests a connection to autophagy." Co-authoring this paper in addition to Shui, Bertozzi and Keasling were leslie Sheu, Jun Liuc, Brian Smart, Christopher Petzold, Tsung-yen Hsieh and Austin Pitcher. Bertozzi and Keasling are also professors at the University of C...

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CIO Leadership Series: Leslie Hearn, TDS Telecom

Madison, Wis. - Leslie Hearn's first rule for the execution of information technology projects is "no geek speak." While some techno jargon is unavoidable, the value of plain-spoken communication is immense, said Hearn, vice president and CIO for TDS Telecom . Leslie Hearn "Great IT pr...

PharmSource Releases White Paper on Role of U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in the Bio/Pharma Industry

...ed in any kind of FCPA investigation, which not only is costly but can have devastating effects on a company's reputation and business," comments leslie McCarthy, director of corporate development at The STEELE Foundation, in the white paper. If you would like to obtain a copy of "The U.S. For...

Boston Scientific Announces Company Schedule for Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions

...latest data on the predictors of sudden cardiac death. Thursday, May 14 Survival after ICD and CRT-D Implant. leslie Saxon, M.D., will present data on survival rates from the ALTITUDE Clinical Program. The results will be presented at 10:30 a.m. during a late-breaki...

Pizza tossing art unlocks secrets of tiny motors

...icro motors thinner that a human hair. Mr Daniel (Kuang-Chen) Liu, a PhD student supervised by Associate Professor James Friend and Senior Lecturer leslie Yeo, videotaped a professional pizza tosser at work. The team from Monash's Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, then calculated how best to describ...

Independent Study Corroborates Prana's Strategy to Treat Alzheimer's Disease Patients.

...dingly, you should not rely on those forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual future results. Contacts: Investor Relations leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt T: 646-284-9472 E: leslie.wolf-creutzfeldt@us.grayling.com Media Relations Stacy Dimakakos T: 646-284-9417 ...

Frontage Laboratories Continues to Grow Its China Business and Add Corporate Financial, Regulatory and Clinical Pharmacology Talent

...ment plans/strategies and regulatory requirements. Derek received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) under Professor leslie Z. Benet. About Frontage Laboratories, Inc. Frontage Laboratories, Inc. is a rapidly expanding global pharmaceutical R&D services company ...

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

...e@ncbiotech.org or 919-541-9366. Visit the Biotechnology Center's Web site at www.ncbiotech.org . Speakers include: leslie Boney III, associate vice president for economic development research, policy, and planning with the University of North Carolina ; ...

Medgenics Announces Encouraging Preliminary Data For Phase I/II Clinical Trial of EPODURE In Renal Anemia

... Phone: +44 207 638 5600 Peter Manfield Ian Callaway United States contacts: Grayling Global, Investor Relations Phone: +1 646 284 8472 leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt lwolf-creutzfeldt@hfgcg.com Grayling Global, Media Relations Phone: +1 646 284 9455 Ivette Almeida ...

Monterey Spine and Joint Deploys WebLOQ ePrivacy Solution for HIPAA Compliant Health Information Exchange

...usiness without malware, data-loss, cyber-threats, phishing and SPAM," said leslie Buckalew, Vice President of Sales for WebLOQ. "By focusing only on security...isit http://www.webloq.com, or call (888) 815-0008. Media contact: leslie Buckalew VP of Sales WebLOQ, Inc. +1 831 372-2600 lbuckalew@webloq...

UCB Scholarship Program Awards $300,000 to Students Living with Crohn's Disease

...an O'Neill, Loyola College -- Elizabeth Peck, Grove City College -- Adam Pepperman, Tulane University -- Kelly Robards, Spalding University -- leslie Shrager, Binghamton University -- Christina Tarankow, The Culinary Institute of America About the UCB Crohn's Scholarship Program Scholarship inf...

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Triceps muscle

...arn how to strengthen and tone your triceps muscles with these easy and effective triceps exercises. ... and Tone your Triceps Muscles . with leslie Nesbitt ... ... muscle fast, improve bodybuilding training techniques, and choose the best supplements to increase muscle mass ... of the tric...

Memory cell

...., B.C.E.T.S. ... The cellular memory is then brought into contact with normal cognitive function ... Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants. leslie A. Takeuchi, BA, PTA ... to embrace the ideas of cellular memory , one surgeon believes there must be something to it. ... The result was a red...