Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Resignation of Director Mel Rothberg

BEIJING, April 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LTUS) ("Lotus" or the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced the resignation of Mel Rothberg from the Company's board of directors, effec...

Friends of Mel Announce Recall of Jewelry Due to Lead

Foundation Duped By Overseas Supplier WAKEFIELD, Mass., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Friends of Mel, a non-profit foundation established to support cancer-fighting research and programs, today announced that it is recalling due to high lead levels the jewelry it distributes to don...

Posh Hits Out at Eddie Murphy for His Callous Treating of Mel B

Singer Victoria Beckham has lunched a scathing attack on Hollywood star Eddie Murphy and has called him the Beverly Hills C**k' for treating her colleague Mel B in a callous way after she got pregnant with his child. Posh Spice hit out at the actor in a new TV show that will be sired soon....

Cardiorobotics Closes $11.6M Series A Financing to Advance Clinical Development of Snake Robot for Surgery

...ialization potential of the cardioARM (TM)," said mel Pirchesky, president and Chief Executive Officer o...hey deserve from select groups of angel investors. mel Pirchesky, its president and CEO, and an entrepren...ble manufacturing companies. On the personal side, mel Pirchesky's lifetime commitment is to create a lev...

Oral/body inflammatory connection explained

...th Drs. Slepian and Gottehrer, with the help of an expert doctoral panel that will include, Loren M. Golub, DMD, MSc, MD (honorary); Jack Martin, MD; mel Blumenthal, MD; Jerry Mailis, MD; Daniel Fine, DMD; Dean Mersky, DDS; and Stephen Gale, PhD, will discuss the correlation between periodontal disease ...

Retirement Cruise Ship Nearing Launch

...ions typically found in land-based facilities. "People retire to Florida for three things mainly ... warm sunshine, golf, and the water," states mel Medina, President of ORCA. "This is a unique package that provides for all that plus a wellness capability." The ORCA Lifestyle Cruising Program ...

AFIT Accelerated Flight & Instrument Training Announces New Accelerated Flight Training Programs For Cirrus Aircraft Equipped With New Perspective Avionics by Garmin (CSIP)

...ears Certified Flight Instruction experience and are highly regarded as innovators and industry leaders. True aviation professionals. ATP's with CFI / mel /Comm / LRJet / CE-500 / B-727 and FE-Turbojet ratings. Seasoned (MBA) professionals with thousands of Total Logged hours with thousands of hours of d...

Accelerated Development of New Treatment for Multi Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: TB Alliance and Tibotec Announce Unique Partnership to Develop TMC207

...sed an estimated 130,000 deaths worldwide in 2007. Speakers: mel Spigelman, M.D., president and CEO, Global Alliance for TB Drug De...and novel drugs are urgently needed to fight these deadly strains. Dr. mel Spigelman, the president and CEO of the TB Alliance, and Dr. Paul Stoffels,...

Unique Collaboration Between TB Alliance and Tibotec To Accelerate Tuberculosis Drug Development

...it poses. "We see tremendous potential in this collaboration and in the future of TMC207 as part of a critically-needed new TB regimen," said Dr. mel Spigelman, TB Alliance President and CEO. "Since the TB Alliance was founded, we have assembled the largest pipeline of new TB drugs in history, but t...

CSTE Leads Effort to Improve Blood Lead Reporting

...l data will allow researchers, epidemiologists and the public to know more about the burden of lead poisoning across the age spectrum," CSTE President mel Kohn, M.D., M.D.H. said. "While we often think of lead poisoning as a health concern in children and pregnant women, we need to address how lead poiso...

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ThermoGenesis Announces National Institute of Health Grant

... These funds enable us to conduct exploratory research in animal models to identify the best methods of combining stem cells with biomaterials," noted mel Engle, Chief Executive Officer of ThermoGenesis. "We will be using stem cell concentrates prepared by our AXP(TM) AutoXpress (AXP(TM)), MarrowXpress(...

Ascenta Therapeutics Announces Positive Preliminary Results with AT-101 in Docetaxel Refractory Prostate Cancer

... first report of several we plan to present this year from a large and growing data set demonstrating the broad therapeutic potential of AT-101," said mel Sorensen, MD, CEO of Ascenta Therapeutics. "The evidence of resistance reversal from this refractory population supplements the earlier clinical data...

New Research Provides Evidence that Tea May Improve Attention and Focus, Keep Brain Cells Healthy, & Influence Genetics in Cancer

...w gene susceptibility toward chronic diseases can be altered through dietary interventions. Iman Hakim, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor and Dean of the mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Professor at the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, has conducted several human clinical tr...

Thalidomide Pharmion(R) Receives Positive Opinion for Treatment of First-line Multiple Myeloma from European Medicines Agency

...nt arms. At final analysis, the overall median survival in the MPT arm was 51.6 months, compared to 33.2 and 38.3 months, respectively, for the MP and mel 100 arms. The hazard ratios were 0.59 and 0.69, respectively. Thalidomide treatment was generally well-tolerated by the majority of patients. The most...

Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout the Influenza Season

... General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. "Annual influenza vaccination is safe and protects our children from disease. But many children still do ...

Feeling Anxious or Distracted? New Research Shows a Cup of Tea Could Help

...usceptibility toward chronic diseases can be altered through dietary interventions. Iman Hakim, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor and Interim Dean of the mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Professor at the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, has conducted several human clinical tr...

Clinical Trial Data for Perforomist (Formoterol Fumarate) Inhalation Solution Presented at International ATS Conference

...der in nebulized respiratory medication, and bringing the first nebulized formoterol fumarate to market is central to our overall strategy," commented mel Engle, President and CEO of DEY. "We are highly gratified by the positive safety and efficacy outcomes from the Phase III pivotal study, and thank Drs...

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A breath mint made from... coffee?

...your mouth, strong enough to startle your co-workers too. But intriguing new research from Tel Aviv University by renowned breath specialist Prof. mel Rosenberg of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine finds that a coffee extract can inhibit the bacteria that lead to bad breath. New laboratory tests have...

Are you okay to kiss?

...cientists believed that only one population of bacteria (the Gram-negative ones) break down the proteins in the mouth and produce foul odor. But Prof. mel Rosenberg and Dr. Nir Sterer of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine recently discovered that the other population of bacteria (the Gram-positive ones) ...

Hispanic women and breast cancer: An understudied group

...ena Martinez, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at The University of Arizona mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and co-leader of the Cancer Pre... presented by Rachel Zenuk, a graduate student at The University of Arizona mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, suggests that breast cancer ma...

Feeling hot, hot, hot: New study suggests ways to control fever-induced seizures

...researchers showed it is possible to induce an extremely rapid protection of neural function during heat stress. Queen's biologists Gary Armstrong and mel Robertson exposed locusts to increasing heat while monitoring the neural circuit that controls breathing. At approximately 30˚C (about three minu...

Biodegradable napkin -- featuring sensitive nanofibers -- may quickly detect biohazards

... wouldn't require that someone be highly trained to use it, and it could be activated for whatever you want to find," said Margaret Frey, the Lois and mel Tukman Assistant Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell. "So if you're working in a meat-packing plant, for instance, you could swip...

Fruit fly reveals a potential connection between dementia and cancer

...ave demonstrated an intriguing link between neuronal death and proteins previously associated with cancer. The findings are reported by Vik Khurana, mel Feany, and colleagues from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Burnham Institute. Neurons in the brain generally do not d...

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Ascenta Therapeutics Announces Presentation of Promising Results From Clinical Trials of AT-101 in Prostate, Brain, and Lung Cancers at 2009 ASCO Annual Meeting

... "We are delighted with the depth and breadth of the data available on our lead compound, AT-101, at this important scientific conference" said mel Sorensen, MD, CEO of Ascenta Therapeutics. "The clinical utility of AT-101 is being explored in several major tumor types and treatment regimens, wit...

Ascenta Therapeutics Announces Results of Preclinical Evaluation of AT-406 in Multiple Cancer Models

...o demonstrate broad anti-cancer activity in pre-clinical models, including synergy with other agents, by targeting a specific apoptotic pathway," said mel Sorensen, MD, CEO of Ascenta Therapeutics. "On the basis of these encouraging data, we plan to submit an Investigational New Drug (IND) application t...

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. Expands Board of Directors

...ckground also includes senior executive positions with Merck Generics Group, a division of Merck KGaA, and Allergan, Inc. "I'm very pleased that mel has agreed to join our board," said Chris J. Stern, company chairman and CEO. "He has the business acumen and experience in the pharmaceutical industr...

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

...s IntraLase and Visumax. The recent FDA approval of the Carl Zeiss Meditec mel 80 marks the first approval of an entirely new laser platform in 3 years. ...g the Anamed lens for farsightedness; a consultant for Carl Zeiss and their mel 80 excimer laser, Visumax femtosecond laser, Zeiss anterior chamber scan, a...

Campus Celebrates Historic Milestone

...uests included US Senator Elizabeth H. Dole, US Senator Richard M. Burr, US Congressman Robin C. Hayes, US Congressman J. Howard Coble, US Congressman mel Watt, Lieutenant Governor Beverly E. Perdue, NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, along with former Governors James B. Hunt, Jr. and James G. Martin...

Lixte Biotechnology Holdings Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors

...ogy Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LIXT), announces the appointment of mel Sorensen, M.D. to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Sorensen is curre...ed that Dr. Sorensen has joined the Lixte Biotechnology board of directors. mel is internationally recognized for his expertise in clinical oncology and in...

Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Applauds Expanded Influenza Vaccine Recommendation for Children

... General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. "We hope this expanded vaccination recommendation will strongly encourage Americans to get an annual infl...

Contract Services for Big Pharma and Biotechs Driving Growth and Innovation from Discovery to Clinical Trials

...t -- Mark Tracy, Senior Director, Pharmaceutical Operations, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals -- RoseAnn Price, Alliance Management, Amgen -- mel Sorensen, M.D., President & CEO, Ascenta Therapeutics, Inc. -- Ahsan Awan, JD, MBA, CRCP, Global CINRG, Inc. -- Gur Roshwalb, MD, VP & Senior ...

Crux Biomedical Announces First Successful U.S. Implant of Its New Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter

...homas Fogarty, M.D., cardiovascular surgeon and founder of Crux Biomedical. mel Schatz, CEO of Crux states, "We have had very encouraging results from both... FDA to initiate its pivotal IDE study. For additional information contact mel Schatz, Crux Biomedical, at (650) 851-2332, ext. 38, or mschatz@cruxbiomed...

Examples of Electro-Transfected Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells

..., hystiocytic lymphoma Human, V79, skin cells, fibroblasts Hybrid, mouse/human, A9 fibroblast Hybrid, rat/mouse, mel cells Monkey, kidney (COS-1, COS-7, CV-1, Vero) Mouse, 3T3, embryo Mouse, 32d, myeloma Mouse...

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Producers

...cal The Producers , based on the stage musical by mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and the 1968 film by Bro...urotic accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) in mel Brooks's musical. The men plan to raise... Sell...e (2001), a musical farce by Thomas Meehan (book), mel Brooks (book, music, lyrics) ... The Producers (...

In silico

...In Silico introduces Maya programming into one of the most fascinating ... in silico : 3D Animation and Simulation of Cell Biology with Maya and mel (Amazon ... Tours, News Reviews, and Resources centered around Punk, Screamo, Metal, Indie, Post Rock, Ska, ... In Silico is supposed to mean "...