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Resurrection Health Care & Merit Sleep Centers Launch Chicago's First Sleep Network

CHICAGO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Resurrection Health Care (RHC) and Merit Sleep Centers have launched a joint venture to open a network of sleep testing facilities that will be the first of its kind in Chicagoland. As part of the agreement, Resurrection and Merit will relocate existing RHC ...

Rutgers College of Nursing's Linda Flynn to receive N.J. Governor's Nursing Merit Award

(NEWARK, N.J., May 19, 2008) The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) will present its 2008 Governors Nursing Merit Award for excellence in the nurse researcher: expert category to Linda Flynn, a Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member, during a dinner at the Hyatt Regen...

Siemens Financial Services, Inc. Announces Completion of Credit Facility With Merit Mountainside, LLC

ISELIN, N.J., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Financial Services, Inc. announced today that it has provided a $40 million senior secured credit facility to Merit Mountainside, LLC. The 5-year credit facility included a $15 million revolving line of credit and a $25 million term loan. The procee...

Align Technology Asserts ClearCorrect Complaint Is Without Merit

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGN ) today announced that the Company has been notified of a purported declaratory judgment action filed against the Company on February 17, 2009 by ClearCorrect, Inc. in the United States District Court for...

Common Cold does not Merit Antibiotics

Common cold and running nose in children does not merit the prescription of antibiotics, researchers have advised. In effect, antibiotics should be administered// only if the child's condition worsens. Antibiotics are known to cause potential side effects. Antibiotics consumption at every sma...

Allscripts Notified of Purported Class Action Lawsuit

...http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081013/AQM041LOGO ) The Company stated that it believes the allegations made in the complaint are without merit and that it intends to vigorously defend against the complaint. About Allscripts Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring heal...

New DeKaye Article Identifies 'Hierarchy of Greed' in Healthcare Fraud

...el, and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of several industry publications. He is a Fellow in HFMA, and has received several of their merit awards, including its Medal of Honor. He also holds membership in the American Collectors International organization. Mr. DeKaye is a recogni...

Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Announces Filing of Purported Class Action Lawsuits

...olated federal securities laws, primarily related to public statements on FDA compliance. The Company believes the plaintiffs' allegations are without merit and intends to vigorously contest the actions. Detroit-based Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd., develops, manufactures, markets and...

Alere Wins Awards for Participant Engagement Programs

...range of communications such as brochures, pamphlets, direct mail campaigns, magazine articles and much more. Alere won a Bronze Award and an Award of merit for the materials. "We are excited, and certainly honored, to be nationally recognized for our participant-focused marketing campaigns," sai...

KLOS & Red Cross Set to Rock SoCal With Massive 5 Day Blood Drive

...zed with many prestigious awards for its dedication to the community and received the American Association of Blood Bank's (AABB) prestigious Award of merit for the Radio category in Montreal in October 2008. KLOS was also named one of five finalists nationwide to receive the National Association of Bro...

Merit in Medical Technology

David Feldman, M.D. Appointed Co-Principal Investigator of DuraHeart(TM) Left Ventricular Assist System U.S. Clinical Trial

...ing the Heart Lung Research Institute, Transplant Consortium and Congestive Heart Failure Guidelines Implementation Committee, as well as the National merit Review Grants-Cardiovascular Section and International Program Committee of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Additionally...

Data Reported at ICAAC Indicates Selzentry(TM) Phase III Treatment-Naive Trial Shows Increased Efficacy When Used With Enhanced Trofile(TM) Assay

... Monogram reassessed the original samples from the merit trial using the enhanced Trofile assay. These samp...s plan. Using the enhanced Trofile assay, 15% of merit screening samples previously defined as R5 HIV wer...e trial). In the new retrospective analysis of the merit trial samples, powered by the enhanced Trofile ass...

KGI Professor Ian Phillips Awarded Defense Grants for Medical Combat Research

...at system will be developed at KGI and tested at the University of South Florida and the US Army Surgical Institute in San Antonio. Phillips holds a merit Award from the National Institutes of Health, the 2002 Christopher Columbus Award for science and technology and the Lucian Award for research on circ...

Most Cancer Treatment Studies Aren't Published, Study Finds

...had "positive" results-the study treatment worked as hoped. The remaining one-third had "negative" results -- the outcome was disappointing or did not merit further consideration of the tested treatment. This finding raises concern about "publication bias" in cancer treatment trials. The researchers susp...

Positive Mosquito Count for West Nile Virus Lead DEP, Southeastern PA Counties to Ramp up Treatment Activities

...ase of the West Nile virus has been confirmed this year (a 27-year-old Montgomery County woman), DEP's southeast regional director said the conditions merit additional treatments. "With nearly 70 percent of the state's infected mosquitoes here in the southeast region, we're taking coordinated action to r...

AIDS Vaccines: Where Do We Go From Here?

... How can the toughest scientific questions facing AIDS vaccine researchers be tackled? What criteria should be used to decide which vaccine candidates merit further testing, and which should be dropped? How do you continue to sustain much-needed support for a preventive vaccine that may take decades to dev...

Eisai's Commitment to Oncology Demonstrated by Clinical Data to be Presented at ASCO Annual Meeting

... Lobby Poster 3 Poster Awarded a Foundation merit Award discussion 12:00-1:00 p.m. ...

Statement from Eli Lilly and Company: Response to Connecticut Attorney General News Release

...ide appropriate promotional information that is within the scope of prescribing information approved by the FDA. We believe these claims are without merit and we will vigorously defend against them. Zyprexa Background Zyprexa is indicated in the United States for the short- and long-term treatment of...

NIST Awards $2 Million to Velcura Therapeutics, Inc. for Innovative Technology R&D - Dual-Action Therapies for Bone Disease

...trial processes and services that address national priorities and generate large societal benefits. Winners are chosen on scientific and technological merit and potential for broad-based economic benefits. A single company can receive up to a total of $2 million for research and development activities for ...

FDA Re-Inspection Results in Positive Re-Classification of Guayama Facility

...tive re- classification of the site. The new classification means that any issues found by the FDA have either been corrected by the Company or do not merit any further regulatory action. Guayama will continue to serve as a strategic manufacturing site and a source for future Wyeth products. "We are plea...

Merit in Medical Dictionary

Neoplasm

...growth of body tissue. ... ... range from incidental causes to life-threatening urinary tract neoplasm . ... factors for urothelial neoplasms merit referral to a urology subspecialist for ... Detailed Information on Various Birthmarks, Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations ... Infantile he...

Merit in Biological News

UT multimedia program increases middle school interest in science

...a collaboration of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H) and numerous partners. HEADS UP was recently awarded an Award of merit from the Accolade Competition for the educational video, "The Immune System and Infectious Diseases." ...

Faculty of 1000 praised by Wellcome Trust

...ellcome-funded projects . They assembled a group of reviewers to assess the merit of these papers, and found that the scores given by their panel of experts ...less did not have an exceptionally high citation score, indicating that the merit of a paper cannot be judged by bibliometric data alone. The Wellcome Tru...

Stanford's Woods Institute awards new round of Environmental Venture Projects

...result that the EVP program hoped for--giving initial funding to innovative, high-risk interdisciplinary collaborations so that they could prove their merit and successfully receive ongoing funding from more traditional sources," Kennedy said. On May 18, the president of Tanzania and other governm...

Researcher garners major award from NIH for further exploration into the mechanisms of obesity

..." Bartness said. "The support provided through the merit program will allow us to be more innovative in our... have him as a member of our research faculty." merit is among the most selective research grants given ...niversity System of Georgia have been selected for merit awards. Bartness is the first recipient of the...

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker awarded the Order of the Rising Sun

...ht from the rising sun, symbolising the Japanese flag "hi no maru". The rising sun is attributed great power in Japan, meaning that the Order, and the merit that accompanies it, also honour the recipient's resolution and determination. Former German recipients of the Order include the choreographer, Pina B...

UC Riverside geneticist receives highest honor from Botanical Society of America

...s year's four Botanical Society of America (BSA) merit Award recipients. The BSA merit Award is the society's highest honor, granted for ...exceptional scientists in plant biology. Some past merit Award recipients have won the Nobel Prize, Nationa...

DOE to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at PNNL

... pool of some 260 applications received in response to a solicitation issued by the DOE's Office of Science in 2008. Selection was based on a rigorous merit review process utilizing outside panels composed of scientific experts. The DOE plans to award $22.5 million over five years for PNNL's new Center ...

DOE makes largest Danforth Campus research award in history

... a pool of some 260 applications received in response to a solicitation issued by the DOE Office of Science in 2008. Selection was based on a rigorous merit review process using outside panels comprising scientific experts. The criterion for providing an EFRC with Recovery Act funding was job creation...

UC Riverside professor receives top scientific honor

...ety of America Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology. In 2002, he received a prestigious ten-year, $4.3 million research merit grant from the National Institutes of Health to carry out research on mosquito reproduction. Raikhel was thrilled and humbled by his election to t...

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

...cteria. Dr. Borisy is the author of more than 200 papers, the editor of two books, and has received numerous professional honors, including an NIH merit award and the Carl Zeiss award from the German Society for Cell Biology. He has served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology and is an...

Merit in Biological Technology

DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers

...ion issued by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science in 2008 and announced on April 27, 2009. Selection of the EFRCs was based on a rigorous merit review process utilizing outside panels composed of scientific experts. In total, the EFRC initiative represents a planned DOE commitment of $777 mil...

2010 Japan Prize to Honor Scientists and Researchers in Industrial Production/Production Technology and Biological Production/Environment Fields

...he two fields described below. In principle, the Foundation selects one winner from each area. Each Japan Prize laureate will receive a certificate of merit and a commemorative medal. A monetary award of 50 million Japanese yen will be presented for each prize category. ---------------------------...

Monogram Announces 2008 Third Quarter Financial Results

... Monogram reassessed the original samples from the merit trial using the enhanced Trofile assay. These samp...s plan. Using the enhanced Trofile assay, 15% of merit screening samples previously defined as R5 HIV wer...e trial). In the new retrospective analysis of the merit trial samples, powered by the enhanced Trofile ass...

Gable PR Honored by PRSA San Diego Chapter with Three Awards for Client Programs

...o honored Gable PR with one Silver Bernays Mark of merit award, for superior execution in a global communic...he agency also received two Bronze Bernays Mark of merit awards for the media kit it developed for Ichor Me...y, Gable PR was awarded one Silver Bernays Mark of merit award, for superior execution in a global communic...

Presidio Pay Advisors Releases Salary GPS Tool

... to senior management. Salary GPS is particularly useful for: Fiscal year-end budget planning Preparing for performance evaluations and merit increases Assessing individual manager salary management and hiring practices Identifying salary compression issues Talent management plannin...

Dr. Yong Shi awarded NSF grant

... for his project titled "MEMS Umbrella-Shaped Actuator with Active Structure for Medical Applications." The grant was approved on scientific/technical merit for three years and will total approximately $300,000. The objective of the research is to design, fabricate and test an umbrella-shaped micro-actuato...

Protein Sciences Responds to Emergent BioSolutions Lawsuit

... -- Lawsuit by EBS is without merit and part of its overall strategy to cripple PSC, force PSC to sell its business without getting shareholder approval and to provide EBS with cover...

Epeius Biotechnologies' Tumor-Targeted Rexin-G Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for the Treatment of Osteosarcoma

...teria, including the rarity, seriousness, and current lack of effective therapies for metastatic osteosarcoma, as well as the scientific and medicinal merit of Rexin-G, the granting of Orphan Drug Status by the FDA validates the unique clinical development strategy of Epeius Biotechnologies: that is, to de...

California's International Stem Cell Collaborations Must Be Based on Scientific Merit, Consumer Group Says

... of dollars are expected to be awarded next June. "It's important that applicants for the disease team grants be judged completely on the scientific merit of their proposals," said Simpson. "Decisions cannot be twisted for geographic equity. I would hope that international collaborative efforts would ris...

Mergent, Inc. Announces Quarterly Rebalancing of HealthShares(TM) Indexes

...-CL A (ASE: BIO) GIVEN IMAGING LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel: GIVNUQ) HALOZYME THERAPUTICS INC. (NASDAQ: HALO ) MERIDIAN BIOSCIENCE INC. (NASDAQ: VIVO ) merit MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (NASDAQ: MMSI ) ORASURE TECHNOLOGIES INC (NASDAQ: OSUR ) QUIDEL CORP (NASDAQ: QDEL ) SONOSITE INC. (NASDAQ: SONO ) Add ...

Merit in Biological Definition

Alfred Russel Wallace

... such is considered one of the precursors of ecology and biogeography . Awards Among the many awards presented to Wallace were the Order of merit ( 1908 ), the Royal Society 's Copley Medal ( 1908 ), the Royal Geographical Society 's Founder's Medal ( 1892 ) and the Linnean Society's Gold M...

Natural selection

...d he expressed much of his theory of evolution in poetic verse. His formal exposition of the hypothesis lacks a structured formulation, but has enough merit to be considered a possibility. Matthew's hypothesis had appeared in an appendix to his book on arboriculture ; Wells' hypothesis, applied solely to ...

Zoology

...le , whose teaching, - with various fanciful additions, constituted the real basis of zoological knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It was Wotton's merit that he rejected the legendary and fantastic accretions, and returned to Aristotle and the observation of nature. The most ready means of noting the...

Merit in Biological Dictionary

Complementary sequence

...een them are non-covalently connected via two or three hydrogen... we construct almost- complementary periodic sequence pairs. that minimize the merit factor. ... have suggested choosing one sequence from a complementary ... ... BRCA 2, Celiac disease, complementary sequences , CYP2C19, CYP...