Federal Judge Sentences Defendants Who Perpetrated $10.9 Million Medicare Fraud HIV Infusion Scheme
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Miami physician Keith Russell, 65, and physician's assistant Jorge Luis Pacheco, 50, were each sentenced to 97 months in prison, and physician's assistant Eda Marietta Milanes, 43, was sentenced to 63 months in prison, for their roles in frau...U.S. Navy Awards Entegrion Contracts for $4 Million for the Development of Critical Blood Products
The U.S. Navy has awarded two additional contracts to the RTP, NC-based life sciences company Entegrion, Inc., for implementation of the company's proprietary technologies to improve the safety and availability of blood-derived products for treating combat injuries. Recent medical research has d...Orphanage Receives Nearly $1 Million from Private Donor
Whole Child International, a nonprofit public charity, received another $300,000 in donations from network marketing icon, Tom Mower, making total contributions an incredible $850,000 to date. This significant act of generosity has ignited a frenzy of contributions by others. ...Health reform proposals could help 13 million uninsured young adults gain coverage
New York, NY, August 6, 2009 Comprehensive health reform proposals now before Congress could help the more than 13 million uninsured young adults ages 19-29 gain coverage, and such reforms would also help ensure that those who now have coverage would not lose it, according to a new Commonwealth Fu...$10 Million in Startup Funding Approved for Maryland Health Information Exchange
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Relievant Medsystems, Inc., developer of a novel, minimally invasive treatment for chronic low back pain, reported today that it has completed a $20 million private equity financing. The financing was led by Morgenthaler Ventures with existing investor...Transave Receives $2.2 Million Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Award for Development of ARIKACE(TM)
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Washington, D.C. U.S Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that more than $327 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go toward scientific research, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure projects. Ten of DOE's national laboratories...Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old
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The University of California, San Diego has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the 2010 San Diego Science Festival and fund the creation and growth of Science Festivals nationwide. The grant award follows the highly successful first annual San Diego S...$2 million grant aids study of lung cancer in people who never smoked
DALLAS July 21, 2009 Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are among an elite group of cancer scientists to share a $2 million grant to find biomarkers for lung cancer that develops in people who have never smoked. The National Cancer Institute's Early Detection Research Network (EDRN...$20 million NIH grant to transform clinical research at UIC
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year $20 million grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Clinical and Translational Science. The grant is the largest in UIC's history. "The CCTS draws upon the rich intellectual breadth of the UIC campus and adds to th...$29.4 million grant establishes CTSI at NYU in partnership with Health and Hospitals Corporation
New York, NY July 14, 2009 NYU and NYU School of Medicine received a $29.4 million, five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a University-wide Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) in partnership with the New York Ci...DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers
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