Greg Fischer Named AvMed Health Plans' New Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
MIAMI, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Greg Fischer has been
named AvMed's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. As a member of AvMed's senior executive team Fischer will be responsible for leading the company's strategy as it relates to membership growth and retention in all markets ar...
George Barrett Named Chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health
DUBLIN, Ohio, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health today announced that George Barrett has been elected to the company's board of directors and will serve as chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health, effective on the completion of the planned spi...
EVO Merchant Services, CEO, Ray Sidhom Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2009 Award Winner in Metro New York
NEW YORK, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- EVO Merchant Services, a leader in the payment processing industry, announced that Ray Sidhom, CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year ((R)) 2009 Award in Metro New York. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outs...
Featherstone Informatics Group, Inc. Named Exclusive Vendor for the American College of Cardiology's Practice-Based Data Registry Program
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Featherstone Informatics Group, Inc. (FIG) today announced that they have been chosen as the exclusive vendor for the American College of Cardiology's practice-based quality improvement program, called the IC3 Program(R) (Improving Continuous Cardi...
Larry Schreiber Named President of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Larry Schreiber, a veteran of the health insurance industry, has been
named president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin (Anthem). He replaces Steve Martenet who was appointed to lead Specialty insurance product sales for Anthem's parent compan...
RealMed Named Exclusive Medical Claims Clearinghouse for Physicians by Adventist Health System
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- RealMed announced today it has been
named by Adventist Health System as its exclusive clearinghouse for physicians. Under this partnership, Adventist Health System will utilize RealMed's portal-based clearinghouse/Revenue Cycle Management Services ...
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Rib-X Pharmaceuticals Novel Antibiotic Delafloxacin Named One of R&D Directions 100 Great Investigational Drugs of 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Rib-X" or the "Company"), a development-stage company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections, today announced that its lead compound, delafloxacin, ha...
Cell Therapeutics and IDIS Announce Agreement for a European Named Patient/Compassionate Use Program for Pixantrone
SEATTLE, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) today announced that they have executed a definitive collaborative agreement with IDIS to manage its investigational drug pixantrone on a
named patient basis in Europe. Pixantrone will be supplied by IDIS to...
Ikaria(R) Named Private Company of the Year by New Jersey Technology Council
CLINTON, N.J., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Ikaria Holdings, Inc. today announced that it has been
named Private Company of the Year by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC), a 1,200-member non-profit organization that provides business support, networking opportunities, information and advocacy for...
Battelle Scientists Named on Patent for Making Oxygen From Light and Water
Early Stage Invention is Advancement toward Artificial Lungs
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronauts, submariners,
miners, and those suffering from lung ailments take note: Innovation is
coming to the rescue. A group of scientists from Battelle has earned a
patent for generating ...
Eularis Releases First-Ever Study on ROI of Pre-Launch Named Patient Programmes
Named Patient Programmes Yield ROI, Additional Benefits for Pharmaceutical Organizations
NEW YORK and LONDON, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Eularis today announced
the release of a first-ever study on the ROI of
named patient programmes
(NPP), also known as compassionate ...
University of Rochester Researcher Named Millennium Pharmaceuticals Career Development Scholar of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society has awarded a $550,000 grant to Jonathan Friedberg M.D., M.M.Sc.,
of the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical
Center. Millennium Pharmaceuticals, The Takeda Oncology Company, of
Cambridge...
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The collection is divided into two parts
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G-3 goniofundus
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Genesis NPS
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Beevor's axiom
...brain does not know muscles , but only movements. This is important in predicting how muscles and muscle groups adapt to stressors .
The axiom is
named after Charles Edward Beevor (1854-1908), an English anatomist .
External links
Medical glossary entry at hemmeapproach.com
Artic...
Hematopathology
...of leukemia has improved greatly over the past few decades. Lymphomas are diseases that are mainly based in lymph nodes . Hematopathologists have
named different lymphomas after the type of lymphocyte that has become malignant . Thus there are B cell lymphomas , T cell lymphomas , and NK cell ...
Orvietan
..., as well as against mushroom poisonings , snakebite , scorpion stings, bites by rabid animals and against the plague .
Orvietan was probably
named after a certain Lupi da Orvieto, native from the city of Orvieto , though there is no certain information on this.
Contents
1 Ori...
Russell Blattner
..., 1908 - December 6, 2002, was a pediatrician and the founding physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital .
In 1947 Dr. Russell Blattner was
named Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine . Through this position he was able to help plan and implement the founding of...
Sutton's law
...ill consider the false positive rate of the test and the possibility that a less likely diagnosis might have more serious consequences.
The law is
named after the bank robber Willie Sutton , who supposedly answered a reporter inquiring why he robbed banks by saying "because that's where the money is....
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Yellow Fever
...stics, long-term outlook ... Most yellow fever infections are mild. ... Yellow Fever . One of the severest forms of malignant fever ; so
named from the lemon or orange ... A remittent fever , with yellow skin from disorder of the ... To identify cases of yellow fever associated w...
Waardenburg syndrome
...ry conditions characterized by ... Waardenburg syndrome affects about 1 in every 30,000 people. ... Overview: Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is
named after the Dutch ophthalmologist who, ... Two far rarer variant forms of Waardenburg syndrome have also been identified. ... Overview: Waarden...
Vertebrae
...is are conditions that affect the moveable joints of the spine that help keep the vertebrae aligned one on top of the other. A spinal root is
named after the vertebra it exits from. ... The LED lights are placed on the vertebrae of the shaped mons ... ...
Trypanosomiasis
...r African trypanosomiasis is theTsetse fly (figure ... There are two types of African trypanosomiasis (also called sleeping sickness); each is
named for the region of Africa in which they are found. There is no vaccine or drug to prevent African trypanosomiasis . ... In cases of East Afric...
Trisomy 18
... of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome. It is
named after John H. Edwards, who first described the ... Trisomy 18 is also called "Edwards syndrome",
named after the physician who ... This is the only for... Trisomy 18 is also called "Edwards syndrome,"
named after the physician who ... This is the only for...
Trisomy 13
...y 18? ... Trisomy 18 (having an extra chromosome #18) and trisomy 13 (having an extra ... Trisomy 13 is also called "Patau syndrome",
named after the physician who first ... Trisomy 13 is seen in about one in 7500 to one in 10,000 births. ... Trisomy 13 , also called Patau s...
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Scholthof named 2009 American Phytopathological Society Fellow
Dr. Herman Scholthof, professor of plant pathology and microbiology at Texas A&M University, has been
named a 2009 American Phytopathological Society Fellow.
Scholthof, who also has an appointment with Texas AgriLife Research, will receive the honor during the society's annual meeting Au...
Axel Ullrich named winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
London, 1 July, 2009 Johnson & Johnson today announced that Axel Ullrich, Ph.D., director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, whose discoveries have led to novel cancer therapies including Herceptin (trastuzumab) , is the winner of the 20...
American Journal of Botany named a top 10 most influential journal of the century
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has selected the American Journal of Botany as one of the 10 most influential journals of the past 100 years in the field of biology and medicine. The SLA announced the results on June 16, 2009 at its annual business luncheon in Washington, DC.
To com...
New species of phallus-shaped mushroom named after California Academy of Sciences scientist
SAN FRANCISCO (June 15, 2009) - It's two inches long, grows on wood, and is shaped like a phallus. A new species of stinkhorn mushroom, Phallus drewesii , has been discovered on the African island of Sao Tome and graces the upcoming cover of the journal Mycologia . The mushroom is
named after R...
3 prominent Cell Press journals named among the 100 most influential journals in past 100 years
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., USA (April 6, 2009) Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, announced today that its flagship journal, Cell , as well as Current Biology and The American Journal of Human Genetics , were voted among the Special Library Association's (SLA) Top 100 Journals in Biology and Medicine...
Three prominent Cell Press journals named among the 100 most influential journals in past 100 years
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., USA (April 6, 2009) Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, announced today that its flagship journal, Cell , as well as Current Biology and The American Journal of Human Genetics , were voted among the Special Library Association's (SLA) Top 100 Journals in Biology and Medicine...
named in Biological Technology
Neogen Named to Fortune's List of Fastest Growing Companies
LANSING, Mich., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fortune Magazine has
named Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG ) as a selection in its annual list of America's 100 fastest growing small public companies (FSB 100).
In announcing its FSB 100 for 2009, Fortune stated: "In good times the FSB ...
Video: Axel Ullrich Named Winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson today announced that Axel Ullrich, Ph.D., director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany, whose discoveries have led to novel cancer therapies including Herceptin(R) (trastuzumab)*, is ...
WuXi PharmaTech Named a Top Ten Chinese Outsourcing Enterprise
SHANGHAI, June 29 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE:
WX ) announced today that it had been selected by China's Ministry of Commerce
to the list of Top Ten Leading Outsourcing Enterprises in China. The list was
announced at the Second Annual China International Service ...
Neogen Named to Fortune's List of 40 Stocks 'To Retire On'
LANSING, Mich., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fortune Magazine has
named Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG ) as a selection in its annual list of the "40 best stocks to retire on."
Fortune first launched its Fortune 40 list in 2002, stating: "We wanted to assemble a diversified, depe...
Ten Top Latin American Scientists Named 2009 Pew Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences
PHILADELPHIA, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pew Charitable Trusts today
named 10 promising young scientists as Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. The rigorously competitive program provides $60,000 in salary support for postdoctoral level scientists to work with...
Elsevier / MC Strategies Online Courses Named in the 15th Annual Communicator Awards
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- Excellence and Distinction Winners Announced
Elsevier / MC Strategies, a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions to
over 1,300 healthcare organizations nationwide is proud to announce that five
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named in Biological Definition
Albinism
...lbino.
Bristol Zoo was the home to a very rare albino African penguin
named Snowdrop. Snowdrop was hatched at the zoo in October 2002 and died in August 2004. For many years, a unique albino gorilla
named Floquet de Neu (Snowflake) was the most famous resident of the Parc Zoolg...
Alcohol
...ten indicate this in the alkyl group prefix. For example (CH 3 ) 3 COH is a tertiary alcohol is commonly known as tert -butyl alcohol. This would be
named 2-methylpropan-2-ol under IUPAC rules, indicating a propane chain with methyl and hydroxyl groups both attached to the middle (#2) carbon.
An alcoho...
Alfred Russel Wallace
...l Society 's Founder's Medal ( 1892 ) and the Linnean Society's Gold Medal ( 1892 ).
He is also honored by having craters on Mars and the Moon
named after him.
References
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889). Darwinism , Chapter 15.
External links
The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
Al...
Amine
...)
1 Naming
2 Properties
3 Synthesis
4 Reactions
5 Aromatic amines
6 See also
Naming
Lower amines are
named with the suffix -amine .
Methylamine
Higher amines have the prefix amino as a functional group.
2-amino-pentane (or better: p...
Ames test
...l compound. A compound is said to be mutagenic if it causes a change in the DNA (deoxyriboneucleic acid) of a living cell or organism. The test is
named after its inventor, Bruce Ames .
General procedure
This assay is carried out using strains of bacteria , generally Escherichia coli or S...
Antibiotic
... not stable under the purification methods he tried), he reported it in the scientific literature. Since the mold was of the genus Penicillium , he
named this compound penicillin.
This USPS stamps notes that during the 1940s, the improvement of antibiotics saved lives the world over.
I...
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X chromosome
... The X chromosome was
named for its unique properties by early researchers, and ... The X chromosome carries a couple thousand genes but few, if any, of these have ... The...
Western blotting
...protein in a ... Some high affinity monoclonal antibodies can also be used for Western blots . ... Northern and then Western blots were
named by analogy. Blotting techniques first develop a primary gel: protein on acrylamide; or DNA/RNA on agarose. ... Western blotting tells you h...
Western blot
...f a protein ... Place 200 ml of blot buffer into a tray and add a piece of filter paper slightly ... Northern and then Western blots were
named by analogy. ... A Western blot is a method in molecular biology to detect a certain protein in a ... The HIV test known as " Western Blot...
Venous system
... . Calendars. Maps ... ... primary venous return circuit for the circulatory system . ... The various segments of the deep venous system are
named in accordance with the adjacent artery. ... The prevalence of portal venous system aneurysm among 4,186 consecutive patients ... Portal venous...
Vascular plants
...us plants , such as the ferns and seed-bearing plants , in which the phloem transports sugar and the xylem transports Vascular plants are
named from the latin word vasculum, meaning "vessel" or "duct. ... In vascular plants , the principal generation phase is the large, dominant, ... Va...
Trisomy
... two, of a particular chromosome. Trisomy 18 (T18) is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome. It is
named after John H. Edwards, who first described the syndrome in 1960. It is the second most common autosomal... Pediatricians at Children ... The term "...