Quest Diagnostics India Recognized as Laureate by the Computerworld Honors Program

...ists and physicians through blogs, forums, and stories, and provides access, for a second opinion, to independent medical experts at Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute laboratories. By fostering online support groups and communities, it harnesses the power of social networking to help patients share informa...

'Fight the Bite' Poster Contest Honors 28 Students in 17 States

... Hometown School CA 5 Alliza Wade Palmdale Tamarisk Elementary CA 6 Jordyn Crawford Lodi Leroy nichols Elementary FL 5 Timmy Rich DeBary Homeschool FL 6 Victoria Havekost Jacksonville Fruit Cove Middle School IL ...

Quest Diagnostics Discovers New Genetic Mutations Affecting Cystic Fibrosis Screening

... Ph.D., medical director of the genetic testing center of Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, the esoteric research, development and testing services operatio... Pratt, Ph.D., FACMG, chief director, Molecular Genetics, Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, identified eleven instances of "allele drop-out," or failure to ...

Businessman Exposed Problems With Quest Subsidiary's Blood Test Kits; Led to $302 Million Settlement

... the government revealed today. The qui tam lawsuit provided detailed allegations about problems with medical test kits that a Quest subsidiary, nichols Institute Diagnostics Inc. (NID), manufactured and sold to medical testing labs across the country from 2000 to 2006 despite complaints of inaccurate ...

Quest Diagnostics to Pay U.S. $302 Million to Resolve Allegations That a Subsidiary Sold Misbranded Test Kits

... Quest Subsidiary, nichols Institute Diagnostics, Pleads Guilty to Felony Mis...Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and its subsidiary, nichols Institute Diagnostics (NID), have entered into a g... the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act relating to NID's nichols Advantage Chemiluminescence Intact Parathyroid Hor...

BestHealthcareRates.com Reports Highest Cancellation Rate of Employee Benefit Plans in More Than Two Decades

...he offer here is to transition away from risk rating, which is one of the things that makes life hell for real people," said health economist Len nichols of the New America Foundation public policy center. "They have never in their history offered to give up risk rating." "This letter...

The Heart Foundation Honors Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck With The Steven S. Cohen Humanitarian Award

...of Melisse , Michael Cimarusti of Providence , Joseph Manzare of Globe and Zuppa , Kazuto Matsusaka and Vicki Fan of BEACON an asian cafe , Matt nichols of Brothers Restaurant at Mattei's Tavern , Richard Reddington of REDD Restaurant , Nancy Silverton of La Brea Bakery and Mozza , and Hiro Sone...

New G.I. Jobs Program Provides Hospitals a Cost Effective Way to Find Prior Military Health Care Workers

...ation. They'll migrate to where the best job is upon leaving the service," nichols said. nichols also noted his company's affinity for the maturity level of military troops...

Dr. Huda Zoghbi to receive 2009 Vilcek Prize in biomedical research

... the importance of remembering this fact." This year's Vilcek Prize recipients demonstrate the truly global influence of America's immigrants: Mike nichols was born in Berlin, Germany; Dr. Huda Zoghbi in Beirut, Lebanon; Ham Tran in Saigon, Vietnam; and Dr. Howard Chang, in Taipei, Taiwan. The 2009 b...

LegalView Updates Brain Injury Site with Information on TBI Disabled Soldier's Family

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Quest Diagnostics ClariSure(TM) Postnatal Molecular Test Receives Clinical Laboratory Approval from New York State

...of the genetic testing center of Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, the esoteric testing laboratory and res...to their infants and children." Scientists at nichols Institute have validated the ClariSure test's abil...ns collected in the state. Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute will provide information about the Clari...

First Breast Cancer Patient Receives Treatment in National Electronic Brachytherapy Registry Launched by Three Physician Societies

...Oncology (ACRO). The first patient was successfully enrolled and treated in the registry by Drs. Peter Beitsch of the Dallas Breast Center and Timothy nichols of the Northpoint Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas. With an enrollment goal of 400 patients, the objective of the multi-center study is to assess the ...

Ion Mobility Diagnostic Test from Quest Diagnostics is First to Provide Direct Physical Measurement of Lipoprotein Particles, Cardiovascular Disease Indicators, Study Finds

..., rather than algorithm-based method," said Michael P. Caulfield, PhD, scientific director, Research and Development, Endocrinology, Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, and one of the study's investigators. "Depending on the results of the third-party outcomes study, we are optimistic that our ion mobility ...

Quest Diagnostics Introduces ClariSure(TM) Test for Identifying Chromosome Abnormalities Associated With 85 Developmental Disorders in Children

...of the genetic testing center of Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, the esoteric testing laboratory and res...oped assay that uses proprietary technologies from nichols Institute as well as licensed methodologies. Scientists at nichols Institute have validated the ClariSure test's abil...

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Nichols in Biological News

Federal scientists recognized for contributions to knowledge of bird ecology and habitat

... of Land Management, Oregon State Office; Robert Anthony, US Geological Survey and Oregon State University; Carl Schwarz, Simon Fraser University; Jim nichols and Jim Hines, US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center; Alan Franklin, David Anderson, Ken Burnham, and Gary White, Colorado State Univ...

Moderate use averts failure of type 2 diabetes drugs in animal model

...a cells began secreting insulin again hours later. nichols and co-author Maria Sara Remedi, Ph.D., instructor...t may be possible to rethink treatment strategies, nichols suggests. "Doctors now prescribe new long-actin...tient's symptoms are managed by insulin injection, nichols suggests. Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 perce...

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News reports on cancer biomarkers

...y cDNA libraries. Other biomarker-related projects covered in the GEN article include those at Sienna Cancer Diagnostics, Geron, Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, Gentel Biosciences, Celera, University of Washington, Abbott Laboratories, Strategic Diagnostics, Plasma Proteome Institute, and Biosite. ...

UTMB researchers to be honored at 'Oscars of invention'

...crobiology and immunology associate professor Joan nichols are being recognized at R&D Magazines 45th Annual ...pact on the way we develop vaccines in the future, nichols said. This is the one of the most innovative thing...enetic backgrounds. At the heart of the device, nichols and Cortiella said, is an artificial matrix patter...

Small-scale fishing in Mexico rivals industrial fisheries in accidental turtle deaths

...onglines from duty in turtle-rich waters. "In the realm of saving ocean wildlife, we rarely see opportunities as powerful as this," said Wallace J. nichols of the Ocean Conservancy, a coauthor of the paper. "These Mexican fishermen are bringing about probably the biggest reduction in bycatch by any sin...

Research shows loggerhead sea turtles threatened by small-scale fishing operations

... Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be p...

Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves

...t actually exist there. To distinguish real absences from detection failures, the authors used state of the art statistical methods developed by James nichols and colleagues, at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. "With a handle on the detection problem it is much easier to un...

Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers

...ponents based on electrical charges and mass. nichols points out that researchers have used other techni...detect individual lipid molecules, like oleamide," nichols said. Oleamide was first identified as a lipi... but we're not sure yet what that reason is." nichols and her team are currently studying the role of ol...

Wild tigers need cat food

... prey densities is a key pillar in an overall strategy for the conservation of tigers." The research team, which included Dr. Karanth and Dr. Jim nichols from USGS, used remote cameras to identify individual tigers and then accurately estimate population trends in the park. Tigers can produce between 3...

Protein finding could lead to treatment for inflammatory diseases

...in cells, to prevent cytokines from boosting the immune system. MC160 is probably helping the virus persist." Upon further examination, Shisler and nichols discovered that MC160 shuts down the NF-kB-triggered inflammatory response by degrading a subunit of the immune system's I Kappa Kinase (IKK) complex....

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Microban Partners With YogaDirect.com to Launch Yoga Mats With Zinc Antimicrobial Technology

...outstanding customer service, 100% satisfaction money back guarantee policy, low prices, and high quality. For more information, please contact Emily nichols at 1-800-331-8233 or visit www.YogaDirect.com. CONTACT: Sarah Payne, Microban International, Ltd. (704) 875-0806 ...

New Test from Quest Diagnostics Helps Physicians Choose HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in Patients with History of Drug Resistance

...f Pfizer Inc. ZIAGEN(R) is a registered trademark, used under license by GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Quest, Quest Diagnostics, the associated logo, nichols Institute and all associated Quest Diagnostics marks are the registered trademarks of Quest Diagnostics. All third party marks -- (R)' and (TM)'...

Study Finds Noninvasive Blood Test for Liver Fibrosis May Alleviate Need for Liver Biopsies for Some Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

..., study investigator and medical director, endocrinology, Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute. "For a Hepascore value less than or equal to 0.2, significant fi... United States." Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, the esoteric research and development testing center of Quest Di...

New Cellular Bioenergetics Workshops Series Inaugurated by Seahorse Bioscience with Two of the World's Leading Bioenergetics Researchers

... help researchers to answer those fundamental, strategic questions that establish effective experimental design with an XF Analyzer," stated Dr. David nichols of the Buck Institute and Lund University. "Researchers of cellular bioenergetics must decide when to use isolated mitochondria and when to use whole...

Quest Diagnostics to Present Genomic Studies Related to New Testing Techniques for Leukemia and Prostate Cancer at 2009 ASCO Meeting

...opment, Hematology and Oncology, Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, the esoteric research, development and ...ncer conducted by our oncology diagnostics team at nichols Institute. While more research is needed, these da...ave been reported. Scientists at Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute developed a laboratory test based on TMP...

HistoRx Names Bill Sullivan Senior Vice President, Diagnostic Operations

...n Biosystems, Inc.); prior to that, he served as Vice President, Diagnostic Manufacturing at Visible Genetics and as Vice President, Operations at the nichols Institute Diagnostics (a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics), among positions with other diagnostics and medical device companies. Mr. Sullivan also serv...

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News reports on cancer biomarkers

...y cDNA libraries. Other biomarker-related projects covered in the GEN article include those at Sienna Cancer Diagnostics, Geron, Quest Diagnostics nichols Institute, Gentel Biosciences, Celera, University of Washington, Abbott Laboratories, Strategic Diagnostics, Plasma Proteome Institute, and Biosite. ...

NYU chemist Seeman recognized for founding, establishing the field of structural DNA nanotechnology

...tablishing the field of structural DNA nanotechnology. Created in 1902, the nichols Medal annually recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of chemist... Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The nichols Medal, the first award created by the American Chemical Society, includes a...

Twenty-One Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Attorneys Named 2008 'Illinois Super Lawyers'

... Bluestone Vincent J. Gnoffo Michael K. Hendershot, II Tadashi Horie James L. Katz Charles M. McMahon A. John Murray John F. Nethery Jeffry M. nichols Mark H. Remus Mircea A. Tipescu Founded in 1917, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione is based in Chicago with four additional offices across the country se...