Houston Northwest Medical Center's Bariatric Program Rated Top 15% in the Nation by HealthGrades
HOUSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study from HealthGrades, an independent healthcare ratings organization, finds that Houston Northwest Medical Center has received a Five-Star Rating and has been rated among the top 15% of hospitals nationwide for Bariatric Surgery in 2009...40 Northwest Hospital Physicians Named Among Seattle's Top Doctors by Seattle Magazine
SEATTLE, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Northwest Hospital & Medical Center today announced that 40 doctors affiliated with the hospital have been recognized among "Seattle's top doctors" in the July 2009 issue of Seattle Magazine. The magazine's annual Top Doctors list is based on a ...The Breast Center at Houston Northwest Medical Center Receives Prestigious National Award
HOUSTON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Breast Center at Houston Northwest Medical Center is one of only two breast centers in the United States -- and one in Texas -- to be recognized as a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence by the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers (NQMBC) Progr...UNICEF Appeals for Funding to Urgently Assist Displaced Children and Women in Northwest Pakistan
NEW YORK and ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UNICEF has appealed for an additional $41.4 million to provide urgent assistance to people displaced by fighting in northwest Pakistan. Over half of the displaced are children. UNICEF Pakistan has now almost exhausted its contin...Houston Northwest Medical Center Receives Prestigious Tenet Circle of Excellence Award
HOUSTON, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC ) announces that Houston Northwest Medical Center has been named to the company's 2009 Circle of Excellence. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090427/DA05877 ) The Circle of Excellence ...MD IT Expands in the Northwest with Acquisition of Seattle's Pro Scribe
MD IT, a national provider of medical documentation services and software, announced today that it has acquired Pro Scribe Inc. of Seattle, an innovative medical documentation company that serves more than 450 healthcare professionals throughout Washington and the Northwest. ...Cardiac Science to Present at the Eighth Annual Invest Northwest Conference
BOTHELL, Wash., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardiac Science (Nasdaq: CSCX ), a global leader in advanced cardiac diagnosis, resuscitation, rehabilitation, and informatics products, today announced that it will present at the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association (WBBA) 2009 ...Just in Time for Winter, a New Berry That's Good for Your Health
...NGHAM, England, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A little known berry, Sambucus nigra L, otherwise known as black elderberry, that is native to most of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia, is making itself known this year here in the United States in the form of a dietary supplement called Sambucol(R), now bein...DuPont Provides Technology for Washington Hospital Center's Emergency Department
...ch is expected to open in six to 10 years. Washington Hospital Center is a not-for-profit 926-bed acute care teaching and research hospital based in northwest Washington. It is the largest private medical center in the nation's capital and among the 25 largest hospitals in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Hospit...Hospital Launches Landmark Emergency Medicine Project
...full ER One sometime in the near future. " Washington Hospital Center is a not-for-profit 926-bed acute care teaching and research hospital based in northwest Washington, DC. It is the largest private medical center in the nation's capital and among the 25 largest hospitals in the Mid-Atlantic. The Hospital ...Allergens, Inhalants/Foods, Pacific Northwest Profile
Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues
CORVALLIS, Ore. The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ...Wildfires result in loss of forests reserved by Northwest Forest Plan
PORTLAND, Ore. November 6, 2008. Although the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) significantly reduced cutting of old-growth forests on federal land, forests in the driest regions are now at greater risk of being lost to wildfire than to logging. A team of federal and university scientists recently comp...Oregon researchers study widespread areas of low oxygen off northwest coast
A team of scientists studying the California Current a slow-moving mass of cold water that travels south along the coast from British Columbia to Baja California are seeing increasing areas of water off Washington and Oregon with little or no oxygen, possibly resulting in the deaths of marine an...Invasives threaten salmon in Pacific Northwest
Many native fishes in the Pacific Northwest are threatened or endangered, notably salmonids, and hundreds of millions of dollars are expended annually on researching their populations and on amelioration efforts. Most of the attention and funding have been directed toward to the impacts of habitat...Robot vehicle surveys deep sea off Pacific Northwest
The first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) into the ocean, has been successfully completed by scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW). The veh...No relief for Pacific Northwest drought
It does not appear there will be any major relief this spring or summer from the unusually dry weather that has recently hit the Pacific Northwest, according to new projections of drought severity and fire risk that are based on "general circulation" models that forecast global climate. The analy...Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research
...base to integrate masses of data flowing from DOE-supported genomics and systems biology research; and $180,000 for fusion energy research. Pacific northwest National Laboratory; Richland, WA$5.7 million, including $4.9 million for integrated assessment modeling for climate; and $867,000 for mathematical an...Urban water ecology at the ESA annual meeting
...he analyzed fish stomach contents over the course of a year in four Pacific northwest lakes, surveyed fish in 28 Pacific northwest lakes and compiled published data on fish populations in lakes across North...Rodent size linked to human population and climate change
...tury's worth of anatomic changes between two geographically isolated rodents -- Channel Island deer mice from coastal California and white-footed mice northwest of Chicago -- and noted fast change among both. "I suspected they weren't unique examples," he said. "I wondered whether these changes were occurri...Wildfires set to increase 50 percent by 2050
...over 50% by 2050, according to research by climate scientists. The study predicts that the worst affected areas will be the forests in the Pacific northwest and the Rocky Mountains, where the area of forest destroyed by wildfire is predicted to increase by 78% and 175% respectively. The research is base...Avantium to Deliver Flowrence System to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has signed an agreement with Avantium to enable the sale and delivery of an Avantium Flowrence(TM) parallel fixed bed reactor system. The Flowrence(TM) will allow PNNL to a...Cell Therapeutics Presents Corporate Highlights at Invest Northwest Conference
Company estimates sales of pixantrone, if approved, could potentially reach $1 billion by 2014 SEATTLE, March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Craig Philips, President of Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) reviewed CTI's programs in a presentation at the 8th Annual WBBA Invest N...Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) to Present at 8th Annual WBBA Invest Northwest Conference
SEATTLE, March 16, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) management will present at the 8th Annual WBBA Invest Northwest Conference on Wednesday, March 18th at 10:10 AM in the Harbor Dining Room of the Bell Harbor Conference Center. The presentation w...Oncothyreon to present at Invest Northwest 2009
SEATTLE, March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncothyreon Inc. (Nasdaq: ONTY ) (TSX:ONY), a biotechnology company specializing in the development of innovative therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer, today announced that Robert Kirkman, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, will pr...Sirius Genomics to Present at Invest Northwest Conference
VANCOUVER, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ - Sirius Genomics, a developer of a pharmacogenomic test to identify potential responders to recombinant activated Protein C (sold by Eli Lilly and Company under the trademark Xigris (R)), announced today that Bradley Popovich, President and CEO, will present at the...Pacific Northwest National Laboratories Becomes a GeneGo Center of Excellence
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has become a certified GeneGo Center of Excellence. PNNL researchers will have institution-wide access...Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Invest Northwest Presentation to be Webcast
SEATTLE, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq: CTIC ; MTAX) management will present at the 7th Annual WBBA Invest Northwest Conference on Tuesday, March 18 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (PT) in the Bay Auditorium of the Bell Harbor Conference Center. The presen...Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) to Present at 7th Annual WBBA Invest Northwest Conference
SEATTLE, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq: CTIC ; MTAX) management will present at the 7th Annual WBBA Invest Northwest Conference on Tuesday, March 18th at 9:00 AM in the Bay Auditorium of the Bell Harbor Conference Center. The presentation will also...Lonza Withdraws Majority of Claims in Patent Lawsuit Against Northwest Biotherapeutics
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NWBO; AIM: NWBS and NWBT), Northwest Biotherapeutics ("NWBT") announced today that Lonza Group AG has withdrawn all claims of patent infringement involving NWBT's DCVax(R)-Brain product and ot...