Cardinal Health Welcomes Record Number of Attendees at its Annual Independent Pharmacy Trade Show
WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --To kick off its annual retail pharmacy trade show, Cardinal Health today launched new tools and services designed to help independent retail pharmacies improve local access to quality, cost-effective health care in their communities....MediciGlobal Achieves Record Number of Awards
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON , July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Since January 2009, MediciGlobal has received a record number of national and international awards for its work in patient education and design. In June, 2009 MediciGlobal announced that it was the recipient of four 2009 Communicator Awards ...Medicare expenditures decrease for glaucoma surgery as number of procedures increases
CHICAGO The overall number of glaucoma surgical procedures appears to be increasing, but payments by Medicare for the procedures have been decreasing, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology , one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Glaucoma is one of the leading cause...Celesio Acquires Majority Stake in Number One Brazilian Pharmaceutical Wholesaler Panpharma
STUTTGART, Germany, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The supervisory board of Celesio AG has today approved the majority holding of 50.1 per cent in pharmaceutical wholesaler Panpharma. This step into one of the most attractive and strongest-growing pharmaceutical markets world-wide is part of Celesio's gr...New Report Shows Record Number of Medicines in Development to Treat Leading Causes of Cancer
DENVER, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Responding to President Obama's call for "a cure for cancer in our time," the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) delivered a new report today on medicines in the research pipeline for cancer. The report shows that America's pharm...PAREXEL Data Reveal A Record High Number of Clinical Trials Initiated
BOSTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- According to new data from PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization, the number of new industry-sponsored clinical trial initiations, or starts, surged another 12 percent to a record h...DaVita Clinical Research Completes Record Number of Renal Trials in 2007
Nation's Largest Renal Research Network Completes 13 Phase-I Clinical Trials; Reports Another 34 Active Trials in Late Stage Development EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita Clinical Research(R) (DCR), a Phase I-IV clinical trial research service business specializing in renal-r...Increases in West Nile Virus Replikin Concentrations Precede Increases in the Number of Human Cases
BOSTON, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Replikins Ltd. has found that the replikin concentration of West Nile Virus increased annually through two distinct cycles as the virus expanded in the U.S.: the first from 2000 to 2003, and the second from 2004 to 2007 (p less than 0.001). Increases in the annual...Reticulocytes, Percent & Number
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Researchers from the University of Bath are embarking on a project to use stem cell technology that could reduce the number of animal experiments used to study conditions such as motor neurone disease. Dr Vasanta Subramanian, from the University's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, will be d...New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer
A team of researchers, including several from UCSF, has demonstrated that a new method for detecting and quantifying protein biomarkers in body fluids may ultimately make it possible to screen multiple biomarkers in hundreds of patient samples, thus ensuring that only the strongest biomarker candi...New technique determines the number of fat cells remains constant in all body types
LIVERMORE, Calif. - The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and '60s has helped researchers determine that the number of fat cells in a human's body, whether lean or obese, is established during the teenage years. Changes in fat mass in adulthood can be attr...Copy number variation may stem from replication misstep
Genome rearrangements, resulting in variations in the numbers of copies of genes, occur when the cellular process that copies DNA during cell division stalls and then switches to a different genetic template, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears today ...Evolution with a restricted number of genes
The development of higher forms of life would appear to have been influenced by RNA polymerase II. This enzyme transcribes the information coded by genes from DNA into messenger-RNA (mRNA), which in turn is the basis for the production of proteins. RNA polymerase II is highly conserved through evo...Human behavior changes the number of strains of infectious diseases
Simple models predict that only one strain of an infectious disease can exist at one time, but observation suggests otherwise. In a study in the August issue of The American Naturalist, Ken Eames and Matt Keeling (University of Warwick) use a mathematical model to help explain multiple strains, sho...AstraZeneca Calls on All Americans to Join US AGAINST ATHERO to Fight the Nation's Number One Killer
2009 Artery Explorer Tour Kicks Off This Month, Urging People Across the Country to Take Action Against Atherosclerosis WILMINGTON, Del., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN ) today announced the launch of the 2009 US AGAINST ATHERO tour featuring the Artery Explorer ...Inc. Magazine Names Senior Whole Health the Number One Fastest-Growing Private Company in US
Growth Fueled by Popularity with Seniors and Caregivers, Grassroots Marketing CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Inc. Magazine has named Senior Whole Health (SWH), a voluntary health care plan for low-income seniors, the number one fastest-grow...Ortho Biotech Announces Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Procrit(R) (Epoetin Alfa) Lot Number P114942A
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ortho Biotech is announcing that it is voluntarily recalling one manufacturing lot (P114942A) of PROCRIT(R) (Epoetin alfa) after having identified cracks in the necks of a small number of vials upon post-manufacturing inspection. No other lot of this p...Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Says State Number 1 in New Biotechnology Study
Magazine Ranks Pennsylvania Ahead of California, Massachusetts HARRISBURG, Pa., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania's efforts to develop and diversify its biotechnology business sector have made it the number one state in the nation in the newest Business Facilities magazine stud...ASCO Results: Oncologists Rank Genentech Number One
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