Janet Rowley, MD, A Researcher Funded by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) congratulates Janet Davis Rowley, M.D., of University of Chicago, a pioneer in demonstrating that cancer is a genetic disease, for being awarded the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack ...

Two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career Award

SEATTLE, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Newswise -- President Obama today announced that two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigators have been awarded the nation's highest honor for scientists at the beginning of their independent research careers. Basic scientist Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., ...

Direct Selling Icon, Former Presidential Advisor Doug Wead Joins XanGo

LEHI, Utah, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --- XanGo, LLC, the mangosteen beverage category creator and market leader, announced today that direct selling icon, former presidential advisor, philanthropist and motivational speaker Doug Wead has joined XanGo as a full-time consultant. Wead brings to XanGo deep...

Statement on Presidential Memorandum to EPA to Review Lifting of Ban on California Clean Car Standard

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All people have the right to clean air. Action announced by the White House today means that Americans may soon be able to breathe easier, said Dr. Jane L. Delgado, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading ...

Grandson of Slaves Wins Experience of a Lifetime, Heads to Washington, D.C. to Attend Presidential Inauguration Events

Special Senior Set to Witness 'Greatest Moment of His Life' NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: Alfred Bouey, resident of Holley Court Terrace, a Brookdale Senior Living independent and assisted living community in Oak Park, Ill. ...

Feeding America, Martin Luther King III, David Arquette, Josh Groban and Herbie Hancock Join Forces to Combat Hunger in America on Presidential Inaugural Committee National Day of Service

A National Rally Against Hunger to Be Held on Martin Luther King Day in Washington , DC at the Martin Luther King Library CHICAGO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger relief organization, announced today that on Martin Luther King J...

M. D. Anderson neurosurgeon, Amy Heimberger, M.D., receives presidential award

HOUSTON - Amy Heimberger, M.D., associate professor of neurosurgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), in recognition for her research on the central nervous system's immune biology, tumor ev...

Venable's 'Election Watch Group' Assesses Presidential Election's Impact on Multiple Industries

Former U.S. Senator, Cabinet Secretary and other members of bipartisan group of Capitol Hill veterans anticipate major shifts in financial services, healthcare, energy, transportation, trade, labor and employment, and tax policy WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- After a long and grueling Pr...

Employers “Vote” on Presidential Candidates' Health Care Platforms: Prefer Middle Ground Between the Two Approaches

The majority of U.S.-based employers want to continue to provide health care coverage, yet oppose a government mandate to do so, a survey released today indicates. Employers prefer a middle ground between the presidential candidates’ health care proposals. New Yor...

APTA Podcast Helps Voters Make Informed Decisions on Presidential Candidates' Health Care Plans

PHYSICAL THERAPIST LEADERS PROVIDE ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' HEALTH CARE PROPOSALS ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Americans head to the polls to cast their votes in the Presidential election, health care is a top priority; approximately one in three America...

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Leading AIDS Groups Turn Up The Heat on '08 Presidential Candidates

Website and new report unearth surprising responses on hot-button HIV/AIDS issues Clinton, Edwards, Obama and Kucinich support ending ban on federal funds for needle exchange NEW YORK, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Housing Works, G...

Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama From Don Margolis, Chairman and Founder of The Repair Stem Cell Institute

... WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dear President-Elect Obama: Your first four year presidential term will start with billions of dollars earmarked for stem cell research. As spokesman for the Repair Stem Cell Institute (RSCI), which is the voice...

Mindset Media Study Reveals Which Independent Voters Favor Obama Vs. McCain

...re unimportant or dull. They often don't make New Year's resolutions, and when they do, they tend to be forgotten pretty quickly. "In a neck-to-neck presidential race, every vote counts," said Sarah Welch, COO and co-founder of Mindset Media. "Candidates can use our network to reach mass audiences of people wir...

Interview of the Vice President

...onding to the President's press conference. I wondered what you -- THE VICE PRESIDENT: I didn't see him. Q Can you give your quick thoughts on the presidential race, since we are Politico? Do you spend a lot of time thinking about that? THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, I don't look at that at all. Q Not at a...

AIDS Action Council Statement on World AIDS Day 2007: Leadership Needed for a National Strategy to Stop the AIDS Epidemic

...national AIDS strategy to end the epidemic. Over 170 organizations and hundreds of individuals in the U.S. have signed a Call to Action asking all presidential candidates to commit to developing and implementing a national AIDS strategy. Such a strategy must be designed to bring down HIV infection rates, incr...

Studies Show Body Mass Index Has No Effect on Resolution and Healing of GERD Symptoms

...tients with non-erosive reflux disease, a type of GERD, received a 2007 ACG presidential Poster Award. The other study examined GERD patients with erosive esophagit...esolution in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) 2007 ACG presidential Poster Award Recipient Poster Presentation, Sunday, October 14, 2007 Exhi...

General Wesley Clark Joins Immtech as Consulting Strategic Advisor

...onorary Knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments. He was also made a commander of the French Legion of Honor, and in 2000 he was awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. "We are honored to have General Clark join Immtech in this strategic advisory role," said Eric...

President Bush Ignores America's Plea for Support of Stem Cell Research

...ds the key to unlocking the future of better treatments and cures. "With this veto, President Bush turned the page to start yet another chapter in a presidential legacy of errors in judgment and bad decisions that needlessly cost American lives in the process. "More than 100 million Americans suffer from debi...

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Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program

...d and Drug Administration issuing its “final rule” on the vaccine on December 15, 2005. The suit also says the Defense Department has failed to follow presidential orders and federal laws that require the government to obtain informed consent before giving an unapproved and experimental vaccine to anyone. ...

Ramón Carrillo

... works on philosophical anthropology . Defamed by them as a "gasoline robber", his figure and accomplishments were silenced until Perón's brief third presidential period (1973-1974). In this stage Carrillo was recognized, although only as architect and achiever of a National Health system carefully designed an...

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.... The United States Library of Congress has selected The Obama File for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to the presidential ... Agape trans-denominational church in Los Angeles: Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith . ... Dr. Beckwith is the originator of the Life Visioning P...

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PNNL scientist garners early career presidential award

RICHLAND, Wash. -- A computational mathematician at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award honors his research on subsurface flow that addresses past and future energy needs...

2 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists receive Presidential Early Career Award

SEATTLE President Obama today announced that two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigators have been awarded the nation's highest honor for scientists at the beginning of their independent research careers. Basic scientist Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., and cancer-prevention researcher Ulr...

Carnegie Mellon's Kris Matyjaszewski recieves EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award

WASHINGTONKrzysztof Matyjaszewski, the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will receive the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at a ceremony at 5:30 p.m., Monday, June 22 ...

UNH researcher receives presidential environmental award

DURHAM, N.H. University of New Hampshire professor Frederick Short was co-recipient of the prestigious Coastal America Partnership Award the only environmental award of its kind given by the U.S. president for his contributions to a project that restored eelgrass to coastal salt ponds in Rhode ...

Haag honored with Presidential Early Career Scientists Award

Washington, DC U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Fisheries Research Biologist Wendell Haag, Ph.D., received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers during a ceremony today at the White House. Haag was among the nearly 70 scientists and engineers receivin...

The Science Coalition's '10 questions' for the presidential debate

As the ongoing financial crisis has clearly illustrated, the top priority for the next President will be addressing the nation's severe economic crisis. Believing that expanding the nation's commitment to basic scientific research is one of the most important actions the next President can take t...

Beginning scientists receive presidential awards

Twenty young scientists from among those taking part in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) have received an additional distinction as winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for the 2006 competition. ...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

Treena Arinzeh, a young professor who last year won a Presidential Award, the nation's highest scientific honor, is bringing the promise of stem cell research one step closer to reality. Arinzeh, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, is researching the use of stem cells to i...

Tires made from trees -- better, cheaper, more fuel efficient

...t years. He developed a non-toxic adhesive for production of wood composite panels that has dramatically changed that industry, and in 2007 received a presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award at the National Academy of Sciences for his work on new, sustainable and environmentally friendly wood products. ...

Mount Sinai's Dr. Benjamin tenOever to be honored by White House

...een selected by the United States government for a presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (P... other emerging pathogens. "My receipt of this presidential Award reflects the priority Mount Sinai School of ...'s ability to secure research funding, such as the presidential Award, is critical to our mission of discovering t...

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CEM Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for the Sprint Rapid Protein Analyzer

MATTHEWS, N.C., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- CEM Corporation has won a 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Greener Reaction Conditions category for its Sprint(TM) Rapid Protein Analyzer . The company will accept the award this evening during a ceremony at the Carnegie ...

DoD Leader to Address Presidential Biometrics Security Directive at NDIA Conference

General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., will address attendees regarding the implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD – 24 at the 2009 Biometrics Conference www.ndia.org/meetings/9860 on January 27-28, 2009 at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, VA. ...

18-Month Extension of Reimbursement Rates for Radioimmunotherapies Becomes Law After Congressional Override of Presidential Veto

SEATTLE, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced that Congress today passed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, which includes an 18-month extension of the 2007 reimbursement rate for radioimmunotherapies su...

Battelle Earns 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Award

Pioneering work in bio-based toners earns highest environmental award from EPA COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Battelle, the world's largest non-profit research and development organization, today announced its work in developing bio-based toners and resins has earned a 20...

KGI Announces BIO President Greenwood to Address Health Care Reform and the Presidential Race at Simon Ramo Lecture

CLAREMONT, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) today announced that James Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), will discuss "The American Health Care System & the Presidential Race: Who Will Regulate, Who Will Innovate?" at th...

UW professor and WARF receive presidential medals

Madison got a double dose of national honors on Monday as President Bush gave medals to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Carl R. de Boor and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for achievements in mathematics and technology transfer, respectively. The 2003 National Medals of Sc...

InterMune Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Business Highlights

...ose explored in the first four patient cohorts. Today the company announced that results of all seven cohorts of INFORM-1 will be presented in presidential Plenary Session III (#193) at the 2009 AASLD meeting at 8:00 a.m. on November 3. The company also announced today that two additional abstracts on th...

Ratcliff Adds Architect John Sealander to Healthcare Practice Group

...ninsula which received an American Institute of Architects, San Francisco (AIA-SF) Citation for Excellence in Architecture. He also received an AIA-SF presidential Commendation for his leadership of the Health + Science Committee, which he chaired from 2004-2006 and now chairs again. "I am impressed with t...

Brown engineering professor wins prestigious White House award

... PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Rashid Zia, assistant professor of engineering, has been named one of this year's winners of the presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The White House named the latest group of winners this week. The PECASE award recognizes outstand...

UCR physicist receives highest honor US government gives young scientists or engineers

...searchers who are beginning their independent research careers are given. Lau, an associate professor of physics , is one of the recipients of the presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers ( PECASE ) for the 2008 competition. PECASE represents the highest honor a beginning scientist or eng...

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Charles Darwin

... pushing beyond their belief that natural history must justify religion and social order. Transmutation On 17 February 1837 Lyell used his presidential address at the Geographical Society to present Owen's findings to date on Darwin's fossils, pointing out the inference that extinct species were relat...

Stem cell

...ed a letter urging President Bush to relax the policy. The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry (D, MA), had promised to support all types of stem cell research if elected President. His defeat in the U.S. presidential election, 2004 means that embryonic stem cell research in the US will pote...

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