Duane Reade Holdings, Inc. Announces Expiration and Results of Tender Offers for Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes and Senior Subordinated Notes and Solicitation of Consents to Related Indentures
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Duane Reade Holdings, Inc. announced today the expiration and the final results of the previously announced offers by its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Duane Reade Inc. and Duane Reade (collectively, the "Issuers"), to purchase for cash (i) any and all of th...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Michigan Attorney General and Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation Near Agreement on Rate Increases on Under Age 65 Individual Products
DETROIT, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), the Michigan Attorney General and the Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation are near an agreement that would conclude the Attorney General's and Office of Financial and Insurance Regu...
Therapy Technique Cuts Divorce/Separation Rate By Nearly 50 Percent
SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four simple questions on well-being asked at the start of each session of ongoing couples therapy can greatly increase chances for reconciliation and improved relationships, according to a newly published study. The largest clinical t...
Rock-Climbing Injury Rate Soaring
First national study finds large jump in ER treatments since 1990
SUNDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- As more people rise to the challenge of rock climbing for fun and exercise, the number of injuries related to the sport also increases, according to the first national study on the subj...
Ongoing Study Shows That Endovascular Therapy is Associated With High Cure Rate for Childhood Eye Cancer
Same Day Procedure May Transform Treatment Approach to Retinoblastoma
BOCA RATON, Fla., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expanded results of a study conducted on children with eye cancer (retinoblastoma) shows that chemotherapy delivered through endovascular (through the ...
Duane Reade Holdings, Inc. Amends Terms and Extends Deadlines for Previously Announced Cash Tender Offers for Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes and Senior Subordinated Notes
NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Duane Reade Holdings, Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Duane Reade Inc. and Duane Reade (collectively, the "Issuers"), have amended the terms of their previously announced offers to purchase for cash (i) their Senior Secured Floating R...
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Responses After Completion of Therapy Increase Pixantrone Complete Remission (CR)/Unconfirmed Complete Remission (CRu) Rate to 24% and Overall Response Rate (ORR) to 40% Compared to 7% and 14% for Comparator Agents in Phase III EXTEND Trial in 3rd Line Th
SEATTLE, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Updated follow-up phase III EXTEND (PIX 301) clinical trial data enhances previously reported superior response rates for pixantrone over comparator including in high risk patient subgroups
Additional Clinical Studies Also Highlighted at Pan ...
Micromet Presents Update on Blinatumomab's Response Rate and Duration in a Phase 1 Study in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patients
Data Presented at Meeting of European Hematology Association Confirms High Response
Rate and Durability of Remissions
BERLIN, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI ), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, in...
New Therapy Enlists Immune System to Boost Cure Rate in a Childhood Cancer
--In a First, Immunotherapy Works Against Neuroblastoma--
PHILADELPHIA, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A multicenter research team has announced encouraging results for an experimental therapy using elements of the body's immune system to improve cure rates for children with neuroblastoma...
Zevalin(R) Following Short-Course Chemotherapy with CHOP + Rituximab (CHOP-R) Doubles Complete Remission Rate in First-Line Treatment of Follicular Non- Hodgkin's Lymphoma
SEATTLE, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
(CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that Clinical Cancer Research
has published in the November 1, 2008 issue the results of a study authored
by Samual Jacobs et al. investigating the use of short-course CHOP-R
followe...
Boceprevir Phase II Study Showed High Rate of Sustained Response With 28- and 48-Week Regimens in Genotype 1 Treatment-Naive Hepatitis C Patients
Interim results of HCV SPRINT-1 study presented at AASLD annual meeting
Pivotal Phase III studies ongoing in treatment naive patients and those
who failed prior treatment
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schering-Plough
Corporation (NYSE: SGP ) today reported that a planned...
Leading Healthcare System Decreases MRSA Infection Rate by 53 Percent - Offers Protocol & Educational Materials Free of Charge to Other Organizations
Infant Deaths Spur Hard-Hitting, System-Wide Hand Washing Campaign That Drives Culture Change, Saves Lives
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Novant Health, one of the top
10 integrated health systems in the country, dramatically increased
hand-washing compliance from ...
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BD Vacutainer® Specialty Tubes - Sedimentation Rate Determination (SRD)
Description: BD Vacutainer® Specialty Tubes - Sedimentation
Rate Determination (SRD)...
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Liquichek Sedimentation Rate Control
Description: Liquichek Sedimentation
Rate Control is a bilevel human whole blood based control designed to monitor both manual and automated methods for measuring erythrocyte sedimentation rates....
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High Dose Rate (HDR) Treatment System
Description: This cutting edge High Dose
Rate (HDR) treatment system includes the HDR 100 Template and HDR 200 Sandwich. Using the Template, simply load needles through the Sandwich. Then detach the Template, suture the Sandwich to the patient, and lock the Sandwich to secure the needles in place for the dura...
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Seditainer Blood Collection Tube For Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Determination
Description: The SEDITAINER Erythrocyte Sedimentation
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BUN Slow Rate Reagent
Description: Intended for the quantitative determination of urea nitrogen in serum. Reaction: kinetic, lag phase of less than 120 seconds, followed by linear phase of at least 240 seconds. Wavelength: 340 nm. Linearity: 100 mg/dL (35.6 mmol/L urea) at 30C. Single vial....
Company:Hemagen Diagnostics, Inc.
BUN Rate Reagent
Description: Intended for the quantitative determination of urea nitrogen in serum. Reaction: kinetic, lag phase of less than 15 seconds followed by linear phase of at least 60 seconds. Wavelength: 340 nm. Linearity: 120 mg/dL (42.8 mmol/L urea) at 30C. Single vial....
Company:Hemagen Diagnostics, Inc.
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Full-body scan
...n the screening of patients who have not been diagnosed with a disease, or who do not have symptoms suggestive of a disease, [2] due to the low
rate of finding disease, and the inconclusiveness of the cause of abnormalities seen. [3] [4]
As with any test that screens for disease, the risks ...
Ganglion cyst
...be managed by aspiration or excision . Aspiration of the cyst is the simpler method, but cysts will develop again in about 50% of cases. Recurrence
rate after surgery is only 5–10%; the procedure is simple, and usually there are no complications. Recurrence rates are lower when the hand or finger is im...
Hy's Law
...law is prognostic indicator that a pure Drug -Induced Liver Injury (DILI) leading to jaundice, without a hepatic transplant , has a case fatality
rate of 10% to 50%. The law is based on observations by Hy Zimmerman , a major scholar of drug-induced liver injury. [1]
References
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Nuclear medicine
...es of the radiopharmaceutical used, its distribution in the body and its
rate of clearance from the body.
Effective doses can range from 6 μSv (0.006 mSv) for a 3 MBq chromium -51 EDTA measurement of glomerular filtration
rate to 37 mSv for a 150 MBq thallium -201 non-specific tumour imaging procedur...
Mumijo
...oxic, at least in reasonable quantities. Research suggested that mumijo has antiseptic and stimulant properties, so it tends to increase wound healing
rate and produce better results. Two commercial mumijo-based drugs were developed and at least three conference on post-operational application of mumijo w...
Personalized medicine
...ic and further $1 billion to successfully market a new product. The failure
rate of product development is very high and in many cases failure is not eviden... The traditional diagnostics industry is mature and only achieving a growth
rate of the order of 4% per annum. Its products are very cost sensitive and have...
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Slow heart rate
Bradycardia, as applied to adult medicine, is defined as a resting heart
rate of under 60 beats per minute, though it is seldom symptomatic until the
rate drops below 50 beat/min. List of 67 disease causes of Slow heart
rate , patient stories, diagnostic guides, 100 drug side effec...
Vitamin K
...or the majority of Americans. ... Vitamin K's role in the prevention/treatment of Alzheimer's disease has been ... Vitamin K reduces the
rate of calcium loss from the bones in osteoporosis ... By preventing the blood clots that trigger heart attack and stroke, the anticoagulant ....
Vital signs
... BET.com brings you the truth about fast food and its impact on the body. vital signs pl.n. The pulse rate, temperature, and respiratory
rate of an individual. ... Vital signs may be recorded by a nurse, physician, physician's assistant, or ... Find products and compare prices at The...
Vesicles
... ... Vesicles bulge out and break off from the endoplasmic reticulum and the ... Vesicles are anterogradely transported in the axons at a fast
rate as 'empty' ... The results show that vesicles are axonally transported as preformed organelles, ... Unlabeled acceptor vesicles were prepared ...
Ventricular tachycardia
...eart). Tachycardia typically refers to a heart
rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heartrate . In humans, this
rate is usually based upon age,... Overview: Ventr... that starts in the ventricles. ... If the heart
rate during a ventricular tachycardia episode is ve...
Ventricle
...-operative left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) was 27 ± 8%. The ... Echocardiografically, the mean left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF)
rate was ... ... Ventricle ... of CPPs involve the third ventricle and occur primarily in children younger ... tumors occur uncommonly in the ante...
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Difference in fat storage may explain lower rate of liver disease in African-Americans
DALLAS March 27, 2009 Where different ethnic groups store fat in their bodies may account for differences in the likelihood they'll develop insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
According to research reported in th...
Measurement Specialties, Inc. Announces Impact of 'German Business Tax Reform 2008' Resulting in Lower Combined German Tax Rate - Impacts 2Q08 Reported Financial Results
HAMPTON, Va., Oct 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Measurement Specialties,
Inc. (Nasdaq: MEAS ), a designer and manufacturer of sensors and
sensor-based systems, announces the impact of the recently adopted German
Business Tax Reform 2008 on current year financial statements. The German Busines...
Study finds a high rate of asthma in college athletes
COLUMBUS, Ohio More than a third of college athletes assessed for breathing problems had test results suggesting exercise-induced asthma, even in those athletes who had no previous history of asthma, a new study shows.
The findings, published in the September issue of the journal Medicine & S...
Arctic sea ice thinning at record rate
The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.
Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University Co...
HPV DNA test identifies cervical pre-cancerous disease in developing countries with 90% success rate
Results of the first study to determine the accuracy of a new rapid screening test for HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), created specifically for use in the developing world, have shown it to be 90 per cent accurate in detecting precancerous cervical disease when tested on a group of local women in Sha...
Microbes churn out hydrogen at record rate
By adding a few modifications to their successful wastewater fuel cell, researchers have coaxed common bacteria to produce hydrogen in a new, efficient way.
Bruce Logan and colleagues at Penn State University had already shown success at using microbes to produce electricity. Now, using starter...
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BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade Antimicrobial Demonstrates a 99.9997% Kill Rate Against Clostridium Difficile Spores (C.diff) in Independent Lab Pre-testing Phase
NEWARK, N.J., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioNeutral Group, Inc. ("BioNeutral") (OTC Bulletin Board: BONU), a chemical technology-based Life Science company announced today that at ATS Labs, using a Quantitative Disk Carrier test starting with 5.5 million Clostridium Difficile (C.diff) spores...
Physicians in Europe Rate Novartis #1 on Service Delivery, While Merck Earns Top Honors in the US
Even Among Companies Doing Well, Relationships Weaken in Many Countries
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- New TNS Healthcare research shows that physicians in four out of the five major European countries -- the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy -- give Novartis top marks for effectively deliverin...
deCODE Sells Auction Rate Securities
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN ) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with NBI, an Icelandic financial institution, pursuant to which NBI has purchased deCODE's auction
rate securities for an aggregate price of $11 million. Pu...
National Ergonomics Expo Sees 86% On-Site Exhibitor Renewal Rate for 2009; New Products from Contour Design, Equipois, Goldtouch and Herman Miller Win 2008 NECE Attendees' Choice New Product Awards
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The 14th Annual National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition (NECE) at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Dec. 2 - 5 was yet again the largest annual gathering of ergonomics decision makers and ergonomics product sellers held in the U.S. with over 1,200 attendees represe...
Credit Suisse Repurchases Auction Rate Securities (ARS) From Rosetta Genomics
REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, October 27
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rosetta Genomics Ltd. (Nasdaq: ROSG ), a leader in
the development of microRNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics, today
announced that Credit Suisse, as part of a settlement agreement it has
reached with the Att...
Angiotech Announces Extension of the Expiration Date of its Tender Offer for Senior Floating Rate Notes Due 2013 and 7.75% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2014
VANCOUVER, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals,
Inc. ("Angiotech") (NASDAQ: ANPI , TSX: ANP), a global specialty
pharmaceutical and medical device company, today announced that in
connection with the previously announced tender offer (the "Tender Offer")
for its outstan...
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microPET R4 from CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc.
Description:...imaging PET system in the world. Despite the microPET R4 low retail price, it outperfoms every competing systems in all performance categories; count
rate performance, energy resolution, timing resolution, and feature set.
microPET is a dedicated small animal PET (Positron Emission Tomography) imaging...
Company:CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc.
N5 Submicron Particle Size Analyzer - 115V from Beckman Coulter
Description:...ample every time. The N5 Submicron Particle Size Analyzer uses Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS) , which determines particle size by measuring the
rate of fluctuations in laser light intensity scattered by particles as they diffuse through a fluid. PCS is the only nondestructive method for measuring p...
Company:Beckman Coulter
N5 Submicron Particle Size Analyzer - 230V from Beckman Coulter
Description:...ample every time. The N5 Submicron Particle Size Analyzer uses Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS) , which determines particle size by measuring the
rate of fluctuations in laser light intensity scattered by particles as they diffuse through a fluid. PCS is the only nondestructive method for measuring p...
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Rabbit Anti-Human PHAS-II Polyclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from Lab Vision
Description:...omotes dissociation of PHAS/eIF-4E complexes. This allows eIF-4E to bind to eIF-4G (p220), thereby increasing the amount of the eIF-4F complex and the
rate of translation initiation. Pharmacological and genetic evidence indicates that the mTOR/p70S6K pathway is involved in the control of PHAS-I and -II. T...
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Adept HPLC System 5S, Ternary Gradient from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
Description:... This gradient system uses three Adept CE 4100 high pressure dual piston pumps, each providing a flow
rate in one microlitre increaments. The ground breaking WaveQuest UV/Visible ultra-fast scanning detector, provides added flexibility. The WaveQuest pro...
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Adept HPLC System 5, Ternary Gradient from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
Description:... This high pressure gradient system uses three Adept CE 4100 high pressure dual piston pumps, each providing a flow
rate in one microlitre increaments. The Adept CE 4200 dual wavelength detector for added flexibility. System control and data processing is provided by P...
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Activation energy
...uantitative basis of the relationship between the activation energy and the
rate at which a reaction proceeds. The study of reaction rates is termed chemi...molecules with more energy than the activation energy, and consequently the
rate of reaction increases. Typically the activation energy is given as the ener...
Active transport
...ion gradient (collectively termed an electrochemical gradient ). This is achieved by either altering the affinity of the binding site or altering the
rate at which the protein changes conformations.
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Antibiotic
... in the United States had a strain that resisted at least one antibiotic. In certain settings, such as hospitals and some child-care locations, the
rate of antibiotic resistance is so high that the normal, low cost antibiotics are virtually useless for treatment of frequently seen infections. This le...
Apoptosis
...is amounts to the proliferation and subsequent destruction of a mass of cells equal to an individual's body weight.
Homeostasis is achieved when the
rate of mitosis (cell proliferation) in the tissue is balanced by cell death. If this equilibrium is disturbed, either of two things happen:
The cel...
Biodiversity
...extinction is under way. While estimates over extinction rates range from a handful to upwards of 200 species a day, most scientists believe that the
rate of species loss is greater now than at any time in human history- with extinctions occuring at rates hundreds of times higher than background extincti...
Cancer
...ecially those tissues that have a high replacement
rate (e.g. intestinal lining). These cells usually repa...on of cancer) is the process of derangement of the
rate of cell division .
Cancer is, ultimately, a d...sia refers to tissue growth based on an excessive
rate of cell division, leading to a larger than usual n...
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Walking legs
...e center of ... The first successful attempts at walking robots tended to have 6 legs . ... this dog is walking in two legs ......~please
rate high.... Watch Video about Make,Do, Walking by Metacafe.com ... conditions that cause leg pain and may affect walking , and some ways to treat ...
Veins
... veins ... POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS AND RISKS OF FACTORS OF VARICOSE VEINS ... RECURRENCE – CAN VARICOSE VEINS COME BACK AFTER TREATMENT. SUCCESS
rate ... Varicose veins can occur anywhere in the body, but are more commonly found on the... The blood in the veins of the legs works against gravi...
Turnover
...ces context, turnover or labor turnover is the
rate at which an employer gains and loses employees. Si...w long employees tend to stay" or "the
rate of traffic through the revolving door." Turn...ign of inefficiency, since inventory usually has a
rate ... Turnover - Definition of Turnover at Di...
Tunica
..., despite the fact that since 1995 ... Stay & Play at Horseshoe Tunica , one of Harrah's 3 hotels & casinos in Tunica . With Harrah's low
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Tubulin
...frozen format. ... The European Bioinformatics Institute ... For maximal
rate and extent of polymerisation into microtubules, tubulin requires GTP. ......are polymers of tubulin , a dimer of two 55-kDa subunits, designated ...
rate and extent of polymerisation into microtubules, tubulin requires GTP. ......
Transversion
...he blaOXY-2 gene only a fivefold increase was ... Conversely, GC TA transversion increased in mutL or mutS mutants in stationary phase. ... The
rate of lacZ GC TA transversion was determined by the method of Lea and ... 2. Which of the substitutions in question 1 are transversion mutations? ...
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