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H5N1 vaccine could be basis for life-saving stockpile

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have announced that a vaccine they developed a few years ago against one antigenic variant of the avian influenza virus H5N1 may protect humans against future variants of the virus. Vaccines based on this model might therefore be suitable for stockpiling for use during a pandemic (worldwide epidemic) until a new vaccine could be developed specif...

Saving endangered whales at no cost

By comparing the productivity of lobster fishing operations in American and Canadian waters of the Gulf of Maine, researchers have identified ways in which cost-saving alterations in fishing strategies can substantially reduce fishing-gear entanglements of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The findings appear in the January 9th issue of the journal Current Biology, published b...

Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?

CABI houses one of the world’s largest genetic resource collections of fungi, numbered at over 28,000 strains, including Fleming’s original penicillin produ...

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It's not Y2K, but changes to Daylight Saving Time could cause tech problems

will have significant implications for organizations worldwide, but few business organizations are prepared to address their potential information technology impacts, according to a new <a href="http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=500284&subref=simplesea...

Doyle says new contracts saving state more than $16 million annually

The new contracts are the result of Doyle's Accountability, Consolidation, and Efficiency (ACE) Ini...

Tech center supports energy-saving device for heat-treating plants

The funds will suppor...

Fiserv enters health-care savings accounts business

Spurred on by HSA authorization by Congress in 2004, healthcare banking is a set of services which includes managing tax-advantaged healthcare accounts for consumers and moving payments between pa...

Wisconsins untapped defense might: why saving military bases is just a start

MADISON Gov. Jim Doyles effort to keep Wisconsins five military installations off the Pentagons closure list deserves a crisp salute and not just because those bases bring nearly $850 million per year to the Wisconsin economy. Wisconsin is a hidden fortress of ideas and materials to be used in the ongoing war against terrorism; those assets should come to the atte...

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Life Saving Cancer Drugs – From Chicken! Possible Says 'Dolly’ Creatos

In what can be a watershed in cancer research, Scottish scientists along with US Biotech Company Viragen Inc., have used nuclear transfer technology to harvest life saving drugs to treat many serious diseases including cancer. The same team had earlier cornered world wide fame and glory (and a lot of criticism!) for creating Dolly – the world’s first cloned mammal: Using the same nuclear transfe...

Defibrillators saving lives but price is an issue

Surgically implanting the heart-shocking devices known as defibrillators in people who have had heart attacks prevented sudden death in nearly one-third of the patients. //Doctors say the findings will likely lead to a dramatic and costly shift in the way they treat millions of heart attack patients by adding a $20,000 defibrillator to the medicines now in use. The study is the first...

A voice saving surgery

Each year, about 12,000 cases of cancer of the larynx are diagnosed in the United States. About 5,000 of those patients will have to have a laryngectomy// - taking away their voice box and communication, as they know it. Here's a new alternative that's giving patients their voices back. For five years, five months and 13 days, Amy Hancock had no voice. "Some things you do not forget, and...

Life-Saving Heart Drug Often Not Prescribed

Researchers say nearly one-third of patients don’t get a prescription for a potentially lifesaving drug after a hospitalization for systolic heart failure, a condition in which the heart has trouble pumping blood. // According to their research they say that those who don’t receive an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor are 14-percent more likely to die within one year than those wh...

A Simple Test To Detect Heart Disease In Women Can Be Lifesaving

Did you know that heart disease is ranked as the first most common cause for death in women? Thanks to a new, simple test called dobutamine stress echocardiography that can help predict life-threatening heart problems in women. // The study has been conducted among a group of diabetic women aged between 49 and 75. The study participants underwent a certain type of stress test for susp...

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Space Saving Laboratory Refrigerator/Freezer

Description:Space-saving counter top modelUser initiated manual defrostStandard features (see above)Internal freezing compartmentRemovable half-shelf in refrigeratorTwo shelves in doorUL 471 Commercial Refrigerators and Freezers approved....
Company:Biomedical Solutions, Inc. (formerly TeknoGard)

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Prospective Model Outlined Potential Time and Cost Savings of Once-Monthly Anemia Treatment

DALLAS, Texas and NUTLEY, N.J., April 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ --An activity-based cost analysis demonstrated that if a renal anemiatreatment administered once every four weeks replaced thrice weeklyadministration of epoetin alfa, hemodialysis centers may save anestimated 802 nursing hours and more than $44,000 per year per 100patients. These data, from a multi-center prospective analysis of...