Mercy Ships Celebrates World Blood Donor Day
"It Takes All Types" according to World Blood Donor Day Cotonou, Benin (Vocus) June 14, 2009 -- Millions of people around the world owe their lives to individuals they will never meet -- people who donate their blood to help others. But crew members on a Merc...Mercy Ships Founders Receive Humanitarian of the Year Award From Variety Club
The founders of the world's largest hospital ship charity were honored with a humanitarian award at a glittering ceremony in London last night. Garden Valley, TX (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 -- The founders of the world's largest hospital ship charity were honored with a humanit...AORN and Mercy Ships Collaborate to Increase Patient Care Aboard Hospital Ships
High Level of Volunteer Participation is Expected From Perioperative Nurse Professionals. Chicago, IL (Vocus) March 24, 2009 -- Patrick Voight, president of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), announced on Thursday to more than 5000 attendees at i...Applied Weather Technology Guides Mercy Ships With Latest BVS Marine Voyage Optimization Software
Mercy Ships' Crew Uses BVS 5.6 Onboard Software to Navigate the Safest, Most Fuel-Efficient Route and Protect Sensitive Medical Equipment as They Bring Hope, Healing and Hospital Services to the World's Poor SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Weather Technology (AWT) toda...Applied Weather Technology Guides Mercy Ships with Latest BVS Marine Voyage Optimization Software
Mercy Ships' Crew Uses BVS 5.6 Onboard Software to Navigate the Safest, Most Fuel-Efficient Route and Protect Sensitive Medical Equipment as They Bring Hope, Healing and Hospital Services to the World's Poor Sunnyvale, Calif. (Vocus) March 16, 2009 -- Applied Weather T...First DHI-Licensed Door Inspection Software Solution Ships to DOORDATA Solutions' Charter Members
DOORDATA Solutions, Inc., today announced the release of its first two software products for streamlining the annual fire door inspection process for fire-rated swinging doors. Fire DOORDATA and Mobile DOORDATA have shipped to the company's charter members. Salinas, Cal...New CEO Takes Helm at Mercy Ships
Mercy Ships announced today the unanimous confirmation of Sam Smith as the new Chief Executive Officer of the international global charity, following a decision made by the Executive Committee of the International Board of Directors on Tuesday. Tyler, Texas (PRWEB) Dece...Mercy Ships Recognizes International Day of Disabled Persons
As the International Day of Disabled Persons is recognized on Dec. 3, Mercy Ships celebrates with the story of a young boy born with backwards pointing feet. After free surgeries onboard the Africa Mercy, a floating hospital docked in Liberia, Benedict's feet are corrected now and he can run and ...Mercy Ships Ensures That Liberian Technicians "know how to fix it"
Mentoring Biomedical Technicians Program in Liberia completes successful first year Monrovia, Liberia (Vocus) November 14, 2008 -- One of the biggest challenges to providing increased access to health care for Liberia's citizens is the availability of functional medical...Genta Incorporated Announces Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
...544 treatment of bone disease - Named-patient/compassionate-use program ships initial supply - Appeal filed to review FDA decision on Genasense in ...atter has been scheduled for the 4th quarter 2007. "Named-Patient" Program ships Initial Supplies of Genasense(R) In parallel with the AGENDA trial, Genta ...Commercial ships spew half as much particulate pollution as world's cars
Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollution into the air as the total amount released by cars, according to a new study. Ship pollutants affect both the Earth's climate and the health of people living along coastlines. The study is the first to provide a global es...Microbial stowaways: Are ships spreading disease?
Ships are inadvertently carrying trillions of stowaways in the water held in their ballast tanks. When the water is pumped out, invasive species could be released into new environments. Disease-causing microbes could also be released, posing a risk to public health, according to an article in the ...New whale detection buoys will help ships take the right way through marine habitat
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have teamed up with an international energy company and federal regulators to listen for and help protect endangered North Atlantic right whales in New Eng...NOAA takes first broad look at soot from ships
Tugboats puff out more soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels, and large cargo ships emit more than twice as much soot as previously estimated, according to the first extensive study of commercial vessel soot emissions. Scientists from NOAA and the University of Colorado co...World's largest ocean observatory takes shape
...ting the installation off the British Columbia coast of NEPTUNE Canada, the world's largest and most advanced cabled ocean observatory. Using three ships and at least one ROV, the team is lowering five 13-tonne nodes and more than 400 instruments and sensors to the seafloor where they are being attached...Clean fuels could reduce deaths from ship smokestacks by 40,000 annually
...ing levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide ea...Winebrake and colleagues note that most oceangoing ships burn fuels with a high sulfur content that average...rs. Policymakers now are considering limiting ships emissions by either restricting sulfur content in ...Cells use import machinery to export their goods as well
...tely to the membrane and delivering their whole load of proteins and lipids, in contrast to the more discriminating process by which similar container ships import proteins from outside the cell, called endocytosis. But, in a paper to be published June 26 in Cell , Jaiswal and Simon show that some of the...Zebra mussels hang on while quagga mussels take over
...esults." Zebra mussels were first introduced in the Great Lakes in the late 1980s, hitchhiking their way into North America in the ballast water of ships from the Caspian and Black Seas. Within a few years, zebra mussels had colonized shallow water, beaches, and water intake pipes in layers up to eight ...Instrumentation Laboratory Ships 1000th GEM Premier 4000 Analyzer to Scripps Health
LEXINGTON, Mass., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Instrumentation Laboratory (IL) today announced that it has shipped its 1000th GEM Premier 4000 critical care analyzer. The recipient for this instrument was Scripps Health, based in San Diego, CA. IL began shipping the new GEM Premier 4000 analyzers t...Kiwa Bio-Tech Ships 114 Tons of Bio-Fertilizer in Fourth Quarter of 2007
BEIJING and CLAREMONT, Calif., Jan. 31 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kiwa Bio-Tech Products Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KWBT) reports sharply improved volume of bio-fertilizer products during the fourth quarter of 2007. Kiwa Bio-Tech Products (Shandong) Co., Ltd. ("Kiwa Shandong"...Phlo Affiliate Ships Product to Launch 450 7-Eleven Stores
Shipments to Fill Backlog of Orders JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- An affiliate of Phlo Corporation (Pink Sheets: PHLC) (the "Company") announced today that its has recently produced and shipped its vitality beverage product, AQISS(TM), to launch the sa...Kiwa Bio-Tech Ships 2,700 Tons of Bio-feed in One Month
BEIJING and CLAREMONT, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kiwa Bio-Tech Products Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KWBT) today announced that the Tianjin Kiwa Feed Limited Liability Company, located in Wuqing District in Tianjin, shipped 2,700 tons of animal feed during the month of...EraGen Biosciences Ships SARS Diagnostic Test in Record Time
MADISON, Wis., April 30 EraGen Biosciences, Inc. announced today that it has developed a new SARS specific assay test using their proprietary Gene-Code(TM) technology. The test is now in the hands of USAMRIID (US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) and is being shipped to WHO ...RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea
...nding to worse-case terrorist scenarios rather than crafting policies to combat lower consequence (but more probable) attacks that could strike cruise ships or passenger ferries. Just as seriously, the U.S. government has paid comparatively little attention to combating piracy, despite its proven cost in t...RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea
...nding to worse-case terrorist scenarios rather than crafting policies to combat lower consequence (but more probable) attacks that could strike cruise ships or passenger ferries. Just as seriously, the U.S. government has paid comparatively little attention to combating piracy, despite its proven cost in t...