Photos: Compete Releases Top Insurance and Physician Web Sites for June 2009
BOSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Compete, a TNS Media company, today released its ranking of the top ten Insurance and Physician sites for June 2009, which is based on data from the company's panel of two million US-based internet users. In the past month, overall unique visitors (UVs) to...Dynasplint Systems, Inc. Launches Two New Web Sites Plus Social Media Tools
BALTIMORE, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- MDDCcommunity.com would like to announce the significant online growth of Dynasplint Systems, Inc., a local member company. Over the past few months Dynasplint(R) has been very busy building new web properties and establishing more of a presence online. Their ex...Scienceroll.com on Community Sites for Doctors and Scientists
DEBRECEN, Hungary, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Bertalan Mesko, medical blogger and health 2.0 consultant, created an extended and comprehensive list of community sites designed for medical professionals and scientists. These communities make it easier to find collaborators for research projects, ...CVBT Opens Florida and Arizona Sites for Its ACORD Phase II Heart Trial
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CardioVascular BioTherapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVBT) announced today that two additional hospitals in the United States opened for patient enrollment for its ACORD Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of severe coronary heart disease. Th...CVBT Opens Two Additional Sites for Patient Enrollment for Phase II Heart Trial
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CardioVascular BioTherapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVBT) announced today that two additional hospitals in the United States opened for patient enrollment for its ACORD Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of severe coronary heart disease. Th...Velos Set to Clear 50 Percent Market Penetration of Large U.S. Clinical Research Sites by Year End
FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Velos, Inc., the recognized leader and trusted resource for clinical trial management information systems for large investigator sites, today announced it will cross the 50 percent market penetration threshold by year end. The company's flagship product,...FDA Grants NeoVista's Request to Expand CABERNET Trial to 30 Sites in the U.S.
Agency Approves Expansion of Company's Phase 3 Study for Wet AMD after 90-day Review of Safety Data FREMONT, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoVista, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company's request to expand the nu...MPatcH® Vascular Closure Device
Description:... MPatch® is a topical adhesive wound dressing for the local management and control of bleeding from vascular access sites and percutaneous catheters....Model 610 - Full Body Surgical Blanket
Description:...l body surgical blanket is designed for procedures on the head and neck. This lightweight blanket tapes across the patient's chest, away from surgical sites involving the head or neck....Electrogastrography (EGG) Analysis
Description:...above a certain threshold, the software highlights the offending electrode(s) in red indicating that skin preparation needs to be redone at that site. sites with adequate skin preparation will be highlighted in green....The Dropper Plus Point-of-Care Urine Dipstick Control
Description:...int-of-care dipstick control. Its unique, one month room temperature stability eliminates storage problems and provides maximum portability ideal for sites without refrigeration. A new feature is the addition of creatinine and microalbumin. Values are provided for all analytes; qualitative results for hCG...Conservationists seek to identify prime stopover sites for migrating birds
An ambitious effort in avian conservation is underway this spring throughout the New York portion of the Lake Ontario watershed. A legion of highly skilled volunteer ornithologists is helping a team of scientists to identify the best stopover sites for migrating birds in the southern coastal zo...Gene switch sites found mainly on 'shores,' not just 'islands' of the human genome
Scientists who study how human chemistry can permanently turn off genes have typically focused on small islands of DNA believed to contain most of the chemical alterations involved in those switches. But after an epic tour of so-called DNA methylation sites across the human genome in normal and ca...Universities partner with national parks to give historic sites energy makeovers
An idea Rochester Institute of Technology professor James Winebrake had more than a decade ago while working on energy issues at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia has solidified into a respected national program partnering universities with national parks to identify ways to make historic sites...The last supper of the hominids establishes the times they lived at the sites
In the French cave of Arago, an international team of scientists has analyzed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis . It is the first time that an analytical method has allowed the establishment of the length of human occupations at archaeological si...Telomeres resemble DNA fragile sites
Telomeres, the repetitive sequences of DNA at the ends of linear chromosomes, have an important function: They protect vulnerable chromosome ends from molecular attack. Researchers at Rockefeller University now show that telomeres have their own weakness. They resemble unstable parts of the genome...UT researcher earns $1.3M grant to study toxic cleanup at DOD sites
KNOXVILLE -- Decades of weapons production and base operations have left the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with a legacy of as many as 3,000 sites contaminated with highly toxic substances. University of Tennessee Research Professor Jack Parker and Peter Kitanidis of Stanford University have...Document Management Inefficiencies Cost Clinical Study Sites Time, Money
NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Document sharing inefficiencies in clinical trials cost investigative sites and study sponsors time and money, according to a recent online poll by IntraLinks(R), the leading provider of critical information exchange solutions. The survey revealed heavy...Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. Adds Oxycyte TBI Clinical Trial Sites in Israel
COSTA MESA, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: OXBO) today announced that the company has added clinical trial sites in Israel for the planned Phase II dose escalation study of Oxycyte(R) in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Oxycyte is the comp...PAREXEL Establishes Alliance with SITS Network of Clinical Sites Specializing in Stroke Studies
BOSTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, announced today that it has established an alliance with Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS) International, the world's largest network...Elekta Announces First Two Clinical Sites Using VMAT Cancer Treatment Capability
ATLANTA, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta, a world leader in clinical solutions for radiation therapy and radiosurgery, announced today that two sites are utilizing Elekta technology to implement clinical treatments with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT)*. With the recent CE designation of...goBalto Partners with Maya Clinicals to Expand Its List of Investigator Sites
Leading India-based Investigator Sites Now Available on goBalto.com San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2009 -- goBalto, an online drug development partnering site for the pharmaceutical development and drug manufacturing industry, announced today that Maya Clinicals is m...University of Wisconsin enriches course web sites with streaming media
When putting class notes and PowerPoint slides online is not enough, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin can use streaming video and audio to liven up their course Web pages thanks to a program funded jointly by the university and an AT&T grant. The services web site, Streaming Med...APAgene Locator Kit from Bio S&T
Description:...rovided in each kit. The Locator Kit can be used for identifying transgene/genomic DNA junctions, bi-directional sequence extension of sequence-tagged sites (STSs) and expressed sequence tags (ESTs), identifying gene traps and transposon-insertion locations....Bacterial Strain BMH 71-18 mutS, Glycerol Stock (noncompetent) from Promega
Description:...ncies and making them helpful in such systems as the GeneEditor and Altered sites II Mutagenesis Systems. Both ES1301 and BMH 71-18 mutS are recA+, therefore... highly repetitive sequences may be unstable. ES1301 is used in the Altered sites II System and is Tets, which allows for cycling between antibiotic resistan...Bacterial Strain ES1301 mutS, Glycerol Stock (noncompetent) from Promega
Description:...ncies and making them helpful in such systems as the GeneEditor and Altered sites II Mutagenesis Systems. Both ES1301 and BMH 71-18 mutS are recA+, therefore... highly repetitive sequences may be unstable. ES1301 is used in the Altered sites II System and is Tets, which allows for cycling between antibiotic resistan...