Jumping The Queue Has Left Hospital Suspending Transplantation

In the US one of the top organ transplant hospitals in California has suspended its liver program following allegations a Saudi national improperly received an organ ahead of dozens of other needy American patients.// The Los Angeles Times reported that officials at St. Vincent Medical Center...

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...luding regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and foreign government regulators and tax obligations and risks; the impact of temporarily suspending U.S. distribution of one of our key hip replacement products; product liability and intellectual property litigation losses; reductions in reimburseme...

New technique could sustain cancer patients' fertility

...hat appeared in The NIH Record , at http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2006/09_08_2006/story02.htm . The researchers made the new advance by suspending the human follicle in a three-dimensional matrix of a gel-like material. They then flushed the follicle with the same hormones and growth factors tha...

New technique could save cancer patients' fertility

...with Lonnie Shea, professor of chemical and biological engineering at McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, achieved the new advance by suspending the human ovarian follicle in two different kinds of three-dimensional gels. Previous attempts to grow ovarian follicles had been on a flat surface, w...

Neovasc Inc. Postpones Plans for U.S. Listing to Focus Funds on Commercializing Its Reducer Device for Refractory Angina

...in the U.S. and therefore subject to the additional reporting regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act. Neovasc estimates the costs savings from suspending its planned listing to be approximately $200,000 annually. The company intends to redirect these funds to its program to commercialize the Neovasc Red...

Express Scripts Reports First Quarter EPS of $0.86, up 23%

...ompany believes its 2009 earnings per diluted share will increase to a range of $3.67 to $3.77 (an increase of $0.11 to $0.13, including the impact of suspending the share repurchase program as shown in Table 3). This guidance range excludes NextRx transaction-related costs and NextRx results after the transac...

Experts Say Panic Over Swine Flu Is Premature

...Mexico. Meanwhile, in Mexico, believed to be the source of the outbreak, authorities continued to take dramatic steps over the weekend -- including suspending public gatherings -- to try to contain the swine flu outbreak. U.S. health officials have reported that they have 50 million doses of the antiviral...

40 Swine Flu Cases Now Reported in U.S.

...f personal responsibility in trying to reduce the impact," he said. Meanwhile, in Mexico, authorities continued to take dramatic steps -- including suspending school and public gatherings -- to try to contain the outbreak that officials say has killed as many as 149 people, and sickened more than 1,900 other...

Obama Says Swine Flu Outbreak No Cause for 'Alarm'

...Mexico. Meanwhile, in Mexico, believed to be the source of the outbreak, authorities continued to take dramatic steps over the weekend -- including suspending public gatherings -- to try to contain the swine flu outbreak that officials say has killed as many as 103 people, and sickened more than 1,600 others...

U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency in Response to Swine Flu

...rence. Meanwhile, in Mexico, believed to be the source of the outbreak, authorities continued to take dramatic steps over the weekend -- including suspending public gatherings -- to try to contain the swine flu outbreak that officials say has killed as many as 86 people, and sickened more than 1,400 others ...

Suspending in Medical Technology

Prospective Clinical Advantages of Trabecular Metal(TM) Technology Highlighted in Comparative Study

...luding regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and foreign government regulators and tax obligations and risks; the impact of temporarily suspending U.S. distribution of one of our key hip replacement products; product liability and intellectual property litigation losses; reductions in reimburseme...

Comparative Study Shows Significant Bone In-growth and Advanced Clinical Outcomes Using Zimmer's Trabecular Metal(TM) Technology

...luding regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and foreign government regulators and tax obligations and risks; the impact of temporarily suspending U.S. distribution of one of our key hip replacement products; product liability and intellectual property litigation losses; reductions in reimburseme...

Study Protocols Will be Amended in Two Small Early-Phase Prasugrel Studies

...ional analyses of pharmacokinetic and clinical data are completed, and the protocols are amended and approved by institutional review boards. "We are suspending enrollment in these two small pharmacodynamic trials so that we can amend current protocols," said J. Anthony Ware, M.D., Lilly cardiovascular platfor...

Suspending in Biological News

Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil drops

...s suspended in water became encapsulated because of the structures' tendency to align their carbon ends facing the oil. By reversing the conditions -- suspending water droplets in oil the team was able to coax the gold ends to face inward and encase the water. "For oil droplets suspended in water, the spher...

Suspending in Biological Technology

Zimmer Launches New Medical Education and BioSkills Training Program

...luding regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and foreign government regulators and tax obligations and risks; the impact of temporarily suspending U.S. distribution of one of our key hip replacement products; product liability and intellectual property litigation losses; reductions in reimburseme...

Cephalon Prices 5 Million Shares of Common Stock and $435 Million in 2.50% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes in Public Offerings

...se on May 27, 2009. Until the closing of the offerings, the Company is suspending its basic adjusted income per common share guidance for the second quarter ...are guidance following the completion of the offerings. The Company is not suspending its sales and adjusted net income guidance for the second quarter 2009 and ...

Spring 'blockbuster' movie now showing

...d of such observations, and begin to see a live view of many other reactions at the atomic scale." Rubbing graphene off the end of a pencil tip and suspending the specimen in an observation grid, Zettl and his colleagues used prolonged irradiation from TEAM 0.5's electron beam (set at 80 kV) to introduce a h...

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Abbott Spine, an Innovator in Spinal Technology

...sinesses including regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and foreign government regulators and tax obligations and risks, the impact of suspending U.S. distribution of one of our key hip replacement products, product liability and intellectual property litigation losses, reimbursement levels from...

Readers react to 'Cingular confusion'

... account, and when (and only when) I inquired about Cingular's policy's for suspending service did I learn that a) I would be charged a $49 reinstatement charge and b) the grace period before suspending service "depends" on data that is still unclear. Apparently, my 10-year lif...

Document retention policy can get your arms around eDiscovery

... becomes aware of actual or potential litigation. What is needed to trigger the suspension is a reasonable anticipation of litigation. The process for suspending the destruction of documents is a separate matter discussed in Part IV of this series. Once litigation is foreseeably anticipated, the critical areas ...

Calcium Flux Assays using the LabChip 3000

...nd cell assay buffer is made (Step 1). A protocol for labeling, washing and suspending cells is then developed (Step 2), after which confirmation is made that the...mL of Trypsin inhibitor solution was added to stop the reaction. suspending Cells 9 mL of cell preparation buffer (See Section IV) was add...

Purification of rIL-13 Using an UNO Q1 Column

...ple preparation and chromatographic separation. See Figure 1 for a flow chart of sample preparation. Sample preparation involved suspending the cell pellet in 50 mM Tris, pH 8.0, 20 mM DTT with 350 l of bacterial protease inhibitor (Sigma P8465). The suspension was th...