Texas State Rep. Sylvester Turner Honored as 'Champion for Children' by The AMERIGROUP Foundation

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 21, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The AMERIGROUP Foundation today announced that State Rep. Sylvester Turner of Houston has been honored with its "Champion for Children" award. The award is part of the AMERIGROUP Foundation's national program recognizing outstanding public a...

Steroid Scam: Sylvester Stallone Gets Away With a Light Punishment

For all the media hype, the sentencing of actor Sylvester Stallone came as an anti-climax Monday morning at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney. He was fined $2,975 for bringing banned hormones into Australia. He is also to pay prosecution costs of $10,000. A Customs search of...

Study finds survival rates from gastrointestinal tumors improving among African-Americans

...ssociate professor of surgery, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and surgical oncologist at sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at UM. "In addition, increased access to new targeted therapies through medication assistance programs may be helping to e...

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the City of Miami, Microsoft and Resolute Solutions Seek to Improve Care of Diabetic Populations Using Collaborative Technology

...dical center includes three University-owned hospitals that make up the University of Miami Health System (UHealth): University of Miami Hospital, sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Our three primary affiliated hospitals on the campus include Jackson Memorial Hospital, H...

MDS Nordion Launches Improved TheraSphere(R) Administration System for Physicians

...ion of TheraSphere(R) to our patients safer and easier." Dr. May Wahab, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, sylvester Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami Hospital said that TheraSphere(R) is the result of cutting-edge, advanced technology...

Family Health International Featured at Global Health Council Conference

...reak down suddenly. Moderator: Sheila Mitchell, Family Health International Panelists: Salvador de la Torre, Catholic Medical Missions Board sylvester Kimaiyo, AMPATH Peter Okaalet, MAP International Florence Muli-Musiime, African Medical and Research Foundation FHI's Presenters Lynda Bardfie...

Finola Hughes Announces Her Best Accessory at Fashion Week

...Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1991, as well as three additional nominations in the same category. Ms. Hughes made her American film debut when sylvester Stallone cast her opposite John Travolta in "Stayin' Alive." Most recently, Ms. Hughes joined leading mobile 3-D software and technology company Emdig...

Bestselling Author Dr. Timothy Brantley Explains the Connection of Food and Mood

...tley has taught his methods of naturally restoring physical and emotional health to thousands of people, including well-known celebrities, among them: sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammar and Kelly Rowland. According to Dr. Brantley, the brain communicates by chemical neurotransmitters; which are created in the ...

THA Honors Nine Legislators for Contributions to Health Care

...rs receiving the award include Reps. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), Dianne Delisi (R-Temple), Donna Howard, RN (D-Austin), Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) and sylvester Turner (D-Houston). The awards were announced during THA's Annual Leadership Conference, which is convening in Austin this week. "Each one of these ...

A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life

...atal beating of Alicia Ross by her neighbor Daniel sylvester was described as an act of extreme cruelty and ca...riend goodbye in the early hours of Aug. 17, 2005, sylvester attacked the young woman, delivering a beating so ... that Ross was unconscious and bleeding profusely, sylvester did nothing to help her. "He simply left ...

Sylvester in Medical Technology

Researchers Train the Immune System to Deliver Virus That Destroys Cancer in Lab Models

...livo; Phonphimon Wongthida; Rosa Maria Diaz, Ph.D.; Jill Thompson and Pamela Ryno of the Molecular Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic; Glen Barber of the sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami School of Medicine; John Chester, Peter Selby and Alan Melcher of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Cen...

ZIO-101 (Darinaparsin) Interim Phase II and Preclinical Data Presented at International Myeloma Workshop

...l as interim Phase II data from two ongoing trials in advanced myeloma. The first poster, presented on Tuesday June 26th by Larry Boise, PhD from the sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami highlighted preclinical data demonstrating darinaparsin (ZIO-101) may have activity in myeloma ...

Sylvester in Medical Dictionary

Sertoli

... cell, Sertoli's cell - elongated cells found in the seminiferous tubules ... Molecular biology of the Sertoli cell. Griswold MD, Morales C, sylvester SR. ... The Sertoli cell-mediated iron transport to germ cells via transferrin is the ... The use of Sertoli cell cultures and appropriate...

Sylvester in Biological News

Did walking on 2 feet begin with a shuffle?

...odern humans are different with long legs and a big head. So chimps are a good place to start, Kramer said. Using the model they devised, Kramer and sylvester calculated it would not be metabolically efficient for a chimp to use bipedalism for distances greater than about 50 feet. But it would be efficient ...

Sylvester in Biological Technology

Florida: Investing Heavily in Biotechnology - Governor uses state funds to attract large biotech companies

...chool of medicine. While I was in Miami, I had the chance to see the new Braman Breast Cancer Institute, which is part of the University of Miamis sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. That center has just been funded with $5 million from private sources and with another $8 million coming from the univers...