Tobacco-Free Toolkit Helps Businesses Increase Their Bottom Lines
WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Businesses looking for ways to rescue their bottom lines and protect the health of their employees and their families can pick up some valuable tips from a new "toolkit" that shows them how to lower their costs by reducing the use of tobacco...Best Practice Toolkit Supports Recruitment of Top Clinical Investigators
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Market competition is mounting to win the time, attention and interest of the most qualified clinical investigators. Field research shows that the most sought-after clinical investigation sites turn down 60-70% of the clinical trial invitations that th...AAPPO Releases Diabetes Toolkit to Spur Action on Better Diabetes Care
Toolkit Offers Resources for Payers, Providers, and Patients WASHINGTON, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations (AAPPO), in collaboration with DMAA: the Care Continuum Alliance (DMAA), today launched a diabetes toolkit for PPO ...Getting Your Diabetes Toolkit in Order
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Can you list all of the medical professionals who should be on a diabetes health care team? When was the last time you and a friend or family member discussed ways to recognize symptoms of low glucose levels? Whether you can expertly recite ...Hazelden Publishing Launches Parent Toolkit During National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week
CENTER CITY, Minn., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week (Oct. 21 - 27, 2007), Hazelden Publishing is releasing a free, online toolkit for parents and family caregivers to help them end bullying for children. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cg...The Canned Food Alliance Answers the Call for 'Back To Basics' With Essential Kitchen Toolkit
According to Rutgers research, families want guidance on kitchen basics and make positive changes when they receive it PITTSBURGH, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- With 2009 widely described as "the year of the home cook," it's no surprise that many Americans are getting reacquainted with their kit...Australian technology in global health toolkit
CSIRO is helping to address an issue vexing the health system worldwide the need for quality, accurate information in electronic health records. Working through the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO researchers have developed software that will be used to standardise the clinical...New AAHC Toolkit Available to Optimize Clinical Research Administration
Groundbreaking Product is a Must for Clinical Trials Management WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) today launched a new Clinical Trials Administration Toolkit designed to assist academic health center leaders, research administrat...U.S. Preventive Medicine Acquires Specialty Disease Management
...a. By providing practical solutions at every point in the healthcare continuum of an individual's life, U.S. Preventive Medicine will have a complete toolkit to offer employers, government agencies and consumers -- regardless of where they reside. The company licenses its proprietary methodology, technology...Clinical Trial Excellence: Shaping Markets Through Early Communication of Clinical Trial Data
... care community, investors and consumers. The extensive report includes over 100 best practices, metrics and narratives; a clinical communication toolkit that can help executives with the development of a communication plan or activity checklist to prepare for post- launch communication tactics. Study f...Free online toolkit provides standard measures for genome and population studies
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the release of the first version of a free online toolkit aimed at standardizing measurements of research subjects' physical characteristics and environmental exposures. The tools will ...Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)
The current goal to reduce sickness and death from infections that patients acquire in hospitals has created a renewed focus on identifying ways to reduce the problem at its source. Hospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly bein...Boston University biomedical engineers teach bacteria to count
...synthetic biologists remain limited. Gene networks that give bacteria the ability to count could become powerful devices in the synthetic biology toolkit because they can be coupled to almost any other bacterial function or environmental cue that bacteria can sense, such as presence of a toxin or sunlig...Early family ties: No sponge in the human family tree
...ls," says Wrheide. There is evidence, for example, that part of the genetic toolkit responsible for building the nervous system in other animals was already pr...he goals of future studies will now be to find out how and when the genetic toolkit for the nervous system, muscles and sensory organs evolved in animal histor...Research links evolution of fins and limbs with that of gills
... The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, accor...Famous fossil Lucy scanned at the University of Texas at Austin
... scanning natural material than any other lab in the world," Ketcham said. "The equipment is constantly updated and we've created a large, specialized toolkit to process the scan data and to extract the maximum amount of information from it. There's no other place the Ethiopian government could have sent Luc...Volcanoes may have provided sparks and chemistry for first life
... weeks, the water turned brown. When Miller analyzed the water, he found it contained amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins -- life's toolkit -- used in everything from structures like hair and nails to processes that speed up, facilitate, and regulate chemical reactions. The spark provided ...Better beer: College team creating anticancer brew
...d Machine (iGEM) competition Nov. 8-9 in Cambridge, Mass. It's the world's largest synthetic biology competition, a contest where teams use a standard toolkit of DNA building blocks -- think genetic LEGO blocks -- to create living organisms that do odd things. Notable past iGEM creations include sheets of...To your health: EPA announces safe drinking water research
...r, we can prevent illness," said George Gray, assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Research and Development. "These new projects will expand the toolkit available to those on the front lines of protecting our nation's drinking water and public health." In the U.S., it is often difficult to link th...Lemurs' evolutionary history may shed light on our own
... primate-specific and when those traits arose, said Horvath, who works in the laboratory of IGSP director Huntington Willard. The new phylogenomic toolkit the researchers developed will also play into conservation efforts aimed to save the critically endangered lemurs, by helping to define the number of ...Cedara launches new version of DICOM toolkit
Toronto, Ontario - Cedara Software , a Merge Healthcare company and an independent developer of medical software technologies, has released a new version of its digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) toolkit, MergeCOM-3. The product is a software development kit (SDK) that n...URAC Director of Pharmacy Programs to Speak at Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Annual Meeting
...f key contracting terms." URAC enhanced the PBM Accreditation program with the recent release of the PBM Purchasers Guide: A Quality Management toolkit , developed in partnership with the National Business Coalition on Health . The PBM Purchasers Guide provides essential information for individu...Merck Serono Launches Strategic Venture Capital Fund
...preneurs and their investors," said Vincent Aurentz, Executive Vice President of Portfolio Development at Merck Serono. "This activity complements our toolkit of collaborative approaches to build a high-quality portfolio with our partners." 'Merck Serono Ventures' has an initial commitment to invest...Myngle Best ICT Company at the European Ventures Summit
...achers and students together for live language lessons. Everyone can choose their teacher, based on personal wishes and needs. Myngle offers a toolkit consisting of VoIP (Skype) and an integrated whiteboard (the digital version of the classic school board), payment systems (Paypal), feedback and a co...Syngenta and Metabolon Inc. in Collaborative Research Agreement for Biochemical Profiling Technology
...e-FirstCall/ -- Syngenta announced a multi-year agreement with Metabolon for biochemical profiling technology that will enhance the Syngenta technical toolkit for its seeds research programs. This agreement will support Syngenta researchers' understanding of plants' response to environmental conditions and d...Pharsight to Present on IVIVC at Bioequivalence & Bioavailability Strategies Conference
...g just one unnecessary BA/BE study using the IVIVC toolkit can easily yield a financial return of 12 to 1." ...out IVIVC Toolkit(TM) for WinNonlin(R) The IVIVC toolkit for WinNonlin expands the capabilities of WinNonli...lin for in-vitro/in-vivo correlations (IVIVC). The toolkit brings enhanced deconvolution methods, numerical c...Trap and zap: Harnessing the power of light to pattern surfaces on the nanoscale
... low-power computer processors. "In the future, we imagine the use of multiple beads of different shapes and sizes -- in essence a nanopatterning toolkit -- for researchers to pick and choose during the course of fabrication," said Arnold. He and McLeod are currently working to pattern a surface using a...