VA Transferring 85.4 Acres from North Chicago VA Medical Center
WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced plans to transfer 85.4 acres of land from the North Chicago VA Medical Center to the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science . "Savings resulting from the transfer of land will e...Mother Guilty of Transferring HIV to her Child
In a unique case in Canada, a woman from Hamilton was convicted for not informing her doctors that she was HIV positive, which resulted in her new born son// also being infected. She was charged for failing to provide the necessaries of life. This charge is normally given for child neglect. She...Genes key to staph disease severity, drug resistance found hitchhiking together
... "This work represents a previously unknown example of a toxin hitchhiking on staphylococcal mobile genetic elements that are primarily in charge of transferring antibiotic resistance," says Dr. Otto. He adds that the finding "should alert the research community that aggressive, drug-resistant staph can evolve ...Are Patients Becoming Victims in Hospital Overcrowding Turf Wars? Experts Ask
...al issue that two wrongs don't make a right," said Lisa Romano, a patient flow expert and vice president of TeleTracking Technologies. "You're simply transferring the problem to someone else and ignoring the underlying issue -- badly managed patient flow." Solutions do exist. Overcrowding is n...Mathematics taking guesswork out of plastic surgery tissue transfer
...e is a relationship that's probably very predictive between the diameter and blood flow in the vessel and the ability of the piece of the tissue we're transferring to survive based on that." Mathematicians working on the problem have set out to model that relationship. They have shown that under certain relati...Encompass Group to Offer the Liftaem(TM) Lateral Patient Transfer System
...adopted "no-lift" policies that call for health care employers to implement safe-patient-handling policies and provide systems to perform the lifting, transferring and positioning of patients that don't require undo physical exertion. In May 2009 House Resolution 2381 was introduced into the United States Congres...Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Reports Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2009
... Other Developments Peregrine settled a lawsuit with Cancer Therapeutics Laboratories (CTL). Under the terms of the agreement, CTL is transferring shares in Medibiotech Co., Inc. to Peregrine, giving Peregrine close to a 5% ownership stake in Medibiotech. Medibiotech is a Chinese company that ha...Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. Announces Approval of Proposed Actions at Annual Shareholders Meeting
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...these difficult times. Surrey developed the laser diode that is used in CD and DVD players world wide and NPL has also had a fantastic track record of transferring technology to industry. This major award will enable Surrey and NPL to work together to create more opportunities of this kind." Dr. Brian Bowsher...Commercial Manufacturing of H1N1 'Swine Flu' Vaccine Underway
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