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Response Biomedical Closes $12.65 million Unit Offering

VANCOUVER, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Response Biomedical Corporation (TSX: RBM, OTCBB: RPBIF) (the "Company") announced today that it has closed its previously announced public offering (the "Offering") of units ("Units") for gross proceeds of $12.65 million. The Company issued 73,333,333 ...

ASGE recognizes 68 endoscopy units for quality and safety through endoscopy unit recognition program

OAK BROOK, Ill. The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has recognized 68 endoscopy units as part of its new program specifically dedicated to promoting quality in endoscopy, in all settings where it is practiced in the United States. The ASGE Endoscopy Unit Recognition Program...

Response Biomedical Announces Proposed Unit Offering

VANCOUVER, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Response Biomedical Corporation (TSX: RBM, OTCBB: RPBIF) (the "Company") today announced that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus in each of the provinces and territories of Canada, other than Quebec, in respect of a marketed public offering (...

Obstetrical unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital achieves dramatic improvement in patient safety

Maternal and newborn outcomes were greatly improved when doctors implemented a series of simple clinical interventions at Yale-New Haven Hospital's obstetrical unit. Yale School of Medicine researchers report their results in the May issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology . ...

New Illinois Prosecution Unit Helps Protect Women Against Violence

U.S. Department of Justice grant creates federal-state-local partnership to help fight domestic violence, sexual assault SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A sweeping $1.1 million U.S. Justice Dept. grant is fueling a new push by a state prosecution agency to help combat domestic vio...

GTSI Forms Strategic Business Unit Around its Burgeoning Healthcare Solutions Practice

Expanded Team to Leverage Extensive Experience in Healthcare to Provide Comprehensive IT Infrastructure Solutions for Government and Commercial Patient-Focused Facilities HERNDON, Va., April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GTSI (R) Corp. (Nasdaq: GTSI ), an enterprise IT infrastructure solution...

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MAP Pharmaceuticals Announces Phase 3 Study of Unit Dose Budesonide in Children With Asthma Did Not Meet Primary Endpoints

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP ) announced today results of its initial Phase 3 clinical trial of Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB) for the potential treatment of children with asthma. The Company announced that the clinical trial d...

AstraZeneca's Partner, MAP Pharmaceuticals, Announces Phase 3 Study of Unit Dose Budesonide in Children with Asthma Did Not Meet Primary Endpoints

LONDON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that its initial Phase 3 clinical trial of Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB) for the potential treatment of children with asthma did not meet its co-primary endpoints: asthma control as assessed by changes from baseline i...

Study Shows Use of AdvanDx's PNA FISH(TM) Test was Associated with an 82% Reduction in Intensive Care Unit Mortality Rates from Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections

WOBURN, Mass., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvanDx today announced that a new study shows use of AdvanDx's PNA FISH(TM) test was associated with an 82% reduction in mortality rates from S. aureus bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit (ICU), a 53% reduction in overall mortality from sta...

Cardium's Innercool Therapies Unit Announces Publication of Positive Effects of Early and Rapid Hypothermia Following Heart Attack

SAN DIEGO, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (Amex: CXM ) and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies announced today that positive findings from a preclinical study, demonstrating a new and expanded benefit of early rapid hyperthermia (cooling) for the potential treatmen...

InterCure Announces 100,000th RESPeRATE Unit Sold

Awareness and Adoption of Safe, Non-Drug Option to Lower Blood Pressure Accelerates NEW YORK, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- InterCure, Ltd. (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: INCR) manufacturer of the RESPeRATE(R) hypertension treatment device, clinically-proven to significantly ...

Medpace Opens Clinical Pharmacology Unit in Cincinnati, Ohio

CINCINNATI, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Medpace, a leading global full-service contract research organization (CRO), is opening a 50 bed clinical pharmacology unit in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Medpace Clinical Pharmacology Unit (Medpace CPU) is a state-of-the-art Phase I, IIa facility, focusing on con...

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S/5 Anesthesia Delivery Unit (S/5 ADU)

Description: An integrated approach to quality patient care. S/5 Anesthesia Delivery Unit (ADU) is an innovative approach to anesthesia delivery. As part of the S/5 Anesthesia System, it combines enhanced ventilation features, electronically controlled gas delivery and agent vaporization with patient monitor...
Company:Datex-Ohmeda, Inc.

PI™ (Single Use Loading Unit With Titanium Staples)

Description: Single Use Loading Cartridges With Titanium Staples for use with PI™ (Single Use Reloadable Stapler With Titanium Staples). The PI™ disposable stapler is designed for use in the resection or transection of normal, healthy internal tissues. The instrument places a double staggered row...
Company:Autosuture

BD Visitrec Vitrectomy Unit and Accessories

Description: .90mm (20G) guillotine cutting probe with 1.4mm (17G) removable irrigation sleeve...
Company:BD Ophthalmics

FS TEST UNIT

Description: Stat Detection of Soluble Fibrin Monomer Complexes by the Hemagglutination Technique, 32 tests....
Company:Diagnostica Stago, Inc.

Mini Horizontal Electrophoresis Unit

Description: Designed for rapid, routine electrophoresis for nucleic acids. The Mini unit is designed with a choice of two casting systems: standard casting trays that require sealing tape; or aluminum-gated casting trays that do not....
Company:Sigma-Aldrich

Electri-Cool® II Cold Therapy Unit

Description: The Electri-Cool® II is the premier choice when it comes to localized cold therapy systems. system offers the widest variety of application-specific pads and wraps, for your convenience....
Company:Cincinnati Sub-Zero

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Urine collection

...tic bag with an adhesive ... ... the collection , you will be given a urine collection container (a ... 5. If you are staying on an inpatient unit during your 24-hour urine collection , your ... What is a timed urine collection ? This is a test of all the urine the body ... urine to...

Stress

... or imagined. It is "the autonomic response to environmental stimulus." Stress (mechanics), the average amount of force exerted per unit area ... Stress (band), an early '80s melodic rock band from San Diego. ... Collection of articles to help people cope with stress . Incl...

Strains

... Strains . Definition: A strain is when a muscle becomes overstretched and tears. ... A strain or sprain occurs when the muscle tendon unit is stretched or torn. ... For strains or sprains, the pain can increase in the first 1-2 days, as the ... Chronic strains are usually caus...

Spleen

... consumer ... remain in the spleen . ... However, if the spleen gets larger because of severe liver ... The spleen contains approximately 1 unit of blood at a given time. ... Penetrating injuries also frequently involve the spleen along with other abdominal organs. ... Enlarged splee...

Sphygmomanometer

...Manual sphygmomanometer are used in conjunction with a stethoscope. ... China sphygmomanometer usually consists of an inflatable cuff, a measuring unit ... Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... The sphygmomanometer in most frequent use today consists of a gauge atta...

Sebaceous glands

... hair follicles and sebaceous glands : Keratinous cyst. ... Get the true ... Sebaceous glands are found together with a hair shaft in a unit called a ... Meanwhile, the sebaceous glands continue to produce sebum, ... These oils come from the " sebaceous glands " of the hair foll...

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Crop models help increase yield per unit of water used

MADISON, WI, May 4, 2009 -- Crop water use efficiency (WUE, or yield per unit of water used), also known as crop water productivity, can be improved through irrigation management and methods, including deficit irrigation (irrigating less than is required for maximum yields) and supplemental irriga...

SVOX Acquires Speech Processing Unit of Siemens AG, Expands Into Speech Recognition and Speech Dialog

ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- SVOX, the leading provider of embedded speech solutions today announced the acquisition of the Professional Speech Processing Group of Siemens AG, according to SVOX CEO Volker Jantzen. SVOX has acquired all speech technology-related IP of Siemens AG...

Texas College Police Unit Deploys BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System

WALL, N.J., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety, today announced a contract award from the Collin College Police Department to deploy MobileCop(R), BIO-key's wirele...

Transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria linked to previous intensive care unit room occupants

Staying in a room in the intensive care unit (ICU) previously occupied by a patient with treatment-resistant bacteria may increase the odds of acquiring such bacteria, according to a report in the October 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Two particular ...

University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA

..., CO 2 -driven acidification of the surface oceans has already caused a 0.1 unit lowering of pH, and models suggest that another 0.3 pH unit drop by the year 2050 is likely. Continued acidification of the sea may ha...

Joint research into an enzyme that causes genetic diseases

...lable in Spanish . Researchers from CIC bioGUNE's Structural Biology unit and Columbia University (New York) have conducted a joint research project,...ect one. Mikel Valle, a researcher from CIC bioGUNE's Structural Biology unit explains that This is the start of a highly ambitious study which is being ...

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VNUS Medical Technologies Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Results: 25% Growth in Net Product Revenues and 29% Growth in Unit Sales Over Third Quarter 2007

$23.1 Million Net Revenues, $0.10 Net Income Per Share SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VNUS(R) Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNUS ), a leading provider of medical devices for the minimally invasive treatment of venous disease, today announced its financial r...

Stallergenes Inaugurates the Biggest Pharmaceutical Allergen Production Unit in the World

ANTONY, France, September 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stallergenes S.A. officially inaugurates its new pharmaceutical production unit, located in the Paris area. Designed to comply with the most stringent EMEA (European Medicines Agency) and FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) standards, ...

C3i Teams with Oracle's Health Sciences Global Business Unit to Provide Customers with Clinical Training and Support Services

BOSTON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- C3i, the leader in global training and support for clinical electronic data capture software, announced today that it will team with Oracle's new Health Sciences Global Business Unit to provide joint customers with clinical training and support services. Separat...

Cardium's InnerCool Therapies Unit Announces Italian Commercialization Agreement for Portfolio of Temperature Modulation Systems

SAN DIEGO, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (Amex: CXM ) and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies announced today that InnerCool has entered into a exclusive commercialization agreement with N.G.C. Medical S.p.A., a leading Italian distributor of medical products. N.G....

Met-Pro Corporation's Fybroc Business Unit Receives Equipment Order Totaling Approximately $500,000

HARLEYSVILLE, Pa., June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raymond J. De Hont, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE: MPR), announced today that the Company's Fybroc business unit has received an order for approximately $500,000 in pumps. The order is expected to ship in ...

Medtronic Unit to Pay $75 Million to Settle Whistleblower Medicare Fraud Case

Spinal medical device company Kyphon misled hospitals for profit WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtronic Spine LLC, formerly known as Kyphon Inc., has agreed to pay $75,000,000 to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that exposed the spinal medical device company's...

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MiniMACS Separation Unit from Miltenyi Biotec

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Company:Miltenyi Biotec

Flat Block Moto Alpha Unit With Integrated Motorized Heated Lid and Skirted Inner Lid from Bio-Rad

Description: The Flat Block Moto Alpha unit with motorized heated lid and skirted inner lid has a flat surface that is useful for microarrays and chips. The four screw-down points allow attachment of customized sample blocks. The sealing force of the motorized lid is set with software and is actively measured t...
Company:Bio-Rad

Mini Horizontal Electrophoresis Unit i-MyRun.NC from Cosmo Bio Co., Ltd.

Description: Slotted migration Chamber lid allows easy gel observation and provides optimal heat dissipation. One-touch connectors for easy set up between power supply and migration Chamber. Magnetic safety-switch prevents current flow if the lid is removed at the migration chamber. Excellent safety...
Company:Cosmo Bio Co., Ltd.

Rotarod Treadmill one unit for mice and rats from IITC Life Science

Description: The IITC Life Science Rotarods are used to assess the effect of drugs on the motor coordination or fatigue resistance on mice and rats using one unit in a safe and humane way. Extremely user friendly; the animals are placed on textured drums to avoid slipping. When an animal drops onto the individu...
Company:IITC Life Science

Cetac U-6000AT+ Ultrasonic Nebulizer with desolvation unit 110V, 60Hz from Varian, Inc.

Description: The Cetac Ultrasonic Nebulizers are available in two product models - the 5000AT+ and 6000AT+. The difference between these two models is that the 6000AT+ includes a membrane desolvation unit and condenser to create a drier aerosol for improved detection limits and reduced oxides. The Ultrasonic Ne...
Company:Varian, Inc.

Cetac U-6000AT+ Ultrasonic Nebulizer with desolvation unit 220V, 50 Hz from Varian, Inc.

Description: The Cetac Ultrasonic Nebulizers are available in two product models - the 5000AT+ and 6000AT+. The difference between these two models is that the 6000AT+ includes a membrane desolvation unit and condenser to create a drier aerosol for improved detection limits and reduced oxides. The Ultrasonic Ne...
Company:Varian, Inc.

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Antibiotic

...cterial protein synthesis Antibiotics which bind to the 50S ribosomal unit Lincosamides/lincosides including clindamycin and lincomycin; chloramphenicol, macrolides Antibiotics which interfere the 30S ribosomal unit Tetracyclines; aminoglycosides including gentamicin Drugs w...

Anticodon

... An anticodon is a unit made up of three nucleotides which play an important role in various DNA cycles, including RNA translation . It is, specifically, the group of nuc...

Antibody

...ith added sugar chains (see glycosylation ) on N-terminal (all antibodies) and occasionally O-terminal (IgA1 and IgD) aminoacid residues. The basic unit of each antibody is a monomer . An antibody can be monomeric, dimeric, trimeric, tetrameric, pentameric etc. The monomer is a "Y"-shaped molecule tha...

Artificial life

...more realistic and inexpensive ways to animate natural forms such as plant life, animal movement, hair growth, and complicated organic textures. The unit of Theoretical Behavioural Ecology at the Free University of Brussels applied the self-organization theories of Ilya Prigogine and the work of ent...

Aseptic technique in microbiology

...e tube or flask again before immediately closing it. Keeping in mind that the specimen on the innoculating loop could be contaminated during every unit of time it is exposed, the person would repeat the previous step identically with the tube or flask in which the specimen is to be deposited; howev...

Biodiversity

... exception of Andorra, Brunei Darussalam, the Holy See, Iraq, Somalia, Timor-Leste, and the United States of America. If the gene is the fundamental unit of natural selection, thus of evolution, some, like E.O. Wilson, say that the real biodiversity is the genetic diversity. However, the species divers...

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Transcription unit

Transcription is the synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA. RNA synthesis, or transcription , is the process of transcribing DNA nucleotide sequence information into RNA sequence information. Both nucleic acid sequences... JAVS TU-50 Transcription Unit . T R A N S C R I P T I...

Map Unit

... Map Units : Glacial Meltwater Abstract: GIS Data Guide SupportQuaternary Geologic ... Deposits in a map unit were laid down in a single glacial lake, a ... ... of Map Units : Thames Basin Abstract: GIS Data Guide SupportQuaternary Geologic ... Map units include surficial materi...

Hereditary Unit

Hereditary Unit . Hereditary Unit . A hereditary unit or a gene determines a particular characteristic in an ... Transcription Unit . Other Resources. PubMed Google ... gene n. A hereditary unit consisting of a sequence of DNA that occupies a specific location on a chromosome...

Virus

...n viruses , viruses in the human body , common human viruses , types of human viruses and human papilloma viruses A virus is a unit of infectious genetic material smaller than any bacteria and ... A virus that infects bacteria is known as a bacteriophage, which is used main...

Vectors

... is that many concepts in science, ... Vectors and vector addition: ... Base vectors and vector components: ... If the base vectors are unit vectors , then the components represent the lengths, ... Education in vectors . ... Component Method for Adding Vectors . An understanding of v...

Trait

...t , traits . trait , traits . traits ... A visible trait is the final product of many molecular and biochemical processes. ... The heritable unit that may produce a trait is called a gene. ... The various aspects of the trait are precisely described: gradations and ... That, in sum, makes...

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