Jury Awards Valley Medical Center Patient $1.8 Million for Nursing Negligence
Woman spent remaining life in wheelchair, nursing facilities after nurse failed to alert physician to condition; Verdict record for its type KENT, Wash., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- A King County Superior Court jury awarded the estate of a Renton woman more than $1.8 million yester...JBFCS Surpasses Fundraising Goal For Hudson Valley Bike Ride Despite Difficult Financial Times
NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today JBFCS ( www.jbfcs.org ) announced that it beat its original goal for first time fundraising event -- the Hudson Valley Bike Ride. The human services agency started with a target of $250,000. To date, it has raised more than...Solta Medical, Inc. Signs Amendment to Expand Its Credit Facility With Silicon Valley Bank
HAYWARD, Calif., July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solta Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTM ), a global leader in the medical aesthetics market, today announced that it has signed an amendment with Silicon Valley Bank, a member company of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB ), under which the company's ...Heritage Valley Health System Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record
Physicians will use EHR to Enhance the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Patient Care CHICAGO and TOLEDO, Ohio, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX ) announced today that Heritage Valley Health System, a progressive community-based health system in southwestern Pennsy...QHR and Valley Health Amicably Part Ways
Representatives from Quorum Health Resources (QHR) and Valley Health System (VHS) announced today they have mutually decided to terminate their contractual relationship. Effective as of June 1, 2009, QHR will no longer provide management services to VHS, but will be retained to provide ongoing gr...Dr. Khanna Featured on Front Cover of Valley Life Magazine
Dr. Rajesh Khanna discusses success of a new procedure, PRELEX. Westlake Village, CA (PRWEB) April 11, 2009 -- In the upcoming May issue of Valley Life (West Valley Magazine), M.D. Rajesh Khanna, founder of the Khanna Institute of LASIK, discusses his practice and his l...Stereotaxis Extends Its Credit Facility With Silicon Valley Bank
ST. LOUIS, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stereotaxis, Inc. (Nasdaq: STXS ) today announced that it has extended its credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank, a member company of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB ). Under the new agreement, which matures on March 31, 2010, the Company...Solta Medical, Inc. Secures $9M Credit Facility from Silicon Valley Bank
HAYWARD, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solta Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTM ), a global leader in the medical aesthetics market, today announced that Silicon Valley Bank, a member company of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB ), has provided the company with a $9 million credit facili...Treatment Shows Excellent Results for Providence Tarzana Patients Following Cardiac Arrest
...dence and the successful implementation of the program at Providence Tarzana, Providence Health & Services is creating protocols for its two other valley medical centers to use not just in the emergency rooms, but throughout the hospitals. In fact, one recommendation involves working with paramedics to ...Spherix Reports First Quarter 2009 Earnings
... Trial completion expected in mid- to late-2010 Trade shows/investor conferences: Ohio valley Affiliates for Life Science, Dayton, OH, April 2-3 BIO International Convention, Atlanta, GA, May 18-21 Rodman & R...New Study Shows PCR and FCR Have Significant Activity in B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
...rom Macroblobulinemia Chronic L y mphoc y tic Leukemia Jeff Sharman, M.D., Willamette valley Cancer Center-Springfield: Fostamatinib Disodium (FosD), an oral inhibitor of Syk, is well-tolerated and has significant clinical activity in diffuse ...Interleukin Genetics Launches Enhanced Heart Health Genetic Test Report Format
..., July 26, 2008 at the Nardone/Melillo/Callendar conference at the Radisson valley Forge Hotel & Convention Center in valley Forge, PA. Thousands of attendees are expected at the conference. Lewis H...Edison Pharma Hits Milestone as A0001 Enters Phase 1 Clinical Development
...ugs for the treatment of diseases of aging." About Edison Pharmaceuticals Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Silicon valley California at the San Jose Biocenter with a specialized knowledge in redox biochemistry and drug design. The company is focused on developing drugs fo...UTSA infectious disease researchers advancing vaccine against Valley fever
San Antonio Medical mycologists in The South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and the Department of Biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have significantly advanced the fight against San Joaquin Valley Fever, a respiratory infection of humans, commonly ca...Biologists rediscover endangered frog population
... searching for all species of vertebrates animals with a backbone in a study of biological change in the region. The biologists were in the Tahquitz valley area the week of June 21 when Drew Stokes, a field biologist with the museum, found and photographed a single mountain yellow-legged frog in Willow Cr...DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009
...failures, and effectively reroute power distribution during emergency or natural disasters. (Jointly with Electric Power Research Institute, Tennessee valley Authority and PBS&J) PulseForge 3100 - uses rapid pulses of light for high-speed drying, curing, sintering or annealing high temperature materials...Warming climate threatens California fruit and nut production
... chill had already declined to the point that only 4 percent of the Central valley was still suitable for growing apples, cherries and pears all of which hav... The researchers project that by the end of the 21st century, the Central valley might no longer be suitable for growing walnuts, pistachios, peaches, apric...Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system
...iveness in a recent field study in the San Joaquin valley in which it desalted agricultural drainage water t...e water. So to actually go back to the San Joaquin valley with new advanced technology and be successful is ...gricultural drainage wastewater in the San Joaquin valley is one of the most difficult source waters to desa...Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa
... Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multi-million pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London International Dev...'Honey bee health' of concern at Western Apicultural Society conference
...ion and fitness and member of the UC Davis Department of Nutrition faculty, will speak on "Honey and Exercise Physiology." Randy Oliver, a Grass valley beekeeper and also a part-time researcher, teacher and author, will offer "Beekeeping Tips Based on Experimental Trial and Error." The conferenc...Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
...ology. When the bone bed formed between 15,900,000 and 15,200,000 years ago, the climate was warming, sea level was at a peak, California's Central valley was an inland sea dubbed the Temblor Sea and the emerging Sierra Nevada was shoreline. By closely studying the geology of the Sharktooth Hill area, th...Society for Prevention Research Meeting in Washington, D.C., May 27-29, 2009
...n after 32. May 29 2009 2:45PM - 4:15 PM Hyatt Regency, Rooms: Washington / valley Forge The European Drinking Model: Do European youth really drink less...n after 32. May 29 2009 2:45PM - 4:15 PM Hyatt Regency, Rooms: Washington / valley Forge There is a good understanding of the risk factors associated with...Delaware Valley Innovation Network Awards First Innovation Investment Grant to the Wistar Institute
PHILADELPHIA, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Delaware Valley Innovation Network (DVIN) announced today the award of its first Innovation Investment Grant. The Wistar Institute will receive $89,000 to support the Wistar Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Program, a two-year workforce d...Seneca Valley High School Student Receives Science Award From MedImmune
GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Local biotechnology leader MedImmune announced today that Seneca Valley High School student Yiwei Li has received the distinguished "MedImmune Advancing Science for Better Health" award for her ScienceMONTGOMERY project. The company sponsored the Mon...Chippewa Valley Draws Defense Dollars
EAU CLAIRE, WI- Efforts at improving communication and technology in the battlefield could help to improve the economic outlook of the Chippewa Valley. Thanks in large part to efforts by Rep. Dave Obey (D-7th District), several Chippewa Falls-area companies are in line to receive defense contrac...Chippewa Valley Embraces Nanotechnology
Eau Claire, Wis. - Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) President Bill Ihlenfeldt told a news conference last week, that CVTC will begin teaching nanotechnology as early as September 2004 and that the region should prepare for sweeping changes and opportunities. Jack Uldrich, nanotechnolog...WIN Launches Chippewa Valley Chapter
Madison, Wis The Wisconsin Innovation Network (WIN) Foundation has created a membership chapter in one of Wisconsins most vibrant high-tech regions, the Chippewa Valley. The WIN Foundation is the membership subsidiary of the Wisconsin Technology Council, which is the independent, non-profit sc...Chippewa Valley angels invest in network hardware company
Eau Claire, Wis. Small Tree Communications , a niche hardware company that makes networking products for Apple computers, has received a $445,000 funding round from Chippewa Valley Angel Investors Network . "This [investment] is going to allow us to grow our business faster by getting our p...Chippewa Valley Technical College helps pioneer nanotech program, incubator
Chippewa Valley Technical College has teamed up with UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout and several other tech colleges to create the first Nanoscience Technology degree program in the state. Nanotechnology deals with particles one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter, wide, where normal physical prope...Fox Valley Tech, Kuka Robotics team up on high-tech training center
Appleton, Wis. - No doubt the young students crowding around the orange robotic arm dealing blackjack at Fox Valley Technical College last week knew what they were watching was cool. However, they probably didn't know they were watching the future of manufacturing in motion. As soon-to-be FV...Chippewa Valley reps hope to score at Twin Cities tradeshow
Eau Claire, Wis. A team of Chippewa Valley representatives hope to score points with medical device manufacturers in the Twin Cities this week at the largest medical device tradeshow in the Midwest. The Medical Design & Manufacturing tradeshow at the Minneapolis Convention Center on November 2...