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New Natural Product from Zurich Pharmaceuticals Downs Appetite

BOSTON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Health and nutrition researcher Frank Ervolino, ND, investigated a product that claims success in suppressing appetite without the risks associated with stimulants. He reports that Appetite Down ( http://www.appetitedown.com ), a natural product from Zurich Phar...

MEDRAD Sponsors PET Research with University of Zurich

Controlled FDG Delivery Study Uses Intego(TM) PET Infusion System to Compare Techniques for Patient Management WARRENDALE, Pa., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDRAD, Inc., has signed a research agreement with the University of Zurich to study dynamic PET imaging with the MEDRAD Intego(TM) PET Infusi...

The Sir Allen Stanford Pediatric Fellowship Program Provides Close To CHF 1 Million to Support Kinderspital Zurich

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanford Financial Group ("Stanford") announces the Sir Allen Stanford Pediatric Fellowship Program with Kinderspital Zurich - the University Children's Hospital in Zurich. Stanford's new program will provide financial support to Kinderspital Zurich...

University of Zurich Announces Worldwide Clinical Trial of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

The University of Zurich announces an investigator initiated large-scale prospective randomized controlled clinical trial to assess the clinical impact of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in heart failure patients. The worldwide study, called "Echocardiography guided Cardiac Resync...

March of Dimes Names Two New Trustees

...onxville, New York. Robert Woudstra , Chief Executive Officer of Farmers Group, Inc., and a member of the Group Management Board of parent group zurich Financial Services, Ltd. Mr. Woudstra was Chief Operating Officer of Foremost Insurance Group when it was acquired by Farmers in 2000. Since then, h...

Farmers Insurance Annual Challenge: Be a Hero for Babies Day(SM)

...est resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org. About Farmers Farmers Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of zurich Financial Services, an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as we...

Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound

...nance Center of the University Children's Hospital zurich has achieved a world first break through in MR-gui...he MR Center of the University Children's Hospital zurich transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultr...he Neurosurgical Clinic at the University Hospital zurich and Professor Ernst Martin, director of the Magnet...

Prominent New York Personal Injury Lawyer Says Insurance Companies Thwart Efforts Of Employees Seeking Workers Compensation Benefits In New York State

...nd workers compensation benefits. Attorneys know the battle to breathe with damaged lungs pales in comparison to Daniel Arrigo's ongoing struggle with zurich North America. The giant insurance carrier is putting up an aggressive legal fight to block the 53-year-old construction worker, and father of three, ...

IBM Establishes Global Healthcare Centre of Excellence in La Gaude, France

...hcare." Elsewhere in Europe, IBM drives healthcare innovation at its zurich Research Laboratory. Researchers at zurich successfully developed the Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), whic...

BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why Does Caffeine Have a Stimulating Effect?

...ployees and posted sales of more than EUR62 billion in 2008. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com . A Podcast is available at: http://www.presseportal.de/pm/...

Zurich in Medical Technology

Image Solutions, Inc. Acquires Zurich Biostatistics, Inc.

Legacy of Regulatory Submissions Leadership Strengthened with Clinical Trials Services and Standards-Based Data Management WHIPPANY, N.J. and ATLANTA, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) announced today it agreed to terms to acquire Zurich Biostatistics, Inc. (ZBI). W...

Elbit Imaging Ltd. Announces - Swiss Team Uses InSightec's ExAblate(R) 4000 Brain System to Treat Patients With Functional Brain Disorders

...tec Ltd., announced today that a team at the University Children's Hospital zurich has completed a feasibility study testing the use of non-invasive transcran...functional brain disorders. "The Neuropathic pain study performed at zurich demonstrated the feasibility to treat these patients non-invasively without...

BASF Officially Launches the Collaborative Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University

...5,000 employees and posted sales of almost euro 58 billion in 2007. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at http://www.basf.com . ...

Trial Results with Intranasal Fentanyl Hold Promise for Treatment of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer

...ection with the acquisition of the ALTANA Pharma AG, effective 1 January 2007, Nycomed is relocating its group headquarters from Roskilde (Denmark) to zurich (Switzerland) in June 2007. For more information visit www.nycomed.com For further info...

ETH Zurich study on salmonella self-destruction

ETH Zurich biologists, led by Professors Martin Ackermann and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, in collaboration with Michael Doebeli of the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (CN), have been able to describe how random molecular processes during cell division allow some cells to engage in a self-dest...

ETH Zurich and IBM improve diagnosis of osteoporosis

With the goal of developing an accurate, powerful and fast method to automate the analysis of bone strength, scientists of the ETH Zurich Departments of Mechanical and Process Engineering and Computer Science teamed up with supercomputing experts at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. The breakthro...

IBM and ETH Zurich form strategic partnership in nanoscience

The two partners have a long-standing tradition of scientific cooperation, and now make an important step to deepen this collaboration further by forming a strategic partnership in the field of nanotechnology. The collaborative project was revealed at a joint media conference in Zurich by Prof. Ra...

ETH Zurich researchers develop antibody test

ETH Zurich professor Peter Seeberger has been working on a sugar-based malaria vaccine for years. The new test takes him one important step closer to his goal. The malaria pathogen plasmodium falciparum carries poisonous sugar molecules called GPIs for short on its surface that are able to be in...

ETH Zurich competence center ESC introduces energy strategy

In the past year, various reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have warned the world in no uncertain terms that in order to achieve a stable climate on our planet by the end of this century, any increase in CO2 emissions in the coming decades must be cur...

New ETH Zurich article published in scientific journal 'Nature'

The air contains greenhouse gases such as CO 2 , which are now known to be responsible for global warming because their concentration has risen continu-ously for a number of years. In contrast to the atmosphere, the concentration of CO 2 in the oceans is sixty times higher. In the global carbon c...

ETH Zurich professor Ari Helenius awarded Benoist Prize

Why do we catch colds? How do viruses get into cells? In pursuing this central question, Ari Helenius, Professor of Biochemistry at ETH Zurich since 1997, and his team have pioneered research in this field. For his efforts, Professor Helenius has today been awarded the Swiss Nobel Prize in Bern, S...

Image Solutions, Inc. Acquires Zurich Biostatistics, Inc.

Legacy of Regulatory Submissions Leadership Strengthened with Clinical Trials Services and Standards-Based Data Management WHIPPANY, N.J. and ATLANTA, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) announced today it agreed to terms to acquire Zurich Biostatistics, Inc. (ZBI). W...

Male seahorses like big mates

...ly to have more and bigger eggs, as well as bigger offspring, according to Beat Mattle and Tony Wilson from the Zoological Museum at the University of zurich in Switzerland. Their findings 1 have just been published online in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology . Seahorses have a uni...

Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology launches new projects

...of 47 research groups from both Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH zurich und EPF Lausanne), as well as from the Universities of Basel, Lausanne, Gen...tive SystemsX.ch include the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology ETH zurich and EPFL Lausanne, the Universities of Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausa...

Zurich in Biological Technology

A Swiss Team Uses Transcranial MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound to Treat Patients With Functional Brain Disorders

... TIRAT CARMEL, Israel, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- InSightec Ltd. today announced that a team at the University Children's Hospital zurich has completed a feasibility study testing the use of non-invasive transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) for the treatment of neur...

BASF Podcast: The Chemical Reporter - Why Does Your Urine Smell so Different After You've Eaten Asparagus?

...8 and had approximately 97,000 employees as of the end of the year. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at http://www.basf.com . A Podcast is available at: http://www.pressepo...

Monsanto, BASF Scientists Disclose Discovery of Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance in Corn Plants

...8 and had approximately 97,000 employees as of the end of the year. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com . Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Informati...

BASF Sues DuPont for Patent Infringement

...00 employees and posted sales of more than euro 62 billion in 2008. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com . About BASF Plant Science BASF consolidated its plant bio...

Dozens of New Clean Technology and Nanotech Products Unveiled at TechConnect World Expo in Houston, Texas, May 5-6

...ilion, which features a dozen Swiss Nanotech companies, is hosting a reception on Tuesday May 5, at 5:00pm, (in Booth 311), to discuss how IBM and ETH zurich have created a $90M program for joint research and a new nanotech lab. Vorbeck Materials (booth 1413): is showcasing its newest Vor-ink li...

Beating the back-up blues

... a thing of the past thanks to research into a new kind of computer memory. Physicists at the University of Leeds and scientists at IBM Research's zurich lab have made new advances in researching a new kind of memory, called 'racetrack' memory, which could become the standard method of storing informati...

BASF Set To Commercialize pro-t-action(TM) Eliminating Caries Causing Bacteria From the Mouth

...loyees and posted sales of more than euro 62 billion in 2008. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com . About OrganoBalance GmbH OrganoBalance GmbH is a...

Webcast Alert: Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. Investor Meeting in Zurich, Switzerland

...are as follows: Location: Radisson SAS zurich Airport Hotel Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:...r this year." What: Live webcast of zurich Investor Meeting When: April 1, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. zurich time (7:00 a.m. EDT) Where: The live webca...

Palonosetron Warrants Adequate Caloric Intake in Oncology Patients Receiving High Emetogenic Chemotherapy

...trition in Zurich, Switzerland New data presented today at the ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology) Symposium on Cancer and Nutrition in zurich shows that palonosetron, a second generation 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, warrants adequate caloric intake in oncology patients receiving high emetogeni...

Campbell Alliance Brand Management Practice to Present at EyeForPharma's Oncology Summit USA and Oncology Market Access Europe Conference

...tts. Dr. Dandekar will also present a workshop at EyeForPharma's Oncology Market Access Europe Conference, scheduled for April 22 and 23, 2009 at the zurich Marriott Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Dandekar's presentation at EyeforPharma's Oncology Summit USA is scheduled for 3:30 pm March 30 as a p...