Largest U.S. Health Insurer Rewarded Employees That Cancelled Coverage of Sick Patients

Consumer Watchdog Calls on Congress to Ban Bonuses For Canceling, Delaying or Denying Medical Care WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog called on Congress to ban any health insurance employee from receiving bonuses for canceling, delaying, or denying necessa...

Woman Whose Health Insurance Was Cancelled by Blue Cross/WellPoint After She Got Sick Urges Congress to Protect Innocent Patients

Congress Should Not Let Insurers Continue to Cheat Consumers in HealthCare Reform WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wittney Horton of Los Angeles, whose own insurance was cancelled after she sought routine medical care, appeared today before the House subcommittee on Government O...

Sainsbury's Travel Insurance will Consider Claims for Cancelled Holidays to Mexico

In the wake of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is advising against all but essential travel to the country. Sainsbury's Travel Insurance confirms that it will consider all claims for cancelled holidays to the country, scheduled to depart on or after 28 ...

RAM Ohio Free Medical Clinic Cancelled Due to Swine Flu Outbreak

CLEVELAND , April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The organizers of a massive community-wide event offering free health, vision, and dental care to the underinsured and un-insured originally planned for this weekend has been cancelled. RAM Ohio (Remote Area Medical), ramohio.org, the group behind the event, ...

MDS Commences Arbitration against AECL over Cancelled MAPLE Project and Files $1.6 Billion Court Claim against AECL and the Government of Canada

TORONTO, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Inc. (TSX: MDS; NYSE: MDZ), a leading provider of products and services to the global life sciences markets, today announced that it has served Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) with notice of arbitration proceedings. MDS will be seeking an ord...

Consumer Watchdog Praises CA HMO Regulator's Promise to Reinstate Health Coverage for Wrongfully Cancelled Patients; Cautions That All Health Costs During Gap Must be Covered

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today praised a California state regulator's efforts to begin reinstating the insurance coverage of patients left uninsured, uninsurable and often hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt when their health insu...

Consumer Watchdog Applauds L.A. City Attorney's Efforts to Reinstate Cancelled Blue Cross Patients; Urges State HMO Regulator to Immediately Reinstate Coverage

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today joined L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in announcing the city's lawsuit alleging that health insurer Blue Cross engaged in unfair business practices by illegally cancelling the health insurance of patients a...

Consumer Watchdog Applauds L.A. City Attorney's Efforts to Reinstate Cancelled Blue Cross Patients; Urges State HMO Regulator to Do Same

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today joined L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in announcing the city's lawsuit alleging that health insurer Blue Cross engaged in unfair business practices by illegally cancelling the health insurance of patients a...

Consumer Watchdog Gives HMO Regulator 10 Days to Order Reinstatement of Patients Whose Policies Have Been Illegally Cancelled

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog petitioned the state Department of Managed Health Care to announce within 10 days its plans regarding hundreds of patients who have been left uninsured, uninsurable, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt...

Eye Surgeries Remain Cancelled Due To TASS Outbreak In Toronto

A mysterious post-operative eye ailment that swept along the continent has lead to the shut down of the cataract-surgery unit in Scarborough Hospital, one of Toronto's largest cataract centres last week. // The Hospital, which performs around 5,000 eye operations a year, decided to cancel all c...

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Aerosol: A key piece of the climate change puzzle

...ht back into space. This effect is thought to be so large that, since the industrial period, the climactic cooling effect of aerosols has largely cancelled out the warming effect of greenhouse gases. This phenomenon has often been referred to as global dimming. "Aerosol is the most important factor th...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009

...'s reliance on foreign oil and make ethanol cost-competitive with gasoline by 2012. But construction has started on only one of the projects, with two cancelled outright, the article notes. The biggest roadblock involves difficulty in scaling-up production from the small quantities of bioethanol that can b...

L-1 Identity Solutions Completes Acquisition of the ID Systems Business from Digimarc Corporation

...ich changed its name to Digimarc following the merger. As a result of the merger, any shares of Digimarc common stock not tendered in the offer were cancelled and converted into the right to receive the same $12.25 in cash per share (without interest and less any required withholding taxes) that was paid in ...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Closes $3.6 Million Financing

...unpaid interest thereon, held by several lenders, including one of the Additional Lenders and several entities related to that Additional Lender. Such cancelled debt was due in September and December of 2008 and carried interest at the rate of 15% per annum. The Preferred Shares are entitled to an 8% dividend ...

Court Approves Scheme of Arrangement

...ndon Stock Exchange's market for listed securities at 8.00 a.m. (GMT) on 23 May 2008. The listing of the existing ordinary shares of Shire plc will be cancelled by 8.00 a.m. (GMT) on 23 May 2008. In conjunction with the scheme, Shire plc's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") will be replaced by Shire Limited...

The surprising power of the pill

... Women who have tried to conceive using in vitro fertilization (IVF) methods are painfully aware that timing is of the essence. There are cancelled vacations, too many sick days taken from work, and the necessity to plan everything around the treatment. But thanks to a Tel Aviv University study...

Green morality

...offset by increased consumption of goods and services. What may at first appear to reduce the level of ecological harm that we cause, may in effect be cancelled out and possibly lead to even greater harm. Moreover, many of us pursue practices that are detrimental to the environment but which we justify by a...

Careless reporting on HIV 'could cost lives'

...journal BMC International Health and Human Rights. Mills says that media reports were partly responsible for trials of the HIV drug tenofovir being cancelled in Cambodia in 2004 and in Cameroon earlier this year (see Cambodia's prime minister halts AIDS drug trial, and Cameroon suspends trial of AIDS drug a...

First frozen egg baby born in Canada

...t with ovarian stimulation and intra-uterine insemination (IUI). Because she produced too many follicles in her ovaries, the treatment cycle had to be cancelled because of a high risk of multiple-fetal pregnancy. As an alternative treatment, she had eggs collected from her ovaries, which were then frozen in li...

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Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009

...nufacturers, generally relating to certain customers that have postponed or cancelled orders, or implemented inventory reduction programs in response to changing economic and credit market conditions, and more particularly relating to cancelled orders for surgical needles by one of our largest customers. Manufacturing ...

TorreyPines Cancels Special Meeting of Stockholders in Order to Pursue Merger Transaction

... LA JOLLA, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPTX ) announced today that it has cancelled its Special Meeting of Stockholders, scheduled for today at 9:00 a.m., local time. The purpose of the meeting was for stockholder to vote upon a propo...

Neptune Technologies Reports Fiscal 2009 Results - Record revenue and profitability growth in nutraceutical business

...ach option granted under the Acasti Plan will reduce by one the number of shares available for further issuance under the Neptune Plan and each option cancelled under the Acasti Plan will increase by one, the number of shares available under the Neptune plan, until the date on which the shares of Acasti qualif...

Endo Pharmaceuticals Successfully Completes Tender Offer for Shares of Indevus Pharmaceuticals and Announces Subsequent Offering Period

... stockholder. Following the merger, Indevus will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Endo, and each share of Indevus' outstanding common stock will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive the same consideration, without interest, received by holders who tendered in the tender offer. Thereafter, In...

Essilor Cancels 1,600,000 Shares

... CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, December 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On November 28, Essilor cancelled 1,600,000 shares, in line with its commitment to shareholders to offset the dilutive impact of Oceane bond conversions and the Company's stock option ...

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Cancels Presentation Planned for November 19, 2008 at Lazard Capital Markets 5th Annual Healthcare Conference

... PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAZZ ) announced that it has cancelled its corporate presentation planned for today at the Lazard Capital Markets 5th Annual Healthcare Conference due to the proximity of the release of pre...

Gilead to Topple GSK as the Top Player in the Anti-Infectives Drug Market in 2014

... for companies to bring hospital antibiotics to market. The FDA's heightened scrutiny of hospital antibiotics has resulted in extended review periods, cancelled advisory meetings, postponed PDUFA dates and the issuance of multiple consecutive approvable letters requesting further data. "We believe there is d...

Biomoda, Inc. (BMOD) SqueezeTrigger Price is $0.27. Approximately 1 Million Shares Shorted Since November 2006 According to Buyins.net Research Report

... in this opinion. Biomoda, Inc. has paid $995 per month to purchase data for information provided in this six monthly reports. The data service can be cancelled at any time. This opinion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. This material is for informational purposes only a...

WuXi PharmaTech Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2008 Results and Updates 2008 Guidance

...owth (each using the mid-point of current estimates). As we enter the fourth quarter, we expect lower than anticipated full-year 2008 revenues, due to cancelled or delayed projects from small biotechnology customers. However, our China-based laboratory services business remains strong and is expected to grow o...

Ondine Biopharma Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results

...pany earns a significantly higher margin on its treatment kit sales as compared to the margin it earns on the sales of its laser base stations. Having cancelled the Company's exclusive distribution agreement with a Canadian dental distributor in February of 2008, the Company commenced sales of its products to ...

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Equilibrium

...related phenomena in the natural and social sciences. In general, a system is said to be in a state of equilibrium if all influences on the system are cancelled by the effects of others. A related concept is stability ; an equilibrium may or may not be stable. Some specific examples are: Chemical equ...

Molecular evolution

...harbor for a particular locus. Beyond this number of alleles, the selective advantage of presence of those alleles in heterozygous genotypes would be cancelled out by continual generation of less fit homozygous genotypes. These results became important in the formation of the neutral theory, because neutral...