Fenwal to Host Webinar on the Safety of 2-Unit Red Cell Collections From Young Donors
Published study shows young donors experience a lower rate of adverse reactions on automated 2-unit red cell collection systems LAKE ZURICH, Ill., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenwal Inc. announced today it is hosting a live, online lecture by Richard J. Benjamin, M.D., Ph.D., chief medical offi...Craneware Supports Hospitals' Compliance and Upfront Collections with Accurate Estimates
Craneware's Patient Charge Estimator(TM) Gives Patients Visibility into Treatment Costs before Receiving Services ATLANTA, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's economy, with the high number of uninsured and underinsured Americans, increasingly high deductibles and co-payments, plus growth in con...Reflex Stock Launches Exciting New Editorial Image Collections to the Worldwide Publishing Industry
Reflex Stock, the leading independent supplier of royalty free stock photography, images and illustrations has today (October 1, 2008) launched a new collection of rights managed editorial images. Included in the new collections is Heritage Images, an image collection distilled from the vast ima...AVMA Collections Highlights Disaster Preparedness
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- From Midwest floods, to wildfires that have scarred California, recent natural disasters have grabbed headlines and have cost dearly in life and livelihood. Many animals and pets have also been lost or have ended up in shelters, waiting for their owners...Manufacturing Organizations Identify Efficiencies in Credit and Collections Functions
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- With a continued focus on quality and efficiency in the manufacturing environment, best-in-class companies continue to focus on opportunities for streamlining processes to maximize both internal and external customer relationships. In reviewing the cre...Video: Partnership Unites UCB with Consumer Product Innovator OXO(R)
...oking, cleaning, gardening, storing, organizing and lighting. Today OXO Good Grips products are sold in 54 countries and are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums. The company has won more than 100 design and business awards worldwide. OXO is very frequently used as a case study on how a well...Ancestry.com DNA Testing Reveals 'Roots' Author's Scottish Ancestry
... family history. Ancestry.com has local websites in nine countries and has digitized and put online over 7 billion names and 27,000 historical records collections over the past ten years. Since July 2006, Ancestry.com users have created 9.3 million family trees containing 915 million profiles and 18 million phot...Hyperion Therapeutics Announces Results for Phase II Study in Urea Cycle Disorders
...r the curve (TNAUC) for ammonia. Patients were enrolled on their stable dose of BUPHENYL and 24-hour PK, ammonia measurements, amino acids, and urine collections were completed in a study unit after seven days of on-study treatment. Each patient was then switched to HPN-100 at a dose providing the same amount ...Versatility of 454 Sequencing(TM) Demonstrated in Three Publications in Science Last Week
...d for obtaining ancient DNA, as described in today's paper, uses hair shafts and not live cells. Hair from many extinct species is available in museum collections around the world. The new protocol, along with 454 Sequencing, opens the door to sequence many ancient species. "Three diverse publications appearing...Raintree Billing Manager and Collections Administrator
Description: Raintree Billing Manager and Collections Administrator has a maximum flexibility with centralized or de-centralized billing models and personalized paper or electronic billing, higher collection ratios with the ability to facilitate rebilling, ledger notes, follow-ups and single claims more directl...National Eyewear Collection by Marcolin
Description:...ar answers these needs with VALUE - not just in price but also in quality and design. Jobson Research shows that National is among the LEADING eyewear collections for managed care product. National offers an exciting collection of contemporary and classic styling combined with high-quality materials such as st...Brooks Brothers Ophthalmic Collection
Description:...greement between Brook Brothers and Luxottica Group dates back to 1993. Characterized by lightweight materials and a slender line, the Brooks Brothers collections reflect the unique features of the style of this American brand. A product with classic style and affordable to everyone that delivers functionality, ...Hunt for 'climate-ready' crops accelerates as organizations search seed collections worldwide
ROME, ITALY (22 May 2009)The Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today numerous new grant awards to support scientists to explore the millions of seed samples maintained in 1,500 crop genebanks around the world. They will search for biodiversity critically needed to protect food production from ...Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
The world's three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases [100,000,000,000 bases; the 'letters' of the genetic code] of sequence. Thanks to their data exchange policy, which has paved the way for the global exchange of many types of biological inf...Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators
...that the first head was clearly seen to be a paddling tail. To build upon this discovery researchers examined 98 Sea Kraits from three major museum collections in Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen while also monitoring the behaviour of wild Sea Kraits in Solomon Islands during the Danish Galathea 3 Expedition. The...Rodent size linked to human population and climate change
...they were global in nature, and what some of the causes may be." Pergams examined specimen rodents from museums around the world, including the big collections held at Chicago's Field Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington. Altogether, he recorded more than 17,000 body and skull measurements from 1,300 spec...'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access
... Laurier University aims to build a full community structure for their repository within the next 12 months which will include customized designs and collections for particular groups of researchers. They also hope to implement a 'content recruitment strategy' to ensure that as much scholarly output from the un...Biologist discovers pink-winged moth in Chiracahua Mountains
...that it could be a stray from another mountain range in the region. He said there are a number of species that fly early in the summer and are rare in collections and not often seen in most years. "We can now add L. leeae to this group of large, but quite elusive, species," he said. ...Elsevier Launches Ten New eBook Specialty Collections on MD Consult
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Increases Accessibility to Market-Leading Specialty Content Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today that ten new eBook Specialty Coll...CalbaTech Issues Update; Beginning Training for Adult Stem Cell Collections in Atlanta
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- CalbaTech, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CLBE), an emerging life sciences company ( http://www.CalbaTech.com ) concentrating on the collection and banking of adult stem cells for possible future therapeutic uses and providing products and platf...NeoStem's New York City Adult Stem Cell Collection Center Has Opened and Begun Collections
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: NBS), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, today announced that it has reached a major milestone in its current business plan with t...UCSF researchers help crack parasite genome, identify drug leads
... the Small Molecule Discovery Center. "That, combined with the extensive collections of compounds at the small-molecule center, has meant that we can now screen large compound collections at a much higher rate than with the more traditional approach of screening ...New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's
... time to a matter of weeks. The current drug discovery process is arduous, requiring identification of potential drug targets, synthesis of large collections of molecular compounds that might interact effectively with an identified target, screening of compounds with expensive assays and robotics, and defin...Hill-Rom Announces Sale of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Intellectual Property
...e group purchasing organizations, whether the Company's new products are successful in the marketplace, changes in customers' Medicare reimbursements, collections of accounts receivable, compliance with FDA regulations, antitrust litigation, potential exposure to product liability or other claims, failure of the...