Keane 'Optimum' Creates Higher Standards in Healthcare IT, Improved Patient Safety
Keane Completes Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Implementation for New Jersey-Based Acute Care Facility BOSTON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Keane, Inc., a global services firm that specializes in optimizing businesses' Information Technology (IT) investments, today announced that it has completed ...Senior Citizens Bureau Creates New Resourceful Divisions
Programs Give Seniors Helpful Solutions HOUSTON, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senior Citizens Bureau (SCB), the nation's largest non-profit organization for seniors, with over 500,000 members, has established two new divisions: Funeral Planning and Support & Financial and Retirement Plannin...Pediatrician creates easier way to identify kids' high BP
Pediatricians now have a new and simple way to diagnose a serious problem facing our nation's children thanks to David Kaelber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., MetroHealth System pediatrician, internist, and chief medical informatics officer and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher ...2,500 Cases Completed With the Magnetic Irrigated Catheter
...rofessor of medicine at The Ohio State University and an electrophysiologist at the Ross Heart Hospital in Columbus. "The Thermocool magnetic catheter creates deeper lesions because the catheter remains in contact with the beating heart. The irrigation allows me to deliver more energy, creating a larger les...Prospective Clinical Advantages of Trabecular Metal(TM) Technology Highlighted in Comparative Study
...ed long term implant fixation. Trabecular Metal implants are fabricated using elemental tantalum metal and a patented vapor deposition process that creates a metallic strut configuration resembling cancellous bone with a nano-textured surface. Trabecular Metal Technology is exclusive to Zimmer. ...Schering-Plough Expands Vicriviroc Phase II Study in Treatment-Naive Patients With HIV
...ion-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through its own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world. The company applies its research-and-development platform to human prescription and cons...9000 Series with Zippers - 1st Stage
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Description:... BD Persist contains 70% alcohol and 10% povidone iodine formulated in a unique polymer base, forming a barrier on the skin. The barrier creates a protective environment for the povidone iodine, giving persistent protection against microorganisms most commonly associated with catheter related i...BD Persist skin prep single swab
Description:... BD Persist contains 70% alcohol and 10% povidone iodine formulated in a unique polymer base, forming a barrier on the skin. The barrier creates a protective environment for the povidone iodine, giving persistent protection against microorganisms most commonly associated with catheter related i...Extracorporeal shockwave therapy
...ories as to how ESWT helps promote healing. The most accepted one is that the microtrauma of the repeated ultrasound shock wave to the affected area creates neo-vascularization (new blood flow) into the area. It is this new blood flow that promotes tissue healing. The second theory is that in chronic pain,...Crustacean shell with polyester creates mixed-fiber material for nerve repair
In the clothing industry it's common to mix natural and synthetic fibers. Take cotton and add polyester to make clothing that's soft, breathable and wrinkle free. Now researchers at the University of Washington are using the same principle for biomedical applications. Mixing chitosan, found in ...Florida professor creates endowment for insect scientists
Dr. Nan-Yao Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, has donated $250,000 to the Entomological Society of America (ESA) for the establishment of an endowment to award creative entomologists who have demonstrated the ability to find alternative solutions to problems that signific...MIT creates tiny backpacks for cells
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT engineers have outfitted cells with tiny "backpacks" that could allow them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumors or become building blocks for tissue engineering. Michael Rubner, director of MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering and senior author o...Early-stage gene transcription creates access to DNA
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (October 6, 2008) A gene contained in laboratory yeast has helped an international team of researchers uncover new findings about the process by which protein molecules bind to control sequences in genes in order to initiate gene expression, according to findings reported in the...MIT creates new material for fuel cells
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly in portable electronics. The new material key to the ...Using evolution, UW team creates a template for many new therapeutic agents
MADISON - By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a new form of an enzyme capable of producing a range of potential new therapeutic agents with anticancer and antibiotic properties. Writing in the current issue (Sep...Viral Genetics Creates Subsidiary to Develop Cancer Therapy
SAN MARINO, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Biotechnology company Viral Genetics (Pink Sheets: VRAL) has formed a wholly owned subsidiary called MetaCytoLytics, Inc. This company was created to advance a technology developed by University of Colorado Professor M. Karen Newe...Transposagen Creates a Rat Model of the Human Immune System
LEXINGTON, Ky. , Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. based in Lexington, KY announced today that its scientists and collaborators from the Medical College of Wisconsin have created and characterized the world's first rat model of severe combined immunodefi...Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance
Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of researchers for the project discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light. The black metal created, absorbs all radiation that shines upon it. "With the crea...ParagonRx Creates New Website Featuring REMS Help Center for Pharma
WILMINGTON, Del., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- ParagonRx, a Delaware-based company which specializes in programs for the appropriate use of medications, has launched a new website - www.paragonrx.com - that includes a "REMS Hub" for pharmaceutical and biotech companies needing information and ...A Global View: NanoLogix Creates Science Advisory Board
HUBBARD, Ohio, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NanoLogix, Inc. (Pink Sheets: NNLX) is pleased to announce the creation of its Science Advisory Board to help evaluate and target research and development efforts for products. The new advisory board provides the company with a vastly expanded scope...GSK and Pfizer Innovative Agreement Creates Specialist HIV Company
LONDON, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer today announced an "innovative agreement" to pool their HIV assets creating a new world-leading, specialist HIV company. The deal will see the drug giants combine their existing HIV product an...Flp-In pcDNA5/FRT Complete Kit from Invitrogen
Description:... Since the Flp-In System creates isogenic cell lines all transfected clones produce equivalent levels of the protein of interest. This homogeneous expression is demonstrated in Figure...Flp-In pcDNA5/FRT Core Kit from Invitrogen
Description:... Since the Flp-In System creates isogenic cell lines all transfected clones produce equivalent levels of the protein of interest. This homogeneous expression is demonstrated in Figure...Flow Cytometry Kit for Apoptosis from Sigma-Aldrich
Description:...acteristics that defines apoptosis is the degradation of genomic DNA into fragments of 180-200 bp, commonly called "DNA laddering". The fragmentation creates a large number of 3'-hydroxyl sites at the DNA breaks. This property is used in the APO-BRDU kit to identify apoptotic cells by labeling the 3'-hydro...Rocker, Mini from Barloworld Scientific Ltd
Description:... procedures etc. The angle of tilt can be moved to any position by hand to optimize mixing of vessels. Model SSM4 has a see-saw rocking action that creates a wave motion within vessels such as culture flasks, Petri dishes etc. Digital selection of both speed and time facilitates accurate and reproducible ...IonQuest System with PC Control and Supressor from Cecil Instruments Ltd.
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Description:... This marking pen has been designed to provide a thin film-like barrier when a circle is drawn around the specimen on a slide. This barrier creates the proper surface tension to hold an antibody solution within the target area on the slide. PAP Pen contains a special formulation which is insolubl...