BioGlue(R) Surgical Adhesive Hits 500,000 Procedure Milestone Worldwide, Company Data Indicates
ATLANTA, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CryoLife, Inc., (NYSE: CRY ) an implantable biological medical device and cardiovascular tissue processing company, today announced that, according to company data, CryoLife's BioGlue(R) Surgical Adhesive has been used in more than 500,000 surgical proc...VA Secretary Hits the Road to Highlight "United We Serve" Effort
Shinseki Encourages Veterans, Families to Help Their Communities WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Heeding President Obama's call for Americans to commit themselves to meaningful, long-term service to their communities as part of the "United We Serve" campaign, Secretary of Veter...Cox Movies Under the Moon(R) Offers Big-Screen Hits Under the Stars
Free family-friendly film festival benefits Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children HERNDON, Va., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In Northern Virginia, some things in life are still free thanks to Cox Communications. For five nights, from June 24 through June 28, at Van Dyck Park in Fairfax, the...Free Manicures & Martinis Hits San Francisco and Laguna Niguel
The American Fertility Association's Infertility Prevention Program NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- 7.3 million! That's how many American women have difficulty conceiving, but many of those cases could have been prevented with some simple lifestyle choices and changes. Education is th...Swine Flu Hits Sick People the Hardest: CDC
Meanwhile, vaccine won't be ready for months, World Health Organization says WEDNESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Underscoring the belief that the new H1N1 swine flu is no more dangerous than regular flu, U.S. health officials said Tuesday that those hospitalized with the infection wh...Depression Hits 1 in 13 American Adults
And a third never get treatment, new government study finds ,,,, TUESDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past year, 16.5 million Americans age 18 or older -- 1 in 13 adults -- experienced at least one bout of major depression, according to a new government survey. Less than two...Teleflora Hits it out of the Park With Flower Gifts for Father's Day
Teleflora Offers Kids the Chance to Celebrate Dad and Give Back To A Worthy Cause LOS ANGELES , May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, June 21, children will honor father figures in their lives and Teleflora, the world's leading flower wire service, is helping them score a home run with its F...First-Time National Poll Confirms Neuropathy Hits Millions in Their Prime
Data shows 82% of patients have neuropathy onset during their 30s-60s NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new national Neuropathy Association poll of peripheral neuropathy patients finds that the majority of respondents had their neurological disease begin during their prime adult y...Life Extension Book, TRANSCEND, Hits Bookstores Today
Anti-Aging M.D. Shares Secrets on How To Live Forever NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The hottest new self-help book from Rodale Publishing appears in stores today ... TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever , by world-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil and anti-aging authority...Edison Pharma Hits Milestone as A0001 Enters Phase 1 Clinical Development
Targeting inherited mitochondrial diseases as an archetype for diseases of aging SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company located in San Jose, CA, announced today that EPI-A0001 (A0001) has ent...Shoulder Surgery Doesn't Prevent Return to Sports
...ntil the six month point in the rehabilitation protected the shoulder against any consequence of sport, such as a deceleration injury when a golf club hits the ground or a fall during a tennis match. Contact sports after joint replacement surgeries are generally discouraged for the rest of an individual's...Major Restless Legs Study Completes Enrollment With Support From MediciGlobal
...performance and cost effectiveness. The integrated yet segmented recruitment campaign generated considerable interest, yielding nearly 55,000 web hits and click throughs to the online study screener. The project team paced advertising to each study site, in order to ensure that site staff could handl...Headache Specialists Convene in Boston For 50th Annual American Headache Society Meeting
...ite multicenter, randomized, double blind study is the first rigorous test of the magnetic stimulation device. -- STIMULATING THERAPY THAT hits A NERVE: Early Research Shows New Implanted Device Helps Alleviate Near-Daily Migraines Stimulating a nerve might be just the tick...New Gene Discovery Suggests Which Patients CTI's Brostallicin May Benefit
...lls sensitivity to brostallicin and represent unique and functionally based contexts of vulnerability. Knowledge mining of the brostallicin siRNA gene hits revealed enrichment of a number of important molecular concepts and important genes involved in DNA repair. On the basis of these and related studies,...Concentra Medical Centers Gears Up for Flu Season to Keep Area Workforce Healthy
...accines to serve the area's workforce. Concentra will be hosting flu clinics for area businesses so that employees can be vaccinated as the flu season hits the Midwest. Each year 1 in 5 people become sick with influenza. One flu shot can save a business more than a $1,000 in lost time by an employee who...High-tech helmets reveal new information about the impact of hard hits to the head
CHAPEL HILL -- In a game that spawned the term "slobber knocker," is there a limit to the amount of impact a football player's head can handle before the player suffers a concussion" The answer is yes ... and no, say researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. High-tech helm...Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads
A new national health study funded by the NH&MRC, industry and state governments released today by the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne shows diabetes is hitting up to 275 new victims each day throughout Australia. The findings of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle St...What scientists know about jewel beetle shimmer
...rom the beetle's physical structure rather than its biology." When light hits a surface that's difficult to see through, the surface either scatters, abs... cones solidify, they preserve their structures and produce colors as light hits them from different angles. The beetle's structure also forms helices si...Study examining role of genetics and environment in type 1 diabetes
...rolling patients in 2004 and to date about 90 percent of participants who have developed type 1 diabetes did not have an immediate family history. "It hits them out of left field because the genes have been traveling all through mom's side of the family and dad's side of the family and maybe that magical ...In India: A search for more effective tuberculosis drugs
... Rajesh Gokhale has created a compound in his lab in India that stops tuberculosis in its tracks. In a test tube, the molecule hits four of the bacterium's crucial metabolic pathways at the same time, weakening and ultimately destroying the pathogen. The problem is that Gokhale's...Viral 'magic bullet' targets cancer cells with help of new compound
...dly. We might see human trials within a year or two. These experiments are vital to determine if this 'viral bullet' is actually a 'magic bullet' that hits the intended target." ...Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging to be published by Springer
...ternational stage, since all the articles will be available on its electronic platform www.SpringerLink.com. This will no doubt increase the number of hits and downloads of articles and lead to a higher impact factor," the journal's editor-in-chief Professor Bruno Vellas explained. Bruno Vellas is also th...Oclaro(TM) Hits Milestone With Clarity(TM) Fluorescence Filters
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oclaro, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCLR ) has announced the shipment of its 200,000th Fluorescence Filter for biomedical and analytical instrumentation markets. Oclaro filters are used by leading companies in a wide range of biomedical and analytical applic...Six Apart hits its adolescence
Six Apart, the San Mateo-based start-up that is leading the blog tools market space, has all the makings of a Silicon Valley start-up legend. The two founders - husband-and-wife team of Ben and Mena Trott - were high school sweethearts. They got way into Web publishing and created Moveable Type,...Trade deficit hits home in Wisconsin
Terry Hicks, president of the AFL-CIO in western Wisconsin, doesnt expect to see many of his railroad brethren hanging around the union hall these days. Theyre all working overtime handling the tremendous volume of freight traveling the nations rails. The trains arriving from the coasts are fu...Cellular Dynamics hits market with UW research heavyweights
Three noted UW-Madison biotech researchers, including stem-cell pioneer James Thomson, have begun construction on a laboratory to house a new drug screening company in Madison's University Research Park . In partnership with Tactics II Ventures LP, a venture capital firm that specializes in ear...CEL-SCI's L.E.A.P.S. Technology Shows Potential to Treat Swine Influenza in Preclinical Studies
...ease as it appears that, unlike the normal flu which affects the very young and very old most severely, swine flu may be more like the avian flu which hits people in their prime more severely. The L.E.A.P.S. technology combines a small peptide that activates the immune system with a small peptide fr...Imaging in Living Color with Siemens Molecular CT
...ng CHICAGO, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- First introduced at the European Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in October , Siemens Biograph mCT hits the ground running, experiencing high demand in a time when the current economical situation demands maximum utilization of existing and new imaging e...SemBioSys announces second quarter 2008 financial and operational results
... Canadian Biotechnology Company hits key insulin and Apo AI(Milano) milestones TSX symbol: SBS CALGARY, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - SemBioSys Genetics Inc. (TSX:SBS), a biotechn...Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe
...ctron nanobolometer, is potentially 100 times more sensitive than existing bolometers," Gershenson said. "It is also faster to react to the light that hits it." The research team is publishing a description of the experimental device in an upcoming issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology . The jour...Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News reports on novel hit-to-lead drug discovery
... "The key goal for companies trying to develop new drugs is to find the best series of compounds that will optimize their chances of turning promising hits into even more promising leads," notes John Sterling, Editor in Chief of GEN. Merck, for example, tries to make certain that its scientists work on p...Phosphatase Colorimetric Assay Kit from BioAssay Systems
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