The American Journal of Nursing honors Jean and Ric Edelman
New York, NY (October 30, 2008) The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) announced today that this year's AJN-Beatrice Renfield Caring for the Caregiver Award is being given to Jean and Ric Edelman, founders of Edelman Financial Services, for their commitment and generosity to nursing. The Award,...AMA Foundation Names Jean Howard President
CHICAGO, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Medical Association Foundation announced the election today of Jean Howard as its new president. Jean Howard of Traverse City, Michigan, is finishing her fifth year on the AMA Foundation Board of Directors. She is the first Alliance repr...John & Jean Piety Named SLA Engineering Librarians of the Year
NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Special Library Association (SLA) and Elsevier's Engineering and Technology Division Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of SLA and Honor Two Lifetimes of Achievement Elsevier's Engineering and Technology Division today congratulated John and Jean P...Crdentia Hires Jean Stewart as Chief Operating Officer
Adds 24 Years of Healthcare Staffing Experience to Leadership Team DALLAS, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crdentia Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: CRDT), a leading U.S. provider of healthcare staffing services, today announced the appointment of Jean Stewart as the Company's Chief Operating O...Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn
It was an ad with a macabre sense of humour. It stirred up a controversy. Now it is being withdrawn from televisions all over the United States. Levis Strauss officially announced that the advertisement in question might not be used again. This followed complaints from many who felt that they did n...Holy Ground Farm, Inc Announces Impotency Resolved by Simple Non-Invasive Method
...oundfarm.org/book/testimonials/index.htm . According to the author, Dr. jean Logan, everyone has experienced some type of nerve damage. Toxins in the e...ntinues to progress as we get older if not resolved. About the Author- jean Logan holds a PhD in Holistic Nutritional Healing and is an Ordained Minist...Resurrection Health Care Primary Stroke Care Programs Awarded Accreditation from Joint Commission
...demonstrated that its stroke care programs follow national standards and guidelines that can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients," said jean E. Range, M.D., R.N., C.P.H.Q., Executive Director, Disease-Specific Care Certification, Joint Commission. Now, a patient anywhere in the C...One Step Closer: Novel Opioid Receptor Compound in Phase I Clinical Trials
... that includes more than 20 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students in Rensselaer's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, along with jean Bidlack, professor of pharmacology and physiology at the University of Rochester , and members of her pharmacology group, and funding by the National...AMA Foundation Announces Seed Grant Research Recipients
...diseases "We are excited to be able to help young physician investigators with their research endeavors," said AMA Foundation president jean Howard. "The AMA Foundation is committed to supporting the discoveries and professional development of scientists at the start of their careers." ...'Friendly' Bacteria Can Benefit Health Throughout the Lifecycle
...of our body's immune system is located in the digestive tract and as we age, our immune function weakens. Dr. Simin Meydani, Associate Director of the jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University presented cutting-edge data, which helps in answering the question, could prob...Concord Grape Juice Has No Significant Impact on Body Weight
...tive Studies, from the Department of Foods and Nutrition at Purdue University, and Dr. Jeffery Blumberg of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at the jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University. About Welch's Headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, Welch's is the proce...Drug Combo Could Lower Diabetes Complications and Costs
...duration of maternal diabetes also suggests the women may develop diabetes-related complications at an earlier age, the researchers concluded. Dr. jean Lawrence, the lead author on this study, suggests that "interventions that focus on reducing overweight and obesity can help decrease the number of wo...Gene Therapy Improves Vision in Patients with Congenital Retinal Disease
...thalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a physician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Maguire, together with his wife, jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology at Penn and Senior Investigator at the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology at Penn's Scheie...Gene Therapy Provides Vision to People who Were Nearly Blind
...portant first step in developing therapies and treatments that will reverse blindness in people with a variety of retinal degenerative diseases," says jean Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., who is the study's lead researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "The three participants in the Foundation-suppo...Carnegie Mellon's Jean VanBriesen leads research team on Monongahela River
PITTSBURGH-Carnegie Mellon University's Jeanne M. VanBriesen and Kelvin Gregory will use a $100,000 grant from the Pittsburgh-based Colcom Foundation to study water quality in the Monongahela River. The focus will be on the presence and effect of bromide associated with Marcellus Shale gas ...Neuropathic pain: The sea provides a new hope of relief
...ifferent from pain-relieving drugs currently in use. Initial experiments suggested that it may have pain-relieving properties. Working with Yen-Hsuan jean MD, PhD and other colleagues, Dr Wen tested capnellene and a second very similar compound, in isolated microglial cells and in experimental models of ...CWRU receives $5 million from Ohio Third Frontier Commission
...d the region. Dr. Gerson is partnering with Lentigen, Inc, of Gaithersburg, MD to develop a gene therapy approach to treating brain tumors. jean Welter (CWRU) and Adam Lambert (Oakwood Laboratories) are teaming up to develop a combination product comprised of a drug and Oakwood's proprietary su...Scripps Research scientists observe human neurodegenerative disorder in fruit flies
...ake a critical human protein called tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase. This came as a surprise to many scientists, says Paul Schimmel, who is the Ernest and jean Hahn Professor and Chair of Molecular Biology and Chemistry and is a member of The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at Scripps Research. This pro...Omega-3 fatty acids appear to impact AMD progression
...pend on the stage of disease and whether certain supplements are taken, report researchers at the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research (LNVR), jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University. The researchers calculated intakes of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) ...The BBVA Foundation presents its Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
...icine; Thomas E. Lovejoy and William F. Laurance, in Ecology and Conservation Biology; Jacob Ziv, in Information and Communication Technologies; jean Tirole, in Economics, Finance and Management; Steven Holl, in the Arts; The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (MIT), in Development Cooperatio...100 reasons to change the way we think about genetics
...nd leads to notions of heredity and evolution that incorporate development," they write. This is a vindication of sorts for 18th century naturalist jean Baptiste Lamarck. Lamarck, whose writings on evolution predated Charles Darwin's, believed that evolution was driven in part by the inheritance of acq...Researchers discover primer to plant defense system
...in a database of mass spectral signatures of Arabidopsis metabolites and prompted Tschaplinski to have a conversation with the University of Chicago's jean Greenberg and postdoctoral scholar Ho Won Jung. Their discussion led to some additional research and this paper, titled "Priming in Systemic Plant Imm...AIUM presents 2009 Distinguished Sonographer award
... LAUREL, MD - AIUM president Joshua Copel, MD, will present the 2009 Distinguished Sonographer Award to jean Spitz, MPH, RDMS, on April 3 at the AIUM Annual Convention in New York, New York. This annual award, established in 1997, honors a current or retired ...Concerns about food safety to be spotlighted at U of Minnesota symposium
... 300 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis. The conference is sponsored by the university's Food Industry Center. Speakers from the university include: jean Kinsey, applied economics professor and center co-director, and research fellow Dennis Degeneffe, who will present "Tracking a Fragile Relationship be...Video: Axel Ullrich Named Winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...ces, University of Washington, Seattle ; member, National Academy of Sciences; member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (United States) jean Marie Lehn, Ph.D., professor, College de France; winner, 1987 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (France) Craig Mello, Ph.D., professor, Molecular M...invivodata Announces ePROficiency 2009 Web Seminar Series
...been very pleased with the response to our webinar programs, which represents the growing interest we've seen in PROs for clinical research," said Dr. jean Paty, chief scientist and regulatory advisor at invivodata's consulting division, PRO Consulting(R). Considering the evolving use of PROs and its reg...New Pleio Medication Adherence Service Increases Prescription Refills Up To 53%
...ation adherence community will welcome these real-world results," said jean Lalonde, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Pleio. Pleio GoodStart connects...Health Support Systems, Inc. For more information, visit Pleio or contact jean Lalonde, at (514) 369-9995 (info (at)pleio (dot) com). About Outcomes ...Amgen Foundation Announces $2.5 Million Expansion of Amgen Scholars Program to Europe
...tunity to immerse themselves in the real world of research and experience firsthand what it takes to contribute to the advancement of knowledge," said jean J. Lim, president of the Amgen Foundation. "Under the guidance of distinguished faculty mentors, we hope the Scholars will be inspired to discover the...Tips on how to build a better home for biological parts
...Standard Biological Parts, the most well developed collection of biological parts currently available to the synthetic biology research community. jean Peccoud, associate professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, remarked: "Our research group is very interested in providing the wider researc...