Elekta Contract Provides MAGNET Cooperative Access to Leading Radiation Therapy Solutions
ATLANTA, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- MAGNET Cooperative, one of the largest non-profit group purchasing organizations (GPO) in the U.S., has signed a sole source agreement with Elekta, enabling its members to begin purchasing Elekta's oncology delivery systems. Under the agreement, MAGNET will ...Abington Memorial One of Just Six Hospitals in the U.S. to Win Magnet Prize
One of the most prestigious awards in nursing, The Magnet Prize, was awarded to Abington Memorial Hospital (AMH) for its Daily CARE Plan at the National Magnet Conference recently in Salt Lake City, UT. This was the sixth year the award was presented. Abington, PA (Voc...LifeSync Corporation Signs MAGNET Contract
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeSync Corporation announced it has entered into a Group Purchasing Agreement with MAGNET, which is comprised of 12,000 members in 20 states, for the sale of the LifeSync(R) Wireless ECG and disposable ECG LeadWear(R) products. Shelley Hartman...Geisinger Medical Center earns prestigious Magnet designation
DANVILLE, PA The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has designated Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) as a Magnet hospital. The news came via a conference call to hospital administrators, nurses and staff who broke out with cheers and applause. GMC joins an elite group of only 15 Pennsylvan...Children's Hospital of Michigan Awarded Prestigious Magnet Status
Children's Hospital is the only pediatric hospital in the state to receive designation DETROIT, April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has awarded DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan Magnet designation for excellence in nursing. Recognized as on...Researcher, magnet lab receive $2 million grant to target tuberculosis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- About 5,000 people around the world die from tuberculosis every day, but no effective new drugs have been developed to combat it in 40 years. Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University hope to change that through research made possib...Rush of honor for Rush University – Magnet Status for Excellence in Nursin
Chicago – Rush University Medical Center has yet again been honored with the Magnet status, given for excellence in nursing. // This is considered to be the highest recognition for nursing services signifying superior nursing care to patients. This is for the second time that Rush University has re...Does Magnet Therapy Posses Healing Powers?
Leonard Finegold said that the magnets that are sold in the market does not provide any help in reliving the pain and treat health problems//. Magnet that are advertised over the net and sold without any restriction does not posses any theoretical and experimental value. Magnets are sought afte...Hoag Hospital Certified as Baby-Friendly Facility
...re hospital located in Newport Beach, Calif. Fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and designated as a magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Hoag offers a comprehensive mix of health care services, including Centers of Excellence ...URI awarded $13 million grant to develop vaccines for emerging infectious diseases
...ormatics, and it will also result in new hires at affiliated research centers. The research being conducted at the Institute is expected to make it a magnet for attracting translational immunology researchers from around the world. Peter Alfonso, URI vice president for research and economic development...Next Generation Proton Therapy System for Cancer Treatment Set for Release This Year
...field, high energy cyclotron magnet. Still River's magnet is the key technical element for reducing the size... The heart of the Monarch250, a superconducting magnet developed in an industrial and academic partnershi...tional and stable at its full design current "This magnet sets a record for magnetic field strength used in ...Gallbladder Removal Through Vagina Offers Minimally Invasive Alternative
... health; oncology; neurology and neurosurgery; solid organ and soft tissue transplants and orthopaedics. Northwestern Memorial possesses nursing magnet Status, the nation's highest recognition for patient care and nursing excellence, and it is listed in 10 clinical specialties in U.S. News & Worl...National Study Shows Magnesium Sulfate Reduces Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Premature Births
...en's health; oncology; neurology and neurosurgery; solid organ and soft tissue transplants and orthopaedics. Northwestern Memorial possesses nursing magnet Status, the nation's highest recognition for patient care and nursing excellence, and it is listed in 10 clinical specialties in U.S. News & World Rep...Northwestern Memorial Study Tests Cancer Drug on Scleroderma Patients
...ore than a decade as their "most preferred hospital" according to the National Research Corporation's annual survey. Northwestern Memorial carries the magnet status designation in nursing, the highest recognition possible for patient care and nursing excellence. ...Northwestern Memorial Transplant Program Initiates New Study
...ore than a decade as their "most preferred hospital" according to the National Research Corporation's annual survey. Northwestern Memorial carries the magnet status designation in nursing, the highest recognition possible for patient care and nursing excellence. ...PoleStar N20 Intra-operative MRI System
Description:...ion-free system, PoleStar N20 is one of the most comprehensive neurosurgical tools available today. Exceptional image quality from a low-field magnet Superior capabilities without compromise Designed to provide unprecedented patient access Navigation without registration Discover wh...FSU, Magnet Lab researchers license critical petroleum data
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- As gas prices soar, scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University are marketing research that will enable petroleum companies to locate, analyze and process crude oil much faster, cheaper and more accurately. Alan G. Marshall, a giant...Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research
One of the newest - and unequivocally the coolest - pieces of real estate on the Brandeis University campus is a facility containing a state-of-the-art superconducting magnet for use in researching biological macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, enzymes and other proteins. The installation of the gl...Clinical trial shows quadriplegics can operate powered wheelchair with tongue drive system
...nloo and graduate students Xueliang Huo and Chih-wen Cheng attached a small magnet -- the size of a grain of rice -- to the participant's tongue with tissue a...hair. The signals were processed to determine the relative motion of the magnet with respect to the array of sensors in real-time. This information was the...Breakthrough in radiotherapy promises targeted cancer treatment
...y proven that simultaneous radiation treatment and diagnostic-quality MRI is feasible. By actively shielding the radiation beam from the MRI scanner's magnet and redesigning the treatment room set-up, which has until now been difficult to put into practice, the researchers have managed to produce high-quali...EPA's P3 award winners celebrate a green future
...chitectural Coatings University of South Florida - Water Awareness, Research and Education in east Tampa: A Pilot Collaboration Involving USF, Young magnet Middle School, and the East Tampa Community Massachusetts Institute of Technology - A Novel Solar Thermal Combined Cycle with Bio-methane Carbon Cap...Game of two halves leads to brain asymmetry
...Jenny Regan and her colleagues in Professor Stephen Wilson's team at UCL (University College London) have shown that a protein known as Fgf8 acts as a magnet to attract nerve cells to one side of the brain. . "Fgf8 is found in both sides of the brain, leading to a 'tug-of-war' competition between the two...New discovery may enhance MRI scans, lead to portable MRI machines
...ue. These inversions of the nuclear spins are typically done "adiabatically". The method involves placing a patient inside the large donut-shaped magnet of an MRI instrument and applying low-power radio waves that sweep through a specific range of frequencies. If a frequency sweep is performed slowly e...GEN reports on novel tools for deciphering biological networks
... proteins, and small molecules. In an attempt to produce an accurate map of these molecular interactions, the IBM Computational Biology Center and the magnet National Center for Biomedical Computing at Columbia University have initiated a project entitled "Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Me...NSF funds new 'Center for the Physics of Living Cells' at Illinois
...ng cells," said Joe Dehmer, director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics. "Another significant impact PFCs have is to be a talent magnet for students, post-docs, and other excited young physicists. Promising young talent and new advances can be expected, and we look forward to both from...Baxa Corporation Features PadLock(R) Set Saver at the ANCC National Magnet Conference(TM)
Baxa is promoting its new PadLock Set Saver product at the American Nursing Credentialing Center National Magnet Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, at The Salt Palace, October 15-17, 2008. ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxa Corporation is promoting its new PadLock Set Saver at the...Let there be light: new magnet design continues magnet lab's tradition of innovation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Engineers at Florida State Universitys National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor research. When the magnet -- called the Split Florida Helix -- is ...Quantros ACE Helps East Jefferson General Hospital Achieve Best-in-Class Performance
...ility with almost 250 physicians serving the newly burgeoning suburbs on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish. Today, EJGH is Louisiana's first Nurse magnet Hospital and stands as a state-of-the-art hospital with 454 beds specializing in almost every clinical area. Still a community hospital with a board c...Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
... now, the analysis has been done using an isotope ratio mass spectrometer, which works by giving individual molecules an electric charge, then using a magnet to separate the isotopes by their massthe more neutrons, the more mass. One machine can cost as much as a million dollars. In addition to being expens...Hoosiers Work for Health Highlights Impact of Medical Research and Innovation on Indiana Economy
...showed that the presence of biopharmaceutical companies, and the jobs they support, make substantial contributions to state economies. By acting as a magnet for bioscience investment, biopharmaceutical companies in Indiana help transform our state and regional economy by drawing highly educated labor, attr...A supercharged metal-ion generator
...rated, "hot" electrons "the engines of the discharge." A circular permanent magnet beneath the target creates magnetic field lines that confine most of them c...magnets behind the target demagnetize, or the target starts to melt. So the magnet and cathode assembly have to be water-cooled. And commercial sputter guns t...West Penn Allegheny Health System Announces Recruitment of Leading Burn Specialists
...mpus in Monroeville. The Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh is the first hospital in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania to be awarded magnet recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2006. This prestigious 4-year designation recognizes excellence in nursing. P...Memoirs of a qubit: Hybrid memory solves key problem for quantum computing
... to devise a hybrid system using both the electron and nucleus of an atom of phosphorous embedded in a silicon crystal. Each behaves as a tiny quantum magnet capa-ble of storing quantum information, but inside the crystal the electron is more than a million times bigger than the nucleus, with a magnetic fie...McGill physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor'
...o-dimensionality by applying a very large magnetic field, using the largest magnet in the world at the magnet Lab in Florida," he said. "You only have access to it for about five days a...MagCellect Magnet from R&D Systems
Description: All MagCellect Ferrofluid products perform optimally when used in conjunction with R&D Systems MagCellect Magnet. To accommodate different processing capacities, this neodymium iron boron permanent magnet holds either six 12 x 75 mm test tubes or two 15 x 100 mm test tubes....Blue Magnet from StemCell Technologies, Inc.
Description: This device is designed to run four simultaneous separations with the following StemSep ; column sizes: 0.3in., 0.5in., and 0.6in.. Depending on the column size, a range of 2x10 7 - 1.5 x 10 9 cells can be loaded per column. This...Agencourt SPRPlate 96R - Ring Magnet Plate from Agencourt Bioscience
Description: Designed for use with all 96-well SPRI reagent kits. Used with round bottom 96-well microplates, and 96-well thermal cycling plates....Agencourt SPRPlate 384 Magnet Plate from Agencourt Bioscience
Description: Designed for use with the Agencourt CleanSEQ and Agencourt AMPure 384-well SPRI reagent kits. For use with 384-well thermal cycling plates....Agencourt SPRPlate D - Disc Magnet Plate from Agencourt Bioscience
Description: Designed for use with the Agencourt SprintPrep 384 kit and all MCPrep reagent kits. Used with flat bottom 96-well microplates such as deep well plates used to culture bacteria....MATra-si Reagent for 200g nucleic acids from IBA GmbH
Description:...nt transfection. MATra-si Reagent can be used for adherent cells; for suspension cells see MATra-S Immobilizer. For the transfection process a special magnet plate is required, which is also available at IBA GmbH....StemSep Hu-Mu Chimera Starter Kit, Kit from StemCell Technologies, Inc.
Description:... This complete kit contains enough separation reagents to perform separations from a total of 5 x 10 8 cells, and includes the StemSep red magnet and all the necessary reagents and buffers for the specific cell type to be enriched, including the StemSep red magnet....