Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names
Was that Xanex or Xanax? Or maybe Zantac? If you're a health care professional you'd better know the difference--mistakes can be fatal. An estimated 1.3 million people in the United States alone are injured each year from medication errors, and the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has been working to reduce the possibilities of these errors, such as a documented case in which a patie...Quintessence Biosciences names new president
The appointment was made by the company's board of directors and announced at the company's annual shareholder's meeting. <...Forbes highlights Wisconsin biotech, names Madison #1 business city
MADISON - Madison, Wisconsin was ranked the number-one city in the United States for business and careers by Forbes magazine, followed by Raleigh-Durham and Austin, in the In 2003, the city ranked 5th and was selected this year as th...Wisconsin IT association names Gee president, CEO
Gee has been named president and CEO of the , succeeding inter...CDW names VP to handle Berbee merger
The company has put vice president of sales Steven Schuldt in charge of merging Berbee, a...NimbleGen names CFO with capital-raising past
David Snyder brings more than 15 years of experience in capital raising, finance, and general management in a range of industries, including t...Vietnamese Scientists Unravel Genetic Code Of Bird Flu Virus
Vietnamese scientists have successfully decoded the gene of the deadly H5N1 virus, an article in the local newspaper Youth has claimed.// If true, this news is really a shot in the arm in the global fight against bird flu and could herald in a better understanding of the variations and the mechanism of transmission of the bird flu virus. Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute and th...Financial Allowances Being Offered To Poor Vietnamese HIV Carriers
The Vietnamese Government which intends to stabilize the rates of HIV by the year 2020 has proposed to offer allowances worth atleast 4.1 US dollars to HIV infected individuals on a monthly basis//. It has also been planned to reduce the rate of HIV infection to below 0.3 percent by 2010. The current projected population of Vietnam approximates to nearly 82 million. Under a recent gov...Gene Bias: Onomastics of Shared Surnames among Men Reveals Genetic links
What’s in a Surname? There’s a lot you can decipher from surnames, especially from those men who share similar surnames. Gender Bias, if you ask me! Or blame it on the Y chromosome that renders maleness // to a Man; researchers, have now unearthed a mysterious link, that traces the branches of a family tree to common Surnames. DNA of 150 pairs of men with shared British surnames was compa...AIDS Funding Grants Dependant on Tracking Patients' Names Efficiently
The District of Columbia and Maryland may stand to lose heavily in federal AIDS grants if they persist in disallowing local health departments to record identities of people recently diagnosed with HIV infection. // The two jurisdictions figure among many in the country that collect data about new HIV cases using codes and not names. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reco...Chinese PLA Names Bogus Army Medical Bodies Selling Fake Drugs
China's armed forces health department today published a list of 16 bogus military medical institutions advertising fake medicines as the government intensified efforts to crack down on drugs fraud.// "These bogus military institutions advertised fake drugs in newspapers, magazines and on websites, posing a serious threat to public health and to the image of the People's Liberation Ar...