Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Capital Breast Care Center Pound the Pavement to Save Lives

Team Awarded $750,000 by Avon Foundation for Breast Cancer Awareness WASHINGTON, May 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Team leaders, Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH, and Harriet Weiner have joined 21 other dedicated women from the metro region to walk to raise funds and awareness of breast cancer. The...

The 50 Million Pound Challenge Finds Its Stride as Cities Across the Country Hold the First Annual Challenge Walk Off on May 16

Mayors and Local Leaders Unite to Help Their Communities Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle NEW YORK, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than one million people already a part of the online community at 50millionpounds.com, Dr. Ian Smith's 50 Million Pound Challenge, announced today that it has teame...

The 50 Million Pound Challenge Announces One-Millionth Member

The Free Health Initiative founded by Dr. Ian Smith Reaches National Milestone NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In just under two years, The 50 Million Pound Challenge has rallied more than a million Americans to come together to 'Give up the pounds, not the fight.' In doing so, those ...

General Mills, NBC's The Biggest Loser and Feeding America Partner to Launch Pound For Pound Challenge

Initiative encourages Americans to lose weight, feed the hungry MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- General Mills, NBC's The Biggest Loser and Feeding America today announced they are partnering to launch the Pound For Pound Challenge, an initiative that encourages Americans to lose weight...

As Consumers Put a Leash on Spending, Experts Caution Against Being 'Penny Wise and Pound Foolish' with Their Pets

DULUTH, Ga., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- With economic pressures on the rise, consumers are looking for ways to tighten their belts while maintaining the best level of care they can for their pets. In the midst of the downturn, veterinarians around the country have observed a decline in visits and sp...

NBA All-Star and Olympic Athlete LeBron James and Dr. Ian Smith Celebrate the Launch of The 50 Million Pound Challenge's First 'Citywide Team Challenge,' Kicking off in Cleveland, Ohio

Free Fitness Event at the Quicken Loans Arena on June 18th -- Join FIT 4 CLEVELAND Team CLEVELAND, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LeBron James and Mayor Frank Jackson invite Cleveland residents to join a new program that encourages individuals to team up to improve their h...

50 Million Pound Challenge Marks 1st Anniversary - What a Difference a Year Makes!

Half a Million People Team up to Take Control of Health, Take off Pounds to Gain Healthier Lives NEW YORK, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- What a difference a year makes! What a difference people can make when they join together to confront a serious challenge. On April 7,...

Virginia Beach Man Loses 17 Pounds, on Top of a Previous 100 Pound Loss, and Wins Major $50,000 Prize

Million Dollar Body(TM) Is Awarding Over One Million Dollars to Help People Lose Weight and Get in Better Shape ANAHEIM, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Fitness website MillionDollarBody.com has just announced a $50,000 Grand Prize winner in its Million Dollar Body Game(TM), an...

Mark Wylie and Suzy Preston Hoover Bring 'The Biggest Loser' Million Pound Tour, Presented by MSN, to Dadeland Mall

MSN and NBC's 'The Biggest Loser' come to Miami to encourage Americans to pledge to lose 1 million pounds collectively. REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Who: "The Biggest Loser" Season three runner-up Mark Wylie and season two contestant Suzy Preston Ho...

50 Million Pound Challenge Teams Up With Churches to Spread the 'Gospel of Healthy Living'

Free National Weight-loss Initiative to Focus on Grassroots in '08 - Churches Key CHICAGO, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2008, Dr. Ian Smith's 50 Million Pound Challenge will be working with local organizations, particularly churches, to help spread the word and org...

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Ultrafin™ Stirrup

Description:...n™ Stirrup is the latest in bariatric lithotomy positioing. This stirrup features a roomier boot for larger calves and accommodates up to an 800 pound weight range. Piston technology helps to position heavy legs more easily. Comes complete with rail clamps and clamshell-type boot pads....
Company:Allen Medical Systems

PARI TREK™ Compact Compressor Nebulizer System with PARI LC PLUS® Reusable Nebulizer

Description:...le battery, permit patients the freedom to take aerosol treatments away from home, in their car or around the world. The compressor weighs less than 1 pound and less than 2 pounds with the optional battery attached. This unique, tabletop compressor comes with the PARI LC Plus® Reusable Nebulizer which ...
Company:PARI Respiratory Equipment, Inc.

PARI TREK™ Compact Compressor Nebulizer System with 12v DC Adapter

Description:...le battery, permit patients the freedom to take aerosol treatments away from home, in their car or around the world. The compressor weighs less than 1 pound and less than 2 pounds with the optional battery attached. This unique, tabletop compressor comes with the PARI LC Plus® Reusable Nebulizer which ...
Company:PARI Respiratory Equipment, Inc.

PARI TREK™ Compact Compressor Nebulizer System -COMBINATION PAK

Description:...le battery, permit patients the freedom to take aerosol treatments away from home, in their car or around the world. The compressor weighs less than 1 pound and less than 2 pounds with the optional battery attached. This unique, tabletop compressor comes with the PARI LC Plus® Reusable Nebulizer which ...
Company:PARI Respiratory Equipment, Inc.

Maxi Rest Bariatric Bed

Features:...ing foot and head end panels for storage and delivery convenience Two frame styles, conventional split frame or transport frame Maxi Rest Beds 750 pound capacity Options: CPR release, Trapeze frame, Integral scales, Foot end side rails ...
Company:Gendron, Inc.

Maxi Rest Acute Care Bariatric Bed

Features:...include folding foot and head end panels for storage and delivery convenience Two frame styles, conventional split frame or transport frame pound patient weight capacity Options: CPR release , Trapeze frame , Integral scales, Foot end side rails ...
Company:Gendron, Inc.

The OPERON B 810

Features:...for clear images. Integrated X-ray Cassette Channel - Eliminates x-ray tabletops while maximizing patient safety and user convenience. 600 pound Weight Capacity - Full lift and articulate capability for patients up to 600 lbs in normal and reverse orientation. Self Leveling Floor Locks A...
Company:Berchtold Corporation

Stellate Notta

Features:...a enables patient-friendly ambulatory recording, anywhere: Versatile and full-featured Ergonomically shaped to fit on the waist Weighs just over one pound Built-in pulse oximeter Records up to 32 channels Fully integrated with Stellate Harmonie workstations...
Company:Stellate Systems Inc.

pound in Biological News

Fabled 'Freshman 15' pound gain more often only 5, report researchers

The freshman 15 - the rapid weight gain believed to afflict many new college students when they begin school - appears to be a bit of an urban legend: a cautionary tale often told but not well substantiated. Now a study of 36 freshmen at Auburn University - located in one of the states with th...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

UK Biobank, a visionary medical project aimed at improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many other serious conditions is launched this week after several years of meticulous planning. Up to three thousand people living in the south Manchester area...

Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa

... Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift Valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multi-million pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The Southern African Centre for Infect...

Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

... Berkeley In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old killing ground. Yet, new research by a tea...

New guidelines to fight obesity in pregnancy issued

...l-term babies. The new IOM report also added rates for the amount of weight a woman should gain in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy a pound a week for underweight and normal weight women and about a half-pound for overweight and obese women. The March of Dimes, along with other nationa...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

.... Group 2 consisted of 39 women who did not take birth control pills (non-OC). The women were encouraged to consume at least 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day (a third more than is called for by the U.S. government nutritional guidelines) to make sure they consumed enough calories and ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

.... Group 2 consisted of 39 women who did not take birth control pills (non-OC). The women were encouraged to consume at least 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day (a third more than is called for by the U.S. government nutritional guidelines) to make sure they consumed enough calories and ...

A green future for scrap iron

...e elements. Zhang says the scrap iron's low cost gives it great potential to be used in developing countries where nanoparticles' cost about $50 a pound can be prohibitive. In China, Zhang and Ma note in their article, the textile industry alone generates two billion tons of wastewater each year. ...

Methane gas levels begin to increase again

...rease represents a return to sustained methane growth, or the beginning of a relatively short-lived anomaly, according to Rigby and Prinn. Given that, pound for pound, methane is 25 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, the situation will require careful monitoring in the near future...

University of Leicester professor adds new perspective to rainforest debate

...satellites. The Eliasch review report to the prime minister Gordon Brown recently set out a British-led plan to set up a revolutionary multibillion pound to pay the owners of the world's rainforests for stopping deforestation. This fund is hoped to make a contribution to slowing down global warming. Red...

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pound in Biological Technology

Techne Corporation Releases Unaudited Fourth Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2009

...olidated net sales and earnings in the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The change in exchange rates used to convert foreign currencies (primarily British pound sterling and euros) to U.S. dollars reduced net earnings by $1.1 million ($.03 per diluted share) for the quarter and $4.5 million ($.12 per diluted s...

Essilor : First Half 2009 Revenue

... dollar's 15.4% gain against the euro during the period. On the downside, reported revenue was reduced by the declines against the euro in the British pound (down 12.4%), the Brazilian real (down 10.9%) and the Korean won (down 15.1%). Revenue by region and business Growth in Europe was impac...

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Successful Evaluation of the Enigma FL by the UK's Veterinary Laboratories Agency

...ntralised and point-of-care tests providing results from a raw sample in less than 45 minutes. The Company is targeting a number of multi-billion pound markets, core among which are the Clinical and high value Applied Markets. Enigma's commercialisation strategy is to maximise revenues from a continuo...

Kendle Announces First Quarter 2009 Results

... in the first quarter 2009 tax expense and effective tax rate is $4.4 million or $0.30 per diluted share of tax expense relating to the unwinding of a pound Sterling foreign currency hedge. Pro forma earnings per share, excluding the impact of APB 14-1 and the additional expense related to the foreign...

Techne Corporation Releases Unaudited Third Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2009

...lidated net sales and earnings in the quarter ended March 31, 2009. The change in exchange rates used to convert foreign currencies (primarily British pound sterling and euros) to U.S. dollars reduced net earnings by $1.5 million ($.04 per diluted share) for the quarter and $3.3 million ($.09 per diluted s...

Mach One BioPharm Process Operating Group Receives Contract From American Beef Processors

...m boneless beef of any lean content grade such as 50's (50% lean), 65's 73's, 75's, 85's and even 90's- which comprises the majority of the 10 billion pound annual harvest of boneless beef by the US beef industry for sale to US consumers. The extracted "fat stream" is extracted as a food grade item but ca...

Gen-Probe Completes Acquisition of Tepnel Life Sciences

...ce of subsequent events. (1) In this press release, British pounds are converted into U.S. dollars at yesterday's approximate exchange rate of 1 pound to $1.47. Contact: Michael Watts Vice president, investor relations and corporate communications 858-410-8673 ...

MIT: 'Alarming' use of energy in modern manufacturing methods

...re anywhere from 1,000 to one million times bigger consumers of energy, per pound of output, than more traditional industries. In short, pound for pound, making microchips uses up orders of magnitude more energy than m...

UK's Institute of Cancer Research and Silicon Graphics Establish Long-Term Alliance to Design and Outfit World-Class Network Biology Lab

...ty that relies on voluntary income. The Institute is one of the world's most cost-effective major cancer research organizations with over 95p in every pound Sterling directly supporting research. For more information visit www.icr.ac.uk . Silicon Graphics, Inc. Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDA...

Bion Announces PENNVEST Board Approves $7.8 Million Financing for Kreider Farms Dairy Project

...ment facilities. The results of a recent study commissioned by the Pennsylvania state legislature projects an average nutrient removal cost of $28 per pound of nutrient per year to upgrade existing wastewater plants. Bion anticipates that it will be able to reduce that projected cost by as much as 75%, ba...

pound in Biological Definition

Charles Darwin

...versity and Charles Darwin National Park . Darwin was given particular recognition in 2000 when his image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note , replacing Charles Dickens . His impressive and supposedly hard-to-forge beard was reportedly a contributing factor in this choice. Darwin's ...

Muscle

...of Dundee article on performing neurological examinations (Quadriceps "strongest") course notes from a Hartnell College course (Uterus "strongest pound for pound") the Pregnancy Today website (Uterus "strongest") See also list of muscles in the human body myotomy sphincter ...

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Seed coat

...izobacteria is used to ... Seed coating relies on technology developed by the pharmaceutical industry to ... DeltAg Wildlife ' Seed Coat 100 pound Treatment' ... Who Formulates Seed Coat ? ... Yes, Seed Coat is the result of our experiences in row-crops and vegetables in ... The seed ...