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Fat isn't all that bad: Reduction no predecessor of reduced disease

The general notion that a low fat diet is a disease buster might be now challenged. A University of Chicago study on women eating less fat and more fruits, vegetables and grains had no reduced risk of two types of cancer or heart disease. Still they were // healthier than others. The drawba...

Motion Filed to Consolidate Yasmin/YAZ Litigation in Toledo, Ohio

...dants in the cases are Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation and other Bayer related companies. The FDA issued warning letters to Berlex Laboratories, the predecessor manufacturer to Bayer, in 2003, ordering the Defendants to immediately discontinue a television advertisement that promoted Yasmin's fourth generatio ...

Jury Awards Valley Medical Center Patient $1.8 Million for Nursing Negligence

...lity. The jury heard stories about the highly independent, vivacious Sandbo, a life-long Renton resident and nurse with Army Air Corps, the predecessor of the U. S. Air Force. She is survived by her son, and six grandchildren. "She was not just a little old lady with exaggerated complaints,...

Critical Access Hospital Consolidator Seeks Cost-Management Solutions with Broadlane

...pitals (CAHs). As part of the acquisition HMC/CAH will replace the old hospital with a new state of the art facility. Since 1982, HMC/CAH and its predecessor companies have provided consulting, development, and management services to more than 800 hospitals throughout the United States. HMC/CAH Consolidate...

MUSC Earns $20 Million Award From National Institutes of Health

... co-principal investigator, played a large role for decades in ground-breaking translational research long before it became a national focus. " The predecessor to this grant, the General Clinical Research Center, had a 35-year history of conducting outstanding clinical and translational research," he said. "...

Michael Reitermann to Head Siemens Healthcare U.S. Organization

... predecessor Heinrich Kolem will lead the global angiography, fluoroscopy and X-ray business MALVERN, Pa., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Reiterma...

Discus Dental Files Suit to Protect BriteSmile(R) Trademark

...o its valuable intellectual property rights associated with the trademarked brand. In 2006, Discus purchased substantially all assets of BSML's predecessor company, Britesmile, Inc., and its related entities, in a transaction valued at $35 million. Discus currently owns the rights to the BriteSmile(R) tr...

International Medical Device Maker; Four Executives Charged in Connection With Unlawful Clinical Trials

...off-label to treat VCFs. Starting as early as late summer 2002, the company allegedly approached selected spine surgeons and asked them to use a predecessor device, SRS, in VCF procedures as part of an initial Synthes "test market" for SRS. Despite a June 2002 plea from one of Synthes's own surgeon consult...

Xanodyne Announces Appointment of Mr. Vaughn M. Kailian of MPM Capital to the Board of Directors

...r in his career, Mr. Kailian held various international and U.S. general management, marketing and sales positions at Marion Merrell Dow, Inc. and its predecessor companies including president and general manager, Merrell Dow USA and corporate vice president of Global Commercial Development, Marion Merrell Dow, ...

SXC Health Solutions announces agreements for pharmacy technology services with Prime Therapeutics LLC

...tware maintenance and professional services over a multi-year period. SXC has provided software maintenance and professional services to Prime and its predecessor organizations since 1993. These agreements support claims processing, Medicare Part D services, professional and consulting services, mail order pharm...

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Cytokine PharmaSciences Initiates Phase I Study of Oral Anti-Inflammatory Agent, CPSI-2364

...ults of the dose escalation and safety study in healthy volunteers are expected before the end of the year. "Based on extensive work with the predecessor compound, we believe CPSI-2364 has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of TNF-mediated diseases, such as Crohn's, rheumatoid arthritis and ps...

Long Term Data Presented at EuroPCR 2009 from Randomized Study Attest to Durability of Results of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) Compared to Drug-Eluting Stents

...dale, FL; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit www.orbusneich.c...

Interim Analysis of 12-Month Data from e-HEALING Registry Shows Good Safety and Efficacy in Real-World Use of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM)

...Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.Orbus...

Data From Multiple Clinical Trials of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) to be Presented at TCT 2008

...Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.Orbus...

First U.S. Patient to Receive New Heart-Assist Device Doing Well After Surgery at University of Michigan

... than a weak heart ever could - which helps patients prepare for the arduous surgery of a heart transplant. Devices such as the HeartMate II and its predecessor HeartMate XVE, and potentially the DuraHeart, may become substitutes for heart transplants over time. They may allow patients to live for years with h...

Data Presented at Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Interventional Cardiology Demonstrate OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R Stent(TM) Has Better Outcomes When Compared to Drug-Eluting Stents

...Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.Orbus...

Multiple Clinical Data Presentations at EuroPCR 2008 Support Use of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) as Safe Alternative to Drug-Eluting Stents

...Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.Orbus...

Data from Randomized Pilot Study, Real-World Use of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) to be Presented in Symposium at EuroPCR 2008

...Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.Orbus...

Clinical Impact of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) is Subject of Symposium at 16th Annual Scientific Congress of Hong Kong College of Cardiology

...Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit http://www.Orbus...

Financial Results for Full Year 2007: NicOx Significantly Advances Clinical Programs

...sive marketing and sales management experience to NicOx, from his previous positions at Biovail Pharmaceutical Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis and its predecessor companies Review of the financial results on December 31, 2007 and 2006: Revenues In 2007, NicOx' revenues increased by euro 11.0 million to rea...

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New supercomputer to reel in answers to some of Earth's problems

... RICHLAND, Wash. -- The newest supercomputer in town is almost 15 times faster than its predecessor and ready to take on problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. The $21.4 million Chinook supercomputer was ...

World's top minds to celebrate 'the birth and life of beginnings'

...ude world-famous anthropologist Don Johanson, a co-discoverer of "Lucy," the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton that is recognized as the most famous human predecessor ever found. Visit www.fsu.edu for a complete schedule of events. All events are free and open to the public except the March 28 tribute to the orig...

Robot vehicle surveys deep sea off Pacific Northwest

...ates the use of vital deep ocean vehicles for the U.S. oceanographic community. Sentry will replace the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE), Sentry's predecessor in the NDSF and a pioneer in deep-diving vehicle operations since 1996. Eventually, vehicles like Sentry and its successors will plug into and inte...

Multithreaded supercomputer seeks software for data-intensive computing

...architecture," said PNNL computational scientist Daniel Chavarra. In previously published work, PNNL computational scientist Jarek Nieplocha used a predecessor of the Cray XMT to run typical software programs that help operators keep the power grid running smoothly. Adapted to the advanced hardware, these pro...

Pyramid Launches TimeTrax Bio Generation II

...rprint reading. The first generation of Pyramid's TimeTrax Bio was released in January 2007. The new Generation II offers all the same features as its predecessor with one-touch time and attendance tracking for instantly identifying an employee by their unique fingerprint. The system eliminates swipe cards, badg...

UT Southwestern's Mangelsdorf elected to National Academy of Sciences

...were made at the same institution as the worlds experts in this field. Dr. Gilman, Nobel laureate, fellow NAS member and Dr. Mangelsdorfs immediate predecessor as chairman of pharmacology at UT Southwestern, added, David has been a true citizen of the medical center. I was excited to recruit him to Dallas, th...

Scientists discover record-breaking hydrogen storage materials for use in fuel cells

...able solution to energy storage and transportation problems with a wide variety of applications. They absorb a much higher percentage of hydrogen than predecessor materials while exhibiting faster kinetics at room temperature and much lower pressures, and are inexpensive and simple to produce. These materials...

MIT 'seeing machine' offers hope to blind

..." Goldring said. While still allowing the projection of images, video and more onto a person's retina, the new desktop device costs much less than its predecessor in part because it doesn't include the diagnostic feedback of the SLO. The new seeing machine also replaces the laser of the SLO with light-emitting d...

Mitochondrial DNA sequencing tool updated

...s University School of Medicine in Baltimore and senior author on the paper, the MitoChip v2.0 showed in his group's hands better sensitivity that its predecessor to sequence variations in head and neck cancer samples. The v2.0 also detected nearly three dozen variations in the non-coding D-loop, long considere...

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PDI Appoints Gerald P. Belle as Lead Independent Director

...rved as President and Chief Executive Officer, North America Pharmaceuticals for Aventis, Inc. He retired after 35 years of service at Aventis and its predecessor companies. Mr. Belle is Chairman of the Board of Myriad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company and also a member of the bo...

NeoStem, Inc. Appoints Leading Chinese Medical Official to Its Advisory Board

...tative of the Shandong Provincial Association of Chinese Medicine. Ms. Cai held senior positions at China's State Drug Administration and its predecessor for many years, was responsible for creating the development strategies and long-term and middle-term planning of the industry, and is considered by m...

Yongye Biotechnology International Receives License to Manufacture Products

... PRC Ministry of Agriculture. Pursuant to Yongye's restructuring process begun in October 2008, Inner Mongolia Yongye Biotechnology, Yongye Nongfeng's predecessor company and current contract manufacturer, transferred the fertilizer production license to Yongye Nongfeng. The Company can now begin transferring th...

EarlySense's EverOn(TM) System Receives FDA Clearance and CE Mark Certification

... for use with children and adults, in a home, hospital or clinical setting. In November 2007, EarlySense announced the FDA clearance of the ES-16, the predecessor of the EverOn system. EverOn is a wireless patient supervision system installed underneath a bed mattress. There are no leads or cuffs to conne...

Sanofi-aventis U.S. Announces Settlement of Medicaid 'Best Price' Investigation

... of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts to resolve a Medicaid " best price" investigation involving one of its predecessor companies, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (API). The settlement ends an investigation into whether sales by API of certain products to a managed ca...

Solutia Reports First Quarter 2009 Results

... Successor predecessor Successor Combined ... Successor predecessor Successor Combined ... $(1.70) $(0.50) $(13.91) (a) predecessor excludes unrecorded contractual interest expense ...

OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent(TM) Demonstrates Impressive Results in Higher Risk Patients

...dale, FL; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; and Shenzhen, China. OrbusNeich, which has provided cardiology devices to physicians through its predecessor companies since 1979, today supplies products to interventional cardiologists in more than 60 countries. For more information, visit www.orbusneich....

Mpex Pharmaceuticals Names Mark Wiggins Chief Business Officer

...revention of exacerbations in cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). During his 11 years at Biogen Idec and its predecessor Idec Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Wiggins was involved in a wide variety of commercial and business development activities. As Vice President of Marketing an...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Life Technologies for Excellence in the Life Science Research Tools Industry

... of operation. More importantly, the reengineered Life Technologies promises extraordinary revenue growth that far outpaces the performance of its two predecessor companies. "Prior to the 2008 merger, Applied Biosystems held the largest percentage of market share in the microRNA, PCR reagents, capillary ele...

Campbell Alliance Hires Joe Dillon, Expands Business Development Practice

...Oread, Inc., a pharmaceutical manufacturer and development company, and with Hoechst Marion Roussel, a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company and predecessor company of Sanofi-Aventis. Mr. Dillon graduated with a BA in Business Administration with honors from Washburn University and an MBA from K...