Health Career Agents Announces SBA Pre-Approval Program to Launch a Healthcare Recruiting Business
Health Career Agents today announced a pre-approval program to compliment the Small Business Administration's recent announcement of $730 million in new SBA funding initiatives. The incentives remove fees charged to banks and make it easier for entrepreneurs and start-ups to get funding for their...DaVita Wins Recruiting Department of the Year Award
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services, was named winner of the 2009 Recruiting Department of the Year award by the Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ERE). ERE ( http://www.ere.net ) presents Recruiting Excellence Awards annual...Health Career Agents Announces Three Options for Involvement in Health Care Recruiting and Staffing
Health Career Agents announces three options for involvement in health care recruiting and staffing. Individuals have the choice of starting a health care recruiting practice, purchasing an existing business, or working with an established Health Career Agents office. S...National Children's Study Begins Recruiting Volunteers
The National Institutes of Health announced today that the National Children's Study will begin recruiting volunteers to take part in its comprehensive study of how genes and the environment interact to affect children's health. At a briefing, NIH officials announced that the first phase of recru...National Children's Study Begins Recruiting Volunteers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Institutes of Health announced today that the National Children's Study will begin recruiting volunteers to take part in its comprehensive study of how genes and the environment interact to affect children's health. At a brie...Study Recruiting From Alzheimer's-Prone Families
The findings might boost understanding of the disease generally, researchers say FRIDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The adult children of people with the rarer, inherited form of Alzheimer's disease are being sought for a new study to better understand the biology of the brain disord...Fresho.com Adapts As The Online Recruiting Market Heats Up
To help employers and job seekers find each other easier, Fresho.com becomes a job search engine with the functionality of a job board. New York, NY (PRWEB) November 24, 2008 -- Due to the current economic woes, employment sites are experiencing an increase in the numbe...British Woman Celebrates a Year of Living Cancer-Free
...to stay healthy and live to be an old person." Researchers at the Royal Free, led by principal investigator Dr. Panos Kottaridis, are currently recruiting patients for the clinical trial of the TaNK cell therapy, which has been licensed to Coronado BioSciences, a U.S.-based biopharmaceutical company. Th...Lupus Research Institute Highly Encouraged by Benlysta(TM) Trial Results
...ortant trial. Participation like theirs is critical to finding answers to this illness." The LRI builds the research pipeline and assists in recruiting patients to participate in trials to bring safe and effective treatments to market for people with lupus. To learn more about lupus clinical...Results From Drug Trials and New Risk Factors Announced at International Alzheimer's Conference
...D 2009 show, there is hope. Successful recruiting Strategies for Alzheimer's Clinical Trials ...CAD 2009 investigated the most effective method of recruiting people for Alzheimer's clinical studies. Researche...ly, in this study, patient registries and Internet recruiting were found to be much less successful recruitment ...Sosei and Vectura Announce Start of Phase III Clinical Study With NVA237
...ion for oral inhalation of glycopyrronium bromide, a LAMA with a rapid onset of activity. The study has now appeared on clinicaltrials.gov and will be recruiting in the next few weeks when the first patient first visit will trigger a $7.5 million milestone payment to both Sosei and Vectura. The trial is ...UPCI Joins ExCell Research Study Using Stem Cells for Leukemia and Lymphoma Patients
...sed to work with the able and highly experienced team at UPCI led by Dr. Agha. They join an extraordinary group of cord blood cancer centers currently recruiting patients for the ExCell trial. Everyone on the international ExCell clinical team shares the same goal - to validate the therapeutic potential of Stem...Boston Scientific Launches Third-Generation Platinum Chromium Drug-Eluting Stent
...nt System to the TAXUS(R) Express2(R) Stent System. The program includes the PERSEUS Workhorse and the PERSEUS Small Vessel arms. Both have finished recruiting patients and are estimated to be completed by the end of the year. The PROMUS Element Stent System is currently being studied in the PLATINUM clinica...TYRX Presents Early Clinical Results from AIGISRX(TM) Antibacterial Envelope Retrospective Registry
...ry high risk for CRMD infection," added Bill Edelman, CEO of TYRX, Inc. "In addition to the AIGIS Retrospective Registry, we have begun the process of recruiting approximately 20 clinical sites for the AIGIS Prospective Registry, which will follow AIGIS patients for 12 months and compare the incidence of infect...Pharmaxis Announces Milestone in Phase III Trial for Cystic Fibrosis
...s are affected with cystic fibrosis and no products have been approved to improve lung hydration. A second Phase III clinical trial is actively recruiting in centres across the USA, Canada, Argentina, Germany, Belgium and France. This second trial has been designed with the assistance of the FDA through...Thomson CenterWatch Pipeline Intelligence
Features:...ical trials but have not yet entered the market Clinical Trials Listing Service: Dynamic database listing current phase I - IV clinical trials recruiting patients (approx. 14,000 private industry sponsored trial listings) Accessible through therapeutic area or geographic location Clinical trial listin...Thomson CenterWatch Clinical Trial Listings
Features:... Dynamic database listing current phase I - IV clinical trials recruiting patients (approx. 14,000 private industry sponsored trial listings). Accessible through therapeutic area or geographic location Clinical trial listi...UTSA psychologist awarded $1 million for memory research
... a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study adult memory. To conduct the research, beginning in July, Smith will be recruiting younger adult volunteers aged 18-30 and older adults, aged 60 and above. Smith, who directs the UTSA Cognitive Aging Lab, is studying prospective ...UC Davis grant zeroes in on novel asthma diagnosis and treatment
...tor its treatment." Through its national grants program, the American Asthma Foundation (AAF) sponsors highly innovative, cutting-edge research, recruiting investigators "to think outside the box" to bring new perspectives to diseases of the lung, according to its Web site. Hammock lab researchers...Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial
...ith an interdisciplinary team of researchers from MGH and Brown University. The study has been approved by the MGH Institutional Review Board to begin recruiting participants. The trial extends prior safety and feasibility research of the BrainGate Neural Interface System, which consists of an implanted baby as...Women faring well in hiring process for science faculty jobs at research universities
...rveys revealed that most institutional strategies to try to increase the proportion of women in the applicant pool -- such as targeted advertising and recruiting at conferences -- did not show significant effectiveness, the report says. One strategy did appear to make a difference: Having a female chair of the...NIH announces new program to develop therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases
...ses, so the underlying cause of the illness frequently remains unknown. In addition, because rare diseases are rare, researchers often have difficulty recruiting enough people with the disorder to participate in clinical trials once a candidate compound reaches the stage where it can be tested in people. Moreov...Science internships attract students to research careers
... area where the population is more than 90% Hispanic. The driving distance from the main campus to the research facility created a distinct barrier to recruiting graduate students. To address the access problem, local universities collaborated to create an undergraduate research program designed to channel u...Researchers explore new driver of transplant rejection: Platelets
...nd adhere to local blood vessels, preventing fatal bleeding, they also dump out granules that "talk to" immune system white blood cells, Morrell says, recruiting them from far and wide to stave off potential infections. These are on the whole very good things for platelets to do, Morrell says, but in the con...Statins may treat blood vessel disorder that can lead to fatal strokes
...al being initiated." Kevin J. Whitehead, M.D., also a cardiologist, assistant professor of internal medicine, and first author of the study, now is recruiting 50 to 100 people diagnosed with CCM to join a pilot trial of statins. CCM is a disorder in which blood vessels in the brain become dilated and wea...Dictyostelium cells shown to lay 'breadcrumb trail' as first step in multicellular formation
.... Besides acquiring a polarized morphology and beginning to chemotax, Dictyostelium cells respond to cAMP signals by making their own cAMP, thereby recruiting yet more cells to join the parade. The team previously discovered that ACAthe enzyme that makes cAMPis highly enriched at the back of migrating cells....A card-swipe for medical tests
...Mark Tondra, then at NVE Corp., in Eden Prairie, Minn. The Utah Science, Technology and Research initiative seeks to create new high-tech jobs by recruiting world-class research teams to develop products and services that can be commercialized to start new businesses and stimulate Utah's economy. Homel...Spherix Recruiting New 'Independent' Director to Regain NASDAQ Compliance
BETHESDA, Md., April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spherix Incorporated (Nasdaq: SPEX ), an innovator in biotechnology for diabetes therapy, and a provider of technical and regulatory consulting services to food, supplement, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, today announced that on Apri...New Web site makes recruiting from Wisconsin universities easier
MADISON - Companies in Wisconsin and beyond have been given a new Web-based tool that makes it easier to identify potential employees and interns among the graduates and students of Wisconsins universities and colleges. A new Web site brings together the career services offices at the Universi...Companies recruiting more UW engineering students
Madison, Wis. Business is booming again at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Engineering Career Services , and thats great news for student job-seekers. This is the best hiring situation weve seen for [bachelor of science] students since 2001, said Susan Piacenza, associate director of E...GenVec Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
...lated to our funded programs, and reduced general lab materials and supplies. Also contributing to the decrease are lower professional, facility, and recruiting costs. These decreases are partially offset in both periods by increases related to the manufacturing costs of TNFerade arising from the letter agree...Sanford Rose Associates Opens Minneapolis Office
...rvice executive search firm with a network of over 65 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Sanford Rose Associates founder Sanford M. Rose was a recruiting industry pioneer. His early accomplishments include establishing the first nationwide job fair business in 1960 and building the world's largest compu...RainEarth (RNER) Continues to Expand its Marketing Force in China
...10 Expo, China RainEarth has signed marketing agreements with a number of companies. HangZhou LongRun Technology Corp. Ltd. assists China RainEarth in recruiting sales distribution agents in Eastern and Southern China for DX Multifunction Blood Purifier and Blood Dialyzers. BallYa International Corp. Ltd., an e...CRO Acquisition Seen Boosting Activity, Positioning ASG, Inc., for New Growth in Q2
.... Strategically organized to meet the demands of the marketplace, ASG provides flexible solutions that satisfy client needs through highly experienced recruiting and dedicated functional support teams located throughout the world. Staffed by veteran industry professionals with a track record of proven results, ...BioVex Commences OncoVEX (GM-CSF) Phase 3 Trial in Metastatic Melanoma
...lanoma) Phase 3 study with OncoVEX (GM-CSF) in previously treated patients with Stage III and Stage IV melanoma had initiated. The study has commenced recruiting patients in the U.S. with sites in the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia due to open later in the year. Further details on this study can be found...