Singapore First in Southeast Asia to Use Novel Treatment for Sports and Musculoskeletal Injuries

Originally employed in dentistry, this method of accelerated tissue healing is showing its worth in soft-tissue repair, says one Singapore doctor. Singapore (PRWEB) April 14, 2009 -- It was first used by dental surgeons about 15 years ago to enhance wound healing of bon...

Cogdell Spencer Announces Dorr as President of the Southeast Region

ATLANTA, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cogdell Spencer Inc. (NYSE: CSA ) announces the promotion of Susan Dorr to President of the Southeast Region for the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Erdman, A Cogdell Spencer Company (Erdman). Based in the Company's Atlanta office, Ms. Dor...

New Medical Air Transportation Program to Assist Southeast Patients

WALESKA, Ga., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients and families caught in a health crisis requiring distant travel can find assistance through a new program called Airlift Hope Southeast. Airlift Hope Southeast is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers charitable and charitably-assis...

The Doctors Company Launches Southeast Legal Summit to Provide Industry's Best Claims Defense for Physicians

The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, launched its first Southeast Legal Summit to ensure that attorneys representing The Doctors Company's member physicians have the most current information regarding the defense of medical malpractice comp...

The Doctors Company Launches Southeast Legal Summit to Provide Industry's Best Claims Defense for Physicians

The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, launched its first Southeast Legal Summit to ensure that attorneys representing The Doctors Company's member physicians have the most current information regarding the defense of medical malpractice comp...

PA Health Department Reports Southeast Region's First Lab-Confirmed Influenza Case of the Season

Department Reminds Pennsylvanians to Get a Flu Shot HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Bucks County man is the Southeast region's first state laboratory-confirmed case of influenza this season, the Pennsylvania Department of Health said today. "Flu season is under way," s...

Golden Meditech Increases Stakes in Cordlife, Largest Cord Blood Bank Operator in Southeast Asia

HONG KONG, Oct. 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Golden Meditech Company Limited ("Golden Meditech" or "the Group", HKEx: 8180) is pleased to announce today that the Group has increased shareholding in Cordlife, Southeast Asia's largest umbilical cord blood bank operator listed on Australia...

Karmanos Cancer Center Most Preferred Hospital for Cancer Care in Southeast Michigan

DETROIT, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center has been chosen as the most preferred hospital for cancer care in southeast Michigan, according to the 2008 Cancer Treatment Preference Profile Survey conducted by the National R...

Glendale Raptors Join Four Points by Sheraton Denver Southeast and Animal Planet's Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald for Second Annual Halloween Costume Drive & Halloween Party for Kunsberg School at National Jewish Medical and Research Center

GLENDALE, Colo., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Utilizing a new, innovative twist on the popular Christmas toy drive, the Glendale Raptors Rugby Football Team will join Four Points by Sheraton Denver Southeast and give back to the community with a "costume closet". Guests, hotel staff and the commu...

AMA Foundation Presents the Arthur N. Wilson, MD Scholarship to Promising Medical Student From Southeast Alaska

CHICAGO, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation awarded the Arthur N. Wilson, MD Scholarship to medical student Jodie Totten, who grew up in Sitka, Alaska and attends the University of Washington School of Medicine. Totten will receive a $5,000 sch...

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Scientists Discover Origin of Malaria

...uch as 1.3 percent in countries with high disease rates. Occurs primarily in tropical and subtropical regions such as Central and South America, southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the South Pacific Islands. The Global Viral Forecasting Initiative has spent the last ten y...

Trius Announces Positive Results From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Torezolid in Patients With Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections

...t of oral torezolid in curing severe skin infections caused by MRSA and other gram-positive pathogens," said Dr. Joseph Surber, Chief Medical Officer, southeast Regional Research Group, Columbus, GA, a clinical investigator of the Phase 2 study. "The nature of such infections usually warrants use of an IV anti...

Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference

...shot of a vaccine made with the pandemic strain. Boosting Influenza Vaccine Coverage among School-Age Children While the bird-flu scare in southeast Asia has captured the public imagination, researchers from Texas A&M Health Science Center and Baylor College of Medicine will report progress...

Optigenex Inc. Signs New License and Distribution Agreement With Itochu Corporation of Japan

...ng, "We are very pleased with the positive reception AC-11(R) has received from manufacturers in Japan and our expanding role in marketing AC-11(R) in southeast Asia. We anticipate strong demand for additional AC-11(R)-based products in the remainder of 2009 and beyond as consumer awareness of the benefits of ...

Walter Reed Army Medical Center offers HIFU for Qualifying Men with Locally Recurrent Prostate Cancer in a Phase III Clinical Trial

...c. (Nasdaq: MSON ) who also holds distribution rights in Europe. Takai Hospital Supply Ltd. and THS International distribute the Sonablate(R) 500 in southeast Asia and the Middle East. The Sonablate(R) 500 is not approved for use in the U.S. The Sonablate(R) 500 remains investigational in the U.S. and i...

USD 12.5 m Funding for the Development of Intercell's Vaccine Patch System for Pandemic Influenza From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

...a has a greater potential to cause deaths and illnesses than virtually any other natural health threat. Signs of a pandemic influenza have emerged in southeast Asia, as lethal infections of poultry and humans with avian influenza virus continue. The current virus is now endemic in bird populations, having sp...

U.S. Navy and U.S. Army to Develop Dengue DNA Vaccine Formulated With Vical's Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant

...ndrome, is increasing in both incidence and severity throughout many tropical regions of the world, especially in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia. NMRC Dengue Focus The Naval Medical Research Center conducts research into the many health threats to members of the U.S. military. The Infe...

Life Recovery Systems Receives NIH Grant to Study Expanded Use of Its ThermoSuit System

...ans, a division of Ochsner Health System, a non-profit academic and healthcare delivery system with seven hospitals and more than 35 health centers in southeast Louisiana. The trial will explore the feasibility of cooling heart attack (ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction) patients with the ThermoSuit Sy...

Evalve Expands Executive Leadership Team

...Guidant Corporation (prior to its acquisition by Boston Scientific). Chris most recently was vice president of cardiac rhythm management sales for the southeast area, driving significant market growth and increases in profitability for the company. About the MitraClip Procedure Percutaneous mitral repair w...

Positive Mosquito Count for West Nile Virus Lead DEP, Southeastern PA Counties to Ramp up Treatment Activities

... to carry -- the virus. While only one human case of the West Nile virus has been confirmed this year (a 27-year-old Montgomery County woman), DEP's southeast regional director said the conditions merit additional treatments. "With nearly 70 percent of the state's infected mosquitoes here in the southeast ...

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Allergens, Weeds, Southeast Basic Profile

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Allergens, Tree, Southeast Profile

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Allergens, Mold Profile, Southeast Comprehensive

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Allergens, Inhalants/Foods, Southeast Profile

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Allergens, Inhalants, Southeast Coastal Comprehensive

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Allergens, Food, Southeast Profile

Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...
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Tropical sprue

...rs the diagnosis of tropical sprue in a person with anemia and ... Tropical sprue occurs chiefly in the Caribbean, southern India, and southeast ... Tropical sprue is suspected in people who live in or have visited areas where ... Tropical sprue is a condition affecting the absorpt...

Tropical Diseases

... DISEASES ... The most important diseases in the tropical regions of southeast Asia, Africa, ... Tropical Disease Tropical disease has plagued...ol ... Among the most important diseases in the tropical regions of southeast Asia, ... The severity of diseases in tropical areas is due to widespre...

Stitches

... Tiny Stitches , Georgia Quilt Shop, Metro Atlanta's premier quilt supply retailer with the largest selection and widest variety of fabrics in the southeast located at ... Most kids need stitches at one time or another to help a cut heal properly. ... Stitches aren't for scratches. ... the skin h...

Lipid Disorders

...sical signs of ... (if present, see Table 5: Lipid Disorders : NCEP Adult Treatment Panel III ... Michigan Heart leads cardiovascular care in southeast Michigan specializing in the treatment ... Lifestyle changes are important for treating lipid disorders . ... The South Carolina Heart Center...

Hunchback

...ED BY UKFM '2006' http://www.myspace.com/vikinga rt Forested Hunchback Mountain rises sharply from the lowlands around Zigzag and extends to the southeast like a 6-mile-long green finger. Along the way, several... Anthony Hopkins delivers an Emmy-nominated turn as Quasimodo, the famed hunchbacked bel...

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ST Kinetics and NTU set up Southeast Asia's first cold spray research center

Singapore, 5 September 2008 - Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd's (ST Kinetics) joint venture company, Advanced Technology Research Centre (ATREC), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) today officially opened Southeast Asia's first research and development centre in Cold Spray technology. ...

Opportunity for students displaced by Katrina to assess climate vulnerability of Southeast US

WASHINGTONWorld Wildlife Fund and the Allianz Foundation for North America today announced a new opportunity for high school students displaced by Katrina and now residing in nine U.S. cities to assess the climate change vulnerability of the Southeastern United States. As these displaced stude...

NASA data link pollution to rainy summer days in the southeast

WASHINGTON - Rainfall data from a NASA satellite show that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends. Scientists say air pollution from humans is likely driving that trend. The link between rainfall and the day of the week is evident in dat...

Drug resistant avian influenza viruses more common in Southeast Asia than North America

Analysis of a key protein in different subtypes of avian flu viruses shows that resistance to the antiviral drug amantadine in H5N1 occurs worldwide, but is especially prevalent in China, according to St. Jude Resistance to the antiviral drug amantadine is spreading more rapidly among avian infl...

Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography

...in (120 m water depth), and deep-sea sediments from the Southern Ocean around the Crozet Island Plateau (3000� m water depth), about 1400 miles southeast of South Africa. "We are excited by our findings not only because they represent the first measurements of their kind, but because they are tellin...

Smaller than expected, but severe, dead zone in Gulf of Mexico

... inform long-term management decisions, but they do not include short-term variability due to weather patterns. Prior to the LUMCON cruise, NOAA's southeast Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) found a similar sized dead zone during its annual five-week summer fish survey. ...

First riser-drilling research operations undertaken

... Approximately 58 km southeast of Shingu City, Japan--Deepsea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU has resumed IODP drilling operations in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone off the Kii Peninsula...

NOAA forecast predicts large 'dead zone' for Gulf of Mexico this summer

...ction Plan, will follow a NOAA-supported monitoring survey led by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium on July 18-26. In addition, NOAA's southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program currently is providing near real-time data on the hypoxic zone during a five-week NOAA Fisheries Service summer...

Elephant-size loopholes sustain Thai ivory trade

.... "There must be greater scrutiny of the live elephant trade if enforcement efforts are to have any impact at all," said Chris R. Shepherd, TRAFFIC southeast Asia's Acting Director. "Thailand and Myanmar should work together, and with urgency, to address cross-border trade problems," he added. ...

U-M researcher and colleagues predict large 2009 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone'

... will be announced following a NOAA-supported monitoring survey led by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium on July 18-26. In addition, NOAA's southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program's (SEAMAP) is currently providing near real-time data on the hypoxic zone during a five-week summer fish survey...

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Elsevier and the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions

BANGKOK, November 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Announce Winners of First Annual ASAIHL-Scopus Young Scientist Award Elsevier, the world's leading research publisher of scientific information, and the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions announced today winners of the first annual ...

Automation Alley Releases Report on State of Southeast Michigan's Technology Economy

Study Cites Growth in Life Sciences Technology Sector TROY, Mich., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Automation Alley, Southeast Michigan's technology business association, will release key data from its Fourth Annual Technology Industry Report: Driving Southeast Michigan Forward, at its State ...

Georgia Reproductive Specialists is First in Southeast to Offer Pioneering Test of Women's Biological Clock

Plan Ahead(TM) Test Offers Most Accurate Measurement of Women's Ovarian Reserve ATLANTA, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Reproductive Specialists (GRS) today announced it will be the first IVF center in the southeast to offer the Repromedix Plan Ahead(TM) test, a...

A cry for unity for the economy of southeast Wisconsin

Source: UW Communications MILWAUKEE When the topic of economic crisis comes up, an area that seldom comes to mind is southeastern Wisconsin. With institutions such as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Area Technical College churning out talented graduates every year a...

EForum to showcase Southeast Wisconsin tech entrepreneurship

Waukesha Information technology and venture funding experts will share some tips on April 14 at an event put on by EInnovate at the Marriott West in Waukesha. EForum will bring together Wisconsin and national entrepreneurs and technologists with a focus on building businesses and showcasing...

Aztech Controls Introduces Standardized Gas Sticks for Semiconductor Tool Hook Up

... and design, and warehousing. Aztech Controls currently supports end users and OEM's (Original Equipment Manufacturers) throughout the USA, UK, Asia, southeast Asia, & Middle East. Aztech Controls manufactures many other innovative solutions for the delivery and control of specialty gases and process ...

World Renowned Scientists Gather to Share Latest Information on Answer to Wildlife Reproductive Fertility Control

...ent to provide sustainable food supplies to millions." The company is currently applying their revolutionary technology to the control of the southeast Asian rice rat in order to increase rice production. It is projected that the application of SenesTech's product, ContraPest, will result in food for ...

University of Florida Shands Cancer Center Selects OnCore(r) to Support its Collaborative Research Goals

...e options for cancer patients. In addition, the center has strong working relationships with many community physicians across the state of Florida and southeast Georgia. The multidisciplinary teams at UFSCC include individuals from many disciplines - surgical oncology, medical oncology, radiation oncology,...

SenesTech Announces New Vice President of Business Development

... "As active Chairman of BrightStar, I worked in southeast Asia and Australia," Siegel added. SenesTech plan...duct, ContraPest to the agricultural ministries of southeast Asia. Currently being field tested in Indonesia, C...ontraPest will dramatically improve rice yields in southeast Asia by reducing the rice field rat population. ...

University of Michigan Installs Neuro Kinetics' I-Portal(R) NOTC System

...hcare system and premier academic medical center which includes three hospitals, four specialty medical centers, over 30 health centers and clinics in southeast Michigan, the University of Michigan Medical School and its Faculty Group Practice, the clinical activities of the University of Michigan School o...

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Repeats

...ghts Reserved. ... Trendy Repeats consignment offers consignment services to residents in the local areas of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, southeast Missouri and Northwest Tennesee Welcome To The Repeats Official Web Site. Garage Glam from Minneapolis. ... click here! The Repeats CDs are ava...

Proboscis

...e Proboscis Monkey is an arboreal Old World monkey. The monkey is most well known The proboscis monkey is found only on the island of Borneo in southeast Asia. ... Another obvious characteristic of proboscis monkeys are their large pot bellies. ... A nose-picker discovers his proboscis is a goldm...

Dioecious

...re female (however ... In the United States, the dioecious form is found across the South from Florida to California. ... BACKGROUND: A native of southeast Asia and Australia, dioecious hydrilla was first discovered ... with 16 each mature dioecious hydrilla plants, four plants ... The terms monoe...

Bases

... and Background to United States Military Facilities and ... new base names are intended to reinforce the idea that these are not US bases . ... southeast Asia Thai bases , history and stories. Vietnam Veterans having served in ... click on the bottom row, fourth map to see the actual base location. ....