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American Investors Highlight Successes in Eastern Germany

CHICAGO, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Germany remains an attractive investment location for North American companies, driven by the eastern federal states. This is in large part due to the robust high-tech industries and continuing growth potential despite the economic crisis. American investor int...

Innovation and Sharing of Client Successes Highlight GetWellNetwork's GetConnected2009 Conference

Industry Leaders from Across the Country Gather to Discuss Interactive Patient Care, Patient Engagement and Hospital Performance Improvement ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- GetWellNetwork, Inc., the leading provider of Interactive Patient Care (IPC) solutions, recently concluded it...

Leading Healthcare Organizations Share Successes Realized with MEDai's Predictive Analytics

- MEDai Clients Present at the 6th Annual New Innovations & Applications in Predictive Modeling Conference - ORLANDO, Fla., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- MEDai, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, FL, and a leading provider of advanced solutions for healthcare that utilize award-winning predi...

Virginia Cares Uninsured Program (VCUP) Announces Early Successes in Helping Uninsured Virginians Access Quality Healthcare

Patient Advocate Foundation Program Has Already Helped Hundreds of Uninsured Virginians with Chronic, Debilitating and Life-Threatening Illness Since its July 2007 Launch NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) -- a national, non-profit o...

Controversial New Report Details Successes and Challenges as the Microcredit Movement Escalates Its Battle With Poverty

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Microloans to the poor around the world soared to 133 million last year, up from 13 million just nine years ago, according to a report released today by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, an initiative of RESULTS Educational Fund. The dramatic pr...

Mastering Challenges & Measuring Successes for Quality Initiatives in Sales, Marketing and Product Development

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- At "Managing Quality to Drive Growth," the third quarter conference hosted by Best Practices, LLC's Global Benchmarking Council (GBC), executives from 20 leading companies discussed hot-button issues such as: the essential DNA for quality and growth; ...

Gains on Uninsured, Reducing Shortages of Nurses/Physicians, Health Care Funding Among Session's Successes

AUSTIN, Texas, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas Legislature made significant improvements to Texas health care that will benefit consumers as well as health care providers. Small businesses and low-income individuals in the Texas High Risk Pool will find health insurance coverage more a...

Global Pharmaceutical Launches: Best Practices for Winning Product Launch Successes

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior launch strategies allow best-in-class pharmaceutical companies to emerge as a leader in crowded markets. To secure "share of voice" for a new product, leading companies develop specific uptake strategies to support business needs and ensure a ...

Global Pharmaceutical Launches: Best Practices for Winning Product Launch Successes

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's top-level pharmaceutical companies devise a well-crafted launch strategy and seat the team that will carry out the plan as early as possible in product development, according to a study by pharmaceutical research firm, Best Practices, LLC. A...

Gardasil Hailed as one of the Biggest Research Successes

A national screening program for cervical cancer has been called for by the Well Woman Centre.// This call was made following the announcement that a vaccine against cervical cancer is expected to be available in Ireland in four weeks time. Doctors have hailed the development of the vacc...

successes in Medical Technology

Cytel's Clinical Innovation Experts Cyrus Mehta and Judith Quinlan Reveal Latest Adaptive Trial Successes at 44th Annual DIA Meeting

Trial design and implementation pioneers from Cytel join peers in examining the rise of adaptive study approaches and overcoming the remaining challenges to wider adoption CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Cytel's renowned adaptive trial design and implementation e...

PTC Therapeutics Completes Enrollment of Pivotal Trial in Muscular Dystrophy

...an, director of the neuromuscular program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "The completion of this trial enrollment is a striking example of the successes we can achieve when patients, families and the medical community come together to address an area of such high unmet medical need." "Currently a...

Cardio3 BioSciences Raises EUR13.7 Million in Series B Fundraising and Grant Funding

...he prospects of this promising project, has supported the company from the very beginning through cash advances granted by DGO6. Cardio3 BioSciences's successes so far have encouraged us to continue support for this project but also to other innovative companies in Wallonia at the cutting-edge of technology by...

Research Attributes Lack of HIV/AIDS Vaccine to Use of Chimpanzees

...ature, NIAID Director and AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, when reflecting on the era of HIV/AIDS, noted: "We must learn from our missteps, build on our successes in treatment and prevention, and renew our commitment to developing the truly transforming tools that will one day put this scourge behind us." Acco...

Anesiva Accelerates Its Transition to Specialty Pharma Pain Management Company

...e timing of the focused pediatric launch, that Zingo sales in 2008 will be in the range of $2.0 million to $3.0 million. The sales force has had early successes in obtaining formulary acceptances. This, combined with positive feedback from early market experience, suggests Zingo is well-positioned for accelera...

Senator Frist and Convention Delegates Support AIDS-Affected People Around the World, Raise Funds for Gustav Evacuees

... ONE Vote '08, a project of ONE Action, ONE is not endorsing any candidate, but pressing the candidates to support policies that build on demonstrated successes to address extreme global poverty and disease. For more information, visit http://www.ONE.org . ...

Addrenex Pharmaceuticals' New Hires Further Company Goal to Identify New Drugs for Adrenergic Regulation

... many new drug candidates as possible over the next 18 months. The fast-paced timeline they have set for drug discovery mirrors the company's recent successes in developing two new drugs, Clonicel(R) for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and CloniBID for hypertension, over the past two years. A new dr...

iCAD Initiates Clinical Study of Its Virtual Colonoscopy CAD in Partnership with ACR Image Metrix

... more than 32,000 radiologists committed to ensuring that imaging is safe, effective, and accessible to all patients. ACR Image Metrix is based on the successes of ACRIN(R), the NCI-funded clinical trials cooperative group established in 1999 to assess emerging imaging technologies. ACRIN(R)'s clinical trials ...

BioElectronics Announces Profitability Breakeven and Additional Clinical Trials

...s and our penetration of the general and plastic surgery markets as meaningfully increased. Combined with tight expense controls at the Company, these successes have allowed us to reach profitability sooner than we had previously expected. We are expecting our revenues to continue to grow throughout the remain...

Judith Quinlan Joins Cytel as Vice President, Adaptive Trials

...CEO, Ranganath Nayak. In her new role, Judith Quinlan will guide Cytel's adaptive trial design and implementation offerings, leveraging her previous successes in managing cross-functional clinical research teams to drive more productive planning and implementation of early stage and confirmatory trials. In a...

successes in Medical Products

External CounterPulsation (ECP) Centers

Description:...e past several years. Reimbursement rates for 2003 increased eleven (11) percent from 2000 rates. ECP centers across the country report reimbursement successes with nearly all third party reimbursement payors....
Company:MedCath Corporation

EYESI Ophthalmosurgical Simulator

Description:...n treating rare cases can make it necessary to refer patients to specialized hospitals. It is difficult to produce objective documentation of training successes and surgical ability. Optimization potential An ideal training system generates realistic surgery situations and enables trainee surgeons to...
Company:VRmagic GmbH

successes in Biological News

New hope for fisheries

...nt of fish available, and a consequent increase in fishers' incomes. "These successes are local - but they are inspiring others to follow suit," says Tim McClana...ly presiding over depleted fish stocks need to become fast followers of the successes revealed in this paper," says Pamela Mace, a co-author from the New Zealand...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...cting our environment. I want to thank this year's winners for their work and congratulate them on this award." These awards highlight some of the successes made by the DOE national laboratories in technology transfer, moving forward basic research results into commercial products. This year, scientists...

Anti-biotech groups obstruct forest biotechnology

...s required for analysis of ecological effects as well as benefits, and they have been making strides toward shutting the industry down." Some major successes with biotechnology have taken place in crop agriculture, Strauss said, and because of the enormous benefits, that industry has learned to wade through...

NIH announces new program to develop therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases

...he NHGRI director. "This will still be hard work and it will take time and produce failures. Unlike traditional drug development, however, where only successes are published, we will publish our failures as well, so everyone in the drug development community can learn from them. That alone could be revolution...

K-State researchers help Epitopix license the United States' first E. coli O157 vaccine for cattle

...inated cattle that were still shedding, we observed nearly a 98 percent reduction of E. coli O157 fecal concentration. "Epitopix LLC has had many successes with this technology in other industries including poultry and dairy," Thomson said. "They have a product currently on the market for control of Salmo...

Lobster traps going high tech

...bstermen participate in the program and new instruments are tried, some with success and others that need further development. One of the program's successes has been low-cost surface drifters equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) chips, developed by Manning and since 2004 built by students in the m...

New book plants seed for biodiverse food production

...rew Mushita, director of the Community Technology Development Trust in Zimbabwe, the book analyzes international policies for sustainable farming, the successes and failures of industrial agriculture, and the need to preserve biodiversity as a policy for future food security. "Today only 12 plants provide ...

BIO-key(R) Fingerprint Biometrics Media Spotlights

...onal, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety solutions, today highlights recent successes that were reported in the media on its fingerprint biometrics identification solutions in both commercial and government applications. The Janua...

Key to future medical breakthroughs is systems biology, say leading European scientists

...of pivotal biomedical systems biology tools and facilitating their translation into crucial therapeutic advances. The report highlights some recent successes where mathematical modelling has played a key role. The conclusions from these examples are that success was achieved when quantitative data became av...

Novel publishing approach puts textbook in more hands

...of the book follows soon after the October 14th celebration of International Open Access Day ( http://openaccessday.org/ ), which will highlight prior successes in providing such open access to research journals. "This is an innovative development in the distribution of an established textbook that we hope ...

successes in Biological Technology

Avid Bioservices Presents Data From Manufacturing Successes Achieved With Single-Use Bioreactor Systems

TUSTIN and SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avid Bioservices, Inc. today reported that it presented data from several antibody projects using the company's recently installed Single-Use Bioreactors (S.U.B.) at the Thermo Scientific BioProduction Optimization Workshop held t...

New York Benefit to Celebrate Recent Medical Marijuana Successes

A Night of Music & Comedy to Help Push Campaign to Victory May 14, 2008 - Highline Ballroom Spring Soiree to Benefit Effort to Protect Seriously Ill New York Patients Who Use Medical Marijuana NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Marijuana Policy...

Endo Pharmaceuticals Reports Strong Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...mber, Endo will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the FDA approval of LIDODERM. During the month, we will be highlighting key milestones and patient successes through the past decade through a variety of external channels. In addition, the Patchwork of Hope Network(TM), an unbranded grass-roots educat...

Jesup & Lamont Announces Presenting LifeTech Companies and Former FDA Commissioner at Annual Growth Stock & National Sales Conference

...sup & Lamont, Inc. Established in 1877, Jesup & Lamont, Inc. has an extensive history on Wall Street, with its origins encompassing such successes as providing brokerage services to Standard Oil and raising capital for the construction of Rockefeller Center. Jesup & Lamont, through its two wh...

Industry Leaders Will Gather to Discuss the Future of the "Hydrogen Economy" in Washington DC

...t hydrogen storage advances will allow products to run longer with less weight and taking up less space. This is an important event to showcase these successes and have frank discussions on what's needed to get hydrogen quickly and efficiently in and out of smaller containers that weigh less." The co...

UCF team's advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases

... accomplish this very feat, though, for the first time. "It was exciting because it was totally unexpected," says Hickman. The key to their surprising successes is one that other researchers in the field may find surprising, and one that makes their new model system better suited to advancing neuropathy resear...

Valeritas Announces Appointment of New CEO

...red Kristine Peterson to serve as its Chief Executive Officer. Peterson brings 26 years of industry experience to Valeritas, with her most recent successes as Company Group Chair of Johnson & Johnson's Biotech Business where she was directly responsible for commercial, research & development and s...

BIO International Convention 2009: Research Location Germany Presents Potential in Regenerative Medicine

...ions will be introduced in a presentation in which the most recent industry successes will also be demonstrated. Dr. Manfred Rudiger, CEO of Frankfurt-bas...investment in Germany. As well as highlighting German initiative-led successes in regenerative medicine to date, the event at the Georgia World Congress C...

NC Biomanufacturers Supply Defense for World vs. Flu

... Huge GSK, Novartis, Merck plants help define state's economic successes RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The global fight against swine flu is shining a spotlight on North Carolina's l...

Marinus Pharmaceuticals Raises $20 Million in Series B Financing

... to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech industries. Among its successes are Acme Packet, Amicus Therapeutics, Cerexa Inc., CommerceOne, DexCom Inc., DoubleClick, IntraLinks, Match.com, SuccessFactors and WebLoyalty. Other ...

successes in Biological Definition

Antibiotic

...e into widespread use, and a new era of research into the possibility of similarly "magic" chemotherapeutic cures for other diseases eventually led to successes in the field of cancer chemotherapy. The discovery of antibiotics, along with anesthesia and the adoption of hygienic practices by physicians (...

Stem cell

... transfusion. Baldness Hair follicles also contain stem cells, and some researchers predict research on these follicle stem cells may lead to successes in treating baldness through 'hair multiplication'/'hair cloning' within three or four years (as of Nov. 2004). This treatment is expected to initi...

successes in Biological Dictionary

Abiotic stress

...a major abiotic stress affecting rice production. ... ... abiotic stresses are inter-related (e.g. salinity and osmotic stress ), our ... of successes in the production of abiotic stress -tolerant plants using tobacco ... Response of Medicago truncatula to abiotic stress . Page 1 of 32 ... S...