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SEIU Security Officers Who Protect Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Nationwide Vote Overwhelmingly to Ratify First-Ever Union Contract

LOS ANGELES , July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Security officers with SEIU who protect Kaiser Permanente hospitals nationwide voted overwhelmingly today to ratify their first-ever union contract. The three year contract with private security company Securitas -- which is contracted by...

FRC Deplores House Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the House of Representatives voted down an amendment offered by Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) that would have prevented family planning funds under the Health and Human Services appropriations bill from going to Planned Parenthood...

UDW Urges 'No' Vote On State Budget; Demands 'Shared Sacrifice' From All Californians

SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a last minute plea to state legislators, the UDW Homecare Providers Union tonight urged a "No" vote on the state budget agreement reached earlier this week by Gov. Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders. Branding t...

RNs Praise House Vote to Permit State Single-Payer Laws

WASHINGTON, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's largest union and professional association of registered nurses today hailed passage of a key amendment in the House Education and Labor Committee to the national healthcare reform bill this morning that would enable individual states to g...

SEIU UHW Members Win Key Vote to Keep Union at Calif. Hospital

Healthcare Workers in Hollister Reject Raid Attempt and Stick with SEIU HOLLISTER, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SEIU UHW healthcare workers at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister, Calif., voted decisively to stay in SEIU UHW. The election was triggered by the losing par...

Senators Harkin and Grassley Vote to Protect America's Kids from Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senators Tom Harkin and Charles Grassley for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the aut...

Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. Announces Record Date and Meeting Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders for Vote with Respect to Issuance and Sale of Stock

CARY, N.C., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: CRTX ) announced today that it will hold a special meeting of its stockholders on July 27, 2009. At the special meeting of stockholders, Cornerstone's stockholders will be asked to approve the issuance of and s...

Senators Webb and Warner Vote to Protect America's Kids From Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including ...

Senators Gregg and Shaheen Vote to Protect America's Kids From Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senators Judd Gregg and Jeanne Shaheen for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the autho...

Senators Carper and Kaufman Vote to Protect America's Kids From Tobacco

WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Ted Kaufman for voting today to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authorit...

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Ortho Biotech Statement on U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Vote

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ortho Biotech is concerned by the Advisory Committee's recommendations to restrict access to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) for chemotherapy-induced anemia (CIA) in patients with metastatic breast and head and neck cancer, and patients trea...

Jennerex Therapeutic Research Collaboration With Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Selected for $10 Million Grant From Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

... and safety in Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials. "We are very pleased that Dr. Bell and Jennerex's oncolytic virus technologies have been given this vote of confidence by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. This funding will bolster the translation of Dr. Bell's promising research into important...

FDA Advisory Committee Votes in Favor of Zyprexa for Two Adolescent Indications

...media, doctors' offices and living rooms across the country," said John Hayes, M.D., vice president of Lilly Research Laboratories. "Today's Committee vote is an important step toward providing help and hope to the many teens suffering from severe mental illness." FDA will consider the panel's recom...

FDA Advisory Panel Makes Favorable Recommendation for GlaxoSmithKline and Genmab's ARZERRA(TM) (ofatumumab)

...gational treatment. "The committee's positive vote in support of ofatumumab is a potential milestone ...respond to available therapies. "The positive vote by ODAC confirms that ofatumumab may offer a new t...Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Genmab. "Today's vote is positive affirmation for this medicine, which i...

DOR BioPharma, Inc. Executes $400,000 Equity Investment Agreement With Numoda Corporation

...e 3 clinical trial of orBec(R) for the treatment of acute gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host disease (GI GVHD). "We are pleased to receive this vote of confidence from our partner, Numoda," said Christopher J. Schaber, PhD, President and CEO of DOR. "This investment is in keeping with our philosoph...

Pharmacyclics, Inc. Announces Closing of a Private Financing With the Principals of Pacific Biopharma Group, Ltd.

...approximately $1.4 million dollar private investment into Pharmacyclics at $0.93/share. Robert Duggan, CEO of Pharmacyclics noted, "We appreciate the vote of confidence by the principals of PBG, all extremely successful biotech, pharmaceutical and/or generic drug industry executives who have separately b...

Arthritis Advisory Committee Recommends FDA Approval of Febuxostat for the Treatment of Hyperuricemia in Patients With Gout

...atment of hyperuricemia in patients with gout. The vote was 12 to zero in favor of approval, with one panel member abstaining. The vote followed presentations by Takeda Global Research &... the Committee's recommendation. "Today's vote by the Arthritis Advisory Committee, recommending ...

Mindset Media Study Reveals Which Independent Voters Favor Obama Vs. McCain

...d that self-proclaimed independents who planned to vote Democratic in November had a distinctly different Mindset Profile than those who planned to vote Republican. According to the study, three person...nsistently over-index for independents planning to vote for Obama next month: -- 120 percent more lik...

Photos: SOS Children's Villages Observes World Orphan Week, October 5-11, 2008

...curity." To further spread the message of World Orphan Week, SOS is hosting a video contest. The public is invited to watch the 15 finalist videos and vote for their favorite at http://www.sos-usa.org/vote . About SOS Children's Villages In existence since 1949, SOS Children's Villages is dedicated t...

Dendreon Announces Interim Data From Phase 3 PROVENGE IMPACT Trial

...ogen-independent prostate cancer with a primary endpoint of overall survival. Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee vote that there was substantial evidence of efficacy of PROVENGE and that PROVENGE was reasonably safe, the FDA requested additional clinical data to suppo...

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Texas Board of Education vote on the way evolution is taught could set national trend

Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund is available to discuss the Texas Board of Education's upcoming contentious vote on a new science curriculum that outlines the way evolution is taught in Texas public schools. At issue is whether a teacher should raise doubts about evolution whe...

Exhibition showcases the 'art of science'

...first and second prizes) will be awarded to the artist of the piece that receives the most online votes as of July 1, 2009 at noon EDT. Viewers can vote for their favorite Art of Science images at: www.princeton.edu/artofscience/2009/vote The Art of Science voting gallery was created by a team ...

UCI awarded $45 million for infectious disease research

...llness by some of the most serious pathogens facing people in the U.S., Latin America and Pacific Rim countries," Barbour said. "We appreciate the new vote of confidence by the National Institutes of Health." The center's main objective, he said, is to provide the science for creating a defense agains...

University of Michigan installs second Genomatix Genome Analyzer

...of the Genomatix' technology for the analysis of NGS data. That this represents our second installation at a university of such stature is a terrific vote of confidence not only for our existing technologies, but is also a strong endorsement of our abilities to keep up with the analysis demands of this v...

Peter Baumann named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist

...owers Institute," said William B. Neaves, Ph.D., President and CEO. "Selection by the HHMI after rigorous, comprehensive review represents an enormous vote of confidence in a biomedical scientist, and all of us at the Institute are delighted that Dr. Baumann will have the additional resources provided by ...

Hopkins scientists ID 10 genes associated with a risk factor for sudden cardiac death

...avarti: "We're not very good at predicting what happens to any one, single sample. It's sort of like, I could examine in great detail how important my vote was in the last election, but it's trivial compared to the collective vote. An individual's genome is important as part of the study's whole, but indi...

Honest crabs, power to the hungry, nice mice and clever meerkats: News from the American Naturalist

...ch. POWER TO THE HUNGRY: HOW THE NEEDIEST CAN LEAD LARGE GROUPS Flocks of birds, swarms of insects and herds of ungulates don't need to take a vote to choose their leaders. According to research led by Larissa Conradt (University of Sussex), leaders in large animal groups can emerge automatically....

2009 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards granted for pioneering ideas in cancer research

...at this level. Having the backing of the Rachleffs and the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, which has funded 11 Nobel Prize winners, is a huge vote of confidence in what we do." John L. Rinn , PhD, the Broad Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School: for the D...

Brandeis and Smart Balance team up to advance heart-healthy research

...s in order to generate additional better foods for healthier living," said Hayes, who has researched lipid metabolism for three decades. "It is a real vote of confidence to have Smart Balance step in with resources to support our research, and we look forward to deepening this partnership." Hayes and P...

Gender biases in leadership selection during competitions within and between groups

...t competition- it was treated as a regular investment game. Participants were presented with two candidates (one male and one female) and were told to vote for one of the candidates to serve as their [hypothetical] group's leader. Immediately prior to the start of the investment game, half of the voluntee...

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Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. Announces Record Date and Meeting Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders for Vote with Respect to Charter Amendments

CARY, N.C., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: CRTX ) announced today that it will hold a special meeting of its stockholders on August 27, 2009. At the special meeting of stockholders, Cornerstone's stockholders will be asked to approve a series of amendmen...

Amylin Co-Founder Announces Plans to Vote for Eastbourne Slate

FRANKFORT, Mich., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being released today by Howard E. Greene, Jr. To my fellow shareholders: As the founding CEO of Amylin and a board member for almost 22 years, I want you to know how I plan to vote at our annual meeting. In my opinion Amylin'...

Leading Advisory Firm, PROXY Governance, Recommends Avigen Shareholders Vote on GOLD Card to Remove Incumbent Directors and Elect BVF's Stockholder-Oriented Nominees

NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. ("BVF") today announced that PROXY Governance, widely recognized as a leading independent proxy advisory firm, has recommended that shareholders vote for all BVF Proposals on the GOLD proxy card for the special meeting of Avigen, In...

Arius announces leading independent proxy firm, RiskMetrics ISS Canada, recommends shareholders vote for the arrangement involving its acquisition by Roche

TORONTO, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - ARIUS Research Inc., (TSX: ARI), a biotechnology company discovering and developing the next wave of antibody therapeutics, today announced that RiskMetrics ISS Canada, Canada's leading independent proxy firm, has indicated that they have no objection ...

WorldHeart Reports an Event of Default Under the Note Issued to Abiomed, Resignation of One of Its Board of Directors, and Results of Shareholder Vote at Its Annual Shareholders' Meeting

OAKLAND, Calif., May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Nasdaq: WHRT, TSX: WHT) Since January 2008, World Heart Corporation (the "Company") has aggressively pursued various financing alternatives to raise additional capital, including through equity financing transactions and corporate collaboration...

Proxy Governance and Egan-Jones Recommend Renovis Shareholders Vote For Merger With Evotec

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Renovis, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNVS ), today announced that PROXY Governance, Inc. and Egan-Jones Proxy Services have joined ISS/Risk Metrics and Glass Lewis & Co. in recommending that Renovis stockholders vote "FOR" the merger agreement...

Glass Lewis & Co. Recommends Renovis Shareholders Vote For Merger With Evotec

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Renovis, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNVS ), today announced that Glass Lewis & Co., a leading proxy advisory firm, has joined ISS/Risk Metrics in recommending that Renovis stockholders vote "FOR" the merger agreement with Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock E...

ISS Recommends Pharmion Shareholders Vote for Merger With Celgene

All Four Leading Independent Proxy Advisory Firms Recommend Pharmion stockholders vote FOR merger with Celgene Special Meeting of Shareholders Scheduled For March 6, 2008 Pharmion Corp. Urges All Shareholders to Vote FOR the Proposed Merger BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 26 /PRNe...

Advance Nanotech Announces Shareholder Proxy Vote Results

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advance Nanotech, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: AVNA), a leader in next generation chemical detection systems, announced today that at a special meeting of shareholders held at Company headquarters in New York, on February 12, 2008, a proposal was appro...

Helix BioPharma shareholders vote in favour of management

Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX: HBP / Frankfurt: WKN 918864) AURORA, ON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Helix BioPharma Corp. announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on January 29th, 2008, shareholders adopted all of the resolutions presented by management, appointing...

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