Regence Wins Awards for Consumer Appeal to Transform Health Care

PORTLAND, Ore., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- While Congress debates reforming health care from the top down, Regence was recognized for its work to engage consumers to transform health care from the bottom up. "Transforming the Health Care System - Engaging Consumers to Create Val...

ValueOptions Wins Maryland Mental Health Contract

NORFOLK, Va., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ValueOptions(R), a national behavioral health care company based in Norfolk, Va., has won a contract to provide administrative services for children and adults in Maryland's Public Mental Health System. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh...

Average Mom USA Wins $25,000 Via Total Body Transformation

Fayetteville, North Carolina's Toni Warrick Prevails in Max Muscle Sports Nutrition's "MaxFormation Life Challenge" over nearly 3,000 contestants nationwide Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) July 24, 2009 -- Six months and three weeks after declaring "Start...

Miller-McCune Magazine Wins Environmental Journalism Prize

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Society of Environmental Journalists has named Valerie Brown's article for Miller-McCune magazine, "Environment Becomes Heredity," the winner of its 2008-2009 award for outstanding explanatory reporting in a print publi...

Alere Wins Awards for Participant Engagement Programs

ATLANTA, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere LLC has won two awards in the 16th Annual National Health Information program, which recognizes the nation's best consumer health information programs and materials. In the category of "Total Health Information Program," Alere wo...

Atlanta Sports Medicine Doctor Spero Karas Wins 'Atlanta's Top Doctors' Honor Again

Atlanta Magazine has named Dr. Spero G. Karas among the top Orthopedic Surgeons in the greater Atlanta metro area for the second consecutive time. Dr. Karas was recognized by his peers and key medical leaders for being a 'highly skilled, exceptional,' and 'most-trusted' sports medicine specialis...

Regence Wins Four Telly Awards for Health and Wellness Videos

PORTLAND, Ore., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second consecutive year, Regence won four bronze (second-place) Telly Awards for originally created and produced videos developed for myRegence.com , a health and wellness Web site for Regence members. The 30th Annual Te...

Vaxine Wins Line Honours With World's First Human Swine Flu Vaccine

ADELAIDE, Australia, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- VAXINE Pty Ltd, a South Australian biotechnology company, has successfully undertaken the first ever human immunisations with a candidate swine flu vaccine. "This represents a major breakthrough as it is the first administration to human s...

PAL Health Technologies Wins State-Level Prestigious 'Employer of the Year' Award

PEKIN, Ill., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- PAL Health Technologies, one of the nation's leading domestic manufacturers of prescription foot and ankle orthoses and accompanying high technology products, was recently awarded the prestigious Employer of the Year award, which is given annuall...

Kaiser Permanente Wins National Award for Technology-Supported Patient Care and Efficiency

OAKLAND, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente today received the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems Award in recognition of the organization's excellence and outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics. The award is based on successf...

More>>

wins in Medical Technology

Bethesda-Based NHSi Wins $2M Grant for Blood Technology

BETHESDA, Md., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- New Health Sciences Inc. (NHSi) has won a two-year award of $1.9 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a groundbreaking blood-storage system. The project aims to develop the Hema...

ePharmaSolutions' Clinical Trial Investigator Portal Wins Bio-IT World 2009 Best Practice Award

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ePharmaSolutions, a leading provider of clinical services and trial management technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry announced that it has been selected along with its client Genentech, Inc as the winner of the Bio-IT World Best Practice Award ...

Interleukin Genetics Wins International Award for Outstanding Research Published in the Journal, Nutrition

Paper Reports Value of Specific Nutritional Products is Dependent on Individual's Genetic Make-up WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Researchers at Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (Amex: ILI ), today received the 12th John M. Kinney Award for Nutrition and Me...

Southern Research Institute Wins $14.7 Million NIH Award to Participate in Molecular Libraries Probe Production Center Network

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Research Institute today announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the organization to participate in the newly-funded Molecular Libraries Probe Production Center Network (MLPCN). The MLPCN -- a collaborative research...

IBM and EU Partners Create a Better Way to Fight AIDS Virus

... EuResist HIV Treatment Prediction Tool wins Top Honors in Computerworld Honors Program WASHINGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced it was selected for ...

Encorium Group Signs $6.2 Million of New Contracts Mainly for Vaccines Clinical Trials

...xecutive Chairman, commented, "We are very encouraged by the volume of new contracts we have been able to sign during the last 10 weeks. Most of these wins relate to our European operations, but we are currently strengthening our business development efforts in the U.S. and expect to achieve results from ...

DATATRAK and COResearch to Collaborate on Six Cardiac Safety Projects

...RAK International, Inc. "Under our alliance, 100% of the studies COResearch wins utilizing the DATATRAK eClinical platform translate into automatic wins for DATATRAK. The leverage that DATATRAK receives in this relationship is t...

wins in Medical Dictionary

Uti

...be the only signs of kidney infection. ... UTI Mutual Fund is one of the top performing mutual funds investment company in India. ... UTI MF wins the Best Debt Fund House Award. • Golden Peacock ... 1.1 What is a UTI and how do you get one? 1.2 What are the symptoms? 1.3 How do I treat it?...

Nursing

... nursing school can prepare you for an in-demand healthcare career as a registered nurse , LPN and more. Get info on... PhD Nursing program wins $800,000 federal grant. UNCG to offer Online Nursing Administration Master's Degree. Employment Opportunities ... Associate Chief, Nursing Ser...

Myoma

...on medical issues, duration, and the correct ... Uterine fibroid tumor ( myoma ) Cause ... Uterine Fibroid Tumor ( Myoma ) ... If estrogen wins then you get uterine fibroid tumors ( myomas ) ... Uterine fibroid Tumor ( Myoma ) smaller than a tangerine shrinks, stays the same size, ...

wins in Biological News

Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa

Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift Valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multi-million pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SAC...

UT San Antonio researcher wins $917,000 from NIH to study memory

San Antonio Every 16 hours, give or take, the brain's hippocampus makes six to nine thousand new neurons in the dentate gyrus, the portion of the brain which is believed to play a significant role in the preservation of episodic, or autobiographical, memory. But how do those neurons store info...

UTSA wins San Antonio Area Foundation grant to further chlamydia research

San Antonio Ashlesh Murthy, the newest research assistant professor in the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $32,000 grant from the Semp Russ Foundation of the San Antonio Area Foundation to study the role...

Research team wins funds to unravel a DNA mystery

An international research team headed by two researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, has been awarded a US$900,000 grant to help unravel the phenomenon of "DNA looping". DNA looping is responsible for controlling the expression of genes in cells. It is believed to play a key ro...

Pest management specialist Charles Summers wins prestigious Woodworth Award

A University of California entomologist whose career spans 39 years in the pest management of field and vegetable crops, is the winner of the prestigious Charles W. Woodworth Award from the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America. Charles "Charlie" Summers, stationed at the UC ...

TGen's Dr. Von Hoff wins award for cancer research

PHOENIX, Ariz. March 18, 2009 Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, Physician-In-Chief of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), has won an award recognizing his achievements in cancer research. Dr. Von Hoff, who also is Chief Scientific Officer of TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale ...

UC San Diego bioengineering professor trey ideker wins 2009 Overton Prize

University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Trey Idekera network and systems biology pioneerhas won the International Society for Computational Biology's Overton Prize. The Overton prize is awarded each year to an early-to-mid-career scientist who has already made a significant co...

UTSA wins $500,000 to develop biosensor and regenerative medicine Ph.D. program

San Antonio The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced today it will receive $500,000 from The University of Texas System over the next five years to develop a unique Graduate Program Initiative emphasizing biosensors and regenerative medicine. Of the 37 proposals received by the UT...

Wallace S. Broecker wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change

The 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has found its way, in this inaugural edition, to U.S. researcher Wallace S. Broecker, who more than three decades ago predicted the existence of climate warming due to human activity. In 1975, Broecker published t...

Lockheed Martin Team Wins Role on Key Department of Defense Biometrics Contract Vehicle

Corporation One of 12 Industry Leaders Chosen for BOSS-U ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Task Force (BTF) has named Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) an industry leader capable of being awarded task orders under the Biometrics Operations...

More>>

wins in Biological Technology

The Law Offices of Brian D. Witzer Wins 6+ Million Dollar Verdict

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A jury in Pasadena, California awarded over $6 million to an 82 year-old Chinese female immigrant who suffered Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis after taking the drug Allopurinol. She alleged that the Defendant, an osteopathic p...

Brown engineering professor wins prestigious White House award

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Rashid Zia, assistant professor of engineering, has been named one of this year's winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The White House named the latest group of winners this week. The PECASE award recognizes outstand...

CEM Wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for the Sprint Rapid Protein Analyzer

MATTHEWS, N.C., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- CEM Corporation has won a 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Greener Reaction Conditions category for its Sprint(TM) Rapid Protein Analyzer . The company will accept the award this evening during a ceremony at the Carnegie ...

Nanobiotech Center Wins $2.5 Million, 4-Year Grant

Triad-Based Center of Innovation To Commercialize NC's Nanobio Ideas RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has approved a four-year, $2.5 million grant for the Center of Innovation in Nanobiotechnology (COIN) to develop the co...

The Foundation for Biomedical Research Wins Telly Award for Majestic

Majestic is a groundbreaking film starring the top equine veterinarians whose research is extending the lives of horses and humans WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) announced its feature film Majestic has won a Telly A...

Paragon Bioservices, Inc. Wins 2009 Lilly Global Supplier Award

BALTIMORE, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Bioservices, Inc., a contract research and manufacturing organization (CRO/CMO), has been awarded the coveted 2009 Lilly Global Supplier Award for exceptional performance in support of Lilly's strategic objectives. "It is a great honor to be recognize...

Syrinx Wins Contract with Leading Pharmaceutical Company for SharePoint 2007 Services

WALTHAM, Mass., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Syrinx Consulting Corporation , an IT consulting and software development firm that delivers easy-to-use .Net and SharePoint applications , announced today that it has signed a contract for approximately $100,000 with a leading biopharmaceutical company ...

Axial Biotech Wins 2009 Innovation Award for Biotechnology

Company recognized from more than 100 companies for innovative technology SALT LAKE CITY, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Axial Biotech, Inc., a company revolutionizing spine care through the development of molecular diagnostic technologies, was selected as the winner at the 9th Annual Utah Innovation ...

SynCo Bio Partners Wins Best Contract Manufacturing Organization 2009 ViE Award

AMSTERDAM, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- SynCo Bio Partners B.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the cGMP manufacturer of clinical and commercial biopharmaceuticals, has won the Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) award for Best Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) 2009. This award was presented t...

HybridSPE(TM)-Precipitation Technology Wins SelectScience.net 2009 Scientists' Choice Award for Best New Separations Product in 2008

HybridSPE-Precipitation (HybridSPE-PPT) technology combines the simplicity of protein precipitation with the selectivity of SPE for the targeted removal of phospholipids and proteins from biological samples prior to LC-MS/MS analysis ST. LOUIS, April 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supelco, a div...

More>>

wins in Biological Definition

Alcohol

...mote solubility in water, and of the carbon chain to resist it. Thus, methanol, ethanol, and propanol are miscible in water because the hydroxyl group wins out over the short carbon chain. Butanol , with a four-carbon chain, is moderately soluble because of a balance between the two trends. Alcohols of ...

Human

...dered a denizen, or part, of nature, rather than superior to or separate from it. In such societies, ritual is considered essential for survival as it wins the favor of the spirits of one's source of food, shelter, and fertility and wards off malevolent spirits. In more elaborate animistic religions, such...

wins in Biological Dictionary

Run-off

... Run - off occurs when the rainfall is very heavy and when the rocks and soil can absorb no more. ... ... About Us | The Run - Off | Tournament wins | Fishing ... © 2007 - All Rights Reserved - Run - Off Sportfishing. Web Design by Professional Computer Consultants ... Zimbabwe's president Rob...

Proteomics

...ts. Webcasts. Life Science Jobs ... CellCarta proteomics platform. Tumor antigen target discovery. Applied BioMedicine ... Caprion Proteomics wins Frost & Sullivan Award ... Research program on the analysis of protein organisation. ... IPAM Proteomics Participants' Seminar (IPPS): a se...

Epigenesis

...ions, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... at St. John's College, the Epigenesis Program is a summer youth leadership ... Epigenesis wins $10,000 grant from Davis Foundation. Epigenesis in the News ... ...

Dominant gene

...11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41 ... One of those genes wins out and its instructions are carried out. It's called the dominant gene . ... For example gene "A" is dominant and gene "a" is recessive. ......

Biotechnology

...er Biological Science programs. The Biotechnology Institute is your source for biotechnology education information, including biotech news. ... wins National Biotechnology Education Award. 05 ... Biotechnology in one form or another has flourished since prehistoric times. ... In its purest f...

Biology

...Also features introductory and intermediate online tutorials, a biology ... Home to the Macaw Biology book. ... "Miller & Levine Biology " wins Top Honors in 2009 Association of Educational Publishers Awards. Third Annual Miller & Levine ... Provides a large amount of information about ...

Band

...ity Band's Athletic Bands also involve students from other ... They soon form a band along with Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom. ... Skynyrd wins a battle of the bands contest in Hemming Park located in Jacksonville, FL. ... Band Audio/Images. Photos. Audio. Small Ensembles. Chamber ... D...

Anatomy

...; program listings including masters, PhD and other Biological Science programs. Paula Henning (Franka Potente), a promising young medical student, wins a place at the prestigious and exclusive Heidelberg Medical School, where she plans to study... Anatomy Atlases is a digital library of anatom...