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Louisiana Health Cooperative Chooses ProCare Rx as Pharmacy Benefit Manager
Louisiana Health Cooperative Inc. (LAHC) was selected by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last year to create and operate a Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan, or CO-OP in the state of Louisiana. Louisiana Health Cooperative exists to promote community health and... - February 07, 2013 - ProCare Rx
Billion Cell Milestone Reached in Stem Cell Treatment
MD Stem Cells Reports Almost Two Billion Cells Used in Eye Stem Cell Treatment in Florida. - February 07, 2013 - MD Stem Cells
GenScript Launches eBlot® Protein Transfer System
GenScript USA Incorporation has launched the eBlot® Protein Transfer System, a semi-dry electric blotter for transferring proteins from mini polyacrylamide gels onto membranes in 7 to 10 minutes, expanding its bench-top tool offerings for protein analysis. This system simplifies the process further by including a complete line of accessories, eliminating the need for additional buffers. - February 07, 2013 - GenScript USA Inc.
Metrics Inc. Appoints Director of Pharmaceutical Development
Joe Cobb, CPIP, will oversee the company's formulation development, potent handling capabilities. - February 06, 2013 - Metrics, Inc.
Bioo Scientific Releases NEXTflex™ 16S V4 Amplicon-Seq Kit for Bacterial Metagenomics Studies
The NEXTflex™ 16S V4 Amplicon-Seq Kit has been developed to simplify bacterial metagenomics studies using Illumina® HiSeq and MiSeq platforms. This kit allows users to go from sample to sequence in two hours, making it the fastest library prep kit available. Using specialized NEXTflex... - February 06, 2013 - Bioo Scientific
New Dental Office in Tewksbury
Dr. Svetlana Gomer, a proud graduate of Boston University, now opened her own dental practice in Tewksbury MGS Tewksbury Dental that provides her clients with the highest quality care available including outstanding service and top-notch technology. Dr Gomer is widely recognized for her... - February 04, 2013 - MGS Tewksbury dental
Online Laboratory Website Testdiagnostics Expose Alarming Chlamydia Results
A recent study released from TestDiagnostics.com has revealed that 16% of adults under the age of 25 have tested positive for Chlamydia. The study took into account 1000 randomly selected tests completed between March 2012 and December 2012. The study released by TestDiagnostics.com confirmed that... - February 04, 2013 - Test Diagnostics
Local Physician Celebrates Decade of Membership in National Society Focused on Medical Treatment of Obesity
Medical weight loss expert Oksana Aron, MD, recently celebrated her 10-year anniversary as a member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, dedicated to the treatment of patients affected by obesity and related conditions. "In our own state of New York, adult obesity is nearly 25 percent," said Dr. Aron. "I am a part of the solution to this medical epidemic by locally helping patients affected by obesity who seek access to safe evidence-based medical treatment options." - February 03, 2013 - Dr Aron Medical Weight Loss Center, WeightLossNYC
GenScript Launches New PolyExpress Package
With the completion of an extensive new animal facility and validation of ground-breaking new immunization protocols, GenScript is able to offer this new antibody package at a staggeringly fast delivery time of just 45 days, 2 months faster than traditional immunization methods. - February 03, 2013 - GenScript USA Inc.
Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2013 - Complimentary Hall Passes Now Available
Gain access to solutions and connections for Diagnostics, Informatics, Clinical, Cancer, Therapeutics, Sequencing, Genomics and Medicine and more at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 20th Annual Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (Triconference.com/hallpass) - February 02, 2013 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Metrics Inc. Appoints Senior Director of Operations
Joe Cascone will manage the company's manufacturing and other operations. - February 02, 2013 - Metrics, Inc.
New Company’s Nail Polish Combines Beauty with Antifungal Protection
FioreRx Announces Initial Product Launch and Plans Contest to Pick Colors for New Spring Line of Antifungal Nail Polishes - February 01, 2013 - FioreRx
Major Growth in Asia’s Petrochemical Markets Raises New Issues
350 Key petrochemical stakeholders to gather in Bangkok this June. - February 01, 2013 - Petrochemical Asia
dinCloud on a Roll with Latest Customer Win
King’s Hawaiian Selects dinCloud’s Hosted Virtual Desktop Solution to Increase IT Efficiency and Reduce Costs - January 31, 2013 - dinCloud
Vollara LLC Introduces Updated Air Purifier Design with 29% Increase in Airflow and Improved Effectiveness
Direct marketing company, Vollara LLC, introduces an improved FreshAir Box with 29% increase in airflow and greater effectiveness within the indoor environment. - January 31, 2013 - Vollara
Metrics Inc. Names Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development
Dr. Brad Gold will direct pharmaceutical development and new technologies. - January 30, 2013 - Metrics, Inc.
Paid Diabetes Clinical Trial Now Enrolling at Achieve Clinical Research in Birmingham, Alabama; Accepting M/F Age 18+ with Type 2 Diabetes
This trial is a 26-week, multi-center, multinational, open-label, 2-arm parallel, randomized, treat-to-target trial in insulin naive subjects with T2DM inadequately controlled on a maximum tolerated dose or maximum dose according to local label of GLP-1 receptor agonist and metformin. - January 29, 2013 - Achieve Clinical Research
MOgene Announces Partnership with Intuitive Genomics to Expand Bioinformatics Capabilities
MOgene LC, a full service genomics service provider based in Saint Louis, MO announces a partnership with Intuitive Genomics, Inc. to further expand its bioinformatics capabilities. This decision follows several years of successfully working with Intuitive Genomics to deliver some very promising... - January 28, 2013 - MOgene, LC
Colorado BioScience Association Focuses on 2013's Key State and Federal Legislative Initiatives at Fifth Annual "BioScience Day at the Capitol"
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) is hosting its fifth annual "BioScience Day at the Capitol" on January 30. The event will feature Mark Leahey, President and CEO, Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) presenting the "State of the Medical Device Industry" and efforts MDMA is leading in Washington to repeal the Medical Device Tax. - January 28, 2013 - Colorado BioScience Association
dinCloud Director of Channels to Speak at ITEXPO East
Panel Discussions Will Focus on Cloud Migration and Secure Workforce Mobilization. - January 27, 2013 - dinCloud
ProteinSignal - A New Brand of GenScript, Focused on Protein Research
ProteinSignal will serve as a pioneering developer and supplier of high performance protein research products covering the entire protein analysis workflow. Their offerings include cytokines and growth factors, protein purification resins, precast PAGE gels, protein standards, gel staining systems, anti-tag antibodies, western blot detection, ELISA kits and endotoxin detection and removal kits. - January 27, 2013 - GenScript USA Inc.
CHI Releases List of Delegates for Targeting Cancer Stem Cells Symposium in San Francisco, CA
To be held on February 11-12, 2013 at the Moscone North Convention Center, San Francisco, CA - Part of the Molecular Med TRI-CON 2013. - January 26, 2013 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Tampa Bay Surgeons Offer Virtually Scarless Weight-Loss Procedure
Sun Coast Bariatrics is using the SPIDER® Surgical System to perform single-incision sleeve gastrectomy. - January 26, 2013 - TransEnterix
IonSense Awarded Massachusetts Workforce Training Grant. Adds New Sales Management.
IonSense, Inc. announced that they are a recipient of one of the 87 Workforce Training Grants awarded by the state of Massachusetts. This grant will enable the company to provide training to a number of employees in the areas of software development and engineering. “We are growing our... - January 25, 2013 - IonSense, Inc.
Sales R Us Announces New Ultra Balm Distributor Program
Sales R Us has announced the launch of a new distributor program for its popular line of Ultra Balm skin care products. - January 25, 2013 - Sales R Us
Optic Nerve Vision Loss Reversed with New Stem Cell Treatment
MD Stem Cells helps nearly blind car accident victim regain her sight in Florida and see her mother’s face again- other neurologic benefits reported as well. - January 24, 2013 - MD Stem Cells
Stevens Undergraduates Present Research on Reducing Back Pain
Lower back pain is the second most common cause of disability for adults in the United States. Faced with the rising number of individuals suffering from the condition, undergraduate students Emily Noonan and Hanna Sidoti at the Stevens Institute of Technology will be presenting their research on... - January 24, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Novel Health Strategies Announces Publication of Annual and Recurring Strategy Overview on Emerging Life Sciences Market Trends
Novel Health Strategies Study Shows Oncology, Diabetes and Auto-Immune Indications Driving Growth of the Biotech Sector; More Products Facing Market Access Challenges. - January 24, 2013 - Novel Health Strategies
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awards $150,000 to Dr. Lee Rubin at Harvard to Advance a New SMA Drug Discovery Program
Dr. Rubin's project at Harvard is the first of three drug discovery awards that will be given by Families of SMA in the next few months. - January 20, 2013 - Cure SMA
EEG Awareness Weeks – What EEG Can do for a Trial
The Siesta Group announces the "EEG Awareness Weeks" from Jan 7 to Mar 31, 2013. During this time The Siesta Group’s CEO Georg Dorffner and CSO Peter Anderer will hold free webinars on the topic "What EEG can do for a trial." A free feasibility analysis concerning efforts and costs of including EEG in an early or late phase trial to address CNS efficacy or safety of a drug will be offered to all participants. - January 19, 2013 - The Siesta Group Schlafanalyse GmbH
Vollara LLC Introduces New Air Purifier Designed for Smaller Indoor Areas
Direct marketing company, Vollara LLC, introduces a new, updated FreshAir Focus air purifier designed for smaller indoor areas. - January 18, 2013 - Vollara
Stevens Students Enter National Academy of Engineering Ethics Video Contest
Team of engineers proposes reassessment of nuclear energy as a sustainable power source as part of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Online Ethics Center (OEC) Energy Ethics Video Challenge. - January 16, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
MD Stem Cells Improves Myopic Macular Degeneration with New Stem Cell Treatment
MD Stem Cells helps Australian patient travel half way around the world for stem cell treatment in Florida to achieve significant improvement in vision. - January 14, 2013 - MD Stem Cells
AnaSpec Offers a Wide Selection of SYBR® qPCR MasterMixes and Core Kits
AnaSpec, EGT Group offers a wide selection of SYBR® Green-based MasterMixes and Core Kits for almost any thermocycler available in the industry. - January 12, 2013 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
Bioo Scientific Launches AflaPure™ Immunoaffinity Columns for Aflatoxin Detection in Food
Bioo Scientific developed two new immunoaffinity columns, AflaPure™ Total and AflaPure™ M1, for the convenient detection of aflatoxin in a variety of food and dairy samples in less than 30 minutes. - January 12, 2013 - Bioo Scientific
Winn-Dixie Agrees to Place EnergyXcentric in All Stores
Winn-Dixie is carrying the 30 count bottles and 2 capsule, 2 day supply packets of Health International Products, Inc.'s energyXcentric patented 8 hour release technology capsules within a capsule. - January 11, 2013 - Health International Products, Inc.
Clinical CRO ICRC-Weyer to Enhance Pharmacovigilance Risk Management
The Berlin-based clinical contract research organization (CRO) ICRC-Weyer GmbH is adapting a process of integrating medical review procedures into Pharmacovigilance risk management, a method that will lead to better Pharmacovigilance practices. - January 10, 2013 - ICRC-Weyer GmbH
Nutrition Pit is Now Offering GASP Bodybuilding Clothing in 2013
Nutrition Pit has just announced that they are now offering GASP bodybuilding clothing to kick-off 2013. - January 09, 2013 - Nutrition Pit
ASI Launches Go-Path – Computerized Immunohistochemistry Cancer Analysis Aid
GenASIs Go-Path – Industry’s Most Advanced Computer Aided Membrane and Nuclear Immunohistochemistry Imaging and Analysis Platform - January 09, 2013 - Applied Spectral Imaging
Pfizer Licenses Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Quinazoline Therapy Program
Repligen Corporation announced today that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Pfizer Inc. to advance Repligen’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) program, originally in-licensed from Families of SMA (FSMA). Families of SMA funded and directed the preclinical... - January 09, 2013 - Cure SMA
Fertility Preservation Network Adds Central South Carolina Facility
ReproTech, Ltd., a cryobank specializing in long-term storage of human reproductive tissue (sperm, eggs, embryos and ovarian and testicular tissue), reached an agreement with Advanced Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology Institute, LLC today. - January 09, 2013 - ReproTech, LLC
Human Growth Foundation to Host “Step Up and Walk” Event, Raising Awareness of Growth Hormone Deficiency
Human Growth Foundation, a national non-profit organization, will host its 1st Annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk fundraiser on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in Queens, New York. - January 09, 2013 - Human Growth Foundation
HealthCarePoint Completes the Integration of Transnational Collaborative Platform for Healthcare and Clinical Research
Connecting HealthCare and Clinical Research - January 08, 2013 - HealthCarePoint
The Colorado BioScience Association Launches Its Colorado BioScience Institute to Support Much Needed Educational & Workforce Programs for the State's Bioscience Industry
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) is officially launching the Colorado BioScience Institute (The Institute) today. The CBSA leadership team has set a kick-off goal of $100,000 for The Institute this year. The initial $20,000 raised, including a generous matching gift from PhRMA of up to $5,000, will support the Colorado launch of one of its flagship programs, the BioGENEius Challenge. - January 07, 2013 - Colorado BioScience Association
ImmunoReagents Signs French Distributorship Agreement with Ozyme
ImmunoReagents, a manufacturer of high quality polyclonal antibodies and reagents used by researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has announced the appointment of Ozyme as its new distributor in France. ImmunoReagents and Ozyme will partner to distribute top quality antibodies and... - January 04, 2013 - ImmunoReagents Inc.
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Committed $2.5 Million to Funding SMA Research in 2012
Families of SMA is dedicated to creating a treatment and cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy by funding and advancing a comprehensive research program, which includes: Basic Research to reveal the best ways of making SMA drugs; Drug Discovery to make practical new drugs, and; Clinical Trial resources... - January 01, 2013 - Cure SMA
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awards $710,000 for Basic Research to Identify New and More Effective Approaches for SMA Therapies
Continued investment in basic research leads to greater understanding of the exact nature, causes, and consequences of SMA. This knowledge is key to ensuring that the most effective SMA treatments can be identified and developed as quickly as possible. - December 29, 2012 - Cure SMA
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Grants New Research Funding of $140,000 to Dr. Didonato of Northwestern University
Families of SMA is dedicated to creating a treatment and cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy by funding and advancing a comprehensive research program. This new research funding will support a project at Northwestern University to better understand when and where SMN protein is needed in less severe... - December 28, 2012 - Cure SMA
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, is Offering TurboLigation™ Kit, Enabling Quick Ligation of DNA Molecules in Just 5 Minutes at a Bargain Price
Combining heterologous DNA molecules is a key process in most traditional molecular cloning experiments. This process, facilitated by the enzyme DNA ligase, usually takes about 16 hours. With the TurboLigation™ Kit the reaction time is greatly reduced down to just 5 minutes without compromising the efficiency. - December 22, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH
Source-Omega Challenges All Algae Omega-3 Suppliers to Release Full Algae DHA Contaminant Profiles
Source-Omega today released for public review their full nutritional and contaminant profile for SOURCE OIL™, the newest DHA algae oil supply to market. (http://www.source-omega.com/files/uploads/0B7704C3-F707-4E56-8672-302645CD7EC9.pdf) SOURCE OIL is used in their PURE ONE®... - December 20, 2012 - Source-Omega