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GrowLife opens 7th hydroponic retail in Santa Rosa, CA

GrowLife, Inc., a provider of highly effective indoor growing technologies and unique lifestyle brands, is pleased to announce that the Company will open its 7th hydroponic retail location in Santa Rosa, CA in October.

16 Sep 2013

Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion wins prestigious design award from American Institute of Architects California Council

Cedars-Sinai's new Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, designed to bring patient care and translational research together in one site and encourage scientists and physicians to collaborate when developing new treatments, has won a prestigious design award from the American Institute of Architects California Council.

13 Sep 2013

Professional soccer team signs up to help D.C. health exchanges

On the other side of the issue, the Heritage Foundation unveils a new billboard in New York City.

13 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: GOP 'obsession' with health law prevents progress on key financial issues; the 'fantasy of fertility;' VA is 'model' for transforming U.S. medicine

Try as they might, House Republican leaders are having trouble stopping their colleagues from shooting themselves in the foot -- again. Having failed to approve any of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund federal agencies, Congress has to pass a stopgap spending bill by Sept. 30 to keep much of the federal government from shutting down.

13 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 12, 2013

Today's headlines include a range of stories related to the politics and policies in play as Oct. 1 -- the health law's big day -- quickly approaches.

12 Sep 2013

Perkins+Will completes UF's Clinical and Translational Research Building

The Miami office of global architecture and design firm, Perkins+Will, recently completed a major healthcare, education and research project, the University of Florida's Clinical and Translational Research Building.

11 Sep 2013

Clinical trial of Grafix for treatment of chronic diabetic foot ulcers accepted for presentation at SAWC

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIR), announced today that its multi-center, randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of Grafix® for the treatment of chronic diabetic foot ulcers has been accepted for podium presentation at the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) in Las Vegas on Friday, September 27, 2013.

7 Sep 2013

Safety and health checklist to help kids avoid emergency room

With the school year underway, Children's Hospital Los Angeles experts have developed a safety and health checklist to help kids avoid the emergency room and develop productive extracurricular and learning activities to enhance the classroom experience. What do parents need to consider? Many symptoms of childhood conditions are often discovered in the classroom.

7 Sep 2013

PET imaging predicts favorable outcome after decompressive surgery in patients with cervical myelopathy

For patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy, imaging with 18F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) could act as a marker for a potentially reversible phase of the disease in which substantial clinical improvement can be achieved.

5 Sep 2013

High-income and better hygiene countries exhibit much higher rates of Alzheimer's

New research has found a "very significant" relationship between a nation's wealth and hygiene and the Alzheimer's "burden" on its population. High-income, highly industrialised countries with large urban areas and better hygiene exhibit much higher rates of Alzheimer's.

5 Sep 2013

Researchers uncover evidence that Richard III had roundworm infection

Researchers based at the University of Cambridge and the University of Leicester have uncovered evidence that Richard III suffered from a roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) infection, according to a Clinical Picture published in The Lancet.

4 Sep 2013

UCLA researchers receives $13M Early Translational grants to advance innovative discoveries using stem cells

Four researchers from UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have received Early Translational Research Awards totaling approximately $13 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state's stem cell agency. The UCLA researchers received four of the 12 total awards; no other institution received more than one.

4 Sep 2013

BME introduces new, improved Speed Continuous Active Compression System

BME, Inc., the privately held U.S. Leader in Nitinol Technology Implants and Instruments known under the brands of: Speed™ (fully-disposable continuous active compression system), HammerLock® (intramedullary hammertoe correction system), OSStaple™ (Nitinol continuous active compression system) and OSSforce™ (heat-activating implant controller), has announced today its' introduction of a new, improved Speed™ Continuous Active Compression System.

3 Sep 2013

Stem cell researchers receive Early Translational research awards from CIRM

Four prominent researchers from UCLA's Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have received Early Translational research awards totaling approximately $13 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) the state stem cell agency. The UCLA researchers received four of the 12 total awards; no other applicant institution received more than one award.

30 Aug 2013

SDSU researchers develop new device to accurately diagnose concussions from sidelines

In the United States there are millions of sports related concussions each year, but many go undiagnosed because for some athletes, the fear of being benched trumps the fear of permanent brain damage, and there is no objective test available to accurately diagnose concussions on the sidelines.

28 Aug 2013

University of Utah started construction on Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building

The University of Utah on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, broke ground on the $36.4 million Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building, which when completed in December 2014 will house the University's new School of Dentistry.

27 Aug 2013

Northwestern surgical oncologists use minimally invasive procedure to remove malignant melanoma

That's when she received the results from her dermatologist, who removed a part of the blister and had it tested. It turns out that little red bump was malignant melanoma, the leading cause of skin cancer death in the United States. It's a cancer that kills one person every hour, which translates to more than 8,700 Americans each year.

27 Aug 2013

Oxygen-generating compound could preserve muscle tissue after severe injury

The same compound in a common household clothes detergent shows promise as a treatment to preserve muscle tissue after severe injury. Researchers at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine hope the oxygen-generating compound could one day aid in saving and repairing limbs and tissue.

27 Aug 2013

Mayo Clinic opens its own stem cell laboratory in summer 2014

Mayo Clinic in Arizona, with one of the most active bone marrow transplant programs in United States, will open its own stem cell laboratory in summer 2014. The laboratory will be initially dedicated to storing and processing stem cells used for bone marrow transplants at Mayo Clinic Hospital and Phoenix Children's Hospital.

26 Aug 2013

Post-doctoral fellow receives grant from NIH to study the response levels to FES in stroke patients

Rakesh Pilkar, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in Human Performance and Engineering Research at Kessler Foundation, was awarded a R03, $153,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health to study the response levels to function electrical stimulation (FES) interventions in the rehabilitation of stroke patients-titled, "Identification of Responders to the FES Interventions in Stroke Populations".

26 Aug 2013

Foot News and Research

GrowLife opens 7th hydroponic retail in Santa Rosa, CA

Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion wins prestigious design award from American Institute of Architects California Council

Professional soccer team signs up to help D.C. health exchanges

Viewpoints: GOP 'obsession' with health law prevents progress on key financial issues; the 'fantasy of fertility;' VA is 'model' for transforming U.S. medicine

First Edition: September 12, 2013

Perkins+Will completes UF's Clinical and Translational Research Building

Clinical trial of Grafix for treatment of chronic diabetic foot ulcers accepted for presentation at SAWC

Safety and health checklist to help kids avoid emergency room

PET imaging predicts favorable outcome after decompressive surgery in patients with cervical myelopathy

High-income and better hygiene countries exhibit much higher rates of Alzheimer's

Researchers uncover evidence that Richard III had roundworm infection

UCLA researchers receives $13M Early Translational grants to advance innovative discoveries using stem cells

BME introduces new, improved Speed Continuous Active Compression System

Stem cell researchers receive Early Translational research awards from CIRM

SDSU researchers develop new device to accurately diagnose concussions from sidelines

University of Utah started construction on Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building

Northwestern surgical oncologists use minimally invasive procedure to remove malignant melanoma

Oxygen-generating compound could preserve muscle tissue after severe injury

Mayo Clinic opens its own stem cell laboratory in summer 2014

Post-doctoral fellow receives grant from NIH to study the response levels to FES in stroke patients

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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