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Sequel Youth and Family Services acquires Camelot System of Care

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, announced today that Sequel Youth and Family Services, a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners IV, L.P., has completed the strategic acquisition of Camelot System of Care.

5 Mar 2011

TearLab provides update on CLIA Waiver categorization application for TearLab Osmolarity System

TearLab Corporation announced today that it is in receipt of a communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration indicating that the data submitted by the Company was not sufficient to gain approval of its CLIA Waiver categorization application for the TearLab Osmolarity System.

5 Mar 2011

Anthem Life sponsors USABA to host Winter Ski Festival for visually impaired athletes

Sponsored by Anthem Life Insurance Company, The United States Association of Blind Athletes is pleased to host the second annual Colorado Winter Ski Festival in Breckenridge, CO, from Friday, March 11 through Monday, March 14.

5 Mar 2011

Experts to discuss cause of sudden death on athletic playing fields

While the cause of death of the Fennville, Mich. high school basketball player is unknown, an inherited heart condition makes the top of the list for possible causes.

5 Mar 2011

Bovie settles patent infringement ligation with Salient Surgical and Medtronic

Bovie Medical Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, today announced a settlement to the June 10, 2010, action brought by Salient Surgical Technologies, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. against the Company.

5 Mar 2011

Senate dems pitch long-term spending bill

"A long-term spending bill pitched by the Senate will not include language to strip federal funds from Planned Parenthood and implementation of the healthcare reform law, according to new highlights released by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday afternoon.

5 Mar 2011

Grifols receives FDA approval for Alphanate to treat vCJD

Grifols, a global healthcare company and biopharmaceutical manufacturer based in Barcelona, Spain today announced that it received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for revised labeling for Alphanate Antihemophilic Factor/von Willebrand Factor Complex indicating that certain manufacturing steps have been shown to reduce the infectivity of a experimental TSE agent that is a model for variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.

5 Mar 2011

Pennsylvania Authority partners with QIP to raise awareness about patient safety issues

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority is partnering with Quality Insights of Pennsylvania and consumer groups statewide to raise awareness of patient safety issues during Patient Safety Awareness Week.

5 Mar 2011

Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease becomes official journal of COPD Foundation

COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the first journal dedicated to publishing a range of research on the impact of COPD, has become the official journal of the COPD Foundation.

5 Mar 2011

Denture wearers advised to pay special attention to consumption of zinc

From its involvement in a healthy immune system to its role in cell growth, zinc is an essential mineral for the human body. Zinc deficiency is a worldwide problem that affects approximately 4 million people in the U.S. alone.

5 Mar 2011

WHO concerned about potential disease epidemics among Libyan refugees in Tunisia

Disease epidemics threaten tens of thousands of refugees who have fled the violence in Libya and crossed over into southern Tunisia, Eric Laroche, WHO assistant director-general for Health Action in Crises, said at a news briefing on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports.

5 Mar 2011

Recent releases in Global Health

The Importance Of Investing In Adolescent Girls: A Lancet editorial examines the challenges adolescent girls living in developing countries face and the work of the U.N. Adolescent Girls Task Force to help young women overcome these barriers.

5 Mar 2011

Scientific symposium to examine new approaches to schizophrenia drug development

Despite significant investment in research and development by pharmaceutical companies, the last decade has seen a marked decline in the number of drugs developed and approved for schizophrenia. A multi-day symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences on Wednesday, March 9 - Friday, March 11 will convene world-leading experts in clinical, translational, and basic neuroscience to address this problem by examining novel, state-of-the-art approaches to schizophrenia drug development.

5 Mar 2011

Sodexo earns second rank for diversity and inclusion

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Daily Life solutions, was ranked #2 on the 2011 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, affirming its position as a benchmark employer in leveraging diversity and inclusion expertise as a competitive advantage in business. This year 535 companies applied to be evaluated by DiversityInc.

5 Mar 2011

Fourteen life sciences entrepreneurs to vie for $25,000 fund at 3rd Annual ZINO Life

Fourteen life sciences entrepreneurs will vie for a $25,000 fund at ZINO Society's 3rd Annual ZINO Life, a life sciences investment forum, March 8, 2011 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle.

5 Mar 2011

Stockholm court rules in favour of Occlutech against AGA-St Jude Medical

Occlutech GmbH, a leading European developer of minimally invasive implants for the treatment of structural heart disease, today announced that it has received a favourable court ruling from Stockholm, Sweden in the on-going patent litigation with AGA Medical -St Jude Medical.

5 Mar 2011

Questcor Pharmaceuticals appoints BDO to audit its consolidated financial statements

Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has completed a formal selection process and appointed BDO USA, LLP as its independent, registered public accounting firm for the auditing of Questcor's consolidated financial statements.

5 Mar 2011

Healthcare communications, patient engagement improve safety, reduce errors

Improving healthcare communications and engaging patients is critical to improving safety and reducing error. That's why in celebration of The National Patient Safety Foundation's Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 6-12, patient safety thought leaders will be podcasting at the Engaging the Patient blog about how to improve patient safety and empower patients to become more actively involved in their care.

5 Mar 2011

Summer Street Research announces recent closing of financing for IMUC

Summer Street Research Partners is pleased to announce the recent closing of a financing for ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a Los Angeles-based clinical-stage company that is developing immune-based therapies for the treatment of brain and other cancers.

5 Mar 2011

NCI renews Ariadne's license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system

Ariadne, a leader in bioinformatics software and knowledge integration, announced that National Cancer Institute has renewed their license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system that includes the ResNet Mammalian database and Ariadne MedScan text processing technology for site-wide use.

5 Mar 2011

Medical News

Sequel Youth and Family Services acquires Camelot System of Care

TearLab provides update on CLIA Waiver categorization application for TearLab Osmolarity System

Anthem Life sponsors USABA to host Winter Ski Festival for visually impaired athletes

Experts to discuss cause of sudden death on athletic playing fields

Bovie settles patent infringement ligation with Salient Surgical and Medtronic

Senate dems pitch long-term spending bill

Grifols receives FDA approval for Alphanate to treat vCJD

Pennsylvania Authority partners with QIP to raise awareness about patient safety issues

Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease becomes official journal of COPD Foundation

Denture wearers advised to pay special attention to consumption of zinc

WHO concerned about potential disease epidemics among Libyan refugees in Tunisia

Recent releases in Global Health

Scientific symposium to examine new approaches to schizophrenia drug development

Sodexo earns second rank for diversity and inclusion

Fourteen life sciences entrepreneurs to vie for $25,000 fund at 3rd Annual ZINO Life

Stockholm court rules in favour of Occlutech against AGA-St Jude Medical

Questcor Pharmaceuticals appoints BDO to audit its consolidated financial statements

Healthcare communications, patient engagement improve safety, reduce errors

Summer Street Research announces recent closing of financing for IMUC

NCI renews Ariadne's license for Pathway Studio Enterprise system

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Automation in cell-based workflows

Data management challenges in scientific research

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