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HighRes Biosolutions to install automation platform in China

HighRes Biosolutions, the leader in laboratory automation for life sciences, announced today that it is building a system for an undisclosed laboratory in Shanghai, China. The new system will be installed in the fall of 2010 by HighRes and Tekon Biotech Ltd, the Asian distributor representing HighRes in this region.

24 Aug 2010

Connectyx Technologies temporarily changes Company's stock symbol

Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc.,as a result of recommendations from Management and the Board of Directors, completed a 1- for- 50 reverse stock split of the Company's common stock ("Reverse Split") today. In accordance with FINRA rules, effective immediately, the Company's stock symbol: CTYX will have a "D" appended to the end of it, which will remain for 20 business days after which it will revert back to the original symbol.

24 Aug 2010

INPUT releases new report on Electronic Health Record Incentive Funding and Certification Program

Contractors will find comprehensive information and current opportunities related to state and local governments' electronic health records (EHR) incentives program through INPUT's Electronic Health Record Incentive Funding and Certification Program.

24 Aug 2010

CPF continues partnership with American Thoracic Society to fund Pulmonary Fibrosis research

The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the world's leading professional organization for pulmonary, critical care and sleep physicians, today announced that the CPF will again partner with the ATS to continue to fund Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) research.

24 Aug 2010

Fla.'s Jackson Health System struggles with nursing home and hospital losses; Advocates push marijuana cultivation in Calif.

The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System's "governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money-losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut losses. Almost 100 of the 289 nursing home patients in the Jackson Health System are uninsured. Half of those are undocumented immigrants under age 50.

24 Aug 2010

Research on OGF-OGFr complex helps to understand pathobiology of diseases

Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered that the Opioid Growth Factor (OGF, [Met5]-enkephalin) and its receptor, OGFr, a clinically important system with potent antitumor properties, has controlled entry from the cytoplasm to the nucleus. The nucleocytoplasmic passage of OGF-OGFr is critical to cell proliferation and suggests that there are hierarchical levels of nuclear import.

24 Aug 2010

Berries help aging brain stay healthy

Scientists today reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study, presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), concluded that berries, and possibly walnuts, activate the brain's natural "housekeeper" mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental decline.

24 Aug 2010

Removing corticosteroid regimen after surgery results in better graft survival rates

University of Cincinnati (UC) analysis of 10 years of data from local kidney transplant patients shows that patients removed from a corticosteroid regimen shortly after surgery have better graft survival rates, better survival rates and fewer cardiovascular events than patients kept on the traditional regimen of long-term steroids.

24 Aug 2010

Harvard Bioscience announces acquisition of Coulbourn Instruments

Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, today announced that it has acquired the business of Coulbourn Instruments through a purchase of substantially all of Coulbourn's assets.

From Harvard Bioscience 24 Aug 2010

Baltimore's new health commissioner: Technology can help fix public health challenges

Kaiser Health News staff writer Jessica Marcy talks with Dr. Oxiris Barbot, a pediatrician who will be Baltimore's health commissioner.

24 Aug 2010

Spaulding Clinical becomes world’s largest provider for Mortara Surveyor telemetry-monitoring capability

Spaulding Clinical Research, a Phase 1 Clinical Pharmacology Research Unit and Core ECG Lab announced today that renovation of the clinic's second floor, which was completed on Aug. 20, has made Spaulding Clinical the largest provider of Mortara Surveyor telemetry-monitoring capability in the clinical research world.

24 Aug 2010

Cambridge Health Alliance to expand use of MedAssets' revenue cycle management solutions

MedAssets, Inc. announced today that the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) of the metropolitan Boston area will expand its use of MedAssets' revenue cycle management solutions to further improve its financial performance and streamline its revenue cycle operations.

24 Aug 2010

Baxter announces definitive agreement with Kamada for GLASSIA alpha1-proteinase inhibitor

Baxter International Inc. today announced a definitive agreement with Kamada Ltd. for exclusive commercial rights to GLASSIA™ [Alpha 1-Proteinase Inhibitor (Human)], the first and only liquid alpha1-proteinase inhibitor, in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

From Baxter International Inc. 24 Aug 2010

Aspen University lowers tuition for Master of Science in Nursing Program

Aspen University, a leading provider of affordable online education, announced today it is lowering its tuition for its CCNE accredited Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Program. The program now has a total tuition cost of $4,800. Aspen is a 100% online, accredited university with a rich history dating back almost 40 years.

24 Aug 2010

AP reports on efforts to monitor authenticity of antimalarials, other drugs in Africa

The Associated Press reports on a recent effort to use text messages to track the authenticity of antimalarials in Africa, where "more than 30 percent of malaria medicines are estimated to be fake."

24 Aug 2010

AdvanSource receives notice on NYSE Amex's continued listing standards

AdvanSource Biomaterials Corporation,a leading developer, manufacturer and seller of advanced polymer technologies and materials for a broad range of medical devices, today announced it was notified by the staff of the NYSE Amex that a review of the Company's Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2010 indicated that the Company is not in compliance with one of the NYSE Amex's continued listing standards as set forth in Part 10 of the NYSE Amex's Company Guide (the "Company Guide").

24 Aug 2010

Epilepsy Therapy Project, EF announce recipients of New Therapy Grants Program

The Epilepsy Therapy Project (ETP) and the Epilepsy Foundation (EF) today announced the latest grant recipients of its New Therapy Grants Program, a unique joint venture of the non-profit epilepsy organizations, to advance promising epilepsy research in clinical development. The grant awards, totaling approximately $200,000 in funding, will support an experimental gene therapy that directly targets epileptogenic brain tissue, as well as an electrode system that has the potential to improve the efficacy of surgical therapies for certain epilepsy syndromes.

24 Aug 2010

Study enhances use of stem cells for organ regeneration

Cindy Morrissey, President and CEO of Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc., called the results of a recent study on Friday an 'encouraging step' towards the use of stem cells to regenerate human organs.

24 Aug 2010

CAHG adopts new integrated marketing communications network model

Corbett Accel Healthcare Group is now CAHG, having adopted a new integrated marketing communications network model designed to deliver MarketMovingIdeas® in support of their clients' brands. Complementing the new agency network brand is a new vision, We Grow Leaders, which reflects the agency network's devotion to the development of leadership brands, ideas and talent.

24 Aug 2010

Experts examine COBRA subsidy program following its expiration

Business Insurance: "The once politically popular program that provides COBRA premium subsidies for involuntarily terminated employees is winding down as broad congressional support has nearly vanished, experts say. Embedded in a 2009 economic stimulus measure and renewed several times since then, the program in which the federal government pays 65% of the COBRA premium has enabled millions of employees who lost their jobs and their dependents to keep group coverage by making it more affordable."

24 Aug 2010

Medical News

HighRes Biosolutions to install automation platform in China

Connectyx Technologies temporarily changes Company's stock symbol

INPUT releases new report on Electronic Health Record Incentive Funding and Certification Program

CPF continues partnership with American Thoracic Society to fund Pulmonary Fibrosis research

Fla.'s Jackson Health System struggles with nursing home and hospital losses; Advocates push marijuana cultivation in Calif.

Research on OGF-OGFr complex helps to understand pathobiology of diseases

Berries help aging brain stay healthy

Removing corticosteroid regimen after surgery results in better graft survival rates

Harvard Bioscience announces acquisition of Coulbourn Instruments

Baltimore's new health commissioner: Technology can help fix public health challenges

Spaulding Clinical becomes world’s largest provider for Mortara Surveyor telemetry-monitoring capability

Cambridge Health Alliance to expand use of MedAssets' revenue cycle management solutions

Baxter announces definitive agreement with Kamada for GLASSIA alpha1-proteinase inhibitor

Aspen University lowers tuition for Master of Science in Nursing Program

AP reports on efforts to monitor authenticity of antimalarials, other drugs in Africa

AdvanSource receives notice on NYSE Amex's continued listing standards

Epilepsy Therapy Project, EF announce recipients of New Therapy Grants Program

Study enhances use of stem cells for organ regeneration

CAHG adopts new integrated marketing communications network model

Experts examine COBRA subsidy program following its expiration

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