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DiscountSupplements.com launched as industry leader in nutritional and fitness supplements

DiscountSupplements.com has launched as the industry leader in nutritional and fitness supplements. DiscountSupplements.com offers the lowest prices on over 5,000 (in stock) products and has 6 national warehouse locations enabling most orders to arrive the next day with an unbelievable flat shipping rate of only $7.99.

4 Mar 2010

Anesthesiologists and health care responders' experience during Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan

The 2008 earthquake in the Sichuan province of China was among the deadliest in history, killing an estimated 69,000 individuals and leaving millions displaced. Anesthesiologists are critically important medical responders to such disasters, as they have the skills required to resuscitate and stabilize patients while their injuries are surgically treated.

4 Mar 2010

SXC Health Solutions reports 2009 financial results

SXC Health Solutions Corp., announces its financial results for the three- and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2009. Financial references are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.

4 Mar 2010

Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy to help patients obtain financial assistance to purchase life-saving drugs

Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy, the nation's largest privately held specialty pharmacy company, is on a mission to help patients obtain the financial assistance they need to purchase life-saving drugs for such illnesses as cancer, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, as well as drugs for Multiple Sclerosis, kidney disease and other chronic conditions.

4 Mar 2010

CML Healthcare Income Fund reports increase revenue for 2009 fiscal year

CML HealthCare Income Fund today reported its financial results for the three and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2009.

4 Mar 2010

Valley Presbyterian Hospital announces opening of premier Amputation Prevention Center

Valley Presbyterian Hospital is proud to announce the planned red-carpet grand-opening on March 17th of its premier Amputation Prevention Center (APC), an integrated limb-preservation center that is one of the nation’s only facilities of its kind.

4 Mar 2010

Study indicates personality does not influence career decisions

Researchers from the University of C-diz (UCA) have studied the connection between professional preferences and personality, based on interviews and questionnaires carried out on 735 secondary school students from the province of Cadiz. The results indicate that personality does not have an influence when choosing a professional career.

4 Mar 2010

Study indicates climate change plays a role in malaria transmission

Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at play. The research, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scientists try to understand why malaria has been spreading into highland areas of East Africa, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

4 Mar 2010

First Edition: March 4, 2010

Today's headlines offer more detail about President Obama's health reform speech, his call for quick congressional action and reconciliation.

4 Mar 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals asks Court to dismiss MIT from any claims for monetary damages in ongoing litigation

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the company and Max Planck have asked the Court to dismiss the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from any claims for monetary damages in the ongoing litigation related to the Tuschl I patent series.

4 Mar 2010

Scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals to convene in Atlanta to set agenda for HAI prevention

Three thousand scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals from throughout the world specializing in epidemiology and infectious diseases will convene March 18-22 in Atlanta with the goal of setting the agenda for healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention for the next decade.

4 Mar 2010

Adams Food Ingredients launches new additives to enhance nutritional values of foods

Adams Food Ingredients Limited, the functional ingredients division of The Irish Dairy Board (based in Leek), has launched a range of additives to help food manufacturers enhance the health and nutritional values of their products.

4 Mar 2010

Parkinson's patients find facial and vocal expression difficult to read; deep brain stimulation seems to make it worse

Scientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. Parkinson's patients find it harder to recognize expressions of emotion in other people's faces and voices, report two studies published by the American Psychological Association.

4 Mar 2010

SpePharm Holding acquires global rights to Savene from TopoTarget

SpePharm Holding, BV today announced the acquisition of the worldwide (with the exception of North and South America) rights to Savene® from TopoTarget A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark). As part of the acquisition SpePharm will also take on the European sales force of TopoTarget. Savene®, which has been marketed by TopoTarget since its approval by the EMEA in July 2006, is the only approved product for the treatment of extravasations, or leakage out of the blood stream, of certain commonly used anticancer drugs known as anthracyclines.

4 Mar 2010

SXC Health Solutions and HealthSpring sign PBM contract

SXC Health Solutions Corp., a leading provider of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) products and services, today announced that its informedRx PBM unit has been awarded a contract with HealthSpring Inc.

4 Mar 2010

Atacama Labs and Excella partner to sell PDG Granule and Tablet Manufacturing Services

Atacama Labs Oy has developed an innovative oral drug delivery technology (called 'pneumatic dry granulation' or 'PDG Technology(TM)'). The technology is aimed to replace existing solid dosage form development and manufacturing methods (like wet granulation or standard roller compaction) and will help both NCE galenic developers and life cycle managers to overcome development or differentiation issues.

4 Mar 2010

Teens who drink 100% fruit juice have lower intakes of dietary fat and higher intakes of nutrients

New research published in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion shows that teens who drink 100 percent fruit juice have more nutritious diets overall compared to non-consumers.

4 Mar 2010

P&R Dental Strategies develops and builds Rapid Review Imaging System for digitizing x-ray images

After nearly two decades building her company into the industry leader for third-party review of dental insurance claims, Dianne Rose, D.D.S., and principal of P&R Dental Strategies, Inc., was frustrated. In spite of many advances over the years in both dental x-ray technologies and the average quality of images supplied for review of dental claims, there was no consistency and, all-too-often, regardless of how up-to-date the x-ray equipment being used may have been, the images supplied were blurred and nearly useless for making accurate diagnostic determinations.

4 Mar 2010

Congressman Chaka Fattah's statement on healthcare plan

"There's an old expression: 'Lead, follow, or get out of the way.' President Obama today has stepped up in a big way and asserted his leadership. Solid majorities in Congress and a national mandate from the voters are prepared to follow the President's lead and get this job done. Make no mistake: there will be a vote on healthcare.

4 Mar 2010

Best Doctors Canada President available to discuss retesting of pathology reports Opinion

Canada's health experts are among the very best in the world, but Canadians may be surprised to learn that when it comes to reading their pathology reports, it is imperative that they seek a second opinion.

4 Mar 2010

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DiscountSupplements.com launched as industry leader in nutritional and fitness supplements

Anesthesiologists and health care responders' experience during Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan

SXC Health Solutions reports 2009 financial results

Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy to help patients obtain financial assistance to purchase life-saving drugs

CML Healthcare Income Fund reports increase revenue for 2009 fiscal year

Valley Presbyterian Hospital announces opening of premier Amputation Prevention Center

Study indicates personality does not influence career decisions

Study indicates climate change plays a role in malaria transmission

First Edition: March 4, 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals asks Court to dismiss MIT from any claims for monetary damages in ongoing litigation

Scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals to convene in Atlanta to set agenda for HAI prevention

Adams Food Ingredients launches new additives to enhance nutritional values of foods

Parkinson's patients find facial and vocal expression difficult to read; deep brain stimulation seems to make it worse

SpePharm Holding acquires global rights to Savene from TopoTarget

SXC Health Solutions and HealthSpring sign PBM contract

Atacama Labs and Excella partner to sell PDG Granule and Tablet Manufacturing Services

Teens who drink 100% fruit juice have lower intakes of dietary fat and higher intakes of nutrients

P&R Dental Strategies develops and builds Rapid Review Imaging System for digitizing x-ray images

Congressman Chaka Fattah's statement on healthcare plan

Best Doctors Canada President available to discuss retesting of pathology reports Opinion

Redefining control and consistency in anaerobic microbiome workflows

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The future of automation: Machine learning–driven hepatocyte and organoid counting

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