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Arts-based program identifies safety needs of children from low-income communities

Identifying the public health and safety needs of children from low-income communities may be best accomplished through art, report University of Pittsburgh researchers in the current online issue of Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action. In their paper, researchers describe the success of Visual Voices, an arts-based program that engages community members as partners in research.

20 Jan 2010

QuantRx Biomedical's developments in genetics-based technology

QuantRx® Biomedical Corporation, a broad-based diagnostic company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative diagnostic products, today provided an update from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Walter Witoshkin on its involvement in genetics-based personalized medicine and disease prevention.

20 Jan 2010

Loyola Center for Aesthetics conducts open house on new anti-aging and cosmetic-enhancement procedures

Loyola Center for Aesthetics will hold an open house from 5 - 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, at 1S260 Summit Ave., 3rd Floor, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. Members of the community will have the opportunity to learn about the latest anti-aging and cosmetic-enhancement procedures and treatments.

20 Jan 2010

PROLOR Biotech's hGH-CTP Phase I study data to be presented at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference

PROLOR Biotech, Inc., today announced that final data from a randomized, dose-escalating Phase I clinical study of its longer-acting version of human growth hormone (hGH-CTP) will be featured in an oral presentation by PROLOR management at the 12th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on February 8-9, 2010.

20 Jan 2010

InVivo Therapeutics sponsors fundraising event to support patients with spinal cord injuries

InVivo Therapeutics will be the lead champion level sponsor for the black tie gala fundraiser to support the Greater Boston Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, a non-profit organization that offers programs and services to those with spinal cord injury/disease (SCI).

20 Jan 2010

Taking opioids long term could hold small risk of addition

Coping with chronic non-cancer pain is a way of life for millions of Americans. Unfortunately, many older adults, in particular, hesitate to take opioids — a kind of narcotic — for fear of addiction. However, a new review finds that taking opioids long term is associated with clinically significant pain relief in some patients with a very small risk of addition.

20 Jan 2010

Gently rocking embryos during IVF may improve success rates

Gently rocking embryos while they grow during in vitro fertilization (IVF) improves pregnancy rates in mice by 22 percent, new University of Michigan research shows. The procedure could one day lead to significantly higher IVF success rates in humans.

20 Jan 2010

Officers face off; join American Red Cross for ‘Battle of the Badges’ blood drive

Close to 100 different Southern California law enforcement agencies will go head-to-head in the spirit of friendly competition to see which agency can donate the most blood through the American Red Cross in the 4th Annual Battle of the Badges blood drives.

20 Jan 2010

Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex comments on electing a Republican to 'Ted Kennedy's seat'

Citizens from several states and DC to gather on Tuesday morning at the corner of the Russell Senate office building to taunt Senators and Senate Staff: "Oh the sweet irony of the 'Ted Kennedy seat' sending health care to the grave!"

20 Jan 2010

Weight Watchers International files complaint against Jenny Craig

Weight Watchers International, Inc., the global leader in weight-management services, today announced it has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for injunctive relief and damages against Jenny Craig, Inc. ("Jenny Craig").

20 Jan 2010

The Doctors Company becomes the first insurer to add CyberGuard for its members

The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability in the U.S., became the first insurer to add CyberGuard for its members, extending the industry’s most relentless medical liability insurance to cover an emerging threat to medical practices—privacy and data security.

20 Jan 2010

Proskauer plays a key role in improving research and treatment for stomach cancer

Proskauer partner Stuart T. Kapp and associate Jordan Wigdor in the firm’s Boca Raton office have played an important role in the quest to improve treatment and research for stomach cancer by securing 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status for Debbie’s Dream Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting patients who suffer from stomach cancer and providing financial support for research of new treatments.

20 Jan 2010

Davis Vision's "Order Online to Win" promotion awarded to Dr. Candice Macri

Dr. Candice Macri, a Pittsburgh-area optometrist, has won Davis Vision's "Order Online to Win" promotion. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Davis Vision representatives will visit Dr. Macri's office in New Castle, Pa. to present her prize, a trip to Miami for the Big Game on Sunday, Feb. 7.

20 Jan 2010

Hospital for Special Surgery helps Haiti victims

A team of anesthesiologists, nurses and orthopedic trauma surgeons from Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan headed for Haiti on Friday and have been performing surgery and tending to those impacted by the earthquake ever since.

20 Jan 2010

HPV vaccine will reduce number of cervical cancer cases in women under 30

The number of women under 30 diagnosed with cervical cancer will fall nearly two thirds by 2025, thanks to the HPV vaccine.

20 Jan 2010

Enterprise, National Community Fund I closed on $22.3M NMTC transaction

Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. (Enterprise), a national leader in affordable housing and community development, and National Community Fund I, LLC, an affiliate of United Fund Advisors, LLC, recently closed on a $22.3 million New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) transaction. This will finance the new construction of the Harrison Circle Building at the Morris Heights Health Center (MHHC) in Bronx, N.Y.

20 Jan 2010

Patients Medical offers prevention tips for patients during heart health month

Patients Medical, a leading integrative medical center in New York, offers prevention tips for patients during heart health month. William Lee, MD, PhD, FACC, a Metabolic Cardiologist and Director of Cardiology at Patients Medical, has a unique approach to medicine which incorporates both traditional and alternative practices to provide patients complete care. He believes good health starts with good heart health.

20 Jan 2010

Exercise can aid in smoking cessation; improve physical fitness in women smokers

It's been 18 excruciating hours since you last had one. You're irritable, stressed out, and the cravings are intense. There is only one thing you can think about firing up - and it isn't your treadmill. But that's exactly what University of Western Ontario researchers have been hard at work trying to convince smokers to do.

20 Jan 2010

TUM biophysicists map changes in energy landscape of zipper-like protein molecule

Biophysicists at TUM, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, have published the results of single-molecule experiments that bring a higher-resolution tool to the study of protein folding. How proteins arrive at the three-dimensional shapes that determine their essential functions - or cause grave diseases when folding goes wrong - is considered one of the most important and least understood questions in the biological and medical sciences.

20 Jan 2010

New white paper examines how PCR mycoplasma tests and analysis save time and money

Contamination by mycoplasmal organisms is an ever-present concern in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Their properties make them ready sources of contamination, while rendering them difficult and time-consuming to detect. A new free white paper, examines how PCR mycoplasma tests and analysis, deployed by a cutting-edge laboratory, minimizes testing delays and enable safe, high-volume biopharmaceutical production.

20 Jan 2010

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Arts-based program identifies safety needs of children from low-income communities

QuantRx Biomedical's developments in genetics-based technology

Loyola Center for Aesthetics conducts open house on new anti-aging and cosmetic-enhancement procedures

PROLOR Biotech's hGH-CTP Phase I study data to be presented at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference

InVivo Therapeutics sponsors fundraising event to support patients with spinal cord injuries

Taking opioids long term could hold small risk of addition

Gently rocking embryos during IVF may improve success rates

Officers face off; join American Red Cross for ‘Battle of the Badges’ blood drive

Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex comments on electing a Republican to 'Ted Kennedy's seat'

Weight Watchers International files complaint against Jenny Craig

The Doctors Company becomes the first insurer to add CyberGuard for its members

Proskauer plays a key role in improving research and treatment for stomach cancer

Davis Vision's "Order Online to Win" promotion awarded to Dr. Candice Macri

Hospital for Special Surgery helps Haiti victims

HPV vaccine will reduce number of cervical cancer cases in women under 30

Enterprise, National Community Fund I closed on $22.3M NMTC transaction

Patients Medical offers prevention tips for patients during heart health month

Exercise can aid in smoking cessation; improve physical fitness in women smokers

TUM biophysicists map changes in energy landscape of zipper-like protein molecule

New white paper examines how PCR mycoplasma tests and analysis save time and money

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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