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U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science to host symposium on accelerators

On Monday, October 26, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science will host a Symposium on Accelerators for America's Future in Washington, DC.

24 Sep 2009

AFC announces the successful installation of three Hastelloy LLC in series

AMPAC Fine Chemicals (AFC), a subsidiary of American Pacific Corporation (Nasdaq: APFC), announced today the successful installation, qualification and validation in a cGMP manufacturing environment of a continuous extraction process consisting of three Hastelloy(TM) Liquid-Liquid Centrifuges (LLC) in series.

24 Sep 2009

William A. Berry & Son acquired by Suffolk Construction Company

Suffolk Construction Company, New England’s largest construction company announced today that they have acquired William A. Berry & Son (Berry), the second largest construction company in the region.

24 Sep 2009

Drug Discovery and Development to focus on pharmaceutical trends

NanoViricides, Inc., announced today that the Company’s CEO, Eugene Seymour, MD, MPH has been invited as a panelist at the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit on September 24th, 2009 in New York City.

24 Sep 2009

Researchers study functional similarity between zebrafish and humans to fight infections

Since the human response to infection is highly complex, research to understand how people fight infection is facilitated by studying how similar processes occur in simpler organisms. Zebrafish are becoming an important model for human disease, since they are easily handled, maintained and manipulated and many fundamental processes between zebrafish and humans are conserved.

24 Sep 2009

U.S. Department of Health awards contracts worth $20 million to ICF International

Macro International (ICF Macro), a subsidiary of ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI), was awarded two re-compete, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts valued at more than $20 million with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services.

24 Sep 2009

Customized prosthesis from Custom-fit

Custom-fit is a European funded project, coordinated by Delcam, which has developed a new and cost effective way to manufacture fully customised products, individually designed starting from body geometries and putting together rapid manufacturing, information technologies and material science.

24 Sep 2009

Spherix's Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on November 17

Spherix Incorporated, an innovator in biotechnology for diabetes therapy, and a provider of technical and regulatory consulting services to food, supplement, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, today announced that its Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held on November 17, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time, at the Bethesda Marriott Suites, 6711 Democracy Boulevard, Bethesda, Maryland 20817.

24 Sep 2009

Unibased Systems Architecture selected as contracted supplier by Amerinet

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) has been selected by Amerinet, Inc. as a contracted supplier of process improvement and workflow enhancement solutions with ForSite2020, a totally integrated comprehensive suite of enterprise solutions for pre-visit access management and business process improvement, dedicated to reducing costs and improving quality of care.

24 Sep 2009

Commitments announced at the Clinton Global Initiative

The second day of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) came to a close with a special session on Northern Ireland, following afternoon plenary and breakout sessions that focused on harnessing innovation for development.

24 Sep 2009

Doctor from Dallas files civil case in the U.S. Supreme Court against BCBS

Dr. Dralves Edwards, a board-certified family physician in Dallas, today filed a civil case in the U.S. Supreme Court against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, the contractor for Medicare.

24 Sep 2009

EFT BioTech Holdings announces its upcoming schedule for executive management attendance

EFT BioTech Holdings, Inc., a proprietary e-commerce solutions company providing "Made in the USA" health, beauty and nutriceutical products under the EFT brand to its affiliate member network, boasting almost one million members strong, announced its upcoming schedule for executive management attendance at new affiliate rallies in Asia.

24 Sep 2009

FRPAA supported by liberal arts colleges

The Presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the U.S., representing 22 states, have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act (S. 1373) in an Open Letter released today. The letter is the first from higher education administrators to be issued in support of the 2009 bill, and further reinforcement that support for the Act exists at the highest levels of the higher education community. The presidents' letter notes, "Adoption of the Federal Research Public Access Act will democratize access to research information funded by tax dollars. It will benefit of education, research, and the general public."

24 Sep 2009

SXC Health Solutions raises $203.3 million from public offering of its common shares

SXC Health Solutions Corp. ("SXC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SXCI, TSX: SXC) announced today that it successfully completed its previously announced public offering of 5,175,000 of its common shares at a price to the public of $41.50 per share, which includes 675,000 shares sold pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option.

24 Sep 2009

La Jolla Institute scientist Hilde Cheroutre earns the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award

A scientist at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has received one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s top awards -- the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award. The prestigious prize carries with it funding for total costs of up to $4.7 million over five years, and is designed to support the work of exceptionally creative scientists, whose novel proposals offer the potential to make extraordinary contributions to human health.

24 Sep 2009

Stereotaxis showcases its remote magnetic navigation technology at TCT symposium

Stereotaxis, Inc. is showcasing the value of its technologies for interventional procedures at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) symposium in San Francisco this week.

24 Sep 2009

Green Family Foundation announces commitments for the betterment of Haiti at the Clinton Global Initiative

The Green Family Foundation (www.greenff.org), a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving global health and elevating socio-economic conditions, announced today dual commitments benefiting Haiti at the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative.

24 Sep 2009

Patents listed in FDA's Orange Book for Eli Lilly’s Evista invalidated

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has issued a decision invalidating two patents listed in the FDA’s Orange Book for Eli Lilly’s Evista® (raloxifene hydrochloride) Tablets in litigation concerning Teva’s abbreviated new drug application to market a generic version. The court found these patents to be invalid for lack of written description.

24 Sep 2009

Everolimus-eluting stent efficient in treating native coronary artery lesions

Late-breaking data from SPIRIT IV, a large-scale multi-center study of nearly 4,000 patients in the U.S., shows that an everolimus-eluting stent demonstrated enhanced safety and efficacy in the treatment of de novo native coronary artery lesions when compared to a paclitaxel-eluting stent, and showed that "low late loss" may be achieved with drug-eluting stents without sacrificing safety.

24 Sep 2009

Virginia Surety to provide underwriting and compliance services for ESCO

Virginia Surety Company, Inc., a unit of The Warranty Group, Inc., today announced an agreement to provide underwriting and compliance services for Ear Service Corporation's (ESCO) comprehensive loss, damage and repair programs for the hearing aid industry.

24 Sep 2009