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Precise Biometrics successfully completes rights issue with preferential rights

Precise Biometrics AB has successfully completed a rights issue with preferential rights, which has supplied the Company with SEK 54.0 million prior to issue costs. The rights issue was subscribed to 178% and is implemented to finance further expansion and increase market penetration in prioritized segments.

18 Sep 2009

Research program to study personalized medicine

A new collaborative research program that will use the power of metabolomic profiling to help advance the concept of personalized medicine was announced September 17, 2009 by the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center at Duke University Medical Center.

18 Sep 2009

Texas attemps to offer access to quality dialysis care

Local officials, physicians and patients in need of local dialysis care expressed encouragement over what appears to be a thawing of a certification logjam of dialysis facilities across the state of Texas, though remain concerned over 38 which still remain idling to many for more than a year – to the detriment of local jobs and patients in dire need of better access to quality dialysis care.

18 Sep 2009

Mass notification systems to relay pandemic outbreaks

As students head back to school, the CDC is reporting increasing influenza activity across the U.S. (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/). With the H1N1 vaccine not yet available, what can schools do to ease parent's minds? Communicate.

18 Sep 2009

Whole life insurance policies to the rescue of retirees

Nearly 45 percent of households are "at risk" of not having enough to maintain their living standards in retirement, according to the National Retirement Risk Index, a special project of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

18 Sep 2009

Muscle Flex to participate in the Andre Agassi's 14th Annual Grand Slam for Children

Muscle Flex Inc. announced today that its Muscle Flex VATA Brasil Sports & Active Wear Line will be included in the "Andre Agassi's 14th Annual Grand Slam for Children" Gift Basket by Lash Fary and Distinctive Assets.

18 Sep 2009

Perot Systems to provide IT outsourcing and EHR implementation for MHC

Max Healthcare (MHC) (www.maxhealthcare.in) and Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) (www.perotsystems.com) today announced a 10-year agreement in which Perot Systems will provide IT outsourcing (ITO) and electronic health records (EHR) implementation for MHC.

18 Sep 2009

EBSA retiree health plan to cover about 700,000 retirees and dependents

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced a proposed exemption that, if granted, would allow the General Motors Co. (GM) to transfer company securities including common stock, preferred stock and a $2.5 billion promissory note, to a health plan established for the company's retirees.

18 Sep 2009

Standard Process in Inc 5,000 list, rises 420 places in rank from last year

For the third consecutive year, Standard Process Inc.® has been named to INC. magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in America, rising 420 places in rank from last year. Standard Process, a nutritional whole food supplement company in Palmyra, Wis., had revenue growth of 51.2% for the period 2005 through 2008. The magazine also reported that the company had 2008 revenues of $97.6 million and 270 employees.

18 Sep 2009

JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy acquires Elan

Johnson & Johnson and Elan Corporation plc today announced that JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy, a newly formed subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets and rights of Elan related to its Alzheimer's Immunotherapy Program (AIP).

18 Sep 2009

Scientific discoveries must be translated into practical applications to improve patients' health

Experts gathered on Capitol Hill today to address the impact of policies related to translational research and U.S. medical innovation. The briefing, titled Translational Research: From Bench to Bedside, was sponsored by the Council for American Medical Innovation as the second in a three-part series, Recovery Through Discovery, which examines medical innovation as a driver of U.S. economic recovery and enhanced global leadership in science.

18 Sep 2009

Rigel to offer 13,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $7.25 per share

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 13,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $7.25 per share.

18 Sep 2009

JPO to grant patent from the Tuschl III patent series

Regulus Therapeutics Inc., Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISIS), announced today that the Japan Patent Office (JPO) has notified the Max Planck Society of its intent to grant a patent from the Tuschl III patent series (JP Application Number 2003-532675).

18 Sep 2009

SXC Health Solutions to raise $176.6 million from sale of common shares

SXC Health Solutions Corp. ("SXC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SXCI, TSX: SXC) announced today the pricing of its previously announced public offering of common shares. Under the offering, SXC will sell 4,500,000 common shares at a price to the public of $41.50 per share.

18 Sep 2009

Analysis project inflation rates for healthcare supplies to remain unchanged through 2010

Inflation rates for healthcare supplies are projected to remain unchanged through 2010, according to an analysis released by the Premier healthcare alliance.

18 Sep 2009

Recipients of 2009 Norman S. Coplon Extramural Grants

Satellite Healthcare, one of the nation's first and leading providers of kidney dialysis services and a major sponsor of nephrology research, today announced the recipients of the 2009 Norman S. Coplon Extramural Grant Program.

18 Sep 2009

Rural/Metro Corporation chosen to provide emergency ambulance services in Ohio

Rural/Metro Corporation, a leading national provider of ambulance and private fire protection services, has been awarded a new long-term contract to continue providing exclusive emergency ambulance services to the City of Youngstown, Ohio.

18 Sep 2009

NAHCA says Medicare cuts to providers will undermine seniors' care

At a news conference during its annual National Association of Health Care Assistants (NAHCA) convention, America's front-line nursing home caregivers gathered to urge Congress to significantly scale back attempts to cut seniors' Medicare benefits in any final health reform bill, and said arguments being made that funding reductions to providers will not harm the quality of care provided to seniors is flatly incorrect.

18 Sep 2009

Universal Detection Technology to showcase its TS-10-5-agent biodetection kit

Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies and counter-terrorism training programs to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats, announced today that it will be showcasing its TS-10-5-agent biodetection kit at ASIS International 2009 in Anaheim, California.

18 Sep 2009

Small medical liability grant program will not be effective: U.S. Chamber

"While we are encouraged that the Obama Administration has made medical liability reform part of their overall health care package, the $25 million state grant program announced today amounts to about 1/40,000th of one percent of the cost of a one trillion dollar health care bill.

18 Sep 2009