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Bayou Dental Health receives $193,000 grant from Delta Dental Community Care Foundation

The Delta Dental Community Care Foundation recently awarded Bayou Dental Health a $193,000 grant to purchase a multi-operatory mobile dental unit to provide much needed care to underserved residents in the Greater New Orleans region.

28 Apr 2018

Results of AVIATOR 2 international registry announced at SCAI 2018 Scientific Sessions

Results of the AVIATOR 2 international registry are being presented as late-breaking clinical science at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2018 Scientific Sessions.

28 Apr 2018

Researchers show how Spred1 molecule protects HSC homeostasis under diet-induced stress

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Cell Stem Cell how the Spred1 molecule is involved in hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal. Experiments with mouse models show that under normal conditions, Spred1 acts as a negative regulator, while under diet-induced stress, it protects hematopoietic homeostasis.

28 Apr 2018

BD Launches BD FACSymphony™ S6 High Parameter Cell Sorter to Enable Sorting of Rare Cell Types

BD, a leading global medical technology company, today announced the launch of the BD FACSymphony system, a novel cell analyzer enabling the simultaneous measurement of up to 50 different characteristics of a single cell.

From BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 28 Apr 2018

Patrick E. Taylor is the new President of the American Association of Endodontists

Patrick E. Taylor, D.D.S., M.S.D., is the 2018-2019 President of the American Association of Endodontists. His dental career spans 21 years in the military, 18 years of private practice in Bellevue, Wash., and currently an affiliate faculty appointment at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, where he teaches in the graduate clinic.

28 Apr 2018

Novel cell-based screening array reduces time and cost of drug discovery

Porvair Sciences has collaborated with Persomics Inc. to develop and supply ANSI/SLAS format Arrays as an OEM product for their ImagineArray™ platform.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 28 Apr 2018

Best reads of the week from Brianna Labuskes

Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend.

28 Apr 2018

Barbara Browning named the 2018 New Adult Educator of the Year

Yesterday, Barbara Browning was named the 2018 New Adult Educator of the Year by the Indiana Association for Adult & Continuing Education (IAACE).

28 Apr 2018

High-performance blockchain solution poised to revolutionize the art industry

The history of artwork ownership (provenance) has long been a troublesome issue for the art world. Fake or even stolen works have unknowingly been traded on the open market.

28 Apr 2018

Vermont, Montana students to talk with NASA astronauts on International Space Station

Students from Montana and Vermont will talk with astronauts on the International Space Station next week as part of NASA's Year of Education on Station.

28 Apr 2018

America's medical school selects enlisted service members interested in becoming military doctors

Twenty-three non-commissioned officers from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have been given the opportunity to follow their dreams of becoming physicians thanks to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' (USU) Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, or EMDP2.

28 Apr 2018

University of Pennsylvania expert investigates novel treatment for cocaine addiction

Cocaine and other drugs of abuse hijack the natural reward circuits in the brain. In part, that's why it's so hard to quit using these substances.

28 Apr 2018

Ameritech Financial encourages borrowers to understand their own loan facts and options

It's been six years since the national student debt totals surpassed $1 trillion, though student debt has been a problem far longer than that.

28 Apr 2018

Airlines and in-flight content delegates attend APEX Multimedia Market

This past week, more than 200 airlines and in-flight content delegates arrived in Paris for the airline industry's only global in-flight content marketplace event, the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) MultiMedia Market.

28 Apr 2018

Three leading sleep scientists to receive the 2018 Sleep Research Society awards

The Sleep Research Society (SRS) selected three of the world's leading sleep scientists as recipients of the 2018 Sleep Research Society awards, which will be presented Monday, June 4, during the plenary session of SLEEP 2018, the 32nd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS) in Baltimore.

28 Apr 2018

A new method for assessing auditory fitness in public safety occupations

Hearing is an important part of fitness-for-duty assessments of police officers and other public safety professionals - but standard hearing tests don't give a true picture of whether these professionals can hear and communicate in the specific "noise environments" where they must work.

28 Apr 2018

Insilico’s CEO to deliver presentation on “Artificial Intelligence for Aging Research”

Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research, announces the presentation of its CEO, Alex Zhavoronkov, at the Pioneers 18 Conference, May 25, 2018, Vienna, Austria.

28 Apr 2018

Significant update to PROGRESS-CTO International Registry presented at SCAI Scientific Sessions 2018

A significant update to the PROGRESS-CTO (PROspective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention) International Registry was presented today as late-breaking clinical science at Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) Scientific Sessions 2018.

28 Apr 2018

New results reinforce COPAXONE 40 mg/mL as safe and effective for RMS patients

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., today announced up to 7-year efficacy, safety and tolerability results from the Glatiramer Acetate Low-Frequency Administration (GALA) open-label extension study of COPAXONE (glatiramer acetate injection) 40 mg/mL administered subcutaneously three-times-a-week for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS).

28 Apr 2018

Pioneering study could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer

Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer with a double whammy of a virus combined with boosting the natural immune system, according to a pioneering study by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and The Ohio State University.

27 Apr 2018

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Bayou Dental Health receives $193,000 grant from Delta Dental Community Care Foundation

Results of AVIATOR 2 international registry announced at SCAI 2018 Scientific Sessions

Researchers show how Spred1 molecule protects HSC homeostasis under diet-induced stress

BD Launches BD FACSymphony™ S6 High Parameter Cell Sorter to Enable Sorting of Rare Cell Types

Patrick E. Taylor is the new President of the American Association of Endodontists

Novel cell-based screening array reduces time and cost of drug discovery

Best reads of the week from Brianna Labuskes

Barbara Browning named the 2018 New Adult Educator of the Year

High-performance blockchain solution poised to revolutionize the art industry

Vermont, Montana students to talk with NASA astronauts on International Space Station

America's medical school selects enlisted service members interested in becoming military doctors

University of Pennsylvania expert investigates novel treatment for cocaine addiction

Ameritech Financial encourages borrowers to understand their own loan facts and options

Airlines and in-flight content delegates attend APEX Multimedia Market

Three leading sleep scientists to receive the 2018 Sleep Research Society awards

A new method for assessing auditory fitness in public safety occupations

Insilico’s CEO to deliver presentation on “Artificial Intelligence for Aging Research”

Significant update to PROGRESS-CTO International Registry presented at SCAI Scientific Sessions 2018

New results reinforce COPAXONE 40 mg/mL as safe and effective for RMS patients

Pioneering study could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer

How real-time off-gas analysis improves fermentation process control

Advancing Drug Safety Assessment With AI, Predictive Modeling, and Human-Relevant Data

AI-powered analytics and experimental validation

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