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Crothall Healthcare: Standards Fit for a Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association

WAYNE, Pa., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crothall Healthcare announced its third certification by the ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, by completing the requirements for CIMS (Cleaning Industry Management Standard) with honors. Crothall was also proud to receive its second distinction of CIMS-GB (Green Building) with Honors. CIMS is a rigorous program that sets a standard...

Weiler Labeling Introduces Serialization-Capable X-4S Labeling Head

MOORESTOWN, N.J., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Weiler Labeling Systems, LLC (WLS) announces the release of the company's new X-4S pressure sensitive labeling head. The X-4S is designed to meet the most stringent speed and performance requirements that serialization demands. As e-pedigree compliance dates close in, WLS is uniquely qualified to work with pharmaceutical and medical dev...

TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies Announces Broad Institute as Early Adopter of Encore Multispan Liquid-Handling System

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., has become an early adopter of its new Encore Multispan liquid-handling system. The system unites advanced liquid handling and robotic integration for true sample-to-analysis automation.

Any Assay, Any Wavelength, Any Bandwidth with the new CLARIOstar® high performance microplate reader

Over the years, many different assays have been designed...

Political Cartoon: 'No-Go Pogo?'

Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "No-Go Pogo?" by Nick Anderson. Meanwhile, here is today's health policy haiku:   PERFORMANCE EVALUATION High-end surgeries bring hospital CEOs hefty bonu$e$. -Anonymous If you have a health policy haiku to share, please send it to us at http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/ContactUs.aspx and let us know...

UHC-AAMC Faculty Practice Solutions Center® Presents Awards for High Performance to Physician Practice Organizations

CHICAGO, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The UHC-AAMC Faculty Practice Solutions Center® (FPSC) recognized physician practice organization members for performance excellence. These member institutions were recognized for their exceptional engagement with the FPSC. Award recipients were ranked on performance in several distinct areas measured during the 2012 calendar year, including participatio...

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Awards Black Diamond Video Contract for OR Video Integration

Black Diamond Video (BDV) announced that Harbor-UCLA Medical Center selected Black Diamond Video to provide operating room audio video integration for their new Surgery/Emergency Replacement Project. Black Diamond Video will install the Integrated Digital Surgical Suite (IDSS), an all-digital, high resolution video routing and display solution, in...

High-Efficiency Liquid Chromatography Columns

Waters Corp. has introduced CORTECS columns, a new family of high-performance, 1.6-micron, solid-core UltraPerformance LC columns. Available in C18, C18+ or HILIC chemistries, Waters offers the columns in 30 column configurations.Read more about

Medical assessment in the blink of an eye

Have you ever thought that you knew something about the world in the blink of an eye? This restaurant is not the right place for dinner. That person could be The One. It turns out that radiologists can do this with mammograms, the x-ray images used f...

Additional indications in Japan for Roche's Avastin and Astellas' Prograf

Swiss drug major Roche (ROG: SIX) says that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the firm's blockbuster cancer drug Avastin (bevacizumab) for the treatment of malignant glioma, including newly diagnosed glioblastoma...

Drugs used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure may help decrease obesity

A type of drug normally used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure helped prevent weight gain and other complications related to a high-fat diet in an animal study. The results were presented today at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meet...

Excessive salt consumption appears to be bad for your bones

A high-salt diet raises a woman's risk of breaking a bone after menopause, no matter what her bone density is, according to a new study that will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Adolescents' high-fat diet impairs memory and learning

A high-fat diet in adolescence appears to have long-lasting effects on learning and memory during adulthood, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Testosterone therapy improves sexual function after uterus and ovary removal

High doses of testosterone significantly improve sexual function among women who have had their uterus and ovaries surgically removed, a clinical study demonstrates. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in...

High Overall Survival With Pomalidomide in Multiple Myeloma

Pomalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone in double-refractory multiple myeloma showed unexpectedly high overall survival in a phase 3 study. Medscape Medical News

Statins Work in Kids with Type 1 Diabetes (CME/CE)

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Statin therapy was effective and safe through 6 months in children and teens with type 1 diabetes and high LDL cholesterol, a small randomized trial showed.

Doctors Health Press Reports on Study: NTP Warns Popular Supplement Ginkgo Biloba May Cause Cancer

Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new study finding that the popular supplement ginkgo biloba may cause cancer. Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 17, 2013 Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation...

Oral Cancers Linked to Sex Could Be Found Earlier

Antibodies to a high-risk type human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease. Reuters Health Information

Source BioScience launches new Overnight Service for DNAsequencing for Scotland

17th June 2013: Source BioScience plc (“Source BioScience”) has extended the reach of its rapid, market leading DNA sequencing and data analysis service in the UK with today’s launch of its Overnight Service in Scotland. The Overnight Service will now be available to research groups in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow, with customers receiving their sequencing results by 0...

Younger screening aids cancer fight

Women with a heightened risk of breast cancer could benefit from being screened for the disease at a younger age, research suggests.

Concern over high number of older people admitted after falls

Around 350,000 older people are admitted to hospital every year as a result of a fall, a charity has warned.

VARTA Microbattery Celebrates New North American Headquarters in Rye, NY

VARTA Microbattery, the company behind the world's best-engineered batteries, has announced the opening of its new North American Headquarters in Rye, NY. On June 12, Westchester County’s business community received an inside look at the company who propelled the first electric car and powered the camera Neil Armstrong used to capture his monumental moon landing in an opening celebration sho...

Earlier breast screening in high-risk women shows 'encouraging' results

"Women with a family history of breast cancer should be screened in their thirties," says The Daily Telegraph. The news relates to an ongoing study that aims to look at the effects of mammography screening in women with a family history of breast cancer when they are between the ages of 35 and 39.  National guidelines currently recommend that women identified as being at increased risk...

Study: Male mice fed with high-fat diet are more likely to father offspring with higher levels of body fat

Male mice who were fed a high-fat diet and became obese were more likely to father offspring who also had higher levels of body fat, a new Ohio University study finds.

CooperVision Biofinity Is Fastest Growing Contact Lens Brand In The U.S.

PLEASANTON, Calif., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CooperVision today announced that its Biofinity® brand is the fastest growing contact lens brand in the U.S.[1] The number of new patients wearing Biofinity grew faster than any other frequent-replacement contact lens brand in the past 12 months with its toric lenses leading the monthly toric category. The Biofinity family of contact lens...