The Glaucoma Foundation and the Glaucoma Research Foundation, two preeminent organizations dedicated to eradicating blindness from glaucoma through vital research and education, are joint recipients of the American Glaucoma Society's (AGS) 2008 President's Award. The award will be presented at the Society's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on March 7 to Scott R.
The MS Society has criticised series producers of The Bill following an episode that featured an entirely made-up drug, which a storyline claimed was available for people with relapsing remitting MS.The episode, broadcast on 5 March, featured the story of Michael Drummond and 'Plavitron' - a drug that viewers were told was available in America.
PolyMedix, Inc. (OTC BB: PYMX), an emerging biotech company developing acute care products for infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders based on biomimetics, announced that Dr. Byron Brehm-Stecher presented data yesterday at the "American Society of Microbiology 6th Annual Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting" in Baltimore relating to PolyMedix's proprietary
Mozambican civil society organizations this week will launch an HIV/AIDS campaign that aims to ensure improved access to HIV testing, medical assistance and treatment among disabled people in the country, AIM/AllAfrica.com reports. According to World Health Organization data, there are about two million people in Mozambique who are disabled to some degree.
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) †Police found the bodies of two pit bulls in trash bags behind a college and also rescued 15 caged dogs, some scarred and emaciated, at a house with a dogfighting pit in the basement.
The Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Lung Association and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada announced a new joint effort to increase public attention and political action on environmental health hazards.
ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering), a global not-for-profit association of 25,000 pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals, has issued the global launch of GAMP® 5: A Risk-Based Approach to Compliant GXP Computerized Systems, its latest industry-impacting technical publication. The document is the fifth revision of the original document published in 1994.
NEWARK, N.Y.----Ultralife will be presenting at the 5th Annual Security and Defense Industry Conference hosted by the New York Society of Security Analysts on March 13, 2008 in New York City.
y High Sam Mynderse is the Elks January Student of the Month. He is the son of Lance and Marie Mynderse. He is an RYSA youth soccer coach and a member of Step It Up Campaign 2007-08. His extracurricular activities include soccer, alpine ski racing,
A new guideline on colorectal cancer screening just released by an expert group representing a broad spectrum of health care organizations, including the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), offer