Hospital raises around $103,000 for United Way
By John Bailey, Rome News-Tribune Staff Writer
was tempered by many, sometimes sad, testimonies about the reasons they give to those in need through the
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One spoke of a late sister who dedicated herself as a den mother to the Boy Scouts and another, who could not be in attendance, wrote of difficult times that were alleviated by the charity — and the joy that release of pressure brought. Read the rest of this entry »
Compuware Corporation makes IT rock around the world, helping CIOs
optimize IT performance to achieve business goals. Compuware solutions
accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of
critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire
IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity
throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world’s
leading Read the rest of this entry »
In a letter sent to Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative John Boehner, MHPA echoed the call by the National Governors Association to temporarily enhance the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for at least two years. In the November 6th letter, MHPA’s Executive Director Thomas L. Johnson stated his support of the economic recovery package explaining that “Funding for FMAP is a particularly effective Read the rest of this entry »
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Amedica Corporation, an orthopedic
implants company focused on silicon nitride ceramic technologies, announced
today that it has received a CE (Conformite Europeene) mark for its Valeo(TM)
family of ceramic spinal intervertebral spacers. This family includes
Valeo – C and Valeo – TL spacers made using Amedica’s novel silicon nitride
ceramic for surgical correction Read the rest of this entry »
Scleroderma Caldwell Boone 5K Walk, Stepping Out for a Cure:
Olive Branch City Park, Saturday. Sign-in begins at 9 a.m.; walk starts 10 a.m. Preregistration $10, walk day $15, benefits those affected by scleroderma, Register online:
9 a.m. Saturday, Overton Park (8 a.m. registration); a postwalk celebration at 10:30 a.m. No registration fee required. Call 378-6077.
9-10:30 a.m. Saturday. YMCA at Schilling Farms, 1185 Schilling Blvd., Collierville. Read the rest of this entry »
LAGOS, Nigeria
Today, as we mark World AIDS Day, we should take stock of the suffering this disease continues to inflict, particularly in developing countries.
Twenty-five years after the disease was first discovered, AIDS continues to claim around two million lives each year. As an African, I’ve witnessed the suffering first-hand. My home region of sub-Saharan Africa has 12% of the world’s population, but accounts for two-thirds of those infected Read the rest of this entry »
Genomics are far too limited in scope to encompass the vagaries and complexities of human cancer biology. The human genome project will give way to the human epigenome project which will give way to the human proteome and human kinome project. The next generation of tests will be biosystematic.
If you find one or more implicated genes in a patients tumor cells, how do you know if they are functional; is the encoded protein actually produced? If Read the rest of this entry »
Seve Ballesteros thanked doctors and staff for giving him the chance to play the “mulligan of my life” on Tuesday when he was released from a Madrid hospital more than two months after brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor.
The 51-year-old Spanish golfing great will continue to be treated as an outpatient, Madrid’s La Paz hospital said in a statement. Ballesteros thanked not only the neurosurgeons who performed the operations, but also the staff Read the rest of this entry »
St. Jude’s Angio-Seal Evolution Vascular Device gets FDA and European CE Mark approval – Update
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St. Jude Medical, Inc. (STJ:
) announced Tuesday that it received the U.S Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, and the European CE Mark approval for the Angio-Seal Evolution Vascular Closure Device.
The company has distributed more than 11 million Angio-Seal devices, since 1994. The approval is expected Read the rest of this entry »
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. —
A judge has ruled that a man charged with killing six people in a Sept. 2 Skagit County shooting spree is mentally incompetent to stand trial and must be hospitalized and medicated before any more court proceedings.
Twenty-eight-year-old Isaac Zamora is also accused of injuring four other people.
Skagit County Superior Court Judge Michael Rickert ruled Monday afternoon after hearing two doctors from Western State Read the rest of this entry »