Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN)
today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 and
the six months ended December 31, 2008.
For the second quarter of fiscal 2009, the Company recorded a net profit of
$21.2 million, or $0.46 basic earnings per share ($0.43 diluted earnings
per share), compared to a net loss of $5.1 million and loss per share of
$0.11 in the same quarter of the prior year. A major contributor to the
Company’s Read the rest of this entry »
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POMEROY — In preparation for Meigs County’s new E-911 service, its director is asking residents to help out — by inspecting their house numbers to make certain they are visible to emergency crews.
Doug Lavender, director of Meigs County Emergency Medical Service, will oversee the operation of the new E-911 system from the EMS building on Mulberry Heights. He said many residences in the county now — in town and country — Read the rest of this entry »
said Wednesday it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its Pathiam System with iScan for assessment of HER2/neu immunohistochemistry tests.
Cupertino-based BioImagene said the scanner and associated software are used to detect and provide a quantitative measurement of HER2/neu, a protein that is measured in breast cancer patients in order to determine if they are candidates for treatment with the breast cancer drug Herceptin. Read the rest of this entry »
You may have read reports of a study that showed a vegan diet can be helpful for people with rheumatoid arthritis. But is it true? There are lots of problems with the way the study was carried out, and the results are far from clear.
What do we know already?
Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful condition that causes stiffness and swelling in your joints. It happens because of a problem with your immune system. Your immune system fights infections Read the rest of this entry »
RALEIGH, N.C.
Hi 5 Fitness for Youth is offering free classes this Saturday, January 17, 2009 in North Raleigh as they are officially kicking off their new program. Please visit their website at www.Hi5Fitness.com to learn more about obtaining a class voucher. Classes are open to youth ages 5 to teens. The schedule is on their website at www.Hi5Fitness.com.
How Fit Are Your Kids?
Last summer, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a Read the rest of this entry »
A 12-year-old Boston Latin Academy student died over the weekend from complications of the flu, Boston school and public health officials confirmed yesterday, one of only a handful of deaths nationwide so far this flu season.
Hunter Pope was a seventh-grader at the school, according to a statement from the city’s school system. He is the first Massachusetts child known to have died of the flu this winter.
Dr. Anita Barry, director of the infectious Read the rest of this entry »
Prism intends to submit a supplemental new drug application (NDA) for the premixed configurations which will form the focus of the commercial launch of Nexterone as a complete product line.
Prism is currently implementing a full scale manufacturing development program with the medication delivery business of Baxter Healthcare, a developer of premix technologies.
The FDA approval of Nexterone triggers a second $10 million milestone payment from Read the rest of this entry »
February 9, 2009 5:15 AM
The Did-Everyone-Take-Drugs? Chronicles: Our Weekly Look at Sports and the Law
What is it about Alex Rodriguez that compels him to steal the spotlight–even when it's one nobody, including him, wants?
The mind-bending implications of SI.com's
that, according to four sources, A-Rod was among 104 Major League Baseball players to test positive for steroid use in 2003 are frankly too much for us to sort through Read the rest of this entry »
The Brunswick County medical center is one of three hospitals the corporation is now building in North Carolina, and the economic situation has caused Novant to decide not to outsource information technology installations in the new facilities.
Since all the work will now be done by corporate employees, said Amy Myers, spokeswoman at Brunswick Community Hospital, the timetable for the work has been prioritized based on the stage of construction Read the rest of this entry »