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PatientRM interactive software collects, manages and analyzes patient cases from across the country to advance cancer care in America HOUSTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- US Oncology, Inc., the innovative healthcare company supporting the nation's foremost cancer treatment and research network has been recognized as a Laureate by the International Data Group (IDG) Computerworld Honors Program for its interactive patient management software program, PatientRM. Working with Deloitte Consulting,...

- New company founded by members of former Pharmion executive team - Company focused on acquiring, developing and marketing innovative anti-cancer compounds BOULDER, Colo., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Clovis Oncology, Inc., a company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing innovative anti-cancer agents in the U.S., Europe and additional international markets, announced today that it has secured $145 million in start-up financing. The Company was founded by former executives of...

LIVE RECORDING OF DAVID COOK'S 'IDOL' PERFORMANCE WILL BE SOLD ON iTUNES TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHARITY All Proceeds From Sale of Live Version of 'Permanent' Will Be Donated To D.C.-Based Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure LOS ANGELES, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly one year after winning the seventh season of "American Idol," David Cook returns to the most popular television series in America on Wednesday night to perform "Permanent," -- a song he wrote with Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida. The...

HOUSTON, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- US Oncology, Inc. ("US Oncology" or "the Company"), one of the nation's largest cancer care services companies, reported revenue of $842.6 million, EBITDA of $53.7 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $55.1 million, net income of $1.0 million and operating cash flow of $31.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2009. US Oncology First Quarter Results Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2009 was $55.1 million, compared to $52.2 million for the first...

Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. Sponsors Award Honoring the Work of Oncology Nurses SAN ANTONIO, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The winner and finalists of CURE magazine's 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing, sponsored by Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc., were announced during a special reception at the Oncology Nursing Society's (ONS) 34th Annual Congress. More than 150 cancer patients and caregivers submitted nominations. The winner, Christine Wilson, RN, Nationwide Children's...

Why We Must Find a Cure for Epilepsy The Toll of Epilepsy Has Been Overlooked - and the Research Underfunded -For Too Long NEW YORK, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- "Put harshly, we need more of a cancerlike sensibility around epilepsy," Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham writes in the April 20 cover, "The Mystery of Epilepsy" (on newsstands Monday, April 13). "We cannot usually see our friends' cancer, but we do not hesitate to invest the search for a cure for different cancers with the utmost...

HOUSTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- US Oncology, Inc. ("US Oncology" or "the Company"), one of the nation's largest cancer care services companies, reported revenue of $842.7 million, EBITDA of $52.3 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $55.2 million, net income of $0.5 million and operating cash flow of $64.2 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008. For the year ended December 31, 2008, prior to a first quarter non-cash charge of $380.0 million for impairment of goodwill, US...

Daschle's Extensive Health Care Policy and Legislative Background Assures Strong Leadership for Office's Mission to Drive Widespread Health Care Reform WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- US Oncology, which supports one of the nation's largest cancer treatment and research networks representing approximately 1,200 oncologists nationwide, today praised President-elect Barack Obama's selection of former Senator Tom Daschle to lead his newly established White House Office of Health...

FLINT, Mich., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Providing cancer patients with the information they need to actively participate in their healing may become an easier task thanks to a grant from the American Cancer Society to McLaren Health Care's Great Lakes Cancer Institute. The $102,000 grant, administered over three years, aims to make individual patient DVDs and secure Web sites, created by McLaren's Great Lakes Cancer Institute, something that will eventually be available to cancer patients...

The Northern California Cancer Center, the Stanford Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society are co-sponsoring Nov. 8 the second annual Cancer Survivorship Conference "Now what? The new normal of cancer survivorship after treatment." The conference is intended to help cancer survivors and their families, support networks and health care professionals understand and navigate questions and issues that arise after treatment ends, from a patient's physical and psychosocial needs to...