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For the second year in a row, three colon and rectal surgeons of Los Angeles Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates ( http://www.LAcolon.com ), Gary H. Hoffman M.D., Eiman Firoozmand M.D. and Liza Capiendo M.D., have received the prestigious 2013 Los Angeles SuperDoctors Award. The award is based on a vote of their peers citywide, and is given to those physicians who have consistently demonstrated excellence in their field of care. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB) January 07, 2013 Three Los...
Director of Operations to GeneCell International continues to highlight the importance of cord blood banking among the Minority Community by providing further educational programs to ensure expecting parents are well informed of the medical breakthrough Miami, Florida (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Jose Cirino aligns himself with 10+ leading physicians in Miami, Florida to provide a series of educational seminars on the medical benefits of umbilical cord blood stem cell banking. Cirino has...
Frank Farmer has come on board with World Stem Cell Institute, Inc. after his son Kell's stem cell treatment and was amazed at his son's progress. Frank has become an advocate for the use of Stem Cell Treatment(SCT) for other qualified children with ASD along with promoting and aiding World Stem Cell Institute, Inc. to complete clinical trials for preemie babies and other diseases. Tampa, FL (PRWEB) December 27, 2012 Frank Farmer is a business owner of 15 years specializing in...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Moderna Therapeutics, which is developing a new platform designed to spur the body to create its own therapeutic proteins to treat a wide range of diseases, announced today that Stephen Hoge, MD, currently a partner at McKinsey & Company, will join the company as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and New Drug Concepts on January 1(st), 2013. In this newly created role, Dr. Hoge will lead corporate development efforts,...
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today its 2013 Innovator Awards Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The Program supports "out-of-the-box" innovative research projects that are potentially transformative to the Foundation's efforts to diagnose, treat and/or cure IBD. The Program is open to tenure track professors (or the equivalent) at all levels from any scientific discipline and from any non-profit research...
Compassionate Allowances Program Provides Expedited Disability Review for Patients with Severely Disabling Diseases WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Peter L. Saltonstall, president and CEO of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), today praised Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue and his staff for proactively establishing and expanding a program that "demonstrates true compassion for Americans with seriously disabling rare diseases." (Logo:...
SEATTLE, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced promising data from the single-ascending-dose (SAD) study portion of the Company's Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating OMS824, the lead compound in Omeros' phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) program. OMS824 selectively inhibits PDE10, an enzyme expressed in areas of the brain linked to a wide range of diseases that affect cognition, including schizophrenia and Huntington's disease. In this successful...
XIANYANG, China, Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: BSPM) ("Biostar" or "the Company"), a PRC-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement products in China for a variety of diseases and conditions, today announced that it will issue its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012 on Monday, November 19, 2012 before the open of the market, well within the Quarterly Report filing extension permitted...
St. Jude Give thanks. Walk.((TM) )on track to raise $4 million, Incentives include a trip to New York City to meet Katharine McPhee on the set of "Smash" MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 90 communities around the nation, supporters of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital(® ) are collecting pledges for the 4(th) annual St. Jude Give thanks. Walk(TM) on Nov. 17. to help kids battling cancer and other deadly diseases. (Photo:...
SEATTLE, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced that the first subject has been enrolled in the Company's Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating OMS824, the lead compound in Omeros' phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) program. OMS824 selectively inhibits PDE10, an enzyme expressed in areas of the brain linked to a wide range of diseases that affect cognition, including schizophrenia and Huntington's disease. This Phase 1 dose-ranging study is...
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General surgery is a specialty that concentrates on the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts and the thyroid gland. This specialty also deals with skin, breast, soft tissue and hernia related diseases. General Surgeons have the opportunity to subspecialize in one or more of the following: Trauma Surgery: Trauma surgery is the specialty that performs invasive procedures for physical injuries in an emergency. This subspecialty holds the...
The earwigs are an order (Dermaptera) of insects characterized by large membraneous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (thus the literal name of the order - "skin wings"). The abdomen extends well beyond the wings, and frequently ends in a pair of forceps-like cerci. With about 1,800 recorded species in 10 families, the order is relatively small among the Insecta, but the earwigs themselves are quite common throughout the world, often finding their way into houses, where they...
