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MicroStockProfit.com announces investment report featuring BioElectronics

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring BioElectronics Corp. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

27 Apr 2010

UK MHRA authorizes Presidio Pharmaceuticals to initiate Phase 1 clinical trial of PPI-461 for HCV

Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorized the initiation of a Phase 1 first-in-human clinical trial of PPI-461, an orally administered NS5A inhibitor for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV). The Phase 1 clinical trial will be conducted in healthy volunteers.

27 Apr 2010

Ashland reports 13% increase in sales from $1,990M to $2,248M for second-quarter 2010

For its 2010 second quarter, Ashland reported sales of $2,248 million, operating income of $151 million and net income of $22 million (27 cents per share). Net income was favorably affected by $2 million aftertax (2 cents per share) from discontinued operations. Cash flows provided by operating activities from continuing operations amounted to $183 million.

27 Apr 2010

Kinetic Concepts' first-quarter 2010 total revenues increase 3% to $485.8M

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. today reported first quarter 2010 total revenue of $485.8 million, an increase of 3% from the first quarter of 2009. Foreign currency exchange movements favorably impacted total revenue for the first quarter of 2010 by 2% compared to the corresponding period of the prior year.

27 Apr 2010

Illumina announces shipment of HiScanSQ system for research needs

Illumina, Inc. today announced shipment of HiScanSQ, the first instrument to integrate microarray analysis and next-generation sequencing in a modular design that can evolve with changing research needs.

From Illumina, Inc. 27 Apr 2010

Centene's first-quarter Premium and Service Revenues up 12.5% to $1.022 billion

Centene Corporation today announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. The results of operations for our New Jersey health plan, University Health Plans, are classified as discontinued operations. The discussions below, with the exception of cash flow information, are in the context of continuing operations and all financial ratios exclude premium taxes.

27 Apr 2010

New DaVita Phosphorus Challenge tool for CKD and dialysis patients

DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, today announced the launch of the DaVita Phosphorus Challenge, an online resource designed to serve as a core learning tool for CKD and dialysis patients.

27 Apr 2010

European commission's FP7 programme allocated euro 6.10 billion

Europe is moving towards becoming a knowledge-based economy. Keeping in line with this objective, the European commission has instituted the Framework 7 (FP7) programme. Launched to support the re-launched Lisbon strategy, FP7 focuses on research themes rather than the framework programmes of the past. It has been designed to meet some of the persisting challenges of raising Europe to match global excellence in research, thereby benefiting the European life science funding.

27 Apr 2010

Concord Medical signs definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity interest in Tianjin Kangmeng Radiology

Concord Medical Services Holdings Limited, operator of the largest network of radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging centers in China, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Shenzhen Aohua Medical Device Leasing Co., Ltd., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interest in Tianjin Kangmeng Radiology Equipment Management Co., Ltd., a company that manages four radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging centers in Hebei province.

27 Apr 2010

New imaging protocol to visualize activity of brain's reward circuitry in individuals addicted to drugs

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed an imaging protocol that allows them to visualize the activity of the brain's reward circuitry in both normal individuals and those addicted to drugs. The technique could lead to better insight into why people take recreational drugs as well as help determine which treatment strategies might be most effective.

27 Apr 2010

Department of Justice not to challenge Hospital Value Initiative proposal

The Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge a proposal by the Hospital Value Initiative (HVI) to establish an information exchange program that will provide data on the relative costs and resource efficiency of more than 300 hospitals in California. The department said the proposed information exchange may reduce health care costs by improving competition among hundreds of hospitals in California and facilitating more informed purchasing decisions by group purchasers of health care services.

27 Apr 2010

IBS patients treated with cognitive behavior therapy have positive response: Study

A significant proportion of irritable bowel syndrome patients treated with cognitive behavior therapy have a positive response within four weeks of treatment, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute.

27 Apr 2010

Initiative to lower amount of salt in American diet

The American Heart Association and the National Salt Reduction Initiative, a national collaboration led by the City of New York, share a common goal -- to gradually lower the amount of sodium (salt) in the American diet.

27 Apr 2010

Cell phone program to promote more physical activity

About two thirds of the American population is overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk for health problems such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. The obesity epidemic in America is the result of poor eating habits, genetics, and a lack of exercise. It's therefore difficult for public health officials to get people to make a conscious effort to control their weight.

27 Apr 2010

KCI applauds FDA for launching medical device home use initiative

KCI applauds the FDA for launching this important initiative to ensure that complex medical devices are used safely in the home by caregivers and patients. We have made it our priority and unwavering responsibility to help caregivers and patients understand how to use our advanced treatments safely. This includes offering a robust education and training program, employing highly trained clinical support staff and providing easy-to-read, patient-specific labeling.

27 Apr 2010

Laughter increases production of antibodies and activates body's protective cells

Laughter is a highly complex process. Joyous or mirthful laughter is considered a positive stress (eustress) that involves complicated brain activities leading to a positive effect on health. Norman Cousins first suggested the idea that humor and the associated laughter can benefit a person's health in the 1970s. His ground-breaking work, as a layperson diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, documented his use of laughter in treating himself—with medical approval and oversight—into remission.

27 Apr 2010

Scientists now closer to produce drugs to fix disease-causing mutations, spare healthy genes

Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis can be caused by genetic "nonsense mutations" that disrupt the way human cells make proteins. David Bedwell, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Microbiology, says scientists are now closer to producing drugs that will fix this disruption and drastically improve treatment of genetic disease.

27 Apr 2010

People infected with gastrointestinal worms respond better to injected vaccines

According to the World Health Organization, two billion people around the globe suffer from chronic parasitic worm infections, which, in addition to causing illness and developmental delay, are also suspected to interfere with the effectiveness of ordinary vaccines, making their victims more vulnerable to life-threatening diseases. A recent discovery by researchers at the Trudeau Institute promises to bypass these obstacles and help deliver more effective vaccines to these people, boosting their protection against common childhood diseases.

27 Apr 2010

Pericytes may use mechanical forces to initiate angiogenesis: Researchers

Pericytes, the contractile cells surrounding capillaries, may use mechanical forces to initiate angiogenesis, the "sprouting" of new blood vessels, according to researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

27 Apr 2010

Slitrk5 gene linked to development of OCD-like behaviors

Researchers at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute and the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College discovered that mice missing a single gene developed repetitive obsessive-compulsive-like behaviors. The genetically altered mice, which behaved much like people with a certain type of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), could help scientists design new therapies for this debilitating condition.

27 Apr 2010

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MicroStockProfit.com announces investment report featuring BioElectronics

UK MHRA authorizes Presidio Pharmaceuticals to initiate Phase 1 clinical trial of PPI-461 for HCV

Ashland reports 13% increase in sales from $1,990M to $2,248M for second-quarter 2010

Kinetic Concepts' first-quarter 2010 total revenues increase 3% to $485.8M

Illumina announces shipment of HiScanSQ system for research needs

Centene's first-quarter Premium and Service Revenues up 12.5% to $1.022 billion

New DaVita Phosphorus Challenge tool for CKD and dialysis patients

European commission's FP7 programme allocated euro 6.10 billion

Concord Medical signs definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity interest in Tianjin Kangmeng Radiology

New imaging protocol to visualize activity of brain's reward circuitry in individuals addicted to drugs

Department of Justice not to challenge Hospital Value Initiative proposal

IBS patients treated with cognitive behavior therapy have positive response: Study

Initiative to lower amount of salt in American diet

Cell phone program to promote more physical activity

KCI applauds FDA for launching medical device home use initiative

Laughter increases production of antibodies and activates body's protective cells

Scientists now closer to produce drugs to fix disease-causing mutations, spare healthy genes

People infected with gastrointestinal worms respond better to injected vaccines

Pericytes may use mechanical forces to initiate angiogenesis: Researchers

Slitrk5 gene linked to development of OCD-like behaviors

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