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USDA gives $3M to 4 rural Indiana phone companies
August 9, 2010 6:45 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsFour rural Indiana telephone companies will get a total of more than $3 million in federal stimulus funding to provide DSL broadband service to their service areas.The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the grants will bring the high-speed Internet service to about 2,500 homes and about 80...
MedNetworks raises $5M
August 9, 2010 6:38 am | by Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology | CommentsMedNetworks Inc., a social networking-focused technology firm for doctors and patients, has launched today, taking in $5 million in its first funding round from Excel Venture Management.
Ford Blue Oval Scholarships Awarded at 3rd Annual Future Founders Academy — Winning High School Students Honored by Mayor Daley and City Council
August 9, 2010 6:37 am | by Society of Manufacturing Engineers | CommentsCHICAGO, ILL, DEARBORN, Mich., July 28, 2010 — Twenty-five students from eight Chicago Public High Schools were immersed in entrepreneurship at the 2010 Future Founders Academy as they competed in a weeklong interactive summer business camp hosted by the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial...
Revivexxx Extra Strength: Recall - Undeclared Drug Ingredient
August 9, 2010 5:42 am | by U.S. Food & Drug Administration | CommentsProduct marketed as a dietary supplement sexual enhancer for men contains undeclared tadalafil, which may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as nitroglycerin and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.
Solo Slim, Solo Slim Extra Strength: Recall - Undeclared Drug Ingredient
August 9, 2010 5:42 am | by U.S. Food & Drug Administration | CommentsProduct contains undeclared didesmethyl sibutramine, which may present a significant risk for patients with a history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias or stroke.
Sleep tech firm Zeo wakes up to $1M debt funding
August 9, 2010 5:40 am | by Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology | CommentsSleep technology company Zeo Inc. of Newton, originally called Axon Labs, has raised $1 million of a planned $1.5 million round of new debt funding.
Public Workshop - Optimizing Clinical Trial Design for the Development of Pediatric Cardiovascular Devices, September 30th, 2010
August 9, 2010 5:30 am | by U.S. Food & Drug Administration | CommentsRarely have devices been developed, evaluated and approved specifically for treatment of children with congenital heart disease. The small, heterogeneous population, need for long-term follow-up, lack of market incentive, and misperceptions of...
Federal Register: Workshop on Optimizing Clinical Trial Design for the Development of Pediatric Cardiovascular Devices
August 9, 2010 5:30 am | by U.S. Food & Drug Administration | CommentsThe topic to be discussed is pediatric cardiovascular device development. The purpose of the public workshop is to solicit information from clinicians, academia, professional societies, other government agencies, and industry on various efficient and...
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev professor awarded the 2010 Elkeles Prize for Cancer Research
August 8, 2010 8:41 pm | by EurekAlert | Comments(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The pioneering studies of Apte's group demonstrated the feasibility of intervening in malignant process by neutralizing inflammatory components in the "normal" microenvironment of a tumor. They also detailed the basic...
Connecting Electronic Medical Records
August 8, 2010 8:39 pm | by Massachusetts Institute of Technology | CommentsThe power of search engines is applied to health-care data.
Alchimer Workshop at Semicon 2010
August 8, 2010 5:37 pm | by I-Micronews | CommentsAlchimer who recently received an investment from the Panasonic group held a workshop at Semicon West in San Francisco highlighting their "fully wet" 3D process.
Genome study identifies genetic variant linked to TB susceptibility in Africans
August 8, 2010 10:38 am | by EurekAlert | Comments(Wellcome Trust) Scientists have identified a genetic variant which increases susceptibility to tuberculosis in African populations using a technique known as a genome-wide association study. This is the first novel disease variant to be identified using this technique in Africans...
Genetic differences that make some people susceptible to meningitis revealed in major new study
August 8, 2010 10:38 am | by EurekAlert | Comments(Imperial College London) Genetic differences that make some people susceptible to developing meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, and others naturally immune, are revealed in a new study of over 6,000 people, published today in Nature Genetics. The research, led by Imperial...
Health care using telephone and telemonitoring technology benefits heart failure patients
August 7, 2010 4:37 pm | by EurekAlert | Comments(Wiley-Blackwell) Providing patients with chronic heart failure access to remote monitoring, for example by telephone or telemonitoring using wireless technology, reduces deaths and hospitalizations and may provide benefits on health care costs and quality of life. These are the...
Autism: Lack of evidence for antidepressants
August 7, 2010 4:37 pm | by EurekAlert | Comments(Wiley-Blackwell) Antidepressants commonly prescribed to people with autistic spectrum disorders cannot be recommended based on current evidence, a new study by Cochrane Researchers concludes. Despite some evidence of benefits in adults diagnosed with autism, they say there is no...
