The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announces that Jeff Poston, Executive Director, Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA), Ottawa, Ontario, has been awarded Honorary Membership in APhA for 2011. He was recognized for advocating the growth of CPhA and his work on activities that have...
Wendall F. Gaston, Pharmacy Manager, Safeway, Sidney, NE, is the 2011 recipient of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Hubert H. Humphrey Award. Gaston was selected in recognition of his lifelong dedication to the profession of pharmacy and passion for healthcare, politics, community and...
Thomas Temple, Executive Vice President and CEO of the Iowa Pharmacy Association (IPA), is the 2011 recipient of the American Pharmacists Association's (APhA) Hugo H. Schaefer Award. Temple was chosen for his leadership of a well-integrated state organization of community and institutional...
Paul W. Lofholm, President, Ross Valley Pharmacy in Larkspur, CA is the recipient of the 2011 Remington Honor Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). He was selected in recognition of his life-long work in continuing education, advancement of pharmacy...
Douglas A. Coulter, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, received the 2010 Epilepsy Research Recognition Award for Basic Science from the American Epilepsy Society. The Society honored Dr. Coulter's pioneering contributions to epilepsy research on Monday, Dec. 6 at...
Tomophase Corporation, developer of the non-invasive Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System (OCTIS™) and other devices, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market OCTIS. Tomophase is a leader in the development of OCT brochoscopically-based imaging systems for...
PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP) announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided formal consent for PharmAthene to reinitiate clinical testing of its anthrax anti-toxin, Valortim®, after lifting the partial clinical hold placed on the program in late 2009...
Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANTH), a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs to treat serious diseases associated with inflammation, announced that their product candidate varespladib (A-001) was awarded the 2010 European Society Pediatric Research Award at the Third Congress of...
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) announced that its pharmacy-benefit management business, Humana Pharmacy Solutions, has once again been awarded full Pharmacy Benefit Management Accreditation from URAC, a Washington, D.C.-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for...
The Leapfrog Group's annual class of top hospitals was announced in Washington, DC at Leapfrog's 10th anniversary meeting and named St. Anthony Summit Medical Center, a Centura Health hospital, in Frisco, Colorado. St. Anthony Summit Medical Center was selected as one of only five rural...
Medx Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MDXG), an integrated developer, manufacturer and marketer of patent protected biomaterial-based products, announced that it has been awarded a Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project grant (QTDP) from the U.S. Government. The grant, in the amount of...
The Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) has received a $75,000 grant from The Physicians Foundation to help train physicians to be effective leaders of their medical staffs and handle the emerging challenges of the health care industry. IMQ will partner with the University of California, San...
The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine has received a Next Steps in Physicians' Training in Geriatrics grant totaling nearly $1 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to support programs to train medical students, residents and physicians in geriatrics. VCU is one of 10...
The Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at Scott & White Healthcare in Temple has received accreditation from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). Cardiac rehabilitation is a medical program designed to help patients recover following a heart attack...
Segasist Technologies, a Canadian software company developing contouring productivity tools for medical imaging, has announced the receipt of funding from The Health Technology Exchange (HTX) towards support of clinical validation of its software, to be conducted at the Lawson Health Research...
Prism Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental new drug application for NEXTERONE® (amiodarone HCl) Premixed Injection, the first and only premixed intravenous (IV) bag formulation of the antiarrhythmic agent amiodarone IV...
Nanotrope, Inc. announced that it has been issued United States patent #7,829,272 covering its ground-breaking diagnostic test for influenza and other viral infections. The patent describes Nanotrope's cellular mimic technology that creates an artificial "cell" engineered with specific membrane...
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center (Midwestern) announced that it has received the "gold standard" in accreditation for breast programs nationally. After a recent survey, the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), which is...
The first ever clinical trial using neural stem cell therapy has begun with one patient in the UK, ReNeuron Group plc announced today. Known as the Pilot Investigation of Stem Cells in Stroke (PISCES) study, it is the first ever fully regulated neural stem cell therapy clinical trial for...
China Medical Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: CMED), a leading China-based advanced in-vitro diagnostic ("IVD") company, announced that it has received approval for its real-time PCR-based Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor ("EGFR") Assay (the "EGFR PCR Assay") for the use of lung...