Albert Liou, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific Region, at PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL - News), a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, will present “What Can China Really Deliver in Terms of Cost and Efficiency Savings in Running Clinical Trials?” at the 7th Annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials Congress and Exhibition, to be [...]

Patients with schizoaffective disorder receiving paliperidone extended release tablets (paliperidone ER) for six weeks showed a significant improvement in their symptoms, according to a new study presented today at the U.S. Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress in San Diego, Calif.(1) In addition, safety findings were similar to published studies of paliperidone ER in the treatment [...]

Patients with schizoaffective disorder receiving paliperidone extended release tablets (paliperidone ER) for six weeks showed a significant improvement in their symptoms, according to a new study presented today at the U.S. Psychiatric & Mental Health Congress in San Diego, Calif.(1) In addition, safety findings were similar to published studies of paliperidone ER in the treatment [...]

Lindsey McDermott, a nursing major at St. Anselm College, said she wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the economy until she went home to Norwood, Mass., for the Columbus Day break.
“Everywhere I went, people were talking about it,” she said.
Now that she has started paying attention, McDermott, a 20-year-old junior, is worried.
“I [...]

Federal funding for nursing workforce development programs apparently is on target to rise slightly in 2005, but remains far short of levels sought by nursing advocates, according to the American Nurses Association.
A House subcommittee has approved a $5 million boost to the 2004 funding level of $147 million for scholarship, diversity grant, and loan repayment [...]

Vical Incorporated today is presenting expanded clinical data and new nonclinical data demonstrating that the company’s Vaxfectin® adjuvant may be broadly applicable in DNA- and protein-based infectious disease vaccines and peptide-based cancer vaccines. Alain P. Rolland, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Vical’s Senior Vice President of Product Development, will present the data today, Wednesday, October 8, at the [...]

While the French biotechnology industry has been hit by the temerity of stock market investors, the launch of Euronext’s Next Biotech Index provides greater visibility for the sector, thereby rendering it more attractive. Growth and innovation are both evident in the product and service portfolio of the French biotech sector.
France Biotech, the French life science [...]

Steven C. LaTourette, 54, of Bainbridge Township, is seeking his eighth term in Congress. He was Lake County prosecutor before his election to Congress in 1994. LaTourette studied history at the University of Michigan and earned his law degree at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Bill O’Neill, 61, of South Russell, resigned last year from the [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation’s 2.9 million registered nurses.
“As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system,” said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. “Nurses are consistently voted [...]

The union representing registered nurses at the VA Medical Center is planning to picket outside the Fort Hill Avenue facility later this month.
They will protest what they say are unfair working conditions for the approximately 100 RNs who work there.
At issue is mandatory overtime, methods of scheduling evening and overnight shifts, and the way nurses [...]