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 [...]

Repligen Corporation announced today that the Company President and Chief Executive Officer, Walter C. Herlihy, Ph.D., will present at the Rodman & Renshaw 10th Annual Healthcare Conference on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 4:55 p.m. EST at the New York Palace Hotel, 455 Madison Avenue, New York, NY.
A live audio-webcast of the presentation will be [...]

Nonin Medical, Inc., a leading innovator of physiological monitoring solutions, successfully demonstrated the first Continua pre-certified pulse oximeter at the 5th Annual Connected Health Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts. By meeting Continua’s comprehensive Version One guidelines, Nonin Medical’s innovative pulse oximeters along with products from over 170 companies worldwide, will enable a simple “plug and play” [...]

Nurse Jennifer Dimmick helped her 71-year-old patient, George Mulligan, struggle from a chair to his feet for his daily walk around the corridor outside his hospital room.
In the days after Mulligan’s aortic valve replacement surgery, Dimmick was preparing him to care for himself after his discharge, showing him ways to lift himself while protecting his [...]

Ethna (Cooper) Duff died at home on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, after a courageous three-year battle with cancer. She was 70.
Born in Morristown on Nov. 17, 1937, to the late Patrick J. and Mary (Bolger) Cooper, she was a resident of North Branch since 2003.
Previously, she was a resident of the Gladstone section of Peapack-Gladstone [...]

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 [...]

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the Company’s lead product, amadacycline, formerly PTK 0796, a first-in-class aminomethylcycline, will be the subject of a Late Breaker poster presentation at the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). ICAAC will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 25 - October 28, 2008.
More information on the poster [...]

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., a leading provider of near-patient diagnostics, monitoring and health management solutions, met yesterday with Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as part of a group of senior executives of seventeen of the world’s leading research-based and generic pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. Inverness, together with senior officials from the United [...]

For millions of patients who make two trips to the pharmacy following their doctor’s visit — one to drop off the prescription and another to pick it up — there is good news. Taking advantage of a technology called “e-prescriptions” already in place at more than 40,000 pharmacies nationwide, a patient can choose to have [...]

Born Rose Catherine Schamine in Rochester, she graduated from the E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1941, referred to as the Pearl Harbor Class.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1949 from the University of Buffalo and a master’s degree in nursing administration in 1961, also from UB.
Her nursing career spanned [...]