Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Sipro Lab Telecom and the licensors of the W-CDMA Patent Pool announced today that as of January 1, 2011, Sipro is the new licensing administrator of the W-CDMA Patent Pool. With the help of Sipro Lab Telecom, the licensors of the W-CDMA Patent Pool want to further increase the attractiveness of the W-CDMA Patent Pool's offering to ...
Tokyo and Woburn, Massachusetts (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE 4568) and ArQule, Inc. today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the phase III trial of ARQ 197, an investigational selective inhibitor of the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase, in combination with erlotinib, ...
Agence de Medecine Preventive (AMP)
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - The inaugural meeting of the Mongolian National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) was held at the Ministry of Health in Ulaanbaatar on December 6, 2010. The NITAG is the first of its kind in Mongolia and was established based on recommendations from the World ...
Irvine, California, and Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced today that together with several groups of scientific collaborators it has identified a major role for TSPYL5, one of its MammaPrint breast cancer prognosis genes, in the genesis of breast cancer. The study entitled: "TSPYL5 suppresses p53 levels ...
Travelex Global Business Payments
London (ots/PRNewswire) - GEO, Travelex's next generation payments solution, has been crowned "Innovation of the Year" by Financial-i, it was announced today. Launched at SIBOS 2010, GEO confirmed Travelex's position as the clear industry leader in global business payments and beat the major global banks and top-tier software providers to receive ...
Munich (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Europe announced today that Sevikar HCT(R) is now approved in Germany, the first market to launch this new once-daily three-in-one combination product for the treatment of high blood pressure (BP). This new drug combines the three widely prescribed blood pressure ...
Dartmouth, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago completed a review of previously published research on antidepressant benefits of Omega-3 essential fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The review comprised a meta-analysis of 15 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in ...
Irvine, California and Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced today that together with principal investigators from Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands, it has published the first independent validation study of its colon cancer recurrence test "ColoPrint" ...
Dartmouth, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited (ONC), the world's largest Omega-3 EPA/DHA solutions provider, and supplier of MEG-3(R) brand Omega-3 EPA/DHA (eicosapentaenoic acid/docosahexaenoic acid) ingredients, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive long term ...
ABBOTSFORD, Canadá, December 13, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS Copper Systems Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has closed the non-brokered private placement announced on November 24th, 2010 by the issuance of 3,125,000 units at a price of $0.08 per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $250,000. Each unit consists of ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Institut Mérieux strengthens its commitment to medicine and global public health via an ambitious innovation policy, the structuring of a food safety/nutrition hub and the creation of a company dedicated to diagnostics in developing countries. One year after reinstating the historic name of Institut Mérieux for the family holding ...
Monheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - In a study published online last week in Medical and Veterinary Entomology, international experts reported the latest data on flea susceptibility to imidacloprid, revealing that after more than a decade of widespread use around the world, there is no evidence of resistance to this invaluable treatment. The study looked at data ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Diskeeper Corporation releases the first in a series of corporate videos addressing problems caused by fragmented computers. This comical video portrays a key problem plaguing all Windows based computer systems today. Aimed at the corporate market, the video gives a dramatic but somewhat improbable solution to slow computers - one that all ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb GmbH & Co. KGaA
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Bristol-Myers Squibb today announced that SPRYCEL(R) (dasatinib) 100mg once daily received Marketing Authorization from the European Commission for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia in Chronic Phase ...
Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited announced that its investigational once-daily oral, direct factor Xa inhibitor, edoxaban, was shown to be superior to enoxaparin sodium in preventing venous thromboembolic (VTE) events in patients following total hip replacement (THR), a type of major ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Diskeeper Corporation is proud to release some festive frivolity with its first ever Christmas video greeting "card" for customers and friends. With the usual Christmas seasonal items appearing on the shelves, through our front doors and of course into our email inboxes, Diskeeper has taken a different approach this year! The Diskeeper Staff have created a tongue in cheek video that is a play on the fragmentation of computer files, which ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb GmbH & Co. KGaA
Princeton, New Jersey and Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (http://www.bms.com) and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. today announced 18-month follow-up results from the Phase 3 DASISION study of SPRYCEL(R) (dasatinib) 100 mg once daily vs. imatinib (400 mg daily) in the first-line treatment ...
Ottawa (ots/PRNewswire) - Nordion Inc. , a leading provider of products and services to the global health science market, today announced it has signed a non-binding letter of agreement with Best Medical International Inc. for the divestiture of MDS Nordion S.A. The MDS Nordion S.A. operations currently support four lines of business out of the Fleurus, Belgium location. - Agiris - Non-destructive testing ...
Camarillo, California (ots/PRNewswire) - BNK Petroleum Inc. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that Mr. Martin Robert is joining the Company as Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Mr. Robert has extensive managerial and operational experience in Canada, France, The Netherlands, Russia and ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Citicus MoCA for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is launched today by Citicus Limited. This premier-quality business app is the first that enables decision-makers to identify the business impact of their organization's assets and processes being disrupted. This is a prerequisite for managing key areas of risk effectively. Using Citicus MoCA, people on the move can evaluate the 'what's at stake' side of the risk equation using a sound, ...
Noida, India, November 30 (ots/PRNewswire) - HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced that it has signed a multi year end-to-end IT Infrastructure Management engagement with pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma L.P. The scope of this engagement covers management of two ...
Astellas Pharma Inc. and Medivation, Inc.
San Francisco and Tokyo, November 30 (ots/PRNewswire) - Medivation, Inc. and Astellas Pharma Inc. today announced that patient enrollment was completed on November 15, 2010 in the Phase 3 AFFIRM study of the investigational drug MDV3100, a novel, triple-acting oral androgen receptor antagonist, in patients ...
Paris, November 29 (ots/PRNewswire) - On the first day of the Cancun Climate Summit, the Consumer Goods Forum announced two major initiatives on climate change: to work toward ending deforestation, and to phase out the use of refrigerant gases with high global warming potential. The Forum, formed in 2009, is a CEO-level organization of 400 global consumer goods manufacturers and retailers with combined revenue in ...
SÃO PAULO, November 29, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - Bluestar Silicones has just started its new manufacturing unit for Silicones fluids in its Santo André plant. This new unit based on state of the art manufacturing technology for Silicones fluids will enable Bluestar Silicones to have a versatile & larger local production base for all Latin & South American customers ...
Abbotsford, British Columbia, November 25 (ots/PRNewswire) - ICS Copper Systems Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of 3,125,000 (Three Million One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand) units at a price of CAD$0.08 per unit for gross proceeds of CAD$250,000. Each unit will consist of one common share and one full warrant entitling the holder to purchase a common share at a ...
London, November 25 (ots/PRNewswire) - Leading IT publication Windows IT Pro has released a new white paper entitled "Improved Reliability is Within Your Grasp," enumerating the many benefits to system reliability available from Diskeeper(R) performance software. These benefits include increases of 50 percent or more in system stability, decreases in system crashes by upwards of 20 percent, drastic reductions in file ...
Budapest, Hungary, November 24 (ots/PRNewswire) - On Tuesday evening November 9th around 110 invitees witnessed the opening ceremony of HOYA's new Faculty Education and Experience Centre in the heart of Budapest. Amongst the guests were Japanese Ambassador to Hungary Mr. Tecuo Ito and deputy Mayor of the Fifth District of Budapest Mr. Andras Puskas. Japanese ...
Uithoorn, Netherlands, November 24 (ots/PRNewswire) - From 27 September until 1 October HOYA Vision Care invited a selection of its best lens experts and VIP customers from all over the world to join its Global PAL Summit in La Toja, Spain. Goal was to discuss in depth new technological developments and share vision and plans on the future generation progressive ...
Toronto, November 22 (ots/PRNewswire) - In a worldwide exclusive, CBC News and Radio-Canada have uncovered startling new information about the ongoing UN investigation into the assassination of Rafik Al-Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon - including confidential documents the UN wanted CBC to seek their ...
Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University
Denver, November 20 (ots/PRNewswire) - Around a quarter of all heart attacks, strokes, and operations to open blocked arteries could be avoided in people with chronic kidney disease by using the combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin to lower blood cholesterol levels. That's the conclusion from the world's ...