Stater Bros. Charities, KFRG Radio Stations and Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Will Present More Than 1,100 Brand-New Bikes to 4th Grade Students!
Students were chosen by their teachers from four counties, San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Mono for being outstanding students SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 1 p.m. Stater Bros. Charities, the newly established philanthropic arm of Stater Bros. Markets, in...

How the Economy is Changing the Hair Loss Treatment Industry.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The state of economy is on the tip of everyone's tongue now days. You can't turn on the news or go to work without hearing more doom and gloom in regard to the down fall of the US Economy. Obviously every...

LIC asked to pay claim to consumer.
Byline: IP Singh JALANDHAR: A city resident who had to undergo kidney transplant surgery was forced to approach the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Kapurthala for getting the claim money from Life Insurance Corp under the widely promoted Asha Deep policy. The forum held that repudiation of...

CSL Behring and Bayer Extend Agreement for Supply of Helixate(R) Recombinant Coagulation Factor.
Global distribution deal extended through 2017 KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- CSL Behring announced today that it has reached an agreement with Bayer HealthCare LLC to continue the supply and distribution of an important therapy for the treatment of hemophilia A. Under...

UCSF Celebrates Milestone in Transplant Service.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-29 September 2008-UCSF Celebrates Milestone in Transplant Service(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com UCSF celebrated its 45th year of transplantation with a week of workshops, lectures and forums. In a release, the group noted: "Virtually every single person in this country...

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Receives Approval for State's Only Lung Transplantation Service.
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, has received approval from the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish the State's only lung transplantation service. The service is expected to begin operation mid-2007. ...

Face transplant 18-month results 'encouraging'.
After 18 months, the functional and aesthetic outcomes of the first human face transplantation are satisfactory and "encouraging," according to the physicians who performed the surgery. It appears that face transplantation "can offer hope" to selected patients who have severe facial disfigurement, they reported in (N. Engl....

Wockhardt Hospitals plans to foray into organ transplant.
KOLKATA: Wockhardt Hospitals is planning to make a major foray into the organ transplantation segment. The hospital chain is closely working with its partner, Harvard Medical International, to finalise the finer modalities and treatment protocol. Wockhardt plans to offer transplantation services for liver, kidney and heart. Wockhardt...

Dr. Noshir Antia, FRCS (Eng.) FACS (Hon.).
Noshir Hormasji Antia was born into a middle class Parsi family in Mumbai on 8th February 1922. After a happy childhood and schooling in rural Karnataka and Mumbai, Dr. Antia completed his medical studies with merit at the prestigious Grant Medical College in Mumbai in 1945, and the lure...

Vital Therapies Appoints Liver Transplant Expert to Board of Directors.
Dr. J. Michael Millis Brings Hospital and Clinical Research Expertise to Company's Bioartificial Liver Treatment SAN DIEGO, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Vital Therapies, Inc. announced today that J. Michael Millis, M.D., has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Millis is professor of Surgery and...