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Today, customers of diamonds and other jewelry can buy in a traditional store or through a variety of new outlets including cable TV and the Internet. Randall McCullough, the President & CEO of Charles & Colvard, the exclusive global supplier of moissanite, is keeping tabs on how these new options are changing the market. Moissanite—10 percent more brilliance than its diamond counterpart at 1/10 the price!—is rapidly growing its appeal to female and male customers via a range of domestic and international retailers and other sales channels.

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Life Foods in collaboration with Powerbrands are proud to announce the release of their new brand of functional tonics on November 13, 2013, that are truly "the future of function". Designed by world leading neuroscientist Professor Bankole Johnson, these tonics contain a unique and proprietary blend of nutrients, balanced in the right concentration to optimize functionality, that include vitamins, amino acids, and various cofactors to enhance specific feelings or states. This initial release consists of three tonics: "ALIVE" to increase mental focus and alertness; "HAPPY" to enhance positive mood, and "DREAMS" to induce and maintain restful sleep as well as to alleviate jet lag. These futuristic, scientifically designed and developed tonics, bring forward a new era in beverages designed to enhance certain functional states in the brain.

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A unique partnership in Houston has brought together one manufacturer and one retailer with one large commitment in common. Central Virginia-based organic mattress and bedding manufacturer, Savvy Rest, has expanded its dealer network to Houston, and is offering its specialized products through New Living, Houston’s flagship green building and home store. What’s unusual about this vendor-retailer relationship is that both companies are certified B-Corporations (benefit corporations). B-Corp companies pledge and are audited annually for their proven commitments to value benefits to community, employees, and the environment as much as profits.

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October 30, 2013, Rockville, Maryland – A new kind of retail store has opened in Rockville. Savvy Rest Natural Bedroom specializes in nontoxic, natural and organic products for the bedroom. The store is one of four showrooms for Virginia organic mattress and bedding manufacturer, Savvy Rest.

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Online communication between a company and its investors is the key to a healthy business. One leading light in the area of “push technology”—the ability of a business to publish its latest information in real time—is Equisolve, a Fort Lauderdale-based service and technology solutions company that offers public companies a state of the art online IR platform.

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Researchers and physicians at The Johns Hopkins University will collaborate with Belgian nanoelectronics research center imec to advance silicon applications in health care, beginning with development of a point-of-care device to enable a broad range of clinical tests to be performed outside the laboratory. The collaboration, announced today, will combine the Johns Hopkins clinical and research expertise with imec’s technical capabilities.

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A mixture of native grasses that requires less maintenance to produce a lush lawn than a traditional turfgrass used in the South has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin ecologist and licensed to a sod producer. Known as HabitufTM, the native lawn mix was developed by the university’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The university has given a 10-year, nonexclusive license for Habiturf to Bladerunner Farms of Poteet, Texas.

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A new Credit Suisse study reveals that U.S. calorie consumption rose from 3,200 per day in 1981 to 3,900 per day in 2012, driven in part by rising sugar consumption. Among the alternatives now being explored to counteract this trend, one of the most promising is stevia—the extract of a plant that is 200 times sweeter than sugar but that has no calories or carbohydrates.

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has licensed to Illumina Inc. the rights to a DNA sequencing technology developed by a UAB microbiologist and a University of Washington physicist.

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October 8, 2013, Berkeley, California – A new retail store has opened in Berkeley. Savvy Rest Natural Bedroom specializes in nontoxic, natural and organic products for the bedroom.

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“Doing good never tasted so great!” That’s the message from Panera Bread® bakery-cafés in an effort to highlight breast cancer awareness in area communities during the month of October. The annual campaign features the local sale of the Pink Ribbon Bagel -- proceeds from which will benefit breast cancer research and patient education programs at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

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The Ohio State University today announced the signing of an exclusive world-wide agreement with Microlin Bio Inc., licensing a large portfolio of Ohio State’s groundbreaking cancer discoveries.

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The field of gene therapy promises to dramatically transform the treatment of disease, as well as fundamentally change the delivery of healthcare in the twenty-first century. With an acceleration of advances taking place in the field, a new book provides a comprehensive review of the field of gene-based therapeutics in an expanded third edition textbook that concentrates on advances in areas that were in their infancy when the last edition was published in 2002.

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Products that help motivate and track non-exercise activity may be eligible for NEAT product certification and to use the NEAT trademark from Mayo Clinic. Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, known as NEAT™, focuses on the daily calories a person burns while doing normal, non-exercise activity.

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There’s an app for that. A new iOS app developed in part by University of Kentucky researcher Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles will assist health care professionals seeking help communicating with patients during difficult conversations.

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Benu BioPharma announced today the establishment of Benu BioVentures, a new biopharmaceutical investment initiative to fund and develop preclinical stage pharmaceutical investments to the human proof-of-concept stage. Leveraging Benu BioPharma's management expertise in technology commercialization and pharmaceutical development, Benu BioVentures is creating and financing virtual companies that will develop candidate drugs in a cost and time efficient manner. Funding activities will focus on product candidates with strong animal data and a clear regulatory path that address unmet medical needs. Benu BioVentures is led by Dennis Goldberg, Ph.D., FAHA and Fred Meyer, Ph.D., CFA, both recognized biopharmaceutical serial entrepreneurs.

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The next generation of biometric technology launches today with the Nymi, from Bionym, a technology start-up founded by University of Toronto engineering graduates. The Nymi is the world’s first wearable authentication device that uses your unique heartbeat to unlock your identity. The convenient and secure authentication is enabled through an embedded electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor. When the Nymi recognizes your personal ECG, it will communicate your identity to your devices. You remain authenticated until the Nymi is removed. The activated Nymi can then be used to gain access to all registered devices, completely bypassing passwords and PINs for seamless and secure access. Passwords, PINs and even keys and cards will become a thing of the past.

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Vaccines on the Go: What You Should Know is a unique mobile app that allows busy parents to access up-to-date, reliable information about the science and safety of vaccines -- wherever and whenever they need it. The Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (VEC) now offers the App for both iPhone and Android.

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Geisinger Health System (GHS), Danville, Pa., and Holy Spirit Health System, Camp Hill, Pa., announced today the signing of a letter of intent to explore ways the healthcare organizations can work together to benefit healthcare in southcentral Pennsylvania.

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Recently updated cardiac medicine (CMC) and cardiac surgery (CSC) review courses from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses are designed to help direct-care cardiac nurses achieve subspecialty certification by reaffirming clinical knowledge and boosting their test-taking confidence.

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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and the Howard County Economic Development Authority (HCEDA) have established a technology transfer partnership to bring APL innovation to the marketplace. Howard County Executive Ken Ulman joined APL Director Ralph Semmel and HCEDA Chief Executive Officer Larry Twele as they signed the agreement and announced details of the partnership on Aug. 22.

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The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses expands its growing body of evidence-based resources with a new clinical toolkit, NTI ActionPak: Strategies for Managing Alarm Fatigue. Now available online to all AACN members, NTI ActionPak is filled with evidence-based strategies, resources and best practices for reducing the threat of environmental alarms to improve patient safety and increase workplace effectiveness.

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Food poisoning causes 48 million illnesses in the U.S. each year, and most recently more than 300 Midwesterners were sickened by an outbreak of cyclospora, a foodborne pathogen. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages everyone to reduce their risk with simple safety steps from www.HomeFoodSafety.org and by downloading the free Is My Food Safe? mobile app.

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NanoString is introducing an Early Access Program for nCounter Elements™, a line of General Purpose Reagents (GPRs) developed specifically to meet the needs of translational research and clinical laboratories. nCounter Elements GPRs enable researchers to independently develop multiplexed genomic assays, and then rapidly translate those assays into clinical diagnostics offered as Laboratory Developed Tests.

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Rheonix, Inc. is entering into a joint development agreement with Life Technologies Corp. to introduce a molecular testing platform for their Applied Markets business.

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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 2013 AACC Press Release

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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 2013 AACC Press Release

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La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and Kyowa Hakko Kirin California, Inc. (KKC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. (KHK), a global specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced the signing of a new agreement that marks another milestone in one of the most enduring industry-academic collaborations in the world.

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Mayo Clinic’s free app, Mayo Clinic on Pregnancy, is now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch users. Developed by Mayo Clinic, the app leverages the medical and lifestyle expertise of a team of Mayo's pregnancy experts in obstetrics and gynecology, genetics, nutrition, midwifery and lactation.

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Created to help laboratory medicine trainees prepare for board examinations in the U.S. and U.K., the Question Bank is the most extensive compilation of board study questions ever collected.

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Baylor Research Institute, the research arm of Baylor Health Care System, announced that it has signed an agreement with Novartis to non-exclusively license Baylor’s patents pertaining to the treatment of Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SJIA, or SOJIA) using interleukin-1 beta antagonists.

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Sigma-Aldrich Corporation today announced a partnership with The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to fund research and provide immediate, day-of-publication access to TSRI researchers’ discoveries for the synthesis and analysis of potential drugs.

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Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) has formed a new management-services organization (MSO) to deliver key business functions and physician-management services under a centralized, national organization across eight divisions.

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Mayo Clinic today announced that it has entered into a multiyear agreement with Valurise Health Solutions, Inc. (VHS) in China to integrate components of Mayo Clinic’s suite of Healthy Living services into their existing product line for employers and insurers in Greater China.

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University Hospitals Eye Institute will be one of the first medical centers in the United States to offer the Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System (“Argus II”).

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The Mount Sinai Medical Center is the first medical center in New York City to offer the newly FDA approved HeartMate II® Pocket Controller™ to help its advanced heart failure patients maintain more active lifestyles. This latest generation controller for the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a new small, light-weight, patient-friendly external controller about the size of a smart phone that easily fits in a patient’s front pocket and powers their heart to pump.

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The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute is the first building on an Indiana University campus to achieve LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

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The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) announces that its educational website, OpenAnesthesia (OA), has published the first self-study app for anesthesiology residents, CRNAs, SRNAs and physicians. Specifically designed to improve knowledge within the field of anesthesiology and developed by Amphetamobile, a leading provider of mobile and web content design for medical content, the app is free to download on iTunes.

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Thomas Jefferson University’s new web-based resource, HandsFree, makes the task of analyzing your next-generation sequencing data easy.

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Mayo Clinic announced today the development of Mayo Clinic Healthy Living, a new online offering for its commercial population health clients.

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The use of Pressure Right® has demonstrated one of the highest clinical ratings in nausea and vomiting prevention when used in combination with antiemetic drug therapy with no adverse effects.

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The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Immune Design, a biotech company focused on immune-based therapies for cancer and other human diseases, today announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to advance cancer immunotherapy research.

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Angel Eye Camera Systems LLC, a new company, recently licensed Angel Eye™ technology from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures, and received an important capital investment from a Nashville, Tenn., venture fund.

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Eleven of the 25 largest accounting firms in the Baltimore area are headed by graduates of the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business and the UB School of Law—once again repeating the University's rank as the single largest producer of top-level managerial accounting talent for area firms. The results were announced in the Baltimore Business Journal's 2013 Book of Lists.

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OSHA Update course for outreach trainers prepares students with latest information to maintain construction industry trainer status.

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OSHA Update course for outreach trainers prepares students with latest information to maintain general industry trainer status.

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Sandia National Laboratories and SRI International, an independent research and innovation center, will join forces to explore, test and evaluate a broad range of hydrogen and natural gas fuel systems and components for transportation applications under a new agreement.

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The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) announces the release of the complete third edition of their respected foundational publication Q Solutions: Essential Resources for the Healthcare Quality Professional. The new text expands and reinforces the foundational knowledge for healthcare quality and patient safety professionals working across the care continuum.

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Columbia University has signed a licensing agreement with Varian Medical Systems for novel imaging software that facilitates 3-D segmentation, the process by which anatomical structures in medical images are distinguished from one another—an important step in the precise planning of cancer surgery and radiation treatments.

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Centura Health Cancer Network was awarded silver accreditation by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, becoming the first Integrated Network Cancer Program in Colorado.