DALLAS, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- What: "Protecting Your Data ... Wherever It Is" -- Data Security in The Real World Executive Breakfast event Where: Omni Hotel, San Francisco 500 California Street (at Montgomery) San Francisco, California 94104 Phone: (415) 677-9494, Fax: (415) 273-3038 When...

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in February released the first U.S. clinical guidelines for von Willebrand disease, a bleeding disorder due to a deficiency in a blood protein needed for normal clotting. The guidelines are aimed at advancing initiatives for better screening methods and t...

LANSING, Mich., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Risk Management and Patient Safety Institute (RM&PSI) today announced that it was successfully reaccredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME(R)) as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians.

The FDA issued a rule that limits revisions made by drug and medical-device makers to product warnings. The measure may protect companies from patients' lawsuits by enabling them to claim "complete immunity" for failing to warn about potential product hazards, trial lawyers said. An agency...

WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12 million to two industry teams to study how the introduction of new aircraft types may affect air traffic management efficiency, aviation safety and the environment in the future.

Biotest Diagnostics has received FDA clearance to sell its complete line of traditional blood-bank reagents. The products, which can screen and type blood, are used in matching patients with blood donors, the company said. FDAnews (08/19)

MIAMI, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 70 top-level executives representing more than 30 airlines have already registered for ALTA's upcoming Aviation Crisis Preparedness Conference and Aviation Law Americas Conference taking place September 10-12, 2008, in Miami.

Shares in medical device maker Chad Therapeutics Inc. soared more than 60 percent Wednesday after the Chatsworth company said it received clearance from the FDA to market its proprietary sleep disorder diagnostic system.

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council approved standards and recommended practices (SARPs) that will permit Iridium(R) Satellite to provide Aeronautical Mobile Satellite (Route) Services (AMS(R)S) for commercial aircraft on transoceanic fl...

Some expectant parents have to decide whether to preserve their children's umbilical-cord blood in private cord blood banks or in public registries seeking to increase donations to spur research. Private firms argue that they provide parents with a resource that they can use for their children's...