Genoptix, Inc. (Nasdaq: GXDX), a specialized laboratory services provider, today announced the Company’s participation at the 28th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to be held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Calif. on January 11-14, 2010. Dr. Tina S. Nova, President and CEO of Genoptix, and Sam Riccitelli, Genoptix’s EVP and COO, will present at the conference on Monday, January 11, 2010 beginning at approximately 2:30 p.m. PST, when they will provide an overview of the Company’s specialized diagnostic laboratory services business, growth strategies and financial performance. The presentation is expected to last approximately 30 minutes which will be web cast live and made accessible through the ...Read More

Scientists funded by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) have solved the mystery of how a critical cell enzyme can perform two significant biological functions, revealing a mechanism that may halt the growth of cancer. Scientists have known for over ten years that ancient enzymes — the enzymes whose primary function is to add building blocks during the construction of proteins — also can have a second distinct biological function. But, until now, it was not understood how or why this second function could co-exist within the enzyme. NFCR Scientists Xiang Lei Yang, Ph.D. and Paul Schimmel, Ph.D. at The Scripps Research Institute recently published results in the prestigious journal Nature Structural & ...Read More

NYAfrica.com is an online community portal and website whose ambition is to connect every African and/or African culture lover living in New York City or anywhere else in the United States of America. The portal will serve the ever-growing African community, and the general public interested in African events, with information about all the different activities, events and businesses offered to the African population of New York City. Through it different sections, NYAfrica.com has the following goals: - As a online business directory, provide information on local African businesses and public & community services available to Africans living in New York City - As an online restaurant directory, reviews and access to the best ...Read More

IT products & services company Binary Mantra Systems (BMS) launched the enterprise edition of MediOps- their flagship Hospital management system. The enterprise edition enables outpatient and inpatient management including diagnosis and billing, Medical History, daily treatment and billing for inpatients. Other module of the software automates hospital’s medical store to electronically manage requisitions, issues and inventory of medicines. This is a multi-user system with user management facilities. MediOps Lite, which was released in June 2009, caters to small hospitals/clinics with simple and quick patient registration, case history and billing processes. Doctors and support staff can generate bills in minutes. Doctors can ...Read More

Cinema Latino—the popular film series now in its fourth year, organized and hosted again by the Wexner Center January 8-30—offers the Columbus community a survey of recent and classic films from Latin America. The series includes a variety of genres from animation to documentary, drama to comedy. The films this year are influential (as many are international award winners) or explore the influence of Latin culture itself (seen in Walt & El Grupo, which documents the effects that a southern excursion had on Walt Disney’s creative pursuits). Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela are represented in the series. Notes Chris Stults, organizer of the series and assistant curator in Wexner Center’s film department, ...Read More

Hmedicine.com Inc, a leading supplier of homeopathic medicine, is now carrying a few herbal products to help compliment customer purchases. President Sanjib Sarkar says “Our customers have wanted us to carry some herbal and vitamin type products to compliment their purchases. In the past, customers would need to buy homeopathic remedies from our store and purchase their herbs in another store. Customers can simply purchase all the stuff they need in one place.” Hmedicine.com is stocking the following herbal medicines in their inventory. These medicines are from the Professional Brand Company. The Professional Brand is a well known company providing herbal supplements all over the world. The medicines are Green Tea capsules ...Read More

Quantros, Inc., an industry leader in healthcare data management and decision support solutions for safety, quality, compliance and prospective surveillance, continues to be the provider of choice for Core Measures and Patient Safety Event Reporting. Quantros RRM™, now in use by more than 700 hospitals, helps hospitals coordinate and manage quality and physician performance reporting to meet stringent federal and state regulatory demands on time and accurately. Navos Mental Health Solutions, a community mental health center based in Seattle, Washington, has selected the RRM HIBPS module for data collection and reporting to The Joint Commission’s Hospital Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HIBPS) program. The Quantros Safety and ...Read More