| Koivu pays the price with time on bench
MONTREAL - On a day that brought the bizarre firing of Claude Julien for the crime of getting his team into first place in the division, you would have to say that in the NHL, anything is possible - even the benching of Saku Koivu. Koivu's problems started during Friday night's 5-2 loss in Ottawa. Koivu was a minus-4 against the Senators. He played 18 minutes in that game, but paid the price - despite scoring the winning goal on a brilliant individual effort in Saturday night's stirring 4-3 win over the conference-leading Buffalo Sabres. Against Buffalo, the team's captain and leading scorer played 11:06 - a grand total of 13 shifts. He was a plus-1 for the night, but was nailed to the bench for the final four minutes and several critical faceoffs, perhaps because he had won only two of the dozen he took on the night.
arGentis Appoints Scientific Advisory Board
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 2, 2007 - arGentis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces the formation of a five member Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for Ocular Therapies. arGentis is currently advancing two transdermal therapies for the treatment of dry eye syndrome (DES) into the clinical development. The transdermal testosterone formulation treats DES in menopausal women, while the transdermal progesterone formulation treats DES in the wider population, including younger women and men. Both therapies are uniquely applied in a cream formulation to the upper and lower eyelid, transdermally delivering the active pharmaceutical ingredient directly to the affected glands. The SAB, which includes some of the foremost experts in dry eye syndrome, clinical trial development and drug formulation, will provide counsel on a broad range of scientific, regulatory, clinical and product development matters.
Novell steering Microsoft defectors back to Microsoft?
Oh, my. On the one hand, Mary Jo is reporting that, just as Novell's Bruce Lowry had said, Novell's pact with Microsoft seems to be earning it back market share against Red Hat. On the other hand, and of much greater concern, the pact doesn't seem to be helping drive Linux forward, as the deal promised to do. Instead, it is carving up a still small Linux pie, and actually draining Linux growth and putting that money in Microsoft's pocket:SuSE's gain seemingly isn't impacting Windows Server marketshare among the IT professionals that Yankee surveyed. About 12 percent of Windows users surveyed by Yankee who had "defected" to Linux are now reversing their decisions and coming back to the Microsoft fold," according to an executive summary of the report that I had a chance to see last week.In short, Novell is getting what it wants - to hurt Red Hat - but not getting what it really wants - to grow the market and take a larger share of that market.
First Cross-China Motorcycle Challenge for charity
Operating under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, local charity Gulf for Good is inviting keen adventurers and motorcycling enthusiasts from across the Region to take part in the first China Classic Motorcycle Challenge between September 7th and 17th. .
Is my child old enough to wear contact lenses?
The most common questions that eyecare professionals hear from parents is: At what age can children start wearing contact lenses? Is my child mature enough to wear contact lenses? A new research has showed that children of 8 to 12 can easily handle the responsibility of contact lenses just as well as their older peers. In the study, children and teenagers reported that it was much easier to engage in sports, dancing and other activities while wearing contact lenses. .
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