Month: September 2021

Company Wins Prestigious Customer Choice Awards for Most Recommended Brand, Best Meatball and Best Sauce Among All QVC Food Brands EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MamaMancini’s Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMMB), a marketer of specialty pre-prepared, frozen and refrigerated food products, today announced that QVC customers voted MamaMancini’s products as #1 in Most Recommended Brand, Best Meatball and Best Sauce categories during the 2021 QVC Customer Choice® Food Awards. Each fall QVC customers cast their ballots in its most exclusive poll, the Customer Choice Awards. Through this program, 75,000 customers selected their top product in each of 47 categories across beauty and 24 categories across food. MamaMancini’s co-founder Dan Mancini accepted the three awards on behalf of the Company and featured...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pure Extracts Technologies Corp. (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF) (XFRA: A2QJAJ) (“Pure Extracts” or the “Company”), a plant-based extraction company focused on cannabis, hemp, functional mushrooms and the rapidly emerging psychedelic sector, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Pure Extracts Manufacturing Corp., has shipped its initial order of edible gummies via its distribution partner to Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis (AGLC). The shipment includes both Pure Chews THC gummies as well as Pure Chews ultra-high potency CBD gummies. Flavours include Fire Burst, Mango, Strawberry and Blue Raspberry. All the Company’s SKUs utilize a proprietary manufacturing system licensed from US based Taste-T, LLC, the manufacturer of the successful Fireball Cinnamon...

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NetworkNewsAudio – Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (NASDAQ: LEXX) announces the availability of a broadcast titled, “Hypertension: The Silent Killer Making Loud Noise for Investors.” To hear the AudioPressRelease, please visit: The NetworkNewsAudio News Podcast To view the full editorial, please visit: https://nnw.fm/ndmMU The market is certainly worth entering. Consider that Reportlinker.com estimates the global anti-hypertensive drugs market to be $24.37 billion in 2021 and growing 3.4% annually to $27.81 billion in 2025. That’s a nearly $28 billion market where only one patient in four is treating the disease. How big would that market be if the other three in four patients found a drug they would consent to use? Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (NASDAQ: LEXX) may have a market cap of only around...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Phunware, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHUN) (the “Company”), a fully-integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, has secured a new Multiscreen-as-a-Service (MaaS) contract win that will give Dignity Health, Yavapai Regional Medical Center (“YRMC”) in Prescott, Arizona a new digital front door application portfolio for mobile. Incorporated in 1942, YRMC is the region’s leading not-for-profit healthcare system, with two acute care hospitals, a network of primary and specialty care clinics, outpatient health and wellness centers, cardiac diagnostic centers and outpatient medical imaging centers. Together, YRMC’s network of services provides medical care and wellness resources to a geographic area encompassing 5,500 square...

Insurers can offer digital, real-time payments to resolve claims more quickly and accuratelyAmrish SinghEnterprise General Manager, MetromileDave GlaserPresident & COO, DwollaSAN FRANCISCO and DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Metromile Enterprise Solutions, LLC the cloud-based technology platform used by global property and casualty insurers to automate insurance claims, today announced an integration with Dwolla, a modern payments platform, into its no-code claims automation platform Metromile STREAMLINE. With Metromile STREAMLINE and Dwolla, insurers worldwide can offer digital claims payments, including Real-time Payments via the RTP® Network, Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers via the ACH Network or Push-to-Debit disbursements, helping to resolve claims more quickly...

Second Location Houses One of the Largest LA Fitness Memberships Nationwide and Capitalizes on the Robust Demand for Wellness TreatmentsMission Viejo locationOmnia Wellness Partners with LA Fitness to Unveil BodyStop® Recovery Zone in LA’s Mission Viejo LocationDENVER, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Omnia Wellness Inc. (the “Company”) (OTC US: OMWS), a health and wellness company commercializing advanced therapeutic technologies, has launched a second Signature LA Fitness wellness center. The Mission Viejo location represents one of the largest clubs in the LA Fitness portfolio. Similar to the Company’s BodyStop® center in Irvine, this center will also include the same offerings: the Company’s proprietary and patented Solajet® Dry Hydrotherapy that specializes in the Endo-Kinetic treatment approach; custom...

SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Huazhu Group Limited (NASDAQ: HTHT and HKEX: 1179) (“Huazhu” or the “Company”), a world-leading hotel group, today announced that Mr. Qi Ji will step down as chief executive officer of the Company for personal reasons, effective October 1, 2021. Mr. Ji will continue to serve as the chairman of the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”). Mr. Hui Jin, currently the president of the Company, will succeed Mr. Ji as chief executive officer of the Company, effective October 1, 2021. Mr. Jin joined the Company in 2005 and has successively served as the Company’s director of the Development Department, vice president, executive vice president and president, respectively. Prior to joining Huazhu, Mr. Jin worked at Shanghai Home Inns Hotels Management Limited as regional development...

SEATTLE, Sept. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Homeowners of America (HOA), a property and casualty insurance provider and subsidiary of Porch Group, Inc. (“Porch” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: PRCH), today announced the launch of service in Nevada. Porch, a leading vertical software company reinventing the home services and insurance industries, completed its acquisition of HOA in April 2021 with plans to drive growth in HOA’s current markets and begin national expansion. With the addition of Nevada, HOA now operates in eight states. This expansion furthers Porch’s reach for its InsurTech business, now offering a competitively priced homeowners insurance product to homebuyers, homeowners and HOA agents. “Introducing the insurance offerings of HOA to the Nevada market further demonstrates our commitment to the continued growth...

Final results from completed Phase 1b trial in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) receiving second-line topotecan demonstrated ALRN-6924’s ability to reduce neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and anemia caused by chemotherapy, as well as the need for transfusions Preliminary results from ongoing Phase 1 pharmacology study in healthy volunteers confirmed ALRN-6924’s optimal dose (0.3 mg/kg), its mechanism of action, and demonstrated time to onset, duration and magnitude of its pharmacodynamic effects These new data will inform the design of anticipated future clinical studies to investigate ALRN-6924 as a chemoprotective agent in other p53-mutated cancers and with other types of chemotherapy A precision medicine-based chemoprotective agent, ALRN-6924 is designed to selectively activate p53 in normal cells, thereby upregulating p21,...