Parts in Medical News

Refurbished and Used Industrial Parts Washers Grow in Popularity

Rebuilt and Used Industrial Parts Washers are growing in popularity. These parts washers are cost effective and quick solutions for companies that need to upgrade their existing washing equipment in this difficult economic climate. (Vocus) July 8, 2009 -- Midbrook, a Ja...

NGL Expands Global Network to Service Parts Logistics Customers

Network Global Logistics (NGL), a premier provider of mission critical transportation, service/spare parts logistics, and integrated supply chain solutions continues to expand its global network of forward stocking locations (FSL's). Broomfield, CO (Vocus) -- Network G...

Drill it, Mill it, Tap it, Thread it… Reid Supply Offers Customization of Standard Industrial Parts

Reid Supply Company's President, John Carrier announced today the purchase of an additional CNC machine at Total Quality Machining, Inc. TQM, Reid's exclusive machining shop for customizing standard Reid stocked parts as well as quality precision tooling components and machining services, boasts ...

Marijuana May Shrink Parts of the Brain

Drug can affect memory and result in early psychotic symptoms, researchers say MONDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- People who use marijuana for a long time can develop abnormalities in their brains, Australian researchers report. Although growing literature suggests that long-term ma...

PartsSource & Adventist Health Sign Agreement for Parts Procurement

AURORA, Ohio, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- PartsSource, the nation's leading supplier of replacement medical repair parts for hospital equipment has ratified an agreement with Adventist Health to become their primary supplier of medical replacement parts. This agreement leverages the respective st...

Report: 'Life And Death' Differences in U.S. Child Well-Being Exist Between Top and Bottom States, Youths Up to Three Times More Likely to Die Before Adulthood in Some Parts of U.S.

The Forgotten 2008 Campaign Issue? "Shocking" Disparities Show That "Geography Matters" for U.S. Children; AZ, SD, NV, AR, SC, TX, OK, NM, MS and LA Identified as 10 Bottom States by Key Child Well-Being Measures WASHINGTON, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The states of Louisiana ...

Drug-Resistant Staph Infections Reaching Epidemic Levels in Some Parts of U.S.

CDC official notes southern part of country most affected FRIDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Infections with the drug-resistant staph germ called MRSA are approaching epidemic levels in some parts of the United States, a federal epidemiologist says. Methicillin-resistant Staphyloco...

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

A new study has found that what boys lose in the process of circumcision turns out to be the most sensitive parts of the penis. The long-term-health impact of neo-natal circumcision has received little study, while the consequences of circumcision on sexual function in the adult male have ...

Body Parts Industry Of U.S Under Investigation

The body parts industry, which suffered two recent scams, is now under investigation by the Food and Drug administration of United States . According to official reports, the billion-dollar industry was examined by an in-house review board resulting in a call for a doubling of FDA inspections. ...

Researchers Use Stem Cells to Regenerate Parts of Teeth

A multi-national research team headed by USC School of Dentistry researcher Songtao Shi, DDS, PhD, has successfully regenerated tooth root and supporting// periodontal ligaments to restore tooth function in an animal model. The breakthrough holds significant promise for clinical application in huma...

Stolen Body Parts From Human Cadavers used as Implants by 25 UK Hospitals

The vigilance at government hospitals have unearthed the use of tainted human body parts, lifted off human cadavers in America//, and used by nearly 25 UK hospitals as implants for patients. This information came to light, notwithstanding a probable breach of patient information, as matters of publ...

Multiple Parts of the Brain Affected by Autism

Autism has widespread effects, besides affecting how people relate to others, according to a recent study.// Researchers from the Collaborative Program of Excellence in Autism compared 56 children with autism of the age group eight to 15, with 56 who did not have the condition. It was foun...

Medical Treatment from Stolen Body Parts – TGA Warn

TGA (The US Therapeutic Goods Administration) suspects 46 Australians to be implanted with medical products prepared from stolen human body parts and so wants to warn them through their doctors. // Medicinal products to cure back pain, incontinence and other medical conditions were prepared fro...

HIV Infected Body Parts Stolen: Biomedical Tissue Services To Face Legal Action

A New Jersey-based organization, Biomedical Tissue Services has been accused of stealing HIV infected body parts from a funeral home in Brooklyn and distributing it to various hospitals without testing// it. A woman is said to have contracted HIV following transplantation of bone tissue, acco...

Different Parts Of The Brain Are Involved In Memory Retention

Separate parts of the brain are activated for processing a single brief memory, according to researchers belonging to the UCI. // This will have a significant impact with regard to treating memory disorders which are a result of injury or disease. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Illicit body parts from cadavers used for transplant

Three New Jerseyans who got bone transplants from tissue that may have been illegally harvested from New York funeral-home corpses have tested positive for hepatitis // and syphilis, their lawyer said. All of them underwent surgery at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.J., and claim to ...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

Fletcher remembers little of the disfiguring accident that nearly killed him, but he likes to recall shopping in January 2007 near his home on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Nobody stared at his torn face, he says. Not anymore, that is, because of his brand-new nose. In a ser...

Insulet Corporation to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

...es. The Company's OmniPod Insulin Management System is a revolutionary, discreet and easy-to-use insulin infusion system that features two easy-to-use parts with no tubing and fully-automated cannula insertion. Through the OmniPod System, Insulet seeks to expand the use of insulin pump therapy among people...

Hill-Rom Reports Third Quarter Financial Results

...ct trial activities are stable and quote activities continue to increase significantly. Internationally, we are seeing the weakness we anticipated in parts of Europe and in Asia; however, there are a number of countries that continue to perform well and to date have offset this weakness. Overall, we have...

President Clinton and Mylan Chairman and CEO Robert J. Coury Announce New Agreement to Lower Price of Treatment for Patients with Drug-Resistant HIV in Developing Countries

...rdable, heat-stable version of Ritonavir also represents another advance in the development of products that can withstand environmental conditions in parts of the world where treatment is desperately needed." Coury continued: "We thank President Clinton and CHAI for their hard work and brilliant ef...

UC design research points the way so you won't get lost at the hospital

...the real test." This communication challenge has also added a lot of fun to the project, he added, stating, "We want to have the least amount of parts or elements possible to communicate a very specific message. We're always asking ourselves: Where can we start subtracting. Where can we continue tak...

OBP Medical Inc. to Raise the Bar in Patient Care and Satisfaction

...es of better patient care and comfort they also help to reduce the risk of contamination of hospital property such as chairs and beds by covering body parts previously left exposed. During your next hospital stay. . .ask for a pair of Under Johnnies(TM). About OBP Medical Inc. OBP Me...

Stereotaxis Names Daniel Johnston as Chief Financial Officer

...as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Components, Inc., a Carlyle Group portfolio company that manufactures automobile parts primarily for the after-market channels, a position he has held since 2007. Prior to this, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Solae...

MedCath Corporation Reports Third Quarter Earnings

..., Ariz. In addition, MedCath and its subsidiary MedCath Partners provide services in diagnostic and therapeutic facilities in various states. parts of this announcement contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Although management believes that these forward-looking ...

ORTHOWORLD Releases Position Paper on Healthcare Reform

...le to embrace these facts in their decisionmaking process." The statement is deliberately non-copyrighted to allow anyone to disseminate all or parts of it in letters to Congress, colleagues, societies or grass roots movements. It is hoped that other groups and societies will be inspired to offer th...

Amgen and Wyeth Statement on FDA Announcement About Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Blockers

... lived in, or traveled to countries where there is more risk for getting TB. Ask your doctor if you are not sure. Live or have lived in certain parts of the country (such as, the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, or the Southwest) where there is a greater risk for certain kinds of fungal infection...

Silenced genes as a warning sign of blood cancer

... In many types of cancer, parts of the genetic material of tumor cells are switched off by chemical labels called methyl groups. This kind of methyl labeling ranges among the epigene...

With a Broken Hip Comes Higher Risk for Dying

...ch is reported in the Aug. 4 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal . The study, which included 7,753 people aged 50 and older from all parts of Canada, found that a hip fracture increases the risk of death 3.2-fold and a spinal fracture increases the risk 2.7-fold, said study author George ...

Consumer Reports Launches Online Hospital Ratings for More Than 3,400 U.S. Hospitals

...survey of a national sample of 731 nurses who worked throughout the hospital -- in the emergency room, critical-care units, operating rooms, and other parts of the hospital. Their collective wisdom is synthesized with findings from interviews with doctors, patients, social workers, hospital officials, hos...

K-State Researcher, Collaborators Study Virulence of Pandemic H1N1 Virus; Work at K-State Would Protect Pig Industry If the Virus Jumps to Swine Populations

...o spread to swine populations. Richt said they are developing diagnostic tools for the direct detection of the virus by finding nucleic acids or other parts of the virus in a sample, as well as tools for indirect detection. The latter approach is done by creating diagnostics that detect antibodies produced...

Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (HTDS) Experiments with Hyperbaric Oxygenation (HBO) Traumatic Brain Injury

...al opinion shortly and perhaps as early as this week. Mr.Terry Yuan HTDS CEO said " These are exciting times for us at HTDS. There are a lot of moving parts now within HTDS, which are all positive, and which may have more than better than expected results for us as a whole organization. This includes our I...

U.S. Fund for UNICEF and Major League Soccer Kick-Off Partnership to Save Children's Lives

...k-or-Treat for UNICEF. The fundraising challenge will teach members the value of community service, educate them about issues facing children in other parts of the world and empower them with the tools to be active global citizens making a difference in the world. Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is one of the na...

Blood Type May Boost Pancreatic Cancer Risk

...he fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is hard to detect. Many patients are not diagnosed until the disease has spread to other parts of the body. Fewer than 5 percent of patients survive for five years. Pancreatic cancer risk factors include diabetes, smoking, race and family histor...

PET can help guide treatment decisions for a common pediatric cancer

... Institute. The cancer most often originates on the adrenal glandsthe triangular-shaped glands above the kidneys. Neuroblastoma often spreads to other parts of the body before any symptoms are apparent. Patients with the disease are classified as low-, medium- or high-risk based on a combination of clin...

FDA Approves INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) for the Acute and Maintenance Treatment of Schizophrenia

...r medicines. Call your doctor right away if you start to develop twitching or jerking movements that you cannot control in your face, tongue, or other parts of your body. The risk of developing TD and the chance that it will become permanent is thought to increase with the length of therapy and the total d...

INVEGA(R) Approved as the First and Only Treatment for Schizoaffective Disorder

...r medicines. Call your doctor right away if you start to develop twitching or jerking movements that you cannot control in your face, tongue, or other parts of your body. The risk of developing TD and the chance that it will become permanent is thought to increase with the length of therapy and the total d...

Plastic Surgery Technique Might Ease Migraines

...d completely disappeared, versus 57.7 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively, in the sham group. Some patients did experience temporary numbness in parts of the face, said Guyuron, but it usually went away. "One thing that's impressive is the migraine-free rates," Lipton said. "The other thing that ...

Researchers Discover the Tale Behind Short Dogs

...ene that play a role in production of the protein fibroblast growth factor 4 (FGF4). The copies are not identical, though, as one lacks some essential parts of the DNA code, according to the study published July 16 in the online edition of Science . "Our findings suggest that retrogenes may play a larg...

Amgen's Second Quarter 2009 Adjusted Earnings Per Share Increased 13 Percent To $1.29

... that any particular product candidate will be successful and become a commercial product. Further, some raw materials, medical devices and component parts for our products are supplied by sole third-party suppliers. About Amgen Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers innova...

'Safe' Ozone Levels May Not Be for Some

...andard allows for ozone concentrations of up to 75 parts per billion over an eight-hour period. But a new s...exposure to mean ozone concentrations as low as 70 parts per billion have a significant negative effect on ...posed to ozone concentrations of 60, 70, 80 and 87 parts per billion, or filtered air, while doing moderate...