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ATS Medical Announces FDA Clearance of the ATS Simulus Adjustable Annuloplasty Band

Expands Heart Valve Repair Product Portfolio MINNEAPOLIS, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI ), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, today announced FDA clearance of the ATS Simulus(R) Adjustable Annuloplasty Band...

Board-Certified Bariatric Surgeon, Trace Curry, MD Places First Next-Generation Ethicon Endo-Surgery REALIZE™ Adjustable Gastric Band-C in Ohio

Board-Certified Bariatric Surgeon, Trace Curry, MD Places First Next-Generation Ethicon Endo-Surgery REALIZE™ Adjustable Gastric Band-C in Ohio Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) December 15, 2008 -- Dr. Trace Curry was the first surgeon in Ohio to surgically place the first ...

Board-Certified Bariatric Surgeon, Trace Curry, MD Places First Next-Generation Ethicon Endo-Surgery REALIZE™ Adjustable Gastric Band-C in Ohio

Board-Certified Bariatric Surgeon, Trace Curry, MD Places First Next-Generation Ethicon Endo-Surgery REALIZE™ Adjustable Gastric Band-C in Ohio Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) December 15, 2008 -- Dr. Trace Curry was the first surgeon in Ohio to surgically place the first ...

Boca Raton Based Plastic Surgeon Introduces Revolutionary New Adjustable Breast Implant to Europe and Asia

BOCA RATON, Fla., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Hilton Becker M.D., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. of Boca Raton, Florida, who has been working on creating breast implants for the last 20 years, has created his most effective implant yet -- the Spectra Adjustable Gel Implant which is 90 percent silicone and...

FDA Approves REALIZE(TM) Adjustable Gastric Band for Morbid Obesity

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. Provides New Option To Treat Morbid Obesity CINCINNATI, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for marketing the REALIZE(TM) Adjustable Gastric Band, a surgical implant for weight redu...

Tennessee's New Life Center for Bariatric Surgery Launches Comprehensive Website Reaching out to Sufferers of Morbid Obesity

...cedures available from the practice, such as REALIZE® and LAP-BAND® adjustable Gastric Banding, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, and gastric sleeve surgery. It a...ils to patients who are considering surgical weight loss procedures such as adjustable gastric banding and gastric bypass in Knoxville, Tennessee , the new websi...

Study Finds Weight-Loss Surgery Safer Than Thought

... of complications may be much lower than what has previously been reported. The study, which looked at both gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (lap-band surgery), found that the risk of death for these surgeries was 0.3 percent and the risk of a major adverse outcome was 4.3 p...

Berkline Massage Chairs for Sale at TheaterSeatStore

...s with a program timer for easy self therapy. The armrests and footrest are adjustable for a user's ultimate comfort regardless of the user's height. The seats ar...hniques. Additional features in these massage chairs include power recline, adjustable rollers and calve massage actions. Berkline assures quality by including a...

Convection Cooled 350-Watt Open Frame Power Supply Meets Medical and Industrial Safety Standards

...livers an industry-leading converter efficiency of up to 88%. The power supply is maximized for performance and features 5V standby output current and adjustable fan output current. The 350-watt series is the latest addition to the company's rapidly expanding portfolio of high-efficiency, high-reliability power...

A Drug-Dispensing Contact Lens

...livery at Children's Hospital Boston, have developed special contact lenses that can gradually dispense a constant amount of medication to the eye, at adjustable rates. They describe their prototype lens in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science . Although other groups have d...

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Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Psychiatric Diseases

...timulates specific parts of the brain. DBS is thought to be functionally equivalent to creating a lesion on the brain, but with the advantage of being adjustable and reversible. "It is like implanting a pacemaker for the brain," says Dr. Lee. The patient is awake during deep brain stimulation surgery whi...

Fort Worth Surgeon Chosen as Investigator in Clinical Trial for Weight-Loss Device

...e top five "heaviest" states in the nation. "The investigational device could provide a much-anticipated opportunity for Americans ineligible for adjustable gastric banding procedures because they do not have a body mass index of 35 or above," Smith said. "It is a tool that could offer an advantage to obes...

Pieris Reports Development Progress for Anticalin(R) PRS-050, a Next Generation VEGF Antagonist

...nd stable products to be manufactured from bacteria. Anticalins are amenable to further engineering to balance their favorable tissue penetration with adjustable serum half-life. Moreover, Anticalins have been developed as Duocalins(R), whose dual targeting format allows multiple targets to be bound and modulat...

Novare Announces Successful Series of Single Port Lap Band Procedures With RealHand(R) High Dexterity Instruments

... a path to less pain and scarring is clearly an advancement and the access that RealHand provides is a cornerstone of this innovation." The Lap-Band adjustable Gastric Banding System (manufactured by Allergan Inc.) is a silicone band that is surgically placed to reduce the amount of food a patient can hold in...

LAP-BAND(R) System Weight-Loss Surgery Associated With More Than 70 Percent Reduced Risk of Death in People With Severe Obesity

...Severely obese people who received the LAP-BAND(R) adjustable Gastric Banding System to lose weight had a 72 per...ignificantly decrease their risk with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding," explains Dr. Paul O'Brien, FRACS..., O'Brien P, Ham J, Maddern G. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in the treatment of obsesit...

Surgeons Find That Laparoscopic Banding Procedure Helps Overweight Adolescents Lose Weight and Improve Health

...Nadler's group studied the use of the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band on adolescents. He was particularly i...usly published studies had shown that laparoscopic adjustable banding was effective in producing weight loss, "W... that the weight loss associated with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in adolescents is the important we...

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6772 Adjustable Wheelchair Scale

Description: This adjustable wheelchair scale accommodates standard to extra-wide wheelchairs (18" to 43") and wheelchairs with anti-tip devices. The low-profile, heavy-duty, anodized aluminum weighing platform is equipped with ramps less than 1/2" high providing easy access for large patients. Weight is displa...
Company:Scale-Tronix, Inc.

SoftGrip 0.2-2 L Adjustable Volume Pipette

Description: Hamilton is precision, ergonomics, and value! Comfortable feel and less hand fatigue with soft non-slip, contoured handle Finer control while pipetting with smooth, light plunger spring action Completely autoclavable for easy decontamination and sterilization without the need for recalibratio...
Company:Hamilton Company

SoftGrip 2.5-25 L Adjustable Volume Pipette

Description: Hamilton is precision, ergonomics, and value! Comfortable feel and less hand fatigue with soft non-slip, contoured handle Finer control while pipetting with smooth, light plunger spring action Completely autoclavable for easy decontamination and sterilization without the need for recalibratio...
Company:Hamilton Company

SoftGrip 30-300 L Adjustable Volume Pipette

Description: Hamilton is precision, ergonomics, and value! Comfortable feel and less hand fatigue with soft non-slip, contoured handle Finer control while pipetting with smooth, light plunger spring action Completely autoclavable for easy decontamination and sterilization without the need for recalibratio...
Company:Hamilton Company

Eppendorf Research Multichannel Pipette, 0.5-10 uL, 12-channel with adjustable volume setting, complete

Description: Long series in colonies, rows, and microplatesthat is the area of research in which the multichannel pipette is becoming an ever-increasing force. Ergonomics (reduced weight and ease of use) was the main reason that the Multichannel Research model was developed. This high-performance 8- or 12-chann...
Company:Eppendorf North America

SoftGrip 10-100 L Adjustable Volume Pipette

Description: Hamilton is precision, ergonomics, and value! Comfortable feel and less hand fatigue with soft non-slip, contoured handle Finer control while pipetting with smooth, light plunger spring action Completely autoclavable for easy decontamination and sterilization without the need for recalibratio...
Company:Hamilton Company

Micropipet, adjustable volume, 0.5-10 microliter

Description: This adjustable-volume digital micropipet is used to accurately measure and transfer small solution volumes in the 0.5-10 microliter range....
Company:Bio-Rad Lab Equipment

Micropipet, adjustable volume, 2-20 microliter

Description: This adjustable-volume digital micropipet is used to accurately measure and transfer small solution volumes in the 2-20 microliter range....
Company:Bio-Rad Laboratories

SoftGrip 1-10 L Adjustable Volume Pipette

Description: Hamilton is precision, ergonomics, and value! Comfortable feel and less hand fatigue with soft non-slip, contoured handle Finer control while pipetting with smooth, light plunger spring action Completely autoclavable for easy decontamination and sterilization without the need for recalibratio...
Company:Hamilton Company

Micropipet, adjustable volume, 20-200 microliter

Description: This adjustable-volume digital micropipet is used to accurately measure and transfer small solution volumes in the 20-200 microliter range....
Company:Bio-Rad Laboratories

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Skull

... Shop Aeropostale.com for a Skull , Ring & Cross Necklace 3-Pack. Get three different looks with our skull , ring and cross necklace 3-Pack. adjustable length. Style: 9103. There is no information text to wield a Skull , as there is with a weapon, (but... Grunts dancing around the Grunt Birthday ...

Shunt

...escribe either congenital or acquired shunts; and acquired shunts may be either biological or mechanical. What is a CSF shunt ? Why the SOPHYSA adjustable Pressure valve has been choosen ... The shunt is positioned to enable the CSF to be drained from the cerebral ... Ventriculoperitoneal shunt i...

Gastric

...ic bypass surgery also known as stomach stapling or bariatric surgery for weight loss. Includes complications, risks, the Roux-en-Y and ... adjustable gastric banding. Vertical banded gastroplasty. Biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) ... Gastric bypass surgery is one type of procedure that can be u...

Gastric bypass

...stric bypass was introduced more than 35 years ago. ... Watch Gastric videos from all over the internet ... Gastric Bypass Laparoscopic adjustable Band Surgery ... www.drdkim.net – Gastric bypass and LAP-BAND® ... ...

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High-tech vehicle design boosts emergency rescue capacity

... high charging level, particularly suitable for the type of off-road vehicle needed for rapid access to disaster zones. "Our four-stretcher carrier is adjustable at the front and rear end to cope with the state of shock of the patient," adds Strobel. "For easy maintenance all our loaded components are made of s...

Slotted buses keep passengers cool

...at a wide vent at the front and rear of a bus will draw air into the bus at a much better rate than side windows. A similar boost can be obtained with adjustable roof vents. These modifications would allow cooling air to increase the comfort zone of the bus from a mere 11% of the interior volume to more than...

Kalyon wins Society of Plastics Engineers' 2008 Research Award

...nd his team developed new devices and analysis methods for rheological characterization of polymers and concentrated polymeric suspensions such as the adjustable gap slit rheometer and the squeeze flow rheometry, methodologies for the inverse problem solution for parameters of constitutive equations and wall sl...

New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks

...ce possible to have decentralised ventilation using a ventilator that is controlled by a gas sensor. The ventilation is then simply switched on if an adjustable threshold value is exceeded." The same principle can be used for monitoring dangerous substances in buildings and facilities. ...

Actor-robots 'staff' part of new $5M simulation training center

...ly one good way to learn good bedside manner, and that is with real people, says Hunt. Each of the 15 simulation rooms in the center is equipped with adjustable cameras, microphones, one-way glass for observer viewing, and large flat-screen monitors so students and staff can quickly review their performance wh...

Primate sperm competition: speed matters

... Such a timed decay in laser brightness allows a trapped sperm cell to escape at the point at which its swimming force exceeds the trapping force. The adjustable laser tweezers and sperm-tracking software allowed the team led by Berns and Nascimento to precisely and accurately measure swimming force and speed o...

How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages

... like a surgical lesion, another acceptable treatment for severe tremor disorders and epilepsies. But the electronic device has the advantage of being adjustable or reversible. The researchers' report appears in a special June 2007 issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation...

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A drug-dispensing contact lens

...livery at Children's Hospital Boston, have developed special contact lenses that can gradually dispense a constant amount of medication to the eye, at adjustable rates. They describe their prototype lens in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science . Although other groups have develop...

CellGard ES NU-480 Class II Biological Safety Cabinet Now Available

...e CellGard ES is also ergonomic. Its design provides more legroom, staggered service valves, and armrests which reduce fatigue. When accompanied by an adjustable base-stand, users can adjust the height of the work-surface up to eight inches. The new 10 degree sloped, hinged window adds accessibility and complem...

Graphene yields secrets to its extraordinary properties

...me applying high magnetic fields. The custom-built, ultra-low-temperature and ultra-high-vacuum scanning tunneling microscope allowed them to sweep an adjustable magnetic field across graphene samples prepared at Georgia Tech, observing and mapping the peculiar non-uniform spacing among discrete energy levels t...

Physicists discover important step for making light crystals

... smaller cubes, or "cells," inside it. Each cell in the lattice is supposed to contain one atom. If the researchers succeed, they will have made an adjustable crystal out of laser light, and will be able to emulate different solid materials. Physicists think of heat in terms of entropy, or disorder, Ho e...

Nikon Instruments Introduces Exclusive VAAS Detector Imaging Method for Confocal Microscopy

...ns during the initial image acquisition to enable image reconstruction with greatly improved signal-to-noise. VAAS, which stands for Virtual adjustable Aperture System, uses two pinholes to collect emitted photons: a standard-sized one to enable confocality and one with a diameter three-times larger ...

60 LED Lights Enhance Magnifying Lamp for Assembly, Engineering, Inspection or Research

...ion is needed, allowing a bigger field of view and greater working distance under the lens. ProVue LED, with a five-inch lens and spring-balanced adjustable arm extending 33 inches, provides hands-free support for assembly and inspection of circuit boards or other electronics, small parts checks, medical a...

Zounds Offers the Gift of Hearing This Holiday Season With a Range of New Products

...ng easy on the pocketbook. The ALDs feature: -- A choice of adjustable tone levels (up to 95 dB ring level) along with sound clarifying technology...ive forms of alarm-clock signaling while sleeping -- Phones include adjustable handsets, vibrate & visual ringers and amplification adjustments, makin...

Minnesota Chiropractic Association Offers Backpack Safety Checklist

... side, leading to neck and muscle spasms, low-back pain, and poor posture. Are the shoulder straps adjustable? The shoulder straps should be adjustable so the backpack can be fitted to your child's body. The backpack should be evenly centered in the middle of your child's back. Does the backpac...

Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures

...ntists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "plate." Researchers took advantage of the elastic instability of a widely used, flexible polymer m...

Cynosure Introduces Affirm CO2(TM) Workstation for Advanced Ablative Therapy

...55 is expected to grow 60% over the next 20 years, we believe the market opportunity for Cynosure is significant." "With power up to 30 watts and an adjustable pulse duration between 0.2 and 2 milli seconds, Affirm CO2 offers the versatility of performing a light to aggressive treatment with a single laser," ...

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MJ Mini Thermal Cycler with Adjustable Hot Bonnet Heated Lid, holds 48 x 0.2 ml tubes, 12 x 0.5 ml tubes, or a 48-well microplate from Bio-Rad

Description: The MJ Mini thermal cycler is a compact instrument for gene amplification (PCR). It holds 48 x 0.2 ml tubes, 12 x 0.5 ml tubes, or a 48-well microplate. A Hot Bonnet heated lid uses a thumbwheel to adjust height and pressure to tightly seal PCR vessels for oil-free cycling. Peltier heat pumps provi...
Company:Bio-Rad

Universal Adjustable Angle Test Tube Holder from Thermo Scientific

Description: Thermo Forma's stainless steel rack holders feature a patented adjustable mechanism that permits selection of 6 different shaking angles, and "snap-in" product carrier rack placement.This universal rack holder will accomodate all four test tube racks and both microplate racks....
Company:Thermo Scientific

LVF Kit: LVF-HL, LVF-CUV-ADP, FHS-LVF, CVD-DIFFUSE from Ocean Optics

Description:...s to create the world's first notch filter with an adjustable center wavelength and adjustable bandpass. Each filter features an excellent transm...: Excellent transmission and blocking bands • adjustable across filter's effective range • Filters eff...
Company:Ocean Optics

LVF Kit: LVF-UV-HL, LVF-CUV-ADP, FHS-LVF, CVD-DIFFUSE from Ocean Optics

Description:...s to create the world's first notch filter with an adjustable center wavelength and adjustable bandpass. Each filter features an excellent transm...: Excellent transmission and blocking bands • adjustable across filter's effective range • Filters eff...
Company:Ocean Optics

Petri Dish Perfusion Chamber Insert from AutoMate Scientific, Inc

Description:...ution inflow and outflow that dampen the fluctuations of the liquid level in the working compartment and prevent bubbles from entering the chamber. An adjustable metal suction tube is included....
Company:AutoMate Scientific, Inc

NUNC passive PCR cabinet, Aura PCR from Sigma-Aldrich

Description:...eel with stove enamel coated (RAL 7035 grey) Work surface polyethylene Front, back and side windows 6 mm tempered glass 3 UV lamps Internal adjustable tempered glass shelf UV lamp interlocked with fluorescent light Lighting 600 lux AC input: 50 Hz230 V Weight: 25 kg...
Company:Sigma-Aldrich

55S Single Platform Shaker 12 x 16 from Reliable Scientific

Description:... The model 55S Rocking Shaker provides the exact agitation needed for gels and blotted membranes. The very slow to fast speed and easily adjustable degree of tilt provide a gentle wave motion that lifts and washes over gels and blotted membranes to achieve faster, more uniform mixing than orbital,...
Company:Reliable Scientific

VSOS-4P Variable Speed Orbital Shaker, 115 V from PRO Scientific

Description:... The VSOS-4P comes standard with a 12" x 14" universal platform (with removable neoprene rubber pad) which can support up to 110 pounds as well as an adjustable bar support set to accommodate standard vessels or odd shaped containers. A variety of accessories are available for the VSOS-4P, such as additional ...
Company:PRO Scientific

Helios Gene Gun Kit from Bio-Rad

Description:... The Helios gene gun is a convenient, hand-held device that provides rapid and direct gene transfer into a range of targets in vivo. The unit uses an adjustable low-pressure helium pulse to sweep DNA- or RNA-coated gold microcarriers from the inner wall of a small plastic cartridge directly into the target. Sa...
Company:Bio-Rad

Eppendorf Thermomixer R from Eppendorf North America

Description:...res: temperature range from 13 C below room temperature to 99 C (Microplate thermoblock has upper limit of 70 C); for maximum application flexibility; adjustable mixing speed from 300 up to 1,500 rpm for gentle to vigorous shaking and intermittent mixing; the basic device is delivered without a thermoblock; var...
Company:Eppendorf North America

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Electrophysiology

...ctrochemical junction with the pipet fluid and the tissue or cell into which the pipet is inserted (typically with the aid of a microscope and finely adjustable pipet holders, known as micromanipulators). The chloride-coated silver wire connects back to the amplifier. Classically, electrophysiologists watched ...

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Inversion

...s to be due to Jakob Steiner ("the greatest geometer ... inversion ... Also, inversion can be thought of as a generalization of reflection. ... adjustable Tether Strap Prevents Inversion Past a Chosen Angle ... BFINVER10 Inversion Table is Designed to Relieve Stress, Reduce Back Pain, ... ...

Bases

...the home for cleaning because bases ... Wet soap is also slippery because of the presence of a base . 3. Bases turn red litmus blue. ... These adjustable bed bases are manufactured from GoldenRest and are well-built to give you years of trouble free, quiet operation. Visiting or traveling to a mili...