"Jesse's Story" to Open The 10th Annual Malibu Film Festival

The story of a gifted young surfer devastated by an accident, featuring music by Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Jason Mraz, G. Love & others Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 3, 2009 -- Domestix, a Beverly Hills based domestic sales company, is proud to announce that Jesse'...

Huntsville, Alabama Plastic Surgeon David L. Durst, MD Comments on Silicone Breast Implants after Nearly 3 Years on the Open Market

It’s been since November of 2006 since the FDA approved silicone breast implants for use in most breast augmentation and breast reconstruction procedures. One Huntsville, Alabama plastic cosmetic surgeon reflects on the benefits of the decision and discusses why he believes silicone offer...

Forterus Inc. Elects Jeff Walton, Former Bear Stearns President, to Board of Directors; Applying to Open New Facility near Los Angeles

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forterus Inc. (Pink Sheets: FTER), which, through its ABTTC Inc. division provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation and other behavioral healthcare services, announced today that Jeff Walton, former President, CEO and Senior ...

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

CHICAGO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- International Components Corporation (ICC), an established global leader in designing and manufacturing portable rechargeable systems, today launched a new series of high-efficiency AC-DC open-frame, single-output power supplies. The new 350-watt series, desig...

Study shows endoscopic surgery as effective open surgery for nasal cancer

(Boston) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that endoscopic surgery is a valid treatment option for treating esthesioneuroblastoma (cancer of the nasal cavity), in addition to traditional open surgery and nonsurgical treatments. These findings appear in the Ju...

News media registration open for 20th World Diabetes Congress

News media registration for the biennial meeting of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is now open. The 20th World Diabetes Congress will be held October 18-22, 2009 at Palais des Congrs de Montral (Montral Convention Centre) in Montreal, Canada. One of the world's largest medical conf...

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VIVUS Initiates Open Label Safety Study of Avanafil for Erectile Dysfunction

Enrollment in First Pivotal Phase 3 Avanafil Study REVIVE (TA-301) is Complete MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIVUS, Inc. (Nasdaq: VVUS ), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative, next-generation therapies to address unmet needs in obesity, diabetes and s...

InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group Announce Partnership to Facilitate Open Innovation

WALTHAM, Mass. and NEW YORK, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- InnoCentive, Inc., the global open innovation marketplace, and Nature Publishing Group (NPG) , a leading scientific and medical publisher, today announced a partnership to facilitate greater scientific collaboration and open innovation. ...

Helix Receives Approval to Open Sites in Germany for its Ongoing Clinical Trial With Topical Interferon Alpha-2b in Patients With Ano-Genital Warts

AURORA, Ontario, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Helix BioPharma announced today that it has received the necessary regulatory approvals to open clinical sites in Germany to expand upon its clinical trial with Topical Interferon Alpha-2b in patients with ano-genital warts, which is presently underway...

Study Confirms That New Protocol Shortens the Time It Takes to Open Blocked Arteries for Heart Attack Patients

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week, Dr. Fouad Bachour, MD, FACC, director of interventional cardiology at Hennepin County Medical Center, presented results of a study at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ( http://www.sessionsdailynews.com/tuesday.pdf ) ...

An Open Letter to Parents, Students, School Administrators, & Health Care Officials from Soapopular(R)

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- re: MRSA School Scare Every day brings new reports of students becoming infected -- and in some cases dying -- of MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), a potentially lethal form of staph infection that's easily acquired in public schools, univ...

Results of TRIUMPH-1 Trial of Viveta in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension to Be Announced Before Market Open on Thursday, November 1, 2007

SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR ) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lung Rx, Inc., announced today that they will release the results of their TRIUMPH-1 Phase 3 trial of Viveta, an inhaled formulation of treprostinil, in pulmo...

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FONAR 360 - The OPEN SKY MRI

Description: Today, when people are in need of MRI exams, many are diligently seeking alternatives to the tunnel-type scanners. They have heard of, or experienced first-hand, the horrors of the highly claustrophobic and noisy tubes of supercon scanners - "crypts" as some have described them. What people want is...
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Kershner Reversible Speculum - Open Blades

Description: Unique Reversible Speculums Designed To Rest Either Nasally Or Temporally Simply By Flipping The Speculums Over, Allowing Eyelids To Be Opened From Narrow Palpebral Fissures To The Widest Possible Aperture. Open And Close With One-Handed Operation, Providing Unobstructed Around-The-Clock Acce...
Company:Rhein Medical, Inc.

UroPass® Open Tip Ureteral Stents

Description: UroPass Open Tip Ureteral Stents perfect over-the-wire placement with a combination of flexibility and rigidity for comfort and control. When it comes to stent designs, UroPass is a proven leader....
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UroPass® II Open Tip Ureteral Stents

Description: UroPass II Open Tip Ureteral Stents have all the advantages and benefits of the UroPass. In addition, a unique 360 degree kidney curl helps to achieve easier stent placement in the renal pelvis or a calyx. The result is a remarkably comfortable stent, ideal for use in smaller kidneys....
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Uro-Guide™ Open Tip Ureteral Stents

Description: ACMI™ Uro-Guide Open Tip Ureteral Stents were the first silicone over-the-wire stents and have a classic Double-J design with an open tip. They are composed of time-tested biocompatible silicone material, which provides maximum patient comfort while minimizing stent encrustation....
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Multi-Flex™ Open Tip Ureteral Stents

Description: Multi-Flex Open Tip Ureteral Stents feature teardrop shaped kidney curls for enhanced stability, long tapered tips and hydrophilic coating for ease of placement, and helix kidney curls for minimized irritation to the trigone. The Multi-Flex advanced design has two material durometers - a firmer kid...
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Body shaping

...alize they must use long incisions made from the armpit to the elbow to remove the skin and create a more pleasing contour. Consequently, surgeons open the arm on its underside so that the resulting scar is fairly well hidden. A brachioplasty procedure can employ some liposuction after the incision is...

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy

...ef. Contraindications for this procedure include: neurological and vascular disease of the foot, history of rupture of the plantar fascial ligament, open bone growth plates, pregnancy, implanted metal in the area (bone screws and pins) and people on medication that interferes with blood clotting such as...

Forehead lift

...sks When surgeons have problems with an endoscopic forehead lift, -- in about one percent of cases -- they finish the procedure by switching to the open forehead lift method. Complications are said to be rare and minor when a forehead lift is done by a board certified plastic surgeon . However, it...

Goodsall's rule

... opening lying in the posterior midline of the anal canal. An exception to the rule are anterior fistulas lying more than 3cm from the anus, which may open in the anterior midline of the anal canal. The investigation of choice for anal fistulas is MRI. This article or section does not cite any refer...

Ganglion cyst

...cations. Recurrence rates are lower when the hand or finger is immobilized for 1–2 weeks. Arthroscopy of the wrist is becoming a viable alternative to open excision of ganglion cysts. during arthroscopy the origin of the cyst can be seen. no immobilization is needed after arthroscopy. One traditional me...

High Frequency Ventilation

...ing the expiratory phase of the breath. This repeated alveolar collapse and expansion (RACE) will cause VILI. By opening the lung and keeping the lung open RACE (and VILI) is reduced. Types of High Frequency Ventilation There are different flavors of High frequency ventilation . Each type has...

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Yawning

...as many functions, including energetic, pumping, relaxing and ... Yawning constantly ... yawn v. , yawned , yawning , yawns . v.intr. To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or List of 15 disease causes of Yawning , patient storie...

Worms

...tinal worms can cause a variety of symptoms. ... Resembling spaghetti, adult worms are three to four inches long. ... 1UP is the best Worms : open Warfare for PSP resource, with reviews, trailers, cheats, walkthroughs, and more. ... customize your team of 4 worms to an extent. ... Book your...

Virus

... major vaccinia virus (VV) core protein precursors, p4b and p25K, the 25 ... The mutant virus was designed to have Tet operator in front of A12L open reading ... displayarticle ... The maize streak virus causes one of the most destructive crop diseases in Africa. ... can come from a field badl...

Venous

.... Venous disease is quite common. ... Deep venous thrombosis (DVT), however, occurs in over 2½ million ... A venous skin ulcer is an open wound that typically develops on the lower leg ... If you have had a venous skin ulcer before or have one of a number of high-risk ... ...

Vector

..... Vector quantities are not fully described unless both magnitude and direction ... ... Vector Calculations ... interested in a term vector open source code may want ... or magnitude of this vector can be measured with Pithagoras's ... Illustrates how to use the vector ::front and vecto...

Uterine Fibroids

...nterventional radiologists provide second opinion and nonsurgical treatment for uterine fibroids which offers less risk and recovery time than open surgery. A woman's guide to understanding and treating uterine fibroids . ... Uterine fibroids affect somewhere around 1 in 4 women in the ...

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Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will open its gates to the community on Saturday, August 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a day of discovery and fun for the whole family. The event is free and open to the public. "The open house will be great fun for everyon...

Scientists open doors to diagnosis of emphysema

Chronic inflammatory lung diseases like chronic bronchitis and emphysema are a major global health problem, and the fourth leading cause of death and disability in developed countries, with smoking accounting for 90% of the risk for developing them. Work by scientists at the European Molecular Bio...

'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access

BioMed Central and Wilfrid Laurier University today announce the launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository that provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all members of the University community. Built on BioMed Central's "Open Repository" system and u...

Pfizer shows support for open access

Pfizer today announced details of a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by its researchers. Pfizer's BioMed Central membership arrangement means that Pfizer will centrally cover the publication fees for any researcher employed or f...

Pfizer supports open access publishing for researchers in low-income countries

Today, Pfizer announced an agreement with BioMed Central to launch an open access waiver fund which will support automatic waivers of publication fees for authors from low-income countries. Thanks to the open access waiver fund, researchers in low-income countries can publish research articles ...

Researchers recreate SARS virus, open door for potential defenses against future strains

CHAPEL HILL Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have synthetically reconstructed the bat variant of the SARS coronavirus (CoV) that caused the SARS epidemic of 2003. The scientists say designing and synthesizing the virus is ...

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United Therapeutics Corporation to Announce Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results Before Market Open on Friday, July 31, 2009

SILVER SPRING, Md., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR ) announced today that it will release its 2009 second quarter financial results before market open on Friday, July 31, 2009. United Therapeutics Corporation will host a half-hour te...

Caliper Life Sciences to Webcast Investor Session of Open House

HOPKINTON, Mass., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP ) today announced that it will hold a Customer and Investor Open House entitled, "Innovation for Experimentation" to be held June 17, 2009 at Caliper's Hopkinton headquarters. The company will webcast t...

United Therapeutics to Announce 2009 First Quarter Financial Results Before Market Open on Friday, May 1, 2009

SILVER SPRING, Md., April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR ) announced today that it will release its 2009 first quarter financial results before market open on Friday, May 1, 2009. United Therapeutics will host a half-hour teleconference on Friday,...

United Therapeutics to Announce 2008 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results Before Market Open on Tuesday, February 17, 2009

SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR ) announced today that it will release its 2008 fourth quarter and annual financial results before market open on Tuesday, February 17, 2009. United Therapeutics will host a half-hour telecon...

Registration Open for OpenClinica European Summit - April 14, 2009

Event in Brussels to bring together community around OpenClinica open source clinical trial software. Brussels, Belgium (PRWEB) January 20, 2009 -- Akaza Research announces the first annual OpenClinica European Summit. The event will be held on April 14, 2009 in Brussel...

GridGain 2.1 - Open Cloud Platform Enables Development of Native Cloud Applications

GridGain Systems is proud to announce the release of GridGain 2.1 - the next version of its innovative Java-based Open Cloud Platform. Pleasanton, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2009 -- GridGain Systems is proud to announce the release of GridGain 2.1 - the next version of it...

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ANALETTE II from Precision Systems, Inc.

Description:... Bench-Top open System Chemistry Analyzer for General Chemistries, Specialty Chemistries, Q... * Reagents: open System ...
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Chicken Anti-G4-1 (Hypothetical protein FLJ20644, likely ortholog of mouse phosphatase subunit gene g4-1) Polyclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from GenWay Biotech, Inc.

Description:...ly ortholog of mouse phosphatase subunit gene g4-1 Protein Accession #: NP_060387.1 gi number query: 8923600 Genbank Definition: chromosome 14 open reading frame 10; likely ortholog of mouse phosphatase subunit gene g4-1 [Homo sapiens] Locus ID: 55012 calcium ion binding,...
Company:GenWay Biotech, Inc.

Lone Wolf Proportional Valve from Parker Hannifin Corporation

Description:...Lone Wolf valve has the highest performance characteristics of any Normally open proportional valve available on the market. This VSO valve offers silent op...system control and patient comfort. Maintains ideal flow through Normally open valve with thermal compensation. Extremely reliable. ...
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Rabbit Anti-Human C35 Monoclonal Antibody,, Clone ZMD.460 from Invitrogen

Description:... Clone/PAD: ZMD.460. Immunogen: Synthetic peptide derived from the N-terminal region of the human C35 protein (chromosome 17 open reading frame 37 (C17orf37 protein) XTP4. Specificity: Specific for the C35 protein. On Western blots it identifies the target band at ~15 kDa band....
Company:Invitrogen

Computer and Monitor for GSD-501 from Invitrogen

Description:... 2.0 GHz Compaq Computer with 512 MB RAM, 32 MB AGP Graphics Card, 40 GB Hard Drive, 1 Serial Port & open PCI Slot, Windows 2000 OS, MS Office, CD Read/Writer and 18 Flat Panel Monitor...
Company:Invitrogen

BacMagic™ DNA Kit from Novagen

Description:...nant baculoviruses by eliminating the time-consuming steps of plaque purification. The BacMagic DNA is an AcNPV genome with a portion of the essential open reading frame (ORF) 1629 deleted and a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) in place of the polyhedrin (polh) coding region. This combination prevent...
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Artificial life

...re-computer 2.2 1950s-1970s 2.3 1970s-1980s 3 See also 4 open problems 5 References 6 External links Nature of the fi...wet alife neural nets Lindenmayer systems game theory open problems "What is life?" "When can we say that a system, or a subsys...

Aseptic technique in microbiology

...specimen transfer, the person would hold both of the tubes or flasks in one hand , probably the opposite of the writing hand. The person would then open the tube or flask containing the specimen source and briefly hold the top of it in the flame, to kill unwanted microbes. Quickly, so as to minimize...

Bacterial conjugation

... do not seem to be the structures through which the actual exchange of DNA takes place; rather, some proteins coded in the tra or trb loci seem to open a channel between the bacteria. The transfer of DNA always runs from the F-positive towards the F-negative bacterium. If the F-plasmid is free, ...

Biology

... eukaryotes (see Three domain system ). Homeostasis: adapting to change Main article: Homeostasis Homeostasis is the property of an open system to regulate its internal environment so as to maintain a stable condition, by means of multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustments controlled b...

Biodiversity

... Biodiversity explorer Website about hotsposts of biodiversity Teaching about Biodiversity Directories LookSmart - Biodiversity open Directory Project - Biodiversity Yahoo! - Biodiversity ...

Bioinformatics

... Bioinformatics.org : a portal and repository for open source bioinformatics software Bioconductor ...tion European Molecular Biology Laboratory open Bioinformatics Foundation: umbrella non-profit organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics The Inter...

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Vitelline membrane

...ow fertilization occur at the egg surface. The best known example, that of the sea urchin egg, is described below. An immediate response... ... open in the plasma membrane (BELOW the jelly coat/ vitelline layer. ... Thus, any additional sperm are released from the vitelline membrane and ...

Variety

...s Square porn theater ticket-taker, she soon finds herself intrigued by the underground world she's entered, and her... Rihanna, Kanye and Jay-Z to open new Jay Leno show. Shakira stuns family with sexy video ... VIP: Join the Variety VIP Club! CONTACT: Contact Us! ... ...

Vagina

.... ... A healthy vagina is as clean and pure as a carton of yoghurt. ... bad for the vagina . It kills off the lactobacilli leaving your vagina open to attack from ... Get information, facts, and pictures about vagina at Encyclopedia.com. ... vagina is the Latin word for sheath', which makes...

Tunica

...nica County, a place where quality businesses thrive and family life flourishes. ... Incorporated in 1836, Tunica County grew from untamed ... open source travel guide to Tunica , featuring up-to-date information on ... United States of America : South : Mississippi : Mississippi Delta : Tunica ...

Transverse

... i wireless selects Transverse's saas-based business support system platform to ... Transverse launches industry's first commercially supported open source BSS ... How is transverse myelitis treated? ... Transverse myelitis occurs in adults and children, in both genders, and in all races. .....

Tracheae

... Terrestrial arthropods have evolved an open respiratory system composed of spiracles, tracheae , and tracheoles to transport metabolic gasses to and from tissue. Some terrestrial woodlice have ...