Doctors Advice A Couple Of Pegs For The New Year

Doctors are advising people to limit themselves to a couple of pegs when it comes to alcohol consumption, as the New Year approaches. A peg or two are capable of scaling down// the risks of a brain stroke, while excess consumption has the opposite effect, according to Indraprastha Apollo Hospital’s...

High Spirits :Second Thoughts on the Mini Pegs

A new study on perceived benefits of moderate alcohol intake seems to question the earlier studies that had indicated longevity benefits// and cardiovascular health amongst moderate drinkers, as compared to abstainers or heavy drinkers. The study conveys that, there has been some mistake in t...

Rice University team's award-winning device could benefit treatment of hand injuries

...ments: a pegboard restraint, a force transducer enclosure and a PDA custom-programmed to capture measurements. In a five-minute test, a doctor uses pegs to isolate a patient's individual fingers. "You wouldn't think it works as well as it does, but once you are pegged in, you can't move anything but th...

Social Activity Keeps Elders Young, Agile

...pinch strength; the ability to stand on one leg and on their toes; whether they could walk in line in a heel-to-toe manner; how quickly they could put pegs on a board, and their rate of index-finger tapping in a 10-second period. Participants were also asked about social activities, such as eating out,...

LocumTenens.com Finds Psychiatrists are Neutral on Universal Healthcare

...nd 54, according to the 2008 edition of the American Medical Association's Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the US.) LocumTenens.com pegs the average psychiatrist salary at $183,232, roughly an eight-percent increase over the average $169,833 for 2007 respondents. To see an overview of ...

G&L Guitars' Phyllis Fender Brings Smiles to Children Everywhere

...cy, the "Blondie," Leo's loving nickname for Phyllis, was created. Every detail of the guitar is a nod to Phyllis, from the Pearl pickguard and tuning pegs to the matching pearl rear cover, the "Blondie" reflects Phyllis' own unique blend of elegance and grace. Only 100 of these collector's edition guitar...

People who fight wars may be at high risk of cardiovascular disease

...f alcohol, heavy smokers of tobacco and with high tendency of becoming obese. War veterans are four times likely to be taken to drinking more than two pegs of alcohol a day than becoming never drinkers, and 1.6 times more likely to be heavy smokers than non-smokers. The study was done to find out t...

Pegs in Medical Technology

Protein Tomography(TM) Reveals Molecular Mode of Action of Humax-EGFr Published in PNAS

...://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080220/294289 ) This data will be demonstrated on Sidec's First Protein Tomography Symposium at the fourth annual pegs Summit 28 April - 2 May at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. With Protein Tomography it is possible to study the molecular mode of action of ind...

Pegs in Medical Products

Capello Patient Positoner

Description:...ruction allows for easier use and storage. Includes: Board, Gel Pad, (4) 6" Pegs, (4) 8" Pegs, (2) Stabilizing Clamps, (2) Table Clamps. All gel pads, pegs and peg height extensions can be used with existing peg boards. Peg Extensions and Peg Pads are optional. The board is also available in a one-piece d...
Company:Innomed, Inc.

TC-PLUS™ Solution

Features:...llar subluxation. The patella groove is deep to prevent patellar subluxation ensuring full femoral-patellar contact up to 90 of flexion. Has two pegs that are required for instrument referencing and contribute to the overall primary stability of the femoral component. From the medial-lateral view...
Company:Plus Orthopedics

Consensus® Knee

Features:...pex of the patella. Patellar instrumentation allows all-poly components to be recessed for enhanced stability. All-poly patella has three contoured pegs and recessed pockets to assure implant stability and fixation; x-ray marker enhances post-op x-ray evaluation. ...
Company:Hayes Medical, Inc.

TC-PLUS Solution

Features:.... The patella groove is deep to prevent patellar subluxation ensuring full femoral-patellar contact up to 90 of flexion. The femoral component has two pegs that are required for instrument referencing and contribute to the overall primary stability of the femoral component. From the medial-lateral view, b...
Company:Plus Orthopedics

Consensus Knee

Features:...e apex of the patella. Patellar instrumentation allows all-poly components to be recessed for enhanced stability. All-poly patella has three contoured pegs and recessed pockets to assure implant stability and fixation; x-ray marker enhances post-op x-ray evaluation....
Company:Hayes Medical, Inc.

RT-PLUS Solution

Features:... The basic patellar geometry is circular (axis-symmetric) with a raised center portion on the articular surface. On the opposite side are three pegs and an extensive cement pocket....
Company:Plus Orthopedics

Pegs in Biological News

Scripps Oceanography Research pegs ID of red tide killer

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential red tide killer. Red tides and related phenomena in which microscopic algae accumulate rapidly in dense concentrations have been on the rise in recent years, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in wo...

Researchers find new taste in fruit flies: carbonated water

...taste neurons are found in structures called taste pegs and taste bristles instead of buds. Although taste pegs and bristles can be found all over a fruit flys bo...lass of taste neurons, called E409, found on taste pegs in the fruit flys labellum. These neurons had not ...

Penn researchers show how nanocylinders deliver medicine better than nanospheres

...one water-loving chain of a common polymer called polyethyleneglycol (PEG). pegs are commonly found in everyday items like shampoo and some foods. Although synthetic, pegs have already been approved as biocompatible to humans, making them ideal ca...

Pegs in Biological Technology

Sidec Announces the First Protein Tomography(TM) Award at Sidec's Executive Forum at PEGS

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Sidec announces the first Protein Tomography(TM) Award at Sidec's Executive Forum at PEGS. This Award is set up to enable research groups in the biopharmaceutical industry, who have not yet collaborated with Sidec on a Protein Tomography(TM) study, ...

Small Bone Innovations Introduces New Distal Radius Plating System to Repair Complex Fractures

...late allows a surgeon to insert polyaxial locking or non-locking screws and pegs at variable angles to the plate to address the location and geometry of a fracture or osteotomy. "Because the screws and pegs are slightly harder than the plates, the thread in the locking screw reshap...

Exploiting the Life Science Data Explosion to Speed New Drug Discovery

...rmatics employs is significantly simpler. Instead of trying to force square pegs into round holes and creating a large conceptual overhead, we will leave some pegs square and allow the round holes to have slightly square-like edges. ...

Pegs in Biological Dictionary

Epidermis

...nition of Desquamation ... The structure of normal skin. Authoritative facts about the skin from the ... The small area of epidermis between rete pegs is called the suprapapillary plate. ... The thickness of the epidermis varies in different types of skin; it is only .05 ... The epidermis laye...