Nurses working overnight support the need for a restorative nap during the night shift

WESTCHESTER, Ill. A research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), identifies a number of personal health, safety, and patient care issues that support the need for a restorative nap during the night...

Soy’s Restorative Powers Confirme

Researchers have come up with yet another significant product from soybean. A study conducted on animals has established that a natural substance// made from soy has amazing restorative powers. Using an animal model of MS(Multiple Sclerosis), neurologists at Jefferson Medical College found th...

Kool Smiles Relies on Wyse Technology Virtual Clients to Improve Patient Care and Security of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

...ality dental care for children and families in underserved communities. Kool Smiles provides preventative care, diagnostic imaging and a full range of restorative care supported with electronic health records. Kool Smiles offices, many of which are newly constructed, are designed to facilitate communications be...

Patrick Rummerfield Teams with Eric Westacott Foundation and Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation to Help Young Quadriplegic Boy

...ring the world of adventure to those affected by spinal cord injury. Patrick's primary focus is to bring awareness to the importance of activity based restorative therapies and paralysis research. Patrick is an accomplished motivational speaker and is in the process of writing a book about his incredible life st...

Dentra™ Announces Dentistry Council of Advisors

...s, as well as several state and local dental association meetings. Dan Nathanson, DMD, MSD Dr. Nathanson is a Professor and Chair, Department of restorative Sciences and Biomaterials, Boston University School of Dental Medicine a department responsible for the specialties of Prosthodontics, Implant-dentist...

More Americans Have Cell Phones Than Dental Coverage

...th rewards, member can reach annual benefit of $1,500 by year four. With rewards, by year three Regence will pay 100% of preventive care; 80% of restorative care, such as fillings; and 50% of major dental care like crowns or root canals. $50 deductible for covered services. Deductible waived for exa...

OraVerse (R) Selected by Dentistry Today Magazine as One of the Top 100 Products of 2009

...esylate) Injection is the first and only local dental anesthesia reversal agent that accelerates the return to normal sensation and function following restorative and periodontal maintenance procedures. OraVerse is indicated for the reversal of soft tissue anesthesia, i.e., anesthesia of the lip and tongue, and ...

Specialty Hospitals of Washington Adds Additional Skilled Nursing Facility Beds at United Medical Center in South East DC

...e of slow economic growth, this new opening will provide upwards of 400 new jobs for DC residents." SHW's skilled nursing center offer residents restorative nursing and rehabilitative care in a focused, nurturing environment. They accept residents with a wide range of conditions from medically complex to ...

Prestige Care, Inc. Takes Over Operational Control of Former Mary Conrad Center

...9100 Centennial Circle and offers a variety of care solutions including 24-hour personal care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, restorative programs and social services. A full-time activities director will also be on-hand to plan and facilitate regularly scheduled activities and special p...

Emerging Techniques Put a New Twist on Ankle Repair

... with ankle injuries need additional "second-line" restorative treatment to heal successfully, said lead author M...esults have been as good as, or better than, other restorative techniques," he added. MACI is currently consider... by the FDA in the United States. Traditional restorative techniques involve removing a cartilage donor plug...

Restorative in Medical Technology

Journal of the American Dental Association Publishes Key Clinical Data for the Use of OraVerse(TM) a Local Anesthetic Reversal Agent

...e (phentolamine mesylate) Injection is the only local anesthetic reversal agent that accelerates the return to normal sensation and function following restorative and periodontal maintenance procedures. OraVerse is indicated for the reversal of soft-tissue anesthesia, i.e., anesthesia of the lip and tongue, and ...

Clinically Proven Treatment Offers Help to Rosacea Sufferers

...e with rosacea, it allows their skin to return to its normal skin tone." Studies have found that seabuckthorn oil has a nourishing, revitalizing and restorative action that can be used not only for acne but for dry, itchy skin, eczema, burns and cuts, as well as postpartum pigmentation. Lepage explains, "Aft...

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Restorative in Biological News

Home tooth bleaching slightly reduces enamel strength

... that's how we improve products," said Shereen Azer, assistant professor of restorative and prosthetic dentistry at Ohio State University and lead author of the st...ucted the research with Camilo Machado and Robert Rashid of the Division of restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry and Eliana Sanchez of the Division of Primary Care...

A protein that protects against Alzheimer's?

...f people with several types of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's. The team hypothesized that this protein might play a protective and restorative role but were unable to demonstrate this at the time. The experiments To establish the protective and reparative role of ApoD, the researchers ...

A walk in the park a day keeps mental fatigue away

...e often experienced as restful. Thus being in the context of nature is effortless, permitting us to replenish our capacity to attend and thus having a restorative effect on our mental abilities. ...

Immunity stronger at night than during day

...2008 in San Francisco. "These results suggest that immunity is stronger at night, consistent with the hypothesis that circadian proteins upregulate restorative functions such as specific immune responses during sleep, when animals are not engaged in metabolically costly activities," explains Mimi Shirasu-Hiza...

Neural cell transplants may help those with Parkinson's disease

...protein neurturin (NTN), another member of the GDNF family. They found that the protein may have beneficial effects on PD as their results showed some restorative influences after cell transplantation. Tissue distribution of trophic factor is a critical variable to achieve optimal effects on dopamine functio...

Dental chair a possible source of neurotoxic mercury waste

...uthor of the study that appeared online March 12 in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Working with James Drummond, UIC professor of restorative dentistry, Rockne gathered waste water samples in collection tanks generated from both a single-chair dentist's office and a 12-chair dental clinic to...

Implanting embryonic cardiac cells prevents arrhythmias

...uman embryonic heart for transplantation, researchers at the University of Bonn engineered skeletal muscle to express connexin43 and achieved the same restorative results as they did with the embryonic heart cells. "These results have important implications for therapy, although they must be verified in the con...

New study finds biodiversity conservation secures ecosystem services for people

...as the greatest environmental threat facing the planet, the study provides a timely reminder that investments to maintain healthy ecosystems and their restorative powers is cost effective for biodiversity, the livelihoods of local people and economic development, and as a way to protect the CO 2 stored in these...

Decline in uptake of carbon emissions confirmed

...s month. Dr Raupach says the research shows that the Earth is losing its restorative capacity to absorb CO2 emissions following massive increases in emissions o...ver the past half century. The longer we delay reducing emissions, the more restorative capacity will be lost, Dr Raupach says. ...

Herr receives Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment

...ing home with crippling injuries, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is funding a $7.2 million research project being conducted by the Center for restorative and Regenerative Medicine, a collaboration among MIT, Brown University and the Providence, Rhode Island VA Medical Center. The effort focuses on deve...

Restorative in Biological Technology

Campbell Alliance Adds Industry Veterans Jon W. McGarity and David Lilley as Executive Vice Presidents

...nc. (CYPB), and also serves on the Boards of several early stage pharma/biotech companies including Apthera, GenBioPro, SynBuild, MedApps, Inc., and restorative Biosciences. He also sits of the Boards of a number of life science organizations and university programs including the Arizona BioIndustry Associati...

Intra-Cellular Therapies Reports Positive Final Results of a Phase II Clinical Trial with ITI-007 in Patients with Sleep Maintenance Insomnia

...culated by the proportion of the time spent sleeping while in bed, p<0.001). Intra-Cellular Therapies believes that ITI-007 promotes natural, restorative sleep. In particular, ITI-007 did not cause rebound insomnia during early morning hours and did not suppress rapid eye movement (REM) sleep as some hy...

Study From the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Demonstrates That AHCC(R) is Safe in Combination With Most Chemotherapeutic Agents

...f the most commonly used chemotherapy agents. "Research shows that AHCC benefits cancer patients with its antitumor effects as well as its potential restorative effects on natural killer cells, macrophages and cytokines after anticancer chemotherapy," said Judith Smith, Pharm.D., BCOP,FCCP, FISOPP, Department ...

EUPROBIO 2008 Presentation to Highlight Latest Immune Research

...s of people take Del-Immune V(R) on a regular basis and doctors have reported positive results, including an enhanced resistance to cold and flu and a restorative effect on the immune system. The EUPROBIO 2008 Conference will be held October 15-18, 2008 in Cracow, Poland at Auditorium Maximum. Contact: P...

BioHorizons Global Symposium 2008 Combines Record Attendance with Groundbreaking Technology

...ttendance will be limited, and another sell-out is expected, so please register early to ensure your spot. * International Journal of Periodontics & restorative Dentistry, Vol. 28, #2, April 2008. About BioHorizons, Inc. BioHorizons is a leading oral reconstructive device company at the forefront of digita...

Board Certified Dermatologist and President-Elect of the Dermatologic Society of Greater New York, Dr. Lance H. Brown Takes His Comprehensive Practice to East Hampton, NY

...me Dr. Brown's cutting-edge expertise. "The Hamptons are a refuge from stress," said Dr. Brown. "My practice adds another dimension to the idea of a restorative long weekend." Dr. Brown's cosmetic dermatologic services include a variety of beneficial fillers and injections, all of which he has extensively re...

HOYA ConBio and The Hornbrook Group Announce Expanded Alliance

...e to be impressed with the superior technology and reliable operation of HOYA ConBio lasers and consider them best-in-market products for cosmetic and restorative dentistry," said Dr. David Hornbrook, Executive Director of The Hornbrook Group. "HOYA lasers were selected as exclusive equipment in our instructiona...

Memphis hospital group installing Johnson Controls wireless infrastructure

...em Baptist is installing at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, Baptist Memorial restorative Care Hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. The multiyear project, which began imple...

What patients want: A story of choice, clinical trials & evidence-based medicine

...rther in the JAMA editorials that designing clinical trials with sham-controlled surgeries (e.g. operations in which the patient is cut but the actual restorative procedure not done) may be the only effective and ethical next step. While I can understand the sentiments behind that, I think that the holy grail of...