Artificial discs available as replacements for damaged discs
Patients with damaged discs have traditionally been treated by removing a disc or placing a bone graft in the spine to fuse two bones together. Now, an artificial disc which is being studied as a replacement is in the second phase of trials. The phase one study that was recently completed compared ...Scientific poster abstracts from the 24th annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
... patients. (100 patients) Conclusions: At 6 months, compared to CMM alone, scs improves pain relief, health-related quality of life and functionality in predominantly neuropathic FBSS patients. The ability of scs to provide significant pain relief is maintained over 24 months. Investig...Pharsight Achieves $7.3 Million in Quarterly Revenue
... new clients, including one that is utilizing both scs and RAS services. We have continued to reduce our ... customers while still achieving 7% year-over-year scs revenue growth during the fiscal second quarter. ...est clients represented less than 25% of total scs revenue in the second fiscal quarter -- Demonstra...Steelcase Unveils the Walkstation to Bring Healthy Habits to The Workplace
...Clinic NEW YORK, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Steelcase Inc. (NYSE: scs ), a global office environments manufacturer, today unveiled the Walkstatio...nded in 1912 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Steelcase (NYSE: scs ) serves customers through a network of over 600 independent dealers and ap...Pharsight Expands Global Consulting Services Teams
...al. "The addition of new expert staff in both the scs and RAS business units will further enhance our ab...officer and chairman of Pharsight. "Lars brings to scs a wealth of expertise in the area of PK/PD modelin...ther talented, highly experienced scientist in the scs group will help us meet the growing demand for app...New Spinal Cord Stimulation System Launched
...n (SCS) System, the world's smallest rechargeable scs neuromodulation device for the treatment of chroni...s physicians with EGL Scan(TM), the first and only scs lead scanning technology. The Precision Plus syste...ximately five million people may be candidates for scs therapy. Boston Scientific is a worldwide...Spinal Cord Stimulation Pilot Study for Chronic Angina
...electrical pulses from an implanted device to stimulate targeted nerves. An scs device looks and operates much like a cardiac pacemaker, except that instea... heart, it sends them to leads located near the spinal cord. In this trial, scs is being tested to see if it interrupts angina pain signals. To be el...Reservation For SC/ST Candidates Under 50% All India Quota
... In the application filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the Central Government proposed 15% reservation// to scs and 7-1/2% to ST candidates in the All India Quota seats of Post Graduate medical/dental course admissions from the academic session 2007-08. While di...Technique for Rapidly Reprogramming Adult Cells Into Stem Cells Published in PLoS Biology
...Smith and his team at the University of Cambridge, features a key proprietary step that forms the basis of a licence agreement signed recently between scs and Cambridge Enterprise, the technology transfer company for the University of Cambridge. The licence is a significant addition to SCS' strong portfo...Cholesterol-lowering drugs and the effect on muscle repair and regeneration
...eration when treated with statins which may be indicative of the ability of scs to undergo mitosis (i.e. divide to make new cells). The research team u...tigators determined the effects of varying concentrations of simvastatin on scs in different states (i.e., undergoing differentiation or differentiated int...Technique for Creating Authentic Rat Embryonic Stem Cells Published in Cell
... been definitively demonstrated. It uses technology licensed exclusively to scs from the University of Edinburgh and developed by Professor Austin Smith ...; metabolism. Under the terms of its agreement with Edinburgh University , scs has global exclusive rights to commercialise pluripotent rat stem cells, th...UK's NICE Recommends Spinal Cord Stimulation for Patients with Chronic Neuropathic Pain
...se patients. Importantly, NICE also concluded that scs is cost-effective when used to treat patients with...monstrating the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of scs as a treatment for chronic pain worldwide." The ...e trial data provided solid clinical evidence that scs is an effective treatment for neuropathic pain. As...Pharsight Achieves $7.4 Million in Quarterly Revenue
... investment in our RAS business and our successful efforts to diversify our scs business practice have resulted in our top five customers representing 50% of our total scs revenue this quarter compared with 74% in the same quarter of fiscal 2007. ...