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Internet Dating Spares None

Internet dating is now commonly used by elders. One such instance is that of Herbert Bolsinger who came to know Elke Bartsch through the portal called FriendScout24//. Then they came to know about each other later met each other and now are happily married. Dating portals are booming on the Inter...

New research identifies more effective tools for detection of colorectal cancer

...diagnosis. "Optical diagnosis allows us to predict accurately whether a polyp should be removed immediately during the colonoscopy. This not only spares the patient the risk involved in the unnecessary removal of non-precancerous polyps, but eliminates the wait time and expense involved in the current ...

Treating Sleep Disorders May Ease ADHD Symptoms

... Team suggests screening spares patients lifetime of problems FRIDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say a lifetime of problems with getting a good night's sleep c...

Canadian Medical Device Set to Speed Treatment and Cut Health Care Costs for Common Cause of Vertigo

... BPPV immediately in the comfort of their own home. Clinical trials show an 88% success rate using the device, which improves patient satisfaction and spares the health care system the cost of repeated specialist visits. Dr. John W McDonald, Past President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Third Quarter and Year To Date Fiscal 2009 Results

...izers. Service/spares in the prior period benefited from higher installation work (consistent with the higher sterilizers' production) and significant spares sales. Domestic sales represented 31.1% of the Company's total sales in the third quarter of fiscal 2009, as compared to 68.3% for the third quarter o...

Singapore is First in Asia to Use Limb-lengthening Technology for Those Wanting to be Taller

...e months before the patient can walk again. The rod is removed after two years. Prof Sarbjit asserts, "Besides being less traumatic, Fitbone spares the patient the inconvenience of any external scaffolding. Moreover, infection and scarring is minimal and risk of misalignment due to movement of the...

New therapy prevents dangerous side effect for lymphoma patients

... SAN FRANCISCO - Patients respond well to a new three-drug combination for indolent B cell lymphoma that also spares them prolonged, potentially lethal, suppression of blood production in the bone marrow, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer C...

Crohn's disease surgeries make steady advances

...ith strictureplasty, surgeons leave the affected length of bowel in place but widen it, "much like letting out the seams on a pant-leg," he says. This spares bowel tissue while "restructuring" it, so that intestinal contents can safely pass through. Fistula Plugs. Fistulas can be both painful and danger...

Plastic Surgery Team Pioneered the First DIEP Free Flap Breast Reconstruction in The Woodlands, Texas

...cess fatty tissue and skin from the abdomen but would also take part of the abdominal wall muscle. The DIEP flap is a reconstructive alternative that spares a woman's abdominal wall muscles, potentially minimizing risks for abdominal weakness or bulging. Previously only available at tertiary cancer care ...

Cancer research highlights

...ion dose of an electron beam falls off rapidly with distance, which allows the tumor to be irradiated at doses sufficient to kill cancerous cells, but spares the healthy tissue beneath from exposure to too much radiation. Murat Surucu ( msurucu@radonc.wustl.edu ), a Postdoctoral Research Associate in th...

Spares in Medical Technology

Freezing Prostate Cancer Does a Man's Body Good

...not technically feasible; so to treat just a portion of the prostate, minimally invasive cryoablation is needed. Cryoablation (or cryo or cryotherapy) spares as much as possible of the prostate gland and its neurovascular bundles, limiting the side effects of bladder control problems (incontinence) and erec...

Gilbert Hospital Continues Cutting Edge Treatments

...s and is one of only three to exist in the Valley. "This piece of equipment allows our surgical staff to utilize a highly advanced, digital system and spares the patient prolonged discomfort while reducing patient treatment times," stated Gilbert Hospital CEO, David S. Wanger. "Lithotripsy capability is not...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Preclinical Trial Targeting System's Success in Mouse Model Reported in Cancer Cell

...s team set out to address two obstacles to gene therapy for pancreatic cancer: lack of a targeted gene expression system that hits the cancer hard but spares normal tissue, and the need for an animal model that allows monitoring of tumor growth and metastasis without having to kill and dissect the animal. ...

Spares in Medical Products

IsoSleeve™ Source Delivery System

Features:...oaded thereby decreasing pre-treatment preparation. Ready To Use: Upon receipt, the product configuration allows for immediate use. Reduce Handling: spares unnecessary radiation exposure to clinical personnel. Prevents Movement: Unique product design prevents movement of seeds and spacers until desired. ...
Company:C. R. Bard, Inc.

Spares in Biological News

Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good

...not technically feasible; so to treat just a portion of the prostate, minimally invasive cryoablation is needed. Cryoablation (or cryo or cryotherapy) spares as much as possible of the prostate gland and its neurovascular bundles, limiting the side effects of bladder control problems (incontinence) and erec...

How Toxoplasma gondii gets noticed

... an immune response in its host. The report will appear online on January 19th in The Journal of Experimental Medicine . A strong immune response spares T. gondii -infected hosts from deadly infectionan event that may also benefit the parasite, which relies on survival of the host to ensure its own tr...

Salk researchers successfully reprogram keratinocytes attached to a single hair

...e for the generation of patient- and disease-specific stem cells, which had been hampered by the low efficiency of the reprogramming process, but also spares patients invasive procedures to collect suitable starting material, since the process only requires a single human hair. "Having a very efficient a...

Commercialization aim of grant supporting technology that destroys cancer cells

...esting, IRE destroyed targeted tissue with sub-millimeter resolution, and it proved easy to control and to be precise. Furthermore, "the procedure spares nerves and major blood vessels, enabling treatment in otherwise inoperable areas," added Davalos, the 2006 recipient of the Hispanic Engineer National...

Slow slip and slide dynamics

...unt of energy is released as in a standard earthquake, but is distributed over a several weeks rather than several seconds. The slow release of energy spares damage to the surface environment, and the lack of significant seismic waves causes the quakes to go unnoticed by humans. This is a prime location ...

Radiation therapy combo cures prostate cancer long-term

...d the Director of the Seattle Prostate Institute in Seattle. "This is good news for men with prostate cancer since radiation therapy is less invasive, spares healthy tissue and helps patients return to regular activities sooner than surgery."...

Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke

... An experimental treatment that spares disability from acute stroke may be delivered much later than the current three-hour treatment standard ?a potential advance needed to benefit more st...

Spares in Biological Technology

Singapore Medicine - Singapore Doctors Use Hi-Tech Implant to Add Space to Narrowed Spinal Canals

... suitable patients, a new procedure involving an implantable device is now available. Not only does it treat the symptoms with improved results but it spares the patient much discomfort and inconvenience. Developed in Munich, Germany in 2005 and launched in Europe a year later, the In-Space percutane...

Prominent Urologist Dr. David B. Samadi Presents Breakthrough Robotic Surgery Techniques on OR Live Webcast

...omies but every patient, of course, wants to retain natural sexual function after prostate surgery . The robotic surgery technique inadvertently spares the nerves responsible for sexual function as well as continence. Since there is no blood in the operation field in robotic surgery, Dr. Samadi can cl...

Brain Cancer Patients at Two Leading Hospitals Treated Using Fast and Efficient RapidArc Radiotherapy Technology from Varian Medical Systems

... fewer sites of metastatic disease. Treatment planning analyses show that RapidArc matches or exceeds the precision of conventional IMRT systems and spares more of the healthy tissue surrounding the tumor. Unrelated clinical studies on radiotherapy correlate the ability to spare more healthy tissue with r...

First Program Addressing Aircraft Industry Sustainability Awards Accreditation To Five Global Companies

...e Middle East, and Africa within the three segments focused on dismantling, spares and engines remarketing, and airframe disposal." ...e Middle East, and Africa within the three segments focused on dismantling, spares and engines remarketing, and airframe disposal." "To that end...

Top Cancer Hospitals in Denmark and Netherlands First in Europe to Treat Patients With RapidArc(TM) Radiotherapy

... IMRT, including helical tomotherapy. Treatment planning analyses show that RapidArc matches or exceeds the precision of conventional IMRT systems and spares more of the healthy tissue surrounding the tumor. Unrelated clinical studies on radiotherapy correlate the ability to spare more healthy tissue with r...

Spares in Biological Dictionary

Left atrium

...emic Cyanosis ... AV fistulas, pulmonary-to- left atrium fistulas do not involve direct ... Massive calcification of the left atrium usually spares the interatrial septum, ... When the dome of the left atrium was exposed between the superior vena cava and ... Aortic aneurysm refers to an ...