July/August 2009 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
The Primary Care Paradox and the Need to Integrate Primary and Specialty Care to Improve the Quality of Healthcare The third in a seven-part series of commentaries to understand health and healthcare With the healthcare reform debate heating up in Washington, D.C., Annals of Family Medicine ...NYU Langone Medical Center's tip sheet to the 45th Annual Meeting of ASCO
The following news tips are based on abstracts or posters to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Orlando, Florida, May 29 June 2, 2008. Abstract # 9075, 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, June 1, 2009 Antiparasitic drug is promising in animal stu...Nationwide Medical/Surgical Unveils Flu Protection Tip Sheet
Nationwide Medical/Surgical, a leading distributor of the flu vaccine and other specialty medical products, has created their 2009 annual list of how to prevent the flu. (Vocus) February 4, 2009 -- Nationwide Medical/Surgical ( www.nationwidemedical.net ), a leading dis...Sociologist says this month's family murder-suicides only 'the tip of the iceberg'
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month's murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be "just the tip of the iceberg." Sampson Blair, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology at UB, says, "Family murder-su...Mayo Clinic Proceedings January Tip Sheet
ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Featured articles from the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings include the effects of antioxidant supplements on cancer, guidelines for workplace drug screening and the safety and effectiveness of nasal spray flu vaccine. Mayo Resea...2,500 Cases Completed With the Magnetic Irrigated Catheter
...ac event rate for magnetic procedures remains at 0.1% "The irrigated tip is a great asset for creating deep lesions in patients with ventricular tac...d, externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter or guidewire, resulting in improved navigation, shorter pro...Single Port Surgeries Now Performed at University Medical Center at Princeton
...nstrument access port made by the company Advanced Surgical Concepts. The second is a special laparoscope -- the camera instrument -- with a bendable tip that lets doctors see around corners. Aside from these tools, the surgical technique for the single port approach is much the same as for tradit...Video: ev3 Inc. Announces First Patient Enrollments in DEFINITIVE LE Post-Market Study
...the treatment of PAD. The device uses a small rotating blade to shave away plaque from inside the artery. As it is excised, the plaque collects in the tip of the device and then is removed from the patient, thereby restoring blood flow with minimal barotrauma and no permanent implant. Over 200,000 cases ...STEER-IT® Deflecting Tip Guidewire
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Description: These specialty Eraser instruments have been designed to provide the ophthalmic surgeon with the right tool for situations requiring precise hemostasis. Medtronic recently introduced a series of 25 gauge intraocular, bipolar, diathermy instruments. These instruments provide discrete treatment of ta...Wet-Field Hemostatic Eraser Bipolar Tip (25 gauge Fine point, Curved 135)
Description: These specialty Eraser instruments have been designed to provide the ophthalmic surgeon with the right tool for situations requiring precise hemostasis. Medtronic recently introduced a series of 25 gauge intraocular, bipolar, diathermy instruments. These instruments provide discrete treatment of ta...Wet-Field® Hemostatic Eraser Bipolar Tip (25 gauge Fine Point, Straight)
Description: These specialty Eraser instruments have been designed to provide the ophthalmic surgeon with the right tool for situations requiring precise hemostasis. Medtronic recently introduced a series of 25 gauge intraocular, bipolar, diathermy instruments. These instruments provide discrete treatment of ta...Snap-In Snap-Out®-II Blunt Tip Grasping Forceps Insert
Description: The Snap-In Snap-Out-II Tip Inserts offer a large variety of configurations....Pyrex brand reusable serological pipet, color-coded, large tip opening
Description: Corning 7087 Large tip opening allows more rapid intake and delivery of suspensions and viscous materials. Colored graduations are enameled onto the glass. Two narrow bands or one wide band at the top indicate the pipet is calibrated"To Deliver"its total capacity when the last drop is blown out. O....Hormone-mimics in plastic water bottles -- just the tip of the iceberg?
In an analysis1 of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. What's more, these chemicals are potent in vivo and result in an increased development of embryos in the New Zealand mud snail. The...BioScience tip sheet, March 2009
The March 2009 issue of BioScience includes the following peer-reviewed articles: Molecular Biology and Genomics: New Tools for Weed Science. Patrick J. Tranel and David P. Horvath. Modern techniques have allowed great advances against weeds, including the development of herbicide-resistan...BioScience tip sheet, February 2009
The February 2009 issue of BioScience includes the following peer-reviewed research articles: Biological Resource Centers and Systems Biology. Yufeng Wang and Timothy G. Lilburn. The authors propose leveraging phenotypic data from the few bacteria in resource collections that are well c...BioScience tip sheet, January 2009
The January 2009 issue of BioScience includes the following research articles: Leaf Evolution and Development: Advancing Technologies, Advancing Understanding. Heather L. Sanders and Sarah E. Wyatt. Advancing techniques are revealing networks of genes and epigenetic phenomena that regulate ...BioScience tip sheet, December 2008
The December 2008 issue of BioScience includes a Special Section consisting of four articles on Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment, coordinated by Louis J. Guillette, Jr., of the University of Florida. The complete list of research articles in the issue is as follows: Meeting the Chall...BioScience tip sheet, November 2008
The complete list of research articles in the November 2008 issue of BioScience is as follows: Identifying and Characterizing Bacteria in an Era of Genomics and Proteomics. David Emerson, Liane Agulto, Henry Liu, and Liping Liu. New molecular technologies in genomics and proteomics are changi...Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
...developed in Ginger's lab to record photocurrent, comes to a point just 10 to 20 nanometers across (a human hair is about 60,000 nanometers wide). The tip is coated with platinum or gold to conduct electrical current, and it traces back and forth across the solar cell to record the properties. As the...Video shows nanotube spins as it grows
...oratoire de Physique de la Matire Condense et Nanostructures) used a field emission microscope (FEM). A few atoms of metal catalyst were placed on the tip of the FEM's needle-like probe, and carbon nanotubes grew atop the metal catalyst. An electric current was passed lengthwise through the probe and nan...Researchers enlist DNA to bring carbon nanotubes' promise closer to reality
...es of biological molecules. Another common structure seen in proteins is the beta sheet. If you take a long strand in your palm, stretch it out to the tip of your index finger, loop it to your middle finger, then back to your palm, then out to your ring finger, back to your palm and out to your little fi...New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data
...face irregularities and inaccurate placement of the atomic force microscope tip onto samples. In measuring the effects of extremely small forces actin...al's elastic modulus. Theoretically, applying force to a nanobelt with the tip of an atomic force microscope should produce consistent linear deformation,...A*STAR scientists invent the world's only controllable molecule gear of minuscule size of 1.2nm
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