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Special Imaging Study Shows Failing Hearts Are 'Energy Starved'

Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) for the first time to examine energy production biochemistry in a beating human heart, Johns Hopkins researchers have found substantial energy deficits in failing hearts. The findings, published in the January 18 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirm what many scientists have conjectured for years about heart fail...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

Leading scientists, physicians, and veterinarians are uncovering new links between land-based pollution and diseases in marine mammals, with implications for human health. "Marine mammals are providing early clues of our unseen impact on the sea," says Paul Sandifer, Chief Scientist for the new Oceans and Human Health Initiative in the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO...

Smooth sailing: 'cruise ship virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine

You're on vacation, having fun sailing the seven seas, when your stomach starts rolling worse than the waves. Before you know it, nausea and vomiting have replaced shuffle board and sun-bathing. Unfortunately, it's a scenario that's becoming increasingly common on cruise ships. So common, in fact, that the National Institutes of Health's Western Regional Center of Excellence (RCE) for...

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Online retailing "tango" is adding some steps

We've heard this for years, and most of us have adopted at least some of these changes (both good and bad) in the ways we disseminate and find information,...

Why are new drugs failing?

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Esker begins automated faxing and mailing service

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Firstlogic's mailing-address update system gains Postal Service certification

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Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children

According to a new study, zinc supplements could play a role in reducing the number of childhood deaths from diarrhea around the world. Researchers who tested three different methods of zinc administration in nearly 1,650 Nepalese youngsters found zinc reduced the risk of prolonged diarrhea// defined as lasting more than seven days by 35 percent to 45 percent. The treatment was effective regardle...

New device for ailing heart fitted into first patient

A hospital in New zealand had fitted the first ptient with a turbocharger for the heart called C-Pulse.// The special device is designed to help patients with moderate heart problems, who are still not ill enough to go for a heart transplant and its related side effects. These patients may be those who may feel extreme tiredness, difficulty in walking short distances and do not get mu...

Curtailing AIDS - The Fight has to Go On

Tamil Nadu has to some extent attained success in curtailing the spread of AIDS and has many a times been in headlines for attaining new targets and milestones, However the challenges are far from over and new ones keep emerging.// The fight against AIDS is well reflected by surveillance figures emerging from ante-natal mothers where the prevalence rate has fallen from 1.25 per cent in...

Daughter Turns Saviour: Ailing Mother Provided Wonder Drug Herceptin, To Fight Cancer

A woman with breast cancer found a savior in her daughter, who helped raise the life-saving sum of ￡47,000, so that the drug//, Herceptin could be made available for her to fight debilitating breast cancer. Shropshire Primary Care Trust had refused the cancer drug to Mrs. Morgan, of Whitchurch. Katie Morgan, her daughter and all of ten, wrote to Shropshire MP Owen Paterson, and expres...

Dead End: Aged, Ailing and Alone In Death

Old age and death is a foregone conclusion with no open choices. But does this also mean no end-of life choices that help, an elderly dying a dignified// and peaceful death? The department of health recently spoke of 60% compliance of hospitals with superior practices in end of life care to the elderly. To research into this lofty claim, a survey was initiated, that revealed, many pe...

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Tibial Nailing System

Description:The Orthofix Intramedullary Fixation System is a set of intramedullary nails which offers several advantages over existing systems. A major advantage of the system is the ability to insert both proximal and distal locking screws accurately and quickly without the use of X-rays, using an external mechanical targeting device. The locking screws have a self-tapping thread which engages the proximal...
Company:Orthofix, Inc

T2™ Tibial Nailing System

Description:Stryker Orthopedics has now created a new generation locking nail system, bringing together all the capabilities and benefits of separate nailing systems to create a single, integrated surgical resource for fixation of long bone fractures. Through the development of a common, streamlined and intuitive surgical approach, both in principle and in detail, the T2&trade Tibial Nailing System...
Company:Stryker Corporation

T2™ Humeral Nailing System

Description:The T2™ Humeral Nailing System is one of the first humeral nailing systems to offer an option for either an antegrade or a retrograde approach to repair fractures of the humerus. Stryker Orthopaedics Trauma has now created a new generation locking nail system, bringing together all the capabilities and benefits of separate antegrade and retrograde nailing systems to create a single...
Company:Stryker Corporation

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Exforge Helps Vast Majority of Patients Effectively Control Their Blood Pressure After Failing on Other Medicines, According to New Clinical Data

Nine out of 10 non-diabetic patients treated withExforge achieved recommended blood pressure goals[1] Additional average decrease of 20 mmHg insystolic blood pressure observed in patients taking Exforge overreductions seen with previous monotherapy[1] Nearly 70% of those with high blood pressure notat treatme...