Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage
A pink, bacterial scum on the floor of an abandoned mine seems an unlikely place to study community development, but a biological breakthrough is allowing University of California, Berkeley, researchers to probe the give and take in this microbial mat. Last year, the UC Berkeley team joined with the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute to pluck out the genomes of the five dominan...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
Employers can blame hay fever for the loss of millions of hours of work productivity this spring. While missing an hour of work a week may seem small, consider that 20 to 50 million Am...DHC 2007: Without fuller IT adoption, health costs might drain America's wealth
Within healthcare IT, a subje...Draining the Information Swamp
Were not hydrologists, but it seems clear that the first thing to do when draining a swamp is to stop more water from leaking in. The same applies to an information swamp. Information not only needs to be better managed by information technologists as it leaks in, but also as its passed within an organization. IT shops are skilled at building information pipes using Internet connections, distribu...DEMOLetter: Draining the Economic Swamp
My good friend, Scott Beth, vice president of procurement at Intuit, has a wonderful metaphor that describes well the experience of the economic recession. It is as if the swamp was drained, and companies finally saw the old tires, rotting tree stumps, and rusting barrels at the swamp bottom. That is, the fiscal largess of the Internet boom covered a world of organizational excess and mismanageme...Blood Goes Down the Drain in Bihar Hospital
Did you know that blood is the most common fluid connective tissue being transplanted everyday from one person to the other? The demand for blood and its derived products only keeps increasing day by day. Even though in high demand, donor blood literally went down the drain in a hospital after it was found unusable due to malfunction// in the refrigeration system. About 45 units of bl...Brain drain of dentists from Kerala to Britain
In an attempt to fulfill the shortage of Dentists in Britain, many Indian dentists, particularly those in Kerala, are busy training for an examination that could get them jobs abroad. // Amit Patel, joint managing director of the Karnataka-based Manipal Bapuji Postgraduate Medical (& Dental) Faculty Pvt. Ltd (MBPMF), said there were close to 4,000 vacancies of dentists in Britain....Doctors Drained Excess Fluids From Sharon's Abdominal Cavity
The excess fluids that was detected during a routine scan in the abdominal cavity of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was drained by the doctors who was attending on him, hospital sources said. // Doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital Wednesday described Sharon's condition as unchanged after the procedure, the online news service Ynet reported. He was in serio...Up Sized Meals May Be Lighter On the Pocket Now but May Drain It Later
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison it was found that people who save on super-sized meal have more to pay later. // Super-sized meals which are offered at fast food restaurants have extra calories which help a person to gain more weight. This leads to higher costs for groceries, health care and more. An average upsized fast-f...Bird-Flu Pandemic will be a Huge Financial Drain, says World Bank
Singapore – An earlier estimation of eight hundred billion dollars by The World Bank as possible economic fallout of a grave bird-flu pandemic//, has gone in for further reckoning. A threadbare financial analysis has revealed that costs could be up to two trillion U.S dollars, as revealed by the World Bank during the annual IMF-World Bank meeting. Speaking to reporters at the meeting...The External Neurological Drainage System
Description:The Sophysa external neurological drainage system combines in a simple but complete set all the essential functions for CSF drainage and ICP monitoring. The adopted technological solutions contribute to make this system reliable, efficient and precise. It is available as a single item or included in a drainage kit with external ventricular or lumbar catheter....Monitorr ICP External CSF Drainage and Monitoring System
Description:Monitorr ICP external CSF drainage and monitoring system with patient line one way valve....Monitorr ICP External CSF Drainage System
Description:Monitorr ICP external CSF drainage system with self-contained ICP setting....EDS 3 CSF External Drainage System
Description:The CODMAN EDS 3 CSF External Drainage System was developed with input from more than 200 nurses and physicians. The clinicians who work every day with CSF drains inspired solutions that distinguish the CODMAN EDS 3: ease-of-use in an integrated pole clamp, filter protection from our new SPLASHFREE valve, accurate hydrostatic leveling from a unique laser leveling device. The EDS 3 provides all t...Lumbar External Drainage System (LED)
Description:Lumbar External Drainage System (LED) with Touhy needle is indicated for temporary access to the Lumbar Subarachnoid region as a means of draining cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) in order to reduce increased intracranial volume and pressure....