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Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage

Millions of patients suffering from liverdamage (cirrhosis) and failure may benefit from research by theUniversities of Edinburgh and Southampton which may lead to newlife-saving treatments. There is currently no cure for liver cirrhosisand a patient's only hope of survival is to receive a liver transplant.The Edinburgh scientists from the University's Centre for InflammationResearch, in co...

Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment

Specially designed nanoparticles can reveal tiny cancerous tumors that are invisible by ordinary means of detection, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers demonstrated that very small human melanoma tumors growing in mice--indiscernible from the surrounding tissue by direct MRI scan--could be "lit up" and easily locate...

Brain May Be Less Plastic Than Hoped

The visual cortex of the adult primate brain displays less flexibility in response to retinal injury than previously thought, according to a new study published in the May 19, 2005, issue of the journal Nature. This may have implications for other regions of the brain, and the approach the investigators used may be a key to developing successful neurological interventions for stroke patients in t...

A hope for oil spill bioremediation

A recently published article in Environmental Microbiology reveals that indigenous microbiota of the Galician shore is readily able to degrade crude oil. Scientists from the Estación Experimental del Zaidín (Spanish Council for Research, CSIC) in Granada investigated in situ crude oil degradation after the Prestige oil spill in November 2002. After a spill, hydrocarbons are subjected to ph...

Transgenic goat's milk offers hope for tackling children's intestinal disease

It's hard to improve on milk, but animal scientists at the University of California, Davis, have found that milk produced by transgenic goats, which carry the gene for an antibacterial enzyme found in human breast milk, altered the intestinal bacteria in young goats and pigs that were fed the milk. The researchers hope these findings will one day lead to milk that protects infants and chi...

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Custom Phosphopeptide Microarray from LC Sciences

Description:Microarrays designed for pathway studies, protein-protein interaction studies, and phosphotyrosine binding protein (PTB) Studies built on the flexible and powerful Paraflo microfluidic on-chip synthesis platform. These microarrays are available as part of our comprehensive Custom Peptide Microarray Service. Probe content is completely customer specified. Thou...
Company:LC Sciences

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2D-LC analysis of phosphopeptides in brain tissue using Ettan MDLC and Finnigan LTQ

phosphopeptide • two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) • Ettan MDLC • LC-MS/MS • reversed-phase chromatography (RPC) • strong cation exchange (SCX) chromatography • linear ion trap mass spectrometer A 2D–LC-MS method was developed to analyze phospho-peptides in mouse brain tissue. The...

Sensitive identification of phosphopeptides in brain tissue using Ettan MDLC and Finnigan LTQ

GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden A 2D–LC-MS method was developed to analyse phosphopeptides in mouse brain tissue. The trypsin-digested tissue was separated by strong cation exchange chromatography (SCX), followed by reversed-phase chromatography (RPC) using Ettan MDLC. The detection was...

Separating hope from hype in stem-cell research

scientist James Thomson figured out how to keep stem cells alive long enou...

Phillips Plastics to help develop orthopedics with stem cells

The agreement with BioE, Inc., which develops human ste...

CEO of healthcare group still hopeful IT will save employers money

Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the ,...

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Another ray of hope for Arthritis Sufferers

Arthritis causes inflammation of a joint or joints and the surrounding tissues and affects millions of people all over the world. Anti-arthritic drugs can cause side effects and surgery can be expensive, however there is hope from a natural product liquid glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates. Some excellent results with an approach based on a combination of the two supplements have been r...

New hope on the Horizon for People Wishing to Quit Smoking

Smoking is one of the most difficult addiction to give up. In an exciting research done at the University of Toronto in Canada it was found that medication called methoxsalen ( this is currently used to treat skin disorders) may help addicts who wish to give up smoking. Nicotine replacement, in the form of a patch or gum, to keep the level of nicotine in blood up witho...

Glivec - New Hope For CMC Patients

For those unlucky to be afflicted by the deadly chronic myeloid leukemia (CMC) and their near and dear ones, there's some good news. One of the deadliest forms of leukemia - commonly called 'blood cancer' - kills thousands across the globe. Chronic myeloid leukemia was one of the deadliest killers around and still continues to be one. But there's good news. Multinational pharmaceut...

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

One very deadly form of cancer is pancreatic cancer, though it isn’t very common. Globally it kills lakhs of people every year. And now there is some hope for the unfortunate victims. A new vaccine has been successfully tested on the pancreatic cancer victims and it has increased the survival rates in many. Vaccines are typically thought of as a way of preventing disease. In cancer, howe...

Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

The rescue teams involved in the tedious process of finding survivors of the Gujarat quake, from below the rubble, are fast giving up hope of finding any more survivors. They are now concentrating in clearing the rubble and saving the injured who have been lucky to be saved so far. A miracle baby was saved after nearly 90 hours under the rubble. The baby was 8 months old and was seen hold...

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Amsco OrthoVision Orthopedic and Fracture Table

Description:The Amsco OrthoVision Orthopedic and Fracture Table is a mobile, manually operated orthopedic table. It provides flexible, easy to use, articulated posturing of patient for reconstructive and reparative orthopedic procedures. Radiolucent abductor bars, wedge-shaped sacral rest, and perineal post provide exceptional imaging capability. OrthoVision folds into a neat, compact package when not in use...
Company:STERIS Corporation

Modular Table System: Orthopedic Trauma Table

Description:For complete orthopedic trauma procedures. Part of the osi modular table system, the orthopedic trauma table top provides a complete, powered, orthopedic table for easy patient positioning and provides for skin or skeletal traction during key trauma procedures: hip pinnings; femur, supine or lateral im nailing; ender pinning; tibia im nailing; humerus im nailing....
Company:OSI Orthopedic Systems, Inc.

Modular Table System: Ovation™ Orthopedic Trauma Table

Description:The powered torso and leg sections of the Ovation™ Orthopedic Trauma Table simultaneously lift body and legs. Additionally, an independent lift mechanism raises and lowers legs individually and effortlessly for precise positioning. A wide range of adjustment provides the perfect position for all procedures....
Company:OSI Orthopedic Systems, Inc.

HARMONY® Orthopedics

Description:The HARMONY Orthopedics Module incorporates an integrated Medical Records and Transcription capability with Open Systems Technology mandated by the national Health Care HL7 communications protocols. Allowing for easy access to hospital information insurers and physician inter-office communications, HARMONY provides new efficiency with electronic exchange of patient medical records, demographic in...
Company:Medical Technology International

Orthopedics EMR

Description:The OmniMD orthopedics EMR addresses the vast information needs of orthopedics specialty. The orthopedics specific EMR includes clinically-defined templates for common orthopedics complaints, history of present illness and review of systems. The system also includes orthopedics specific ICD and CPT Codes that are used to capture accurate charges and quickly generate electronic Superbill at the po...
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Pelosi: Bush Veto of Stem Cell Bill Says 'No' to the Hopes of Million of Families Across America

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SpeakerNancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response toPresident Bush's veto of the stem cell bill: "Once again, the President has ignored the will of the Americanpeople, of leading medical researchers, and of a bipartisanmajority of the Congress. His cruel veto says 'no' to the hopes ofmillion of families across...

MUSC Research Offers Hope for Those Resistant to Depression Treatment

CHARLESTON, S.C., March 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers atthe Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have announced theresults of a two-year study, which tested the long-termantidepressant response to VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation)Therapy(TM) in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).The study, of which Mark S. George, M.D., MUSC DistinguishedProfessor of Psychiatry,...

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Orthopedics

Many orthopedic surgeons choose to practice general...