ATS Medical Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results
... of the new CryoMaze(TM) 10-S Surgical Cryoablation Probe, which offers increased support throughout the length of the ablation segment. The increased rigidity of the probe addresses the preference of some surgeons to have a cryoablation probe with the feel of a more substantial surgical instrument. The ATS ...Naturally produced estrogen may protect women from Parkinson's disease
...ive disease. About 1.5 million Americans currently have Parkinsons, characterized by symptoms that can include tremor (shaking), slowness of movement, rigidity (stiffness), and difficulty with balance. The condition typically develops after the age of 60, although 15 percent of those diagnosed are under 50. T...Patients starting Parkinson's drug rasagiline earlier do better
...ne from the start fared better as measured by the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale. They experienced less worsening of motor symptoms, such as rigidity and tremor, and had fewer problems with activities of daily living than patients who began rasagiline six months later. The open-label extension s...Parkinson's Disease Plays Havoc With Common Orthopaedic Conditions
... the combination of decreased bone density and instability from tremors and rigidity caused by PD greatly increase a person's risk of: Fallin...dication to increase bone density Optimizing therapies for gait and rigidity The author recommends that patients with PD who are being tr...No-nose bicycle saddles improve penile sensation and erectile function in bicycling police officers
...ctile function as assessed by the initial evaluation, but there were no significant changes noted in Rigiscan measures, a method used to record penile rigidity while the subject sleeps. With few exceptions, bicycle police officers were able to effectively use no-nose saddles in their police work and 97 percen...New photo 'op' for ovaries may solve some mysteries of infertility
...d waves ("like the sub-woofer system of a car," Miller says) to measure the rigidity of the ovaries. Ovary rigidity is important to measure because it is one of the symptoms of polycystic ova...$1.3M NIH grant to fund Parkinson's disease study
...arkinson's disease patients have trouble with movement," said Christopher Bishop, assistant professor of psychology. "They move more slowly. They have rigidity in their limbs. They have balance problems and tremors." The cardinal symptoms are a result of a deficit of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a ne...Elevated Urate Levels May Slow Parkinson's in Men
...early laboratory studies about urate's protective qualities and offer hope for future disease therapies to delay Parkinson's symptoms such as tremors, rigidity and difficulty walking and talking. Urate is a salt derived from uric acid, and it is a normal component of blood; however, high levels can lead to...Genetic Disorder May Hold Key to Heat Stroke Cure
...rgoing general anesthesia. During MH bouts, the acid content of a patient's blood and tissues becomes altered and heart rate increases, causing muscle rigidity and a rapid rise in body temperature that can result in kidney failure and potentially fatal heart arrhythmias. MH reactions can be treated with t...ErecAid® Esteem™ External Vacuum Therapy System
Description:...ability of desirable outcome", makes it the ideal therapy for treating erectile dysfunction. ErecAid® External Vacuum Therapy System causes penile rigidity that can be maintained for up to thirty minutes....UroPass® Open Tip Ureteral Stents
Description:... UroPass Open Tip Ureteral Stents perfect over-the-wire placement with a combination of flexibility and rigidity for comfort and control. When it comes to stent designs, UroPass is a proven leader....TiMAX Pe.R.I. Small Fragment Upper Extremity Plate
Description:...ance benefits of TiMAX material have been applied to the ACE Pe.R.I. (Periarticular Reduction Implants) Upper Extremity Plates. Greater strength, less rigidity combine to provide a complete set of periarticular plates for the upper extremity....Stanford researchers publish comprehensive model for medical device development
...s point out that such standardization does not always permit product developers to streamline their processes where it would make sense. In turn, such rigidity can inhibit innovation, which often occurs in a less-structured way. "Clearly there are benefits associated with having a rigorous process and clea...Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production
...ibrous material of whole plantsis to find effective means to work around the polymer lignin, the scaffolding that endows the plant's architecture with rigidity and protection from pests. By doing so, the organic compound cellulosethe long chain of glucose (sugar) units can be unbound, broken down, fermented,...Modified plants may yield more biofuel
...sing the lignin content, they are trying to modify the connections in lignin, without compromising either the biosynthesis of lignin or the structural rigidity of the plant. The Penn State geneticists and biochemists took a gene from beans and engineered it into a poplar tree. This gene produces a protein...Normalizing tumor vessels to improve cancer therapy
... cells, which may explain the increased vessel permeability. Ghosh and colleagues also found that tumor capillary cells sense and respond to matrix rigidity differently than normal cells. When placed on a stiff surface, mimicking the tumor matrix, the cells tended to keep spreading even after normal capill...Dense tissue promotes aggressive cancers
... interesting effect where cells actually sense the rigidity and degrade more," Weaver said. The team examined how cells convert a sense of matrix rigidity into intracellular signals, a process called mecha...rer prognosis for patients. "The idea that tissue rigidity leads to a more aggressive phenotype had been out ...Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant
...t studies on Pogonomyrmex harvester ants have found colonies in which becoming a worker or gyne is determined exclusively by genetic differences. Such rigidity constrains the colony's ability to adaptively adjust to environmental realities. For example, colonies that have few workers and yet produce a lot of ...Treating chronic pain, migraine & muscle spasticity through inhibition of neurotransmitter glutamate
... a number of diseases and disorders. These include migraine and other forms of chronic pain such as neuropathic pain as well as muscle spasticity and rigidity secondary to spinal cord trauma, stroke and multiple sclerosis. ...July 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA Today media highlights
... crust, which are compensated by uplift due to buoyancy forces, which act from the deep earth. These forces, however, are smoothed out by the flexural rigidity of the lithosphere. Therefore, the isostatic readjustment results not only in smaller subsidence of topography in the eroded fjord, but also in the up...Cell-based therapy shows promise in patients with Parkinson's disease
...scle cells involved in movement. Without enough dopamine, this balance is disrupted, resulting in tremor (trembling in the hands, arms, legs and jaw); rigidity (stiffness of the limbs); slowness of movement; and impaired balance and coordination the hallmark symptoms of PD. PD affects one in every 100 peo...Fighting pollution the poplar way: Trees to clean up Indiana site
...g, and lead researcher Clint Chapple, biochemistry. They are currently investigating ways to alter the composition of poplar lignin, which provides rigidity to the plant cell wall by binding to strands of cellulose, a complex sugar that can be converted into ethanol. Chrysler will fund the Kokomo projec...Using nanotechnology to create high-performance materials
...nt with unique properties, one of the most notable being the new material's conductivity. In addition, carbon nanotubes help to increase the strength, rigidity and break resistance of plastic. Although carbon nanotubes are 20 times stronger than steel, they are as light as aluminium. Boschetti-de-Fierro p...TorreyPines Therapeutics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Financial Results and Highlights
...panel may be effective in reversing or preventing muscle spasticity and rigidity of spinal ischemia. TorreyPines plans to initiate a Phase II clinical trial of tezampanel for the treatment of muscle spasticity and rigidity secondary to spinal cord trauma during the second half of 2008. This ...mNEMOSCIENCE GmbH Announces Global Licensing Agreement With Aporo Biomedical
...ary shape memory polymers developed by mNEMOSCIENCE are unlike any other materials currently being produced and can be programmed to change shapes and rigidity when an initiating stimulus, such as change in temperature through exposure to heat sources (e.g., the human body or liquids), application of light en...Vasogen's Research Published in European Journal of Neuroscience
...the brain that control and modulate movement. Symptoms include a number of movement abnormalities such as tremors, slowness of movement, stiffness and rigidity of limbs, and gait or balance problems. As the disease progresses, these symptoms usually increase and impact a person's ability to work and function....Wisconsin 2020: A vision from a state senator
...ses, is fused with their products. Their workers are not necessarily union members or even employees. The configurations of firms are looser, avoiding rigidity at all costs. Worker productivity will skyrocket with the adoption of technologies like wireless broadband and the first wave of nanotechnology ap...Are you doomed to repeat the great software mistake?
...eptics might argue that agility is nothing more than cowboy coding, where the development team does whatever it wishes. While lacking the ceremony and rigidity of traditional methods, agile methods do not lack formality. Instead, their differentiating factor is recognition of software development as a human a...