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Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer

For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, the addition of radiation therapy leads to better survival outcomes with few long-term toxic effects, according to a 20-year follow-up of a randomized trial, which appears in the January 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The British Columbia randomized radiation the...

HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

A widely-used class of drugs that keep the HIV-virus infection from progressing to AIDS may cause serious and potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbances in some patients. The finding of a Mayo Clinic-led investigation appears in the current edition of The Lancet. In collaboration with colleagues from the HIV Program of Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis; the University of Minn...

Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa

An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development Center to implant the device in several patients. The patients all have retinitis pigmentosa with moderate-to-severe vision loss. Three centers in the United States have been chosen...

Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy

A scientist at the Marine BiologicalLaboratory (MBL) has published the results of an EPA-funded clam embryostudy that supports her hypothesis that, when combined, the pollutantsbromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--a chemical cocktailknown as BCE--can act synergistically to alter a key regulator in nervecell development. While scientists have previously studied the effectsof these...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

Stem cell transplants have become thestandard of care for patients with relapsed lymphoma, but not forpatients who suffer from both this disease and HIV. A new study showingthat this treatment is a viable option for select patients withHIV-associated lymphoma will be published in the January 15, 2005,issue of Blood, the official journal of the American Society ofHematology.Because of the i...

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SOS Soluble Protien Service from Genlantis

Description:SOS Protein Solubility Service The new protein Solubility Optimization Service (SOS) uses proprietary tools and know-how recently...
Company:Genlantis

SOS Soluble Protien Service from Genlantis

Description:SOS Protein Solubility Service The new protein Solubility Optimization Service (SOS) uses proprietary tools and know-how recently...
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NanoFrontier LD LC/MS System from Hitachi High Technologies America

Description:Hitachi Innovative Linear Ion Trap Time of Flight Mass Analyzer for superior sensitivity, mass accuracy, and resolving power. Specifications: * MS mode measurement range: 100 - 25,000 m/z * Precursor ion selection range: 150 - 4000 m/z * Resolution: 14,000 (1400 m/z) or over * MS accuracy: 5 ppm with internal reference * Dynamic range: 4 orders of magnitude...
Company:Hitachi High Technologies America

VersArray ChipWriter Pro System With Colony-Picking Capabilities, 110-120 V from Bio-Rad

Description:The VersArray ChipWriter Pro system with colony-picking capabilities, 110-120 V, uses floating pin printing technology to array DNA, proteins, oligonucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, and other biomolecules onto a variety of substrates for microarray applications. This system can also be used for picking colonies as small as 300 micrometers in diameter and for inoculating 96- or 384-well micropla...
Company:Bio-Rad

DNA Engine Tetrad 2 Peltier Thermal Cycler, w/4 x 384-well blocks from Bio-Rad

Description:The DNA Engine Tetrad thermal cycler expands the envelope of discovery beyond the pioneering PTC-200 DNA Engine cycler. It has four times the capacity with a footprint only twice the size, providing very high throughput for laboratories that run massive quantities of reactions, such as sequencing or diagnostic labs....
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Analyzing Trace-Level Impurities of a Pharmaceutical Intermediate Using an LCQ Deca Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer and the Mass Frontier Software Package

Mark R. Kagan , Carrie Liu 1Thermo Finnigan, Piscataway, NJ; 2Thermo Finnigan, San Jose, CA; 3Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA The data presented here can be a...

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CPM Helps Physicians Group Retain Patients with New Kind of House Call

Middleton, WI Combining database and personalized print technology, a physicians group in the Midwest is making a new kind of house call to retain patients. Instead of waiting for patients to come to their offices for treatment, these physicians are sending personalized messages by mail with reminders for important check-ups and screenings -- and seeing response rates of 10 to 21 percent. <b...

Properties of PCR Enzymes

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One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

Death Rates Higher for Those Without This Symptom. As many as one-third of patients never have chest pains prior to or during a heart attack, a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests. And for women, diabetics and others who belong to groups likely to have atypical heart attack symptoms, more than half may never have such pains. The report examined symp...

Amphetamines Help Recovery of Stroke Patients

A new study from Doctors at UT Southwestern in Dallas soon report that amphetamines may speed up the recovery of speech in stroke patients who have lost the function. This study was done on patients who had suffered from ischemic stroke, or a stroke due to loss of blood and oxygen to the brain. Amphetamines were given to 30 stroke patients who lost their ability to spea...

Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

According to some British researhers increasing doses of painkillers to ease the agony of terminally ill patients does not shorten their lives.Some health professionals have criticized the practice, comparing it to euthanasia, but doctors at St Christopher's Hospice in London claim patients receiving higher doses of drugs such as morphine live just as long as those who do not. In re...

Patients With Filariasis More Prone To HIV Infection

According to a report published in the December issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, HIV infection is significantly enhanced in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from individuals with untreated filarial infection compared to PBMCs from infected patients treated with antifilarial agents. According to Dr. Ramya Gopinath and her team at the National Institute of Allergy and...

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...

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Reliance 6200 Patient Chair

Description:Large hinged footstep can support patient's full weight. Footstep tilts out of the way when not required. Hydraulic base. Patients may be raised and lowered by either a finger switch on both sides of chair back or optional corded foot switch. Dual rotation locks on both sides of the chair enable you to swivel the chair 330 without changing position. A patented recline handle which is easily activ...
Company:Clement Clarke International

Reliance 6200LFC Patient Chair

Description:Large hinged footstep can support patient's full weight. Footstep tilts out of the way when not required. Hydraulic base. Patients may be raised and lowered by either a finger switch on both sides of chair back or optional corded foot switch. Dual rotation locks on both sides of the chair enable you to swivel the chair 330 without changing position. A patented recline handle which is easily activ...
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Luneau Patient Chair

Description:Complete with headrest, armrests, footrest and foot switch....
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MAC-150E Patient Chair

Description:A practical, comfortable chair for examination of the patient. The seat height is adjustable from 540 mm to 740 mm by use of an independent foot switch. The chair is rotatable through 360 and incorporates a multi-adjustable headrest, lift up armrests and lift up footrest....
Company:Clement Clarke International

Tiemann Double Action 6" Bone Rongeur

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Monitoring Patient Glucose Levels: New Advances in software make it easier

Monitoring patient glucose levels and determining the response to intervention is critical when working with diabetic clients. The benefit of doing so in improved outcomes for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes has been clearly established by clinical trials conducted in both the U.S. and the UK1. Self- monitoring by patients of glucose levels, and the data provided is especially important for p...

Managing Preanalytical Processes for Patient Safety

Contributing Editor Positive patient identification (ID) is a major put by healthcare accrediting bodies for the past few years. Until recently, the costs associated with hardware and software were beyond the reach of the average hospital or laboratory. Today there are multiple vendors with devices that can be integra...

Hematology Analyzers Simple, Sophisticated Technology Serving All Patients

Some form of electronic hematology analyzer is found at the center of most clinical laboratories. A blood cell count is usually the first screening test used to assess general health, rule out anemia or infection, and monitor cancer patients during the course of chemotherapy. It is difficult to imagine medical...

Near-Patient Testing: The Advantages of C-Reactive Protein in Hematological Testing

C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute-phase protein that has long been recognized as a marker of systemic inflammation. CRP measurement can complement a range of diagnostic markers to monitor infection and direct treatment. However, as economic rationalization...

Urinalysis Analyzers: Large Capabilities in Every Size Device

Urine chemistry analysis, often conducted in a physicians office practice, can be instrumental in the detection of a wide array of ailments; UTIs, diabetes, several cancers, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular and kidney diseases. The estimated global market for urinalysis tests is well in excess of $600 million per year and is growing strongly. For such a fundamental, extensive and economic...

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