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News Round Up from AHA Scientific Sessions 2008 - November 11th
Interim Analysis Of Top-Line Data From Phase II/III Study Shows Favorable Efficacy & Safety For Corthera's Relaxin In Acute Heart Failure11 Nov...
News Round Up from AHA Scientific Sessions 2008 - November 12th
Rivaroxaban Phase II Dose-Ranging Study Demonstrates Encouraging Response Rates In Treatment Of Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients12 Nov 2008Findings...
News Round Up from AHA Scientific Sessions 2008 - November 13th
Portola Announces Data Showing Its Anti-Platelet Drug Inhibits Platelets In Clopidogrel (Plavix(R)) Non-Responders13 Nov 2008Portola Pharmaceuticals,...
3-D Echocardiography - An Emerging Giant in the Treatment of Heart Failure
The presence of such therapeutic techniques that improve survivability without consecutive decline in prevalence offers the medical community a...
3D Echo Guidance for Structural Heart Interventions
Imaging guidance is of major importance for successful outcomes in the interventional treatment of structural, congenital and valvular heart...
A Case for Ceramic-on-ceramic Total Hip Arthroplasty
The Need for Alternative Bearings There is no question that conventional metal-on-polyethylene THA can provide durable and reliable long-term...
A compare between myocardial topical negative pressure levels of -25 mmHg and -50 mmHg in a porcine model
BackgroundTNP produces a mechanical stress and a pressure gradient across the tissue which may cause a surge of blood to the area. Mechanical forces...
A Disposable Wireless Electrocardiogram Monitoring System Designed to Reduce Healthcare-associated Infections
Prevention of HAIs in acute care facilities has been complex. Several studies3,4 have been conducted to demonstrate that the surfaces of medical...
A Meta-Analysis of 16 Randomized Trials of Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Versus Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease
DES have been linked to a higher risk of late stent thrombosis compared with bare-metal stents (BMS),4,5 a phenomenon that was not identified in the...
A New Chapter in Neurosurgical Haemostasis
Blood loss is one of the most important considerations for any surgeon. It can increase the duration of surgery and reduce the accuracy of the...
A New Leader in Specialised Pharmaceuticals
Bayer Schering Pharma AG combines two successful pharmaceutical companies to form a single, even more powerful enterprise, opening up new...
A positive correlation between fractional white matter volume and the response of Parkinson disease patients to subthalamic stimulation
Using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging studies of 21 Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients treated by STN stimulation, the authors performed...
A Selection of Recent Papers as Recommended by the Advisory Panel
In a multicenter, prospective clinical trial, 132 patients with a displaced mid-shaft fracture of the clavicle were randomized to either operative...
A Selection of Recent Papers as Recommended by the Advisory Panel
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A survey on non specialized off-the-shelf JPEG2000 viewers for digital microscopy use
Introduction - Although standardization for image formats in Pathology is still not completed, much interest has been devoted to JPEG2000 as a format...
A wearable system to assist walking of Parkinson's disease patients
The authors developed a real-time wearable FOG detection system that automatically provides a cueing sound when FOG is detected, with the sound...
Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Natural History of Atrial Fibrillation in the Era of Catheter AblationAt present, there are no prospective studies on AF progression and associated...
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