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...urrently only used in two hospitals, significantly simplifies the medical treatment. Thus, a catheter introduced into the heart without need of an anaesthetic is used, significantly reducing the length of the operation (less than thirty minutes), as well as the risks and complications arising from the transesop...Country's first 'simplified maze' using new ultrasound technology is done at Northwestern Memorial
...ple worldwide. "Ultrasound technology dramatically simplifies the Maze procedure, eliminates the need to stop the heart from beating and soon will allow us to perform the Maze procedure minimally invasively and routinely as a stand-alone surgery," says Patrick McCarthy, M.D., co-director of the Northwestern Car......nd body growth. For fully-grown animals, the model simplifies to another, already well-known model. This enabled the researcher to ascertain how the parameters of this known model depend on the metabolic rate, feeding behaviour, and body size of the animals....From diagnostic tool to cancer therapy
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...affected by PND become dilated and enlarged, which simplifies insertion of a ductoscope. The procedure was successful in 87 percent of participants. Four percent showed signs of breast cancer and the remainder were diagnosed with polyps and other benign disorders. Seventy patients received both a ductogram and ...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
...cursive deconvolution," or DRED, that dramatically simplifies the discovery of biologically active members from very large combinatorial libraries. The method was developed by combining the features of a popular combinatorial method, called split synthesis, with new technology in multispectral imaging. "Split s......and and the receptor molecules in hand, it greatly simplifies the search for inhibitors of that interaction and for therapeutic possibilities." Strittmatter and his collaborators a year ago published a study identifying the Nogo protein as one important and selective blocker of axon regeneration in the brain af...Bristol-Meyers Squibb submits NDA for new formulation of once daily videx(R)(didanosine)
...; concurrently, BMS launched a 200 mg tablet which simplifies dosing to two tablets once a day. Patients must take at least two of the appropriate strength tablets to provide adequate buffer to prevent gastric acid degradation of VIDEX. VIDEX tablets are the first and only once-daily nucleoside analogue reve......samebrain sectioned in three planes, which greatly simplifies the task of studentsattempting to understand brain structure. "While the gross structure might be the same from brain to brain, it was veryhelpful for the students to see the same brain in different planes," Williamssaid. "Also, the program can comb...