Ossur v. Bledsoe Brace Systems
...are subsidiaries of Ossur hf. in Iceland, and were acquired by Ossur hf. in 2003 The jury awarded Generation II $3,386,145 in damages. The federal district court judge has additionally awarded Generation II attorney fees in the amount of $1,774,292, and prejudgment interest in the amount of $1,561,615, bring...Endocarditis infection commonly related to health care factors, increasingly due to staph
...ssociated S aureus IE (131 patients, 60.1 percent) acquired the infection outside of the hospital. MRSA IE was more common in the United States (37.2 percent) and Brazil (37.5 percent) than in Europe/Middle East (23.7 percent) and Australia/New Zealand (15.5 percent). Patients in the United States were most l...Building better therapeutic vaccines for chronic infections
...ad to be administered to patients who have already acquired chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis. These therapeutic vaccines aim to enhance the immune system's ability to combat an infectious agent, such as a virus. Researchers are also developing therapeutic vaccines to treat a variety of cancers. Bu...Understanding and diagnosing an inherited pain syndrome
...nel. Also, because other pain syndromes, including acquired disorders, involve altered sodium channel function, erythromelalgia may emerge as a model disease that holds more general lessons about the molecular neurobiology of chronic pain....Parasite genome sequences offer hope for new drugs and vaccines, Science studies say
...s shared by the three parasites that were probably acquired from bacteria through a process of "horizontal gene transfer." Drugs that hit these acquired enzymes could be fruitful drug targets because they are less likely to affect the host. Another drug...National Institutes of Health accept clinical study of Zestra(TM) for women
...ompared to placebo oil in 200 women diagnosed with acquired mixed interest/desire/arousal/orgasm disorders in conditions of home use in conjunction with sexual activities. The Zestra TM study is the only registered study to directly address women's sexual problems. The study is a randomized, placebo-controll...Only 51 per cent of hospital staff followed hand washing guidelines before hygiene campaign
...s, rose from 66 per cent to 96 per cent. "Hospital acquired infection poses a very real and serious threat to all who are admitted to hospital" says Sile Creedon. "Pathogens are readily transmitted on health care workers' hands and hand hygiene substantially reduces this transmission." The research also loo...UT Southwestern professor supports development of report cards on hospital infection rates
...king it difficult to determine whether the patient acquired a disease associated with a procedure performed while hospitalized. And there are not always uniform clinical definitions of conditions. Nevertheless, Dr. Seigel and her co-authors, Dr. Robert Weinstein, professor of medicine at Rush University Medi...UCF tops $100 million milestone in research funding for 2004-05
...h dollars. "The amount of grant and contract money acquired each year is a commonly accepted measure of the quality of a university's research programs," said President John Hitt. "These funds come through the efforts of UCF's dedicated faculty members who invest their time and considerable talents in projec...Major NH&MRC grant will fund multidisciplinary research to improve the treatment of neuroblastoma
...of treatment. Neuroblastoma has both intrinsic and acquired drug resistance. "With the additional resources we expect to make great progress in the study of neuroblastoma, a disease that results in about 15% of deaths from childhood cancer," said Prof Haber. "Five year funding gives us a tremendous opportunit...Envisat monitoring China floods as part of Dragon Programme
...onting Lake in Hunan Province. Envisat ASAR images acquired on 5 June were processed and disseminated on 6 June. The flood maps and images were sent to our Chinese colleagues at the IWHR as well as the National Disaster Reduction Centre of China (NDRCC) at the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other partners of t...Scans may help pin down tricky diagnosis
...yretin amyloidosis, which is often hereditary, and acquired monoclonal immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis,...e bone marrow transplantation may be indicated for acquired monoclonal immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis. This small trial is the first assessment of scint...Study shows new imaging tracer clarifies cause of chest pain up to 30 hours after pain stops
... in the study. To determine the accuracy of images acquired by Zemiva, the researchers first identified patients who had evidence of myocardial ischemia on a treadmill using a standard tracer called thalium to produce SPECT images. Later, SPECT images of the same patients were taken with the new tracer (Zemiv...Promote use of drugs to prevent AIDS infection, researchers urge
CHAPEL HILL -- A truly colossal health problem, acquired immune deficiency syndrome will not go away -- at least no time soon. The virus that leads to AIDS, human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, caused an odd illness that was a complete medical mystery only about 25 years ago. Now, HIV infects more than 40...Mayo Clinic receives $15 million to launch innovative neuroscience research program
...gest drugstore chain in the nation. In 1998 it was acquired by Rhode Island-based CVS, a "Fortune 100" organization and the nation's largest drugstore chain. Applebaum sits on that company's board....Steroids reduce heart damage risk in children with Kawasaki's disease
... Kawasaki's disease, one of the leading causes of acquired heart disease in children, inflames the blood vessels leading to the heart. The cause of Kawasaki's is unknown. Signs of the disease include fever lasting longer than 5 days, skin rash, red eyes, palms and foot soles and swollen lymph nodes. If not t......(NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), announced today that it has acquired InfoPOEM, Inc., a leading provider of evidence-based medicine (EBM) content and web-based search tools, based in Charlottesville, VA. EBM facilitates the effective management of patients through clinical expertise informed by best practice evidence t...Day surgery rates rising, but there is still room for improvement
... risk of cancellation, lower incidence of hospital acquired infections, and an earlier return to normal activities. Researchers looked at day surgery rates by using hospital episode statistics between 1996-7 and 2003-4, and comparing them against the 25 operations identified by the Audit Commission as day ca...Innovative gel reduces post-operative pain
...rom the patient's own blood eliminates the risk of acquired diseases possible with other pooled blood products. Following endoscopic surgery, the gel is sprayed into the sinus cavity. "The gel is rich in wound factors. It contains platelets for clotting, growth hormones for healing, and white cells to fight ...No single strategy effective to control antibiotic prescribing in hospitals
...nd can reduce antimicrobial resistance or hospital acquired infections," the reviewers say. While the Cochrane review looked at drug, clinical and microbiological outcomes across the 66 studies, only one study provided information on all three outcomes....