HUP becomes first in region to implant a HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System into a patient
...ternal controller regulates pump speed and a power cable connects the device to a small monitor and power base unit. It's about 1.8 inches in diameter and 3.2 inches long. It pumps blood from the heart throughout the body at up to 10 liters per minute, the full output of a healthy heart. It's designed for ......ty control to ensure the anomaly identified in the cable supplied to it is eliminated. Dr Sutton said the field exchange and additional screening will delay Ventracor's global clinical trial program, including the CE Mark and US Feasibility trials which were targeted for completion by the end of the 2005...Al Gore recipient of Harvard Global Environmental Citizen Award
...." Al Gore serves as Chairman of Current TV, a new cable and satellite news and information network for young people. Gore is also a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University. The Global Environmental Citizen Award is presented annually by the Center for Health and the Global Environment to t...Duke engineers developing ultrasound devices combining 3-D imaging with therapeutic heating
...ee millimeter catheter," he said. "This advance in cable technology has allowed us to incorporate both 3-D imaging and ablation in the same catheter. "The ability to build these tiny matrix arrays is a technology that we've developed at Duke for the past decade and now the ultrasound community is following...Internet may be answer to mammography crisis
.... The digital images were transmitted via Internet cable in a highly secure environment, including private networks and firewalls, to an interpreting workstation 110 miles away. Each image was transmitted in less than 45 seconds. Through a series of tests, the researchers determined that digital mammograms...Visually impaired people prefer to watch television enhanced with special processing
...company, has recently released a video enhancement cable product, RazorVision, which enhances video for normal sighted TV viewers. *DigiVision, the company that developed the Belkin device and holds a patent pending on the technology, is interested in creating another version of the product for visually im...Study first to show potential of light-activated gene therapy for knee injuries
...py, surgeons examine the injury with a fiber optic cable through the small incision, and in many cases make the repair through the same incision. Traditional surgery requires large incisions with long recovery times. This arthroscopic capability gives light-activated gene therapy the potential to become pa...Students' device may improve chest closure after heart surgery
...hich resembles a stapler and uses standard locking cable ties, for about $1,500. Much of this went to a pri...lhotra said. Although the students used commercial cable ties for their prototype, they said patients would best be served by a biocompatible polymer clasp t...Researcher develops better way to detect shock
...ng the measurement from and has a long fiber optic cable that goes to the monitor," Convertino said. "Obviously all of that mass is not conducive to being on the battlefield and being carried around by a medic. I think what we would all like to see is a device that is miniaturized and lighter, to be a plug...Watching wrestling associated with date fighting and other violence
... Nielsen's ratings, wrestling is one of the top 10 cable TV programs. ...NASA technology helping injured US troops
...chnology, consisting of short segments of flexible cable that connect to hardware, all of which allows joint-like, multidirectional movement and shock absorption. Allen Crane and Wayne Eklund teamed with Kerley in the 1990s to incorporate this "cable-compliant" system into a patented walker that supported ......leted. Checks have been completed on the umbilical cable for the launch vehicle adapter and Fregat upper-stage. The HIRS (High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder), the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) and the GOME-2 (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2) instruments have all been cleaned...Effect of tobacco ads may backfire
...o smoking-related ads that appeared on network and cable stations in the 75 largest United States media markets from 1999 to 2002. Some of the findings include: Each additional youth-targeted prevention ad viewed by a student resulted in a 3 percent stronger intention among all students to smoke in th...BC physicists transmit visible light through miniature cable
...Boston College have beamed visible light through a cable hundreds of times smaller than a human hair, an ac...th of between 380-750 nanometers, to travel down a cable whose diameter is smaller than even the low end of that range. The researchers say their achieveme...