Many mothers with children on life-sustaining medical devices, such as ventilators and breathing or feeding tubes, suffer physical and psychological distress from the stress of juggling treatments, appointments, therapies and daily family ...
Tags: Mental Health of Mothers, Technology-Dependent Children
New Whole-Farm EncircaSM service Offerings Unveiled MIAMI, Feb. 27, 2014 – DuPont Executive Vice President James C. Borel outlined growth drivers across the seed, crop protection and nutrition and health businesses today at the ...
Tags: DuPont, Health Segments
ZetrOZ has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the marketing of its ultrasound pain management device sam, a wearable, long-duration, ultrasonic diathermy device for use in applying deep ...
Tags: Ultrasound Therapy Device, Medicine, FDA
A NEW technique being developed by West Australian chemists could provide crime investigators with a safer, simpler and more versatile method for extracting good quality fingermarks, even from non-porous surfaces and in wet or humid ...
Tags: extracting good quality fingermarks, NEW technology, toxic solvent
Pregnant and postpartum women with bipolar disorder more frequently have significant mental health and early mothering challenges than other perinatal women undergoing psychiatric treatment, according to a study in the Journal of Affective ...
Tags: Pregnant Woman, Mental Health, BD, PTSD
Biosense Webster has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Thermocool Smarttouch catheter that enables direct and real-time measurement of contact force during catheter ablation procedures for patients ...
Tags: FDA Approval, Biosense Webster
Nephros, a commercial stage medical device company that develops and sells high performance liquid purification ultrafilters and Bellco, an Italy-based company focused on Dialysis and Extracorporeal Blood Purification, have signed an ...
Tags: medical device, Nephros, Bellco
Land O'Lakes, Inc., today announced record annual sales of $14.2 billion, up 4.4 percent from the prior year, and record net earnings of almost $306 million, a 27 percent increase over the prior year. The strong 2013 results continue a ...
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Many farmers may be questioning whether their soybeans need a fungicide seed treatments this planting season. But that depends on many factors – from weather and planting date to drainage and seed costs. And if conditions or field ...
Tags: Seed Treatments, seed-treatment
In support of Augie's Quest, LA Fitness announced today that it will host an in-club Group Fitness class at more than 500 of the company's locations on February 22, 2014. Augie's Quest is a nonprofit research initiative dedicated to finding ...
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The discovery of seven new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes could lead to new ways of thinking about diabetes and new treatments for the disease, researchers suggest. The findings were among the results of the largest study to ...
Tags: genetic effects, compiled genetic information, biology of the disease
Giving intravenous magnesium to stroke patients soon after the start of symptoms, in an attempt to protect brain cells deprived of oxygen, failed to improve stroke-related disability 3 months later, according to research presented at the ...
Tags: Intravenous Magnesium, Stroke-Related Disability, Stroke Therapy
Patients with a common form of lung cancer — lung squamous cell carcinoma — have very few treatment options. That situation may soon change. A team of cancer biologists at Mayo Clinic in Florida is reporting in the Feb. 10 ...
Tags: Oncogene, lung cancer, PKCiota, SOX2
Laser sales set to grow with recovering economies 10 Feb 2014 Seminar in San Francisco hears that sensing applications will be a key growth driver in the coming years. Lasers on show The global laser industry, strong in many areas ...
Tags: Lasers, 3D printing, Nogee, GDP
Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
Tags: RNA, MIT, Gene Silencing, Nanoparticle