| FDA Approves Hi-Flex Mobile Bearing Knee For Active Adults
Mitchell Sheinkop, M.D., will be the first in US to surgically implant the just-approved Nex Gen LPS-Flex mobile bearing knee on February 20, 2008 at the Neurologic and Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago. Last week, the FDA approved the Zimmer Holdings knee, which is heralded as the next generation of knee prostheses for active adults, especially amateur and professional athletes. Dr. Sheinkop was one of eight physician investigators in the United States who participated in the clinical trial proceeding FDA approval.The main difference between a fixed bearing, or traditional knee replacement, and a mobile bearing knee is that the articulating surface is free to rotate slightly along with the patient's natural movement."The design of this knee allows for better range of motion and improved flexibility for daily activities, whether around the home, at work or during sports and exercise," says Dr.
Protecting the core of life
For starters, Mater Dei is a hospital thats designed to accommodate all the specialities that modern medicine requires.
St Lukes was built in the early 1940s and only catered for general medicine and surgeries. Now we have so many sub-specialities that require their own niche in a hospital.
Cardiology did not start as a department until 1995 and all the cardiac bits were placed in different parts over the hospital. We were shoe-horned into a place that wasnt designed for us.
With regard to Mater Dei, we were consulted from day one as how we wanted our department laid out so we are very proud of it as we had an input in its design.
Its one of the nicest hospitals Ive ever worked in.
Thats as far as the hospital is concerned.
Ob/Gyn & Women's Health News Index
Therapeutic HPV Vaccine Shows Promise for Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia A new vaccine based on human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 chimeric virus-like particles is safe and may prove effective in treating high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3, according to a report in the December 15th issue of the International Journal of Cancer. .
4 Charged in String of Bank Robberies
McPherson Church Road was robbed at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, and the RBC Centura branch at 2897 Village Drive was held up about 90 minutes later, police said. The McPherson Church Road branch also was robbed on Dec. 18, and a First Citizens Bank branch at 3604 Ramsey St. was robbed on Dec. 27, police said. McFayden and Deregt were charged in all four robberies, while Figueredo was charged in the First Citizens robbery and the two Wednesday hold-ups and Seidel was charged in the two Wednesday robberies, police said. No one was injured in any of the robberies. Police didn't indicate whether a weapon was used in any of the incidents. An officer spotted a vehicle matching the description of one seen leaving the second robbery Wednesday and arrested all four men during a traffic stop on Blount Street near Robeson Street, police said.
One Last Thing: After four contests, races are less muddled
In each of those contests, women made up a big majority of the total Democratic vote (57 percent in Iowa and New Hampshire; 59 percent in Nevada), and Clinton has been building a bigger and bigger margin over Obama with them. In another important demographic, voters with annual income under $50,000, Clinton was close behind Obama in Iowa. Then she beat him among those voters by 13 and 12 points, respectively, in New Hampshire and Nevada. Clinton was tied with Obama in union households in Iowa; she won them decisively in New Hampshire and Nevada. Clinton won crushing majorities among Catholics in those states, too. Put this all together and you have the makings of a traditional Democratic coalition, minus African Americans. As the race has progressed, Clinton has built on her support in each coalition group, and found new support in another key group, Hispanics (which she carried by more than a 2-1 ratio in Nevada).
A talented student rebuilds his life after battling depression - and ...
On the evening of Sept. 28, at an apartment complex in King of Prussia, a tragedy and a miracle occurred 2.5 seconds apart. The tragedy took place when Jordan Burnham, 18, a senior just nominated to the homecoming court at Upper Merion High School, jumped out his ninth-floor window. The miracle happened 90 feet below, when he hit the ground at 50 m.p.h. - and survived. Jordan has no recollection of going out the window. Even though he was suffering from depression, neither he nor anyone close to him ever expected him to do something so impulsive, so lethal. "I had everything to live for," he says now. Today, 114 days later, Jordan's body remains badly broken. With the help of three therapists, he stood on his right leg last week for 60 seconds.
Mickey Kaus
But Senators in this situation have been known to leave themselves escape hatches. The fewer escape hatches, of course, the greater the political consequences of getting it wrong, and the more support for the anti-surge resolution should actually reflect a senator's judgment that the chances of an embarrassing surge success are small. The more escape hatches, the more the Warner resolution seems simply a convenient way for pols to hedge their bets against any outcome: After reading Senator Warner's resolution, I'm reinforced in my suspicion that the bet-hedging scenario is a plausible description of what's really going on. The resolution says, in the first of 12 clauses:: (1) the Senate disagrees with the "plan" to augment our forces by 21,500, and urges the President instead to consider all options and alternatives for achieving the strategic goals set forth below; Now, I'm not very imaginative, but I can think of at least seven "outs" a Senator who votes for Warner's resolution could try to use if the surge is ultimately judged beneficial: 1) 'I wanted more troops than the 21,500!' I strongly believe we shouldn't risk troops unless we have an overwhelming force advantage;' 2) 'We were trying to get the attention of this president, to change course.
Novel Chromosome Abnormality Appears To Increase Risk Of Autism
A multi-institutional study involving Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has identified a chromosomal abnormality that appears to increase susceptibility to autism. In a New England Journal of Medicine report that is receiving early online release, the investigators - most of whom are associated with the Boston-based Autism Consortium - report that a segment of chromosome 16 is either missing or duplicated in about 1 percent of individuals with autism or related disorders, a frequency that is comparable to other genetic syndromes associated with the disorder."While epidemiologic studies indicate a very large genetic component to autism, little is known about how specific genes are involved," says Mark Daly, PhD, of MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, the study's senior author for gene discovery.
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