Your core muscles help you maintain good posture at your desk. Pilates instructor Eleanor Gomez demonstrates some exercises to strengthen your core muscles and help you sit more comfortably.
IRVINE, Calif. -- Endologix, Inc. (Nasdaq:ELGX), developer of the Powerlink([R]) System for the minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms AAA, announces the appointment of Joseph A. DeJohn as Vice President of Sales, effective immediately. Mr. DeJohn brings more than 20 years of sales management experience in the medical device...
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] A 62-year-old man presented with intense pruritus that had persisted for two months. The pruritus began on his hands and feet, and was followed by the appearance of lesions on his hands, feet, nose, and ears. He also had abdominal pain, malaise, fatigue, anorexia, and...
Successful Gastrotomy Closure Technique Overcomes Main Hurdle to Widespread Adoption of Incisionless NOTES Surgery SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- USGI Medical, Inc. USGI announced today that Santiago Horgan, M.D., director of the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery, used the company's EndoSurgical...
IRVINE, Calif. -- Endologix, Inc. (Nasdaq:ELGX), the developer of the Powerlink([R]) System for the minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms AAA, today announced that the Company will hold a conference call to discuss 2008 second quarter financial results on Thursday, July 24, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (2:00...
Continuing an Unprecedented Series of Innovations, Next-Generation Device Heralds a New Era in Endovascular Aortic Repair MINNEAPOLIS -- Expanding the application of endovascular aortic repair around the world, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), today announced two major milestones: the international market launch of the Endurant Abdominal Stent Graft System...
KAYSVILLE -- Two 10-year-old boys were injured in separate incidents involving vehicles during Kaysville's Fourth of July parade. A vehicle ran over the first boy's foot during the water portion of the parade. He was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center by his parents. ...
One month before her baby was due, Ebony Perry developed a violent stomach flu and abdominal cramps. Although Perry was frightened, she knew just where to turn for advice: her copy of Baby Basics, an easy-to-read pregnancy primer from the author of What to Expect When You're Expecting....
So much has been written about the ill effects of a potbelly on your overall health that we're almost ashamed to hit you with another possible repercussion: dementia. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente found that subjects with a sagittal abdominal diameter of 9.8 inches -- the distance a stomach protrudes from...
Most abdominal exercises don't require a large range of motion to be effective. For instance, you don't need to go beyond 30 degrees above horizontal when doing a crunch--in fact, reaching for a larger range of motion puts undue pressure on the spine without any muscular benefit in return. ...
Rationale: In adult rats, bilateral ablation of pre-Bötzinger complex (preBötC) neurokinin 1-expressing (NK1R) neurons leads to a progressive and irreversible disruption in breathing pattern, initially during sleep, eventually resulting in an ataxic breathing pattern during wakefulness. Objectives: Here we determine whether ablation of fewer preBötC NK1R neurons leads to...
To the Editor: Sapovirus is an etiologic agent of human gastroenteritis. Although many of the previously reported cases were of mild, sporadic infections in young children (1-3), several recent sapovirus-associated gastroenteritis outbreaks have affected adults, which suggests that the virus's virulence, prevalence, or both, may be increasing (4-6). In this...
AspenBio Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPY) anemerging bio-pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of noveldrugs and diagnostics for humans and animals, has officially initiated aclinical trial to support the FDA 510k application for the AppyScoreTMHuman Appendicitis blood-based diagnostic test. Enrollment of the first patients in the independent, blind, multicenterstudy began this...
A new surgical technique offers hope for people who suffer chronic heartburn from gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD. EsophyX Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication TIF means performing the gastrointestinal procedures through the mouth rather than through an abdominal incision. A handful of hospitals around the country perform the operation. "Unlike conventional laparoscopic procedures...
Five-Year Results on Cook Zenith for Endovascular Aortic Repair Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A non-randomized, controlled study, led by Roy K. Greenberg, M.D., generated positive results on the Cook Zenith Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm AAA Endovascular Graft for endovascular...
PURCHASE, N.Y. -- According to the director of the Centers for Disease Control, obesity is the number one health threat facing Americans today.1 Being obese is a leading contributor to all three top causes of death in the United States: heart disease, cancer, and stroke. The type of body fat...
Both men and women pursue cosmetic surgeryto improve body contours, lose body fat and enhance their appearance for amore youthful and attractive look. The Body Lift procedure is a popularoption at many cosmetic surgery centers across the country, and Dr.Zarrabi, a Board CertifiedPlastic Surgeon in Santa Monica,...
SEATTLE, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Women's reports of persistent, recent-onset symptoms linked to ovarian cancer -- abdominal or pelvic pain, difficulty eating or feeling full quickly and abdominal bloating -- when combined with the CA125 blood test may improve the early detection of ovarian cancer by 20 percent, according...
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- New England Research Institutes, Inc. NERI, a global, privately held specialty Contract Research Organization CRO, today announced that their statistical analysis of data in The Lifeline Registry of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair EVAR contributed to the recent FDA approval of Medtronic, Inc.'s TalentTM Abdominal Stent Graft. NERI's assessment...
Your risk of developing metabolic syndrome -- a group of factors linked to heart disease and diabetes -- increases if you have five common gene variations, researchers say. But one additional variant may still protect you from the condition, they add. People with metabolic syndrome run four times the...
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