Draeger Fabius MRI Gets FDA Clearance.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 August 2008-Draeger Fabius MRI Gets FDA Clearance(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Draeger Medical announced that the Draeger Fabius MRI anesthesia machine has received FDA clearance. Draeger Medical said the newest member to the family of Draeger anesthesia machines is designed specifically...

AMAG Pharmaceuticals to Present at 2 Upcoming Investor Conferences.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 September 2008-AMAG Pharmaceuticals to Present at 2 Upcoming Investor Conferences(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com AMAG Pharmaceuticals announced that Brian J.G. Pereira, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present an overview of the Company at two upcoming investor conferences. Dr. Pereira...

Piezoelectric motors licensed for high-volume use.
A manufacturing licence that allows a major global manufacturer to make tiny electric motors based on piezoelectric ceramic actuators has been granted by New Scale Technologies of Victor, New York, USA. Under the agreement Alps Electric Company Ltd will make the motors in Kakuda City, Japan. The...

Pourable glass microballoons.
What is claimed to be a new class of materials in the form of porous glass microballoons has been discovered by researchers at Savannah River National Laboratory (SNRL), Aiken, South Carolina, USA. The material, dubbed Porous Wall-Hollow Glass Microspheres (PW-HGM), consists of 2-100 [mu]m spheres with an...

CMS proposal ties outpatient pay to quality.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed an overall 3% increase in payments for outpatient hospital care in 2009, almost a full percent below the update for 2008. As expected, reporting on quality of care is being tied to the amount of increase hospitals and other outpatient...

Enophthalmos in silent sinus syndrome.
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Spontaneous unilateral enophthalmos with asymptomatic sinus disease was first described by Montgomery in 1964. (1) Soparkar et al introduced the term silent sinus syndrome in 1994. (2) The primary predisposing factor is an obstruction of the osteomeatal complex that leads to a hypoventilated maxillary...

Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma: spontaneous resolution.
Abstract Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a rare, benign tumor that occurs most often in adolescent males. Common practice is to excise the tumor with open or endoscopic surgery. We report the case of a 17-year-old male who presented in 1995 with a mass filling the left posterior...

Higher fitness level may slow brain atrophy in Alzheimer's.
CHICAGO -- Keeping fit may help reduce brain atrophy in patients with early Alzheimer's, researchers said at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease. An exercise-tolerance study confirmed that the hippocampus, one of the first brain regions to be affected in Alzheimer's, was significantly larger among patients who...

Radiotherapy-associated euthyroid Graves ophthalmopathy following floor-of-mouth surgery: a case report.
Abstract The thyroid gland is commonly included in the radiation field during treatment of nonthyroidal neoplastic disease of the head and neck. As a result, thyroid abnormalities sometimes occur following external irradiation. We report an unusual case of radiotherapy-associated Graves ophthalmopathy 5 months after adjuvant external irradiation...

Intratracheal ectopic thyroid tissue presenting with protracted airway obstruction: a case report.
Abstract Intratracheal ectopic thyroid tissue is a rare finding, with few cases reported in the literature. Ectopic thyroid tissue results when the thyroid gland fails to descend to its final position during early development. These lesions present in various locations, and the clinician should be aware of...