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PrimeSuite® Electronic Health Record Solution
PrimeSuite 2007 R2, Greenway’s 2007 CCHIT Certified® integrated EHR, practice management and interoperability solution, improves care, reduces errors and simplifies business processes. PrimeSuite integrates all clinical, financial and administrative data in a single database to promote information sharing and ensure quick adoption through simple, intuitive tools that optimize daily processes. Designed by Greenway’s team of physicians, clinicians, practice administrators, hospital executives, community leaders and healthcare stakeholders dedicated to using technology to improve healthcare, PrimeSuite can be customized to adapt to your existing workflow. Learn more...

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Synthetic Spacers
Synthetic spacers are manufactured in a variety of formats to fulfill the range of biomechanical requisites for load sharing, elasticity, strength and shape. Detailed features of some models address migration issues and enhance the graft/host interaction to promote healing. Spacers are also available in radiolucent materials for ease of radiographic assessment.
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News
Risks For Painkiller Abuse Do Not Outweigh Benefits In Chronic Pain
As controversy swirls about proper clinical use of opioids and other potent pain medications, research reported at the American Pain Society annual meeting shows that, contrary to widespread beliefs, ...
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American Pain Society's Low Back Guideline Expanded To Cover Interventional Procedures
For low-back pain patients and their doctors, the American Pain Society, www.ampainsoc.org, said today it is expanding its evidence-based, clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of ...
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Prior Assault Boosts PTSD Risk After Combat
Men and women who were assaulted before entering military service are more than twice as likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after combat deployment, Navy researchers ...
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Flavonoids May Help Treat Alzheimer's
Flavonoids, compounds found in many fruits and vegetables, may be able to battle the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, a new study ...
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FDA Grants Priority Review Of Talecris Biotherapeutics's Gamunex(R) As A Treatment For Neurological Disorder CIDP
Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc. announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Priority Review of Gamunex (Immune Globulin Intravenous [Human], 10% Caprylate/Chromatography ...
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No Distinctive Neuropathologic Features Characterize Brain Death
Physicians at Mayo Clinic conducted autopsies on a series of 41 patients who were declared brain-dead and found no distinguishing neuropathological features. Therefore, neuropathologic examination ...
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Model Shows How Mutation Tips Biochemistry To Cause Alzheimer's
Your fate can be determined by tiny events. Imagine you live in the city and you walk everywhere to get exercise – you are healthy and not afraid of getting mugged. You almost never eat breakfast so ...
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Dose Reduction Strategy for Neuroradiology CT Exams Successful
At the University of California, San Francisco, systematic use of tube current dose modulation for computed tomography (CT) examinations most often performed in the neuroradiology section has led to ...
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Talecris Biotherapeutics Release: FDA Grants Priority Review of Gamunex(R) as a Treatment for Neurological Disorder CIDP
Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc. announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Priority Review of Gamunex (Immune Globulin Intravenous [Human], 10% Caprylate/Chromatography ...
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Stroke Survivors Walk Better After Human-Assisted Rehab
Walking therapy for stroke survivors is significantly more effective when conducted by a physical therapist instead of a robot, according a small study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American ...
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New Products
Stealthmerge™ Image Registration Software
Medtronic Surgical Navigation Technologies
Using advanced 3D matching algorithms developed by Medtronic SNT exclusively for the Stealthstation, Stealthmerge automatically merges image sets from a variety of modalities such as CT, MR and PET, regardless of acquisition orientation. Stealthmerge even correlates partial or slab data sets, eliminating the requirement to scan tissue outside the targeted area, resulting in reduced time spent in radiology. Stealthmerge also provides the ability preview the resulting merged data sets with its unique visualization tools.
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Featured Products
Universal Biomedical Amplifier (UBA-4204) - LKC Technologies, Inc.
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Narkomed MRI-2 - Dräger Medical
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Camino® MPM-1 Multi-Parameter Monitor - Integra LifeSciences Corporation
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The Celsius Control™ System - Innercool Therapies
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Product Showcase
VNS Therapy™ System for Seizure Reduction
Cyberonics, Inc.
Since 1997, VNS Therapy™ has been approved for use as an adjunctive therapy in reducing the frequency of seizures in adults and adolescents over 12 years of age with partial onset seizures that are refractory to antiepileptic medications. This indication is based on outcomes from 5 controlled, clinical trials. Efficacy, measured as median seizure reduction, was observed in these clinical trials and other study populations.
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Journal Updates
Severity of Leukoaraiosis and Susceptibility to Infarct Growth in Acute Stroke
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Cortical Pathology in Multiple Sclerosis
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Prospective Nonrandomized Comparison of an Allograft with Bone Morphogenic Protein versus an Iliac-Crest Autograft in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
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Shape (But Not Volume) Changes in the Thalami in Parkinson Disease
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Oligodendroglial Impact on Axonal Function and Survival - A Hypothesis
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Long-Range Axonal Calcium Sweep Induces Axon Retraction
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Risk of Parkinson Disease in Carriers of Parkin Mutations: Estimation Using the Kin-Cohort Method
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Events
American Society of Neuroradiology - 46th Annual Meeting
June 1 - 5, 2008
New Orleans, Louisiana (Morial Convention Center)
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