25.7.10

EOS(Gr.DAWN) & sterEOS :ultra low dose X-ray system.

Based on invention of 1992 Nobel PHYSICS Prize winner, Polish-born, WW2 French Resistance fighter, DACHAU survivor, George CHARPAK who worked with Paris Paediatric Orthopaedic surgeon Professor Jean DUBOUSSET MD PhD.

Whole-body three dimensional speedy imaging. $700,000. Used at Toronto Hospital for Sick Children and Univ. Montreal St.JUSTINE & McGill SHRINERS'.

www.biospacemed.com

 CONTACT: Mr.M. MAASSEN mmaassen@biospacemed.com

24.7.10

enSPIRE DISCECTOMY & DECORTICATION System

SPINE VIEW Inc.,Fremont,California. DISPOSABLE. Simultaneously cuts and removes disc material including endplate cartilage

www.spineview.com

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23.7.10

SPINEGUARD S.A.: PediGuard - electrical audio device detects vertebral cortex.

TORONTO Scoliosis Research Society meeting:

SPINEGUARD S.A. exhibited PEDIGUARD which changes audio signal when pedicle screw placer touches CORTICAL bone.

Invented by Neurosurgeon Ciaran BOLGER & Engineer Maurice BOURLION.in 2006.
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ALPHATEC SPINE Inc. HeliFix TM Interspinous Spacer System

SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY at TORONTO Sheraton Center.

ALPHATEC SPINE Inc.,CARLSBAD,California showed the HeliFix TM Interspinous Spacer at $2,000.

Developed by YALE ORTHOPAEDIC & REHABILITATION Assoc.PROF.James YUE BA(Harvard) MD(Northwestern 1992)

To be launched at EUROSPINE, VIENNA, Sept. 2010.

8.7.10

HOFFMANN-LaROCHE extRA Mt.SINAI International Conference.

2010,July 8-9.
F.HOFFMANN-La ROCHE Ltd. sponsored a UK Manchester-organized "extRA" International meeting of about 50 Rheumatologists at Toronto Mt.Sinai hospital's,Joseph & Wolf Lebovic building; including doctors from the Gulf States, Ireland, Poland,Taiwan,Turkey,and UK. The meeting was held in the $4-million luxuriously appointed 7,000 sq.ft.REBECCA MacDONALD ARTHRITIS & AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE CENTER in the LEBOVIC building. The MacDONALD, under the Director U.Toronto Prof. Edward C.KEYSTONE MD(Tor.63) FRCPC(1968),is a Tertiary Arthritis Centre similar to the London,UK KENNEDY Institute. The MacDONALD specializes in Rheumatoid Arthritis , Rheumatoid Vasculitis,and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Patients are accepted worldwide. Canadian provincial medical insurances pay cost of provincially-approved medications and medical expenses.

Other speakers included Toronto Western Hospital Prof. Murray UROWITZ MD(Tor.1963)FRCPC(1968,)and Prof. Simon CARETTE MD(Laval.1975), MPhil. FRCPC(1980); and St.Michael's Hospital Dept. Rheum. Clin. Assoc.Dr.Shahin JAMAL MD(UBC 1999) MSc(Epid) FRCPC(2003)

7.7.10

Drug Resistant P.FALCIPARUM MALARIA: TANZANIA

Actress Cheryl COLE, who took anti-malarial medication during a holiday in TANZANIA, is now transferred from London,UK Bupa CROMWELL HOSPITAL to intensive care unit of the HOSPITAL for TROPICAL DISEASES near Euston Tube station.

http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/algorithm.pdf
Excellent algorithm for diagnosis,investigation & treatment of MALARIA.

1.7.10

UK MADE: KEELER PORTABLE SLIT LAMP

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