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Lutonix, Inc. Announces First Patient Enrollments In Three Separate Clinical Trials
Lutonix, Inc., a privately held medical device start-up, announced that patient enrollment is underway for its three simultaneous first-in-human clinical trials. The three studies are designed to test whether the proprietary Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) Catheter is safe and effective in the treatment of vascular narrowing.
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Teens Are Exposed To Tobacco Content On Social Networking Sites
When teens surf the Internet, are they exposed to tobacco content or imagery? The study, "Exposure to Tobacco on the Internet: Content Analysis of Adolescents" Internet Use," tracked the Web pages viewed by 346 teens between the ages of 14 and 17 years. During a one-month period of data collection, these adolescents viewed 1.2 million Web pages. Of those pages, 0.72 percent contained tobacco or smoking content. Pro-tobacco content was found on 1,916 pages, anti-tobacco content on 1,572 pages, and complex and/or unclear content on 5,055 pages. Most of the tobacco-related content seen by teens was found on social networking sites. MySpace in particular represented 53 percent of the pages on which tobacco content was found. Previous studies have found a link between exposure to tobacco content in traditional media and adolescent smoking. The authors caution that as more communication occurs online in social networking sites, this may also impact adolescent smoking.
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"How Does The Human Brain Work?" - Leicester Researcher Explores New Methodologies That Shed Light On This Age-old Mystery
"Nature" journals are synonymous with the very best in research. Earlier this year, an article by University of Leicester bioengineer Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga not only appeared in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, but also featured on the magazine cover. In the article, Prof. Quian Quiroga and co-author Dr. Stefano Panzeri discuss new methodologies that are enabling scientists to better understand how our brain processes information.
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Health Service Must Implement Working Time Directives, Says British Medical Association (Northern Ireland)

With the implementation of the 48-hour working week for workers throughout Europe, including doctors, on 1 August 2009, the BMA in Northern Ireland has said that it will insist that the health service must meet its obligations to implement the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). Dr Brian Patterson, Chairman of the BMA"s Northern Ireland Council said: "On the eve of the implementation of EWTD, we understand that approximately 80 per cent of doctors in Northern Ireland are working within the time limit of 48 working hours per week. "While acknowledging the huge challenge that is the change required to comply with the new European Working Time Directive, employers have had ten years to prepare. Doctors are concerned that patient services could be affected in trusts that have not properly prepared for the working time directive". Dr Patterson continued "We continue to have grave concerns because of the gaps in local junior doctor rotas. We will insist on real compliance by employers1. "Solutions rely on hospital managers working with doctors to ensure that doctors" time is best used and all training opportunities are maximised. It will also need a movement to a health service that is more reliant on an expanded consultant workforce, which will benefit patients and the profession as a whole". Notes 1 A recent survey in the Health Service Journal reported that 1 in 10 had been told to lie about working hours British Medical Association Northern Ireland


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