Archive for the ‘Ultrasound’ Category

Ultrasound – God, abortion and gobbledygook

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

God, abortion and gobbledygook
MichNews.com – Antoninus lived in the 15th century and did not have the benefit of fetal development models or 4-D ultrasound. Unlike Ehrich and Maguire, Antoninus simply knew that killing a baby in the womb was wrong and so he fought valiantly against it. Maguire

Parks finds he only has one kidney
Tulsa World – Gundy said Parks received an ultrasound Thursday that revealed he had just one kidney. “He is real fortunate they were able to find that,” Gundy said. “He loved to play the game, and today we had to tell him that he couldn’t.” Parks may be

OSUs Parks will play no more football
KOTV – An ultrasound was then done on the cyst and it revealed Parks’ right kidney is enlarged and he doesn’t have a left kidney. The condition isn’t life threatening but playing a contact sport would put Parks at high risk if the kidney is injured. Cowboys

‘Smart Pigs’ Keep Oil Pipelines Clean
WINK TV – Instead, BP had relied mostly on exterior ultrasound to monitor the pipes’ integrity, believing the risk of corrosion was low because they carried market-ready crude or processed oil that had been stripped of harmful water, gas, and solids. BP now

Mayfair on course following surgery
Myrtle Beach Online – Mayfair had an ultrasound test done in Flint, Mich., on Monday, July 31, and went to lunch with his girlfriend, golf broadcaster Tami Proctor, while it was studied. The tests came back positive and Mayfair needed to have dye injected through his body

Pipeline rules need to be set, many say
El Di rio La Estrella – knew that BP had not used the pigs on its 30- to 34-inch transit lines since 1992 in one case and 1998 in another, but that it accepted the company’s reasoning about why that was not necessary and why the company could rely on more narrow ultrasound

Ultrasound – Providence Medical Center First in Alaska to Offer World’s First Convertible Ultrasound Platform (RedNova)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Providence Medical Center First in Alaska to Offer World’s First Convertible Ultrasound Platform (RedNova)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Providence Alaska Medical Center, Alaska’s largest hospital, announced it has recently completed installation of the z.one ultrasound system, the world’s first Convertible Ultrasound(TM) platform.
ULTRASOUND MAY HARM FETAL BRAIN – Free Market News Network

ULTRASOUND MAY HARM FETAL BRAIN
Free Market News Network, FL - Aug 11, 2006
Preliminary findings in mice suggest that fetal ultrasound might affect newborn brain development. In baby mice whose mothers were

BP Seeks Workers to Fix Transit Lines
WISH-TV – He described the corrosion that occurred in the pipe that leaked Sunday as “individual discreet pits” at the bottom of the pipe, indicating microbiological corrosion that had been missed by external tests on the pipe using an ultrasound device. The …
SonoSite Hand-Carried Ultrasound Systems Score 97% Customer Approval Rating; Independent Survey Shows Majority of (RedNova)
SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, said today that an independently conducted, random survey of U.S.
Ultrasound scans affected fetal brains in mice, study says – Indianapolis Star

Ultrasound scans affected fetal brains in mice, study says
Indianapolis Star, United States - Aug 13, 2006
By Randolph E. Schmid. WASHINGTON — Ultrasound exposure can affect fetal brain development, a new study suggests. But researchers

Ultrasound – ‘Smart Pigs’ Keep Oil Pipelines Clean

Friday, August 18th, 2006

‘Smart Pigs’ Keep Oil Pipelines Clean
WINK TV – Instead, BP had relied mostly on exterior ultrasound to monitor the pipes’ integrity, believing the risk of corrosion was low because they carried market-ready crude or processed oil that had been stripped of harmful water, gas, and solids. BP now

David Bruce to be president, CEO of EP MedSystems
Philadelphia Inquirer – Bruce had spent nine years at Acuson Corp., a Mountain View, Calif., provider of medical diagnostic ultrasound systems, and in the ultrasound division of Siemens AG. Acuson is a unit of Siemens. Shares in EP MedSystems were up 14 cents, or 9 percent

Veterinary clinic opens in Phillips
Phillips Bee – Among the services provided by the three veterinarians are comprehensive exams, digital dental and body X-rays, in-house blood testing, ultrasound, surgery, behavior appointments, acupuncture, dentistry and chemotherapy. “Chemotherapy offers great

Health calendar
Quad-Cities Times – Ultrasound screening for blocked arteries, aortic aneurysm and hardening of the arteries, Tuesday, Aug. 22, Northgate Place, 1815 E. Kimberly Road, Davenport. Appointments begin at 9 a.m. Cost is $109 for complete vascular screening or $129 for

Federal DOT head tours Alaska oil field
Belleville News-Democrat – Pipeline regulators allowed the company to keep operations going in the western half, which has undergone thousands of recent ultrasound inspections. But BP will have to strip insulation from the pipeline there and continue to conduct ultrasonic

Ultrasound – SonoSite Hand-Carried Ultrasound Systems Score 97% Customer Approval Rating (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

SonoSite Hand-Carried Ultrasound Systems Score 97% Customer Approval Rating (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOTHELL, Wash.—-Aug. 17, 2006–SonoSite, Inc. , the world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, said today that an independently conducted, random survey of U.S. SonoSite customers showed that 97% are highly satisfied overall with their system with nearly 9 out of 10 customers saying in the statistically significant survey that they are “completely” or “very satisfied.”
Bill Ferguson Swings Behind New Sonic Golf Franchise – Franchise UK

Bill Ferguson Swings Behind New Sonic Golf Franchise
Franchise UK, UK - 43 minutes ago
as one of the world s top golf coaches, has guided World and Ryder Cup stars to success, with his endorsement the Sonic Golf Ultrasound Cleaner looks to have

Ostrowski optimistic
Portage Daily Register – You lose a lot of side to side movement and you’ve gotta live with the pain everyday and ice it and heat it and go through ultrasound everyday. Some days are better than others.” These days, the 6-foot-5, 308-pound Ostrowski is optimistic about this …
Ultrasound 2.0 (Red Herring)
Philips works on special cuff to locate and stop internal bleeding.
CMO s warning to ultrasound centres – Lucknow Newsline

CMO s warning to ultrasound centres
Lucknow Newsline, India - Aug 13, 2006
Lucknow, August 13: CHIEF Medical Officer KK Sigh on Sunday said all those ultrasound centres, that have not submitted their monthly reports, would be punished