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Five weeks ago, the stocky old Greek, whose exuberant presence now filled his curtained-off corner of the ER, had undergone a "new old" hip replacement. Nick's artificial hip had a metal-on-metal bearing (basically a large metal ball in a metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic...
Pity poor Kleenex. The flagship tissue of Kimberly-Clark, its brand name has skipped the company town and now lives a cheap and licentious life of common usage. Despite the best protective efforts of its parent, Kleenex sleeps with all comers. It has become a corporate ne’er-do-well: it has become generic...
...study followed 807 primetime television viewers and found that those who watched a series of episodes of the NBC drama ER, in which a teenager is diagnosed with hypertension and is counseled to eat more fruits and vegetables and to get more exercise, were 65% more likely to alter their eating habits than those viewers who never saw the episodes. It seems that even an aging television show can tackle our obesity epidemic in a way that many public-health experts...
...deal to sell ski helmets that can track the head banging that snowboarders often endure on half-pipes and terrain fields. Greenwald's two young sons have been wearing prototypes on the slopes as well as data-streaming wrist guards Simbex is developing. Let the impact monitoring, er, games, begin...
...North American, European and Asian markets, but it would have entailed higher operating costs and higher fuel burn," says Neidl. Airlines, racked by higher fuel costs, needed relief. So the company changed course to what is now a 20% more fuel-efficient jet (compared to a 767-300ER), the 787--or what Boeing nicknamed the "son of the Sonic Cruiser...