70 never looked so good!

Excimer lasers—40 never looked better

The first commercial excimer laser was introduced 40 years ago by Lambda Physik (now Coherent; Santa Clara, CA). Interestingly, its developers— Bernd Steyer and Dirk Basting—were both chemists whose main goal was to develop a light source for photochemistry and dye laser pumping. As soon as excimer lasers entered the market, Lambda Physik began to investigate other possible uses for a powerful ...

Because good enough is never good enough

hsr Proceedings in intensive care and cardiovascular anesthesia 2012, Vol. 4 Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 48 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] And now for something completely different. Formula one racing drivers need to know the track they will be speeding around to avoid injuring themselves and others, and hopefully ...

Multiple Health Problems in Elderly People: Never had it so good?

Renal denervation--so far so good.

82  © Japi • January 2014 • Vol. 62 Sir, R denervation (RD) is a catheter based method using radiofrequency ablation(RFA)for treatment of patients with resistant hypertension. T h e d a t a f r o m t w o c l i n i c a l trials(Symplicity HTN-1 and Symplicity HTN-2) has proven the safety and efficacy of RD for treating the patients with resistant hypertension.1,2 Symplicity HTN-1 was a non-rand...

Not so good vibrations

Pliny the Elder was one of the first to record it 2,000 years ago: termites are noisy eaters. Their loud chewing generates acoustic emissions that have been proposed to be a method of detecting cryptic attack. But a team from the Commonwealth worker termites might be able to detect vibration/acoustic signals generated by their foraging and use these signals to determine the size of the piece of...