A NEW TWIN CLAMP.

A New Eyelid Clamp

A new bronchus clamp.

Bronchus clamps for use in lung resection have never been entirely satisfactory. The very large number of models available make this plain. When lung resection presents no problems almost any model of bronchus clamp is suitable. In a technically difficult situation all have shortcomings. The basic requirements of a bronchus clamp are: 1. It must be easy to pass with the minimum of dissection of...

A new stomach clamp.

An efficient stomach clamp is one which exerts an even and sufficient pressure across the whole width of the stomach without causing undue trauma at any one point. Very few stomach clamps at present obtainable fulfil these conditions satisfactorily because they ate mainly constructed on the ' bow handle ' principle, or are of the crushing type. All clamps of this type necessarily exert most pre...

Identical twin parents; research reviews: twin pregnancy risk factors, a new twin type and a school legislation update; twin parents and twin researchers in the news.

Some legal and social complications that arise when identical twins have children are examined. The specific case presented concerns assignment of paternity. This section is followed by a review of recent studies of multiple birth pregnancy risk factors, namely mother to infant HIV transmission and congenital hypothyroidism. Honors given to recently recognized twin researchers are noted, as is ...

The Saskatoon Clamp-TM: a new anti-incontinence device.

he problem of male urinary incontinence has received much less attention than its female counterpart. Although numerous procedures have been developed to cure incontinence in females, males to a large extent have had to make do with stopgap measures. This may be due in part to the lower incidence of stress-induced incontinence in males. However, several factors, including an aging population an...