Wireless Capsule pH Monitoring: Does It Fulfil All Expectations?

Capsule pH monitoring: is wireless more?

S ince its introduction in 1974, ambulatory oesophageal pH monitoring has secured a valuable but complementary role in the diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Monitoring of oesophageal pH allows not only the detection of excessive levels of acid exposure but also, and more importantly, assessment of the relationship between acid reflux and symptoms. It is especially useful for clari...

Is Wireless Capsule pH Monitoring Better Than Catheter Systems?

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Joon Seong Lee, MD, PhD Institute for Digestive Research, Department of...

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Finding A Vendor Who Does It All

56 Waste Alternatives / Waste-to-Energy of the town’s wastes are burned in antiquated incinerators, but these lack pollution controls and are subject to continual breakdowns. Huntington can’t look to neighboring communities for help; most of those communities have similar problems. When looking for a solution to its disposal situation, Huntington N. El’s integrated approach to solid waste manag...

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Nearly 20 years ago, I introduced a special series of articles for Trends in Neurosciences (5:295, 1982) that sought to illustrate some of the then-latest developments in molecular neuroscience. That was the time when neuroscientists were beginning to borrow heavily from the nascent field of molecular genetics, just as we had previously borrowed flagrantly from the previously powerful fields of...