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K2M's ALEUTIAN Spacer Systems Receive FDA Clearance To Be Marketed As Intervertebral Body Fusion Devices
K2M, Inc., a spinal device company developing innovative solutions for the treatment of complex spinal pathologies, announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its ALEUTIAN® Spacer Systems as intervertebral body fusion devices. The ALEUTIAN family of five different systems offers a full array of anatomically designed PEEK-OPTIMA® interbody options, including the Anterior-Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF), Small-Anterior (Cervical), Posterior-Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PLIF), Anatomically Narrow (AN), and Transforaminal-Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF).

Condom Distribution Program In Los Angeles County Jail Might Be Expanded
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is considering expanding an eight-year-old program at Men"s Central Jail that distributes condoms in a unit for gay men, the Los Angeles Times reports. Under the program, an outreach worker from the nonprofit Center for Health Justice visits the jail once weekly to distribute about one condom per inmate to the unit"s 300 inmates. Baca is considering doubling the number of condoms being distributed. Sheriff Department officials acknowledge that HIV is a problem in county jails and spend about $2 million annually on HIV/AIDS medication and identify about 65 new cases of HIV each month, according to the Times. Steve Whitmore, a spokesperson for the Sheriff"s Department, said, "Sex in jails is against the law, but there is a public health issue that needs to be considered." A separate condom distribution program is being piloted at the California State Prison at Solano (Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times 6/29).
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Provectus Completes Patient Accrual In Phase 2 Trial Of PV-10 For Metastatic Melanoma
Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC BB: PVCT), a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company has completed patient accrual and initial PV-10 treatment in its Phase 2 trial of PV-10 for metastatic melanoma. The study involved treatment of 80 subjects with Stage III or Stage IV metastatic melanoma.
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Every Daytime Sedentary Hour Adds Three Minutes To Time Children Take To Fall Asleep

Every hour of the day children are inactive adds three minutes to the time it takes them to fall asleep, finds research published ahead of print in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Children who fall asleep faster also sleep for longer, the study shows, even though one is not the direct consequence of the other. Research indicates that around 16% of parents of school aged children say that their child finds it difficult to get to sleep. Poor sleep patterns in children have been associated with poorer school performance and an increased risk of overweight and obesity. The authors studied the daytime activity and sleep patterns of a representative sample of 591 seven year olds, using an activity monitor (actigraph) worn for 24 hours. Full information on sleep patterns was available for 519 of the children, who took an average of 26 minutes to fall asleep, known as sleep latency, but ranging from 13 to 42 minutes (interquartile range). Around one in 10 of the children regularly found it difficult to fall asleep quickly, their parents reported, and these children took around 15.5 minutes longer to get to sleep. Children who were physically active during the day, fell asleep more quickly than their more sedentary peers, and the more vigorous activity they did, the faster they fell asleep. On the other hand, every hour of the day spent in sedentary activity increased sleep latency by 3 minutes. Shorter sleep latency was also linked to longer duration of sleep. It fell by more than 11 minutes for each additional hour of sleep. These results will confirm what many parents already believe - that tiring out a child with plenty of physical activity will increase the chances that s/he will sleep well, say the authors. "This study emphasises the importance of physical activity for children, not only for fitness, cardiovascular health and weight control, but also for sleep," they conclude. "Falling asleep: the determinants of sleep latency" Online First Arch Dis Child 2009; doi 10.1136/adc.2009.1574453 Archives of Disease in Childhood


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