Latest Vein Stories

SALT LAKE CITY, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Promithian Global Ventures Inc. (OTCPink: PGVI) is pleased to announce the company intends to carry out a bulk sampling program on the "Main Zone" high grade vein in 2013. If the tests are successful a small scale, low capital cost, high profit, narrow vein underground mine will be designed and built around the "Main Zone" Vein. The Warburton property was first staked in the winter of 1892-1893 by Warburton Pike and S. Simpson.The area...

Lafayette Regional Vein & Laser Center moves to a new location to better serve Lafayette, IN patients. Lafayette, IN (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 The Lafayette Regional Vein and Laser Center, a premier vein treatment center, moved to a new location in Lafayette, Indiana last week to better serve their growing number of patients. The move across town came after years of providing superior service at their previous location. Lafayette’s respected vein care and esthetics facility will continue...

Dr. Zimmet presented two sessions and served as a panelist in two others. AUSTIN, TEXAS (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Dr. Steven Zimmet of Zimmet Vein and Dermatology served as invited faculty at the 11th annual International Vein Congress in Miami earlier this month. Dr. Zimmet gave presentations at two sessions, titled “Challenges Unique to Phlebologists” and “Phlebectomy or Sclerotherapy for Ropey Varicose Veins,” and served as a panelist in two others, “Saphenous Ablation for C1...

Penn State University A gene associated with both protection against bacterial infection and excessive blood clotting could offer new insights into treatment strategies for deep-vein thrombosis -- the formation of a harmful clot in a deep vein. The gene produces an enzyme that, if inhibited via a specific drug therapy, could offer hope to patients prone to deep-vein clots, such as those that sometimes form in the legs during lengthy airplane flights or during recuperation after major...

TSX-V TRADING SYMBOL:  GUM Website: aumtn.com VANCOUVER, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Gold Mountain Mining Corporation (the "Company" or "Gold Mountain") has partially completed the planned 10,000 tonne bulk sample program on its 100% owned Elk Gold property, located near Merritt, British Columbia. The amendment to the existing mine permit authorizing the bulk sample mining was received at the beginning of September, contract equipment and personnel were mobilised...

Shaft Medical San Diego offers a safe and effective way to use FDA-approved sclerotherapy to treat spider veins and uncomplicated varicose veins. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 Shaft Medical San Diego, the area’s leading aesthetic medicine practice providing the full range of advanced cosmetic procedures, now offers the most current FDA-approved therapy for the treatment of spider veins and uncomplicated varicose veins. Micro needle sclerotherapy with Asclera (polidocanol) is the...

Inferior vena cava filter placement One venous puncture, rather than two, is a safe and effective approach to intravascular ultrasound-guided inferior vena cava filter placement in critically-ill patients, a new study shows. Inferior vena cava filter placement is done to prevent or treat pulmonary emboli or deep venous thrombosis. "The majority of institutions use a dual venous puncture technique, while we use a single venous puncture technique," said Dr. Andrew Gunn, of Massachusetts...

On April 18th JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) will publish a new video article by Dr. Paul A Iaizzo demonstrating the anatomical reconstruction of an active human heart. The research uses contrast-computed tomography (CT) to allow in-depth 3-D computer modeling of hearts that can be used for prolonged archiving. Computational technology, when combined with advanced imaging techniques like CT, gives researchers extensive insight to the structure and function of human organs. While...

LAS VEGAS, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rimrock Gold Corp. (OTCQB: RMRK) (the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has completed an initial geological mapping and geochemical sampling program on the Rimrock gold-silver property in Elko County, Nevada. The new geologic mapping has shown that the Rimrock gold property contains a large-scale, multiple-fault dilation zone gold-silver target situated just north of the Hollister Mine. The principal epithermal Midas style...

Brown University A "garden variety" leaf is a broad, flat structure, but if the garden happens to be somewhere arid, it probably includes succulent plants with plump leaves full of precious water. Fat leaves did not emerge in the plant world easily. A new Brown University study published in Current Biology reports that to sustain efficient photosynthesis, they required the evolution of a fundamental remodeling of leaf vein structure: the addition of a third dimension. Leaves, after all,...