Sara Lazzaro, who was both the organizer and a victim in an all-night poker tournament last month that culminated in an armed robbery at the Heidelberg Volunteer Fire Department on First Street, turned herself in Friday afternoon to District Justice Gary Zyra of Scott.Ms. Lazzaro, 54, of Moon, was charged with 69 counts of illegal gambling in the borough and faces a preliminary hearing Thursday before...
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Gore Receives European CE Mark Approval For Next Generation Conformable GORE TAG(R) Thoracic EndoprosthesisW.L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced that it has received European CE Mark approval for the next generation GORE TAG® Thoracic Endoprosthesis. The device is available in an expanded portfolio of sizes to meet a broad range of patient needs and was engineered to treat multiple etiologies including...
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Scientific And Clinical Development Of Innovative Radiation Therapy Discussed By International ExpertsThe largest congress worldwide on the topic of particle or ion therapy - radiation with heavy ions and protons - has taken place in in Heidelberg. Well over 600 international participants, especially from Japan and the USA, convened in the Heidelberg Town Hall for the annual meeting of the "Particle...
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new, innovative form of radiation based on verified scientific facts will be available to patients all over Europe within the next few decades. The official kick-off meeting of the Community project ULICE (Union of LIght Ions Centres in Europe), which the European Union supported with nearly 10 million euros, was held in the fall of 2009 in the Department of Radiooncology and Radiation Therapy of the...
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Bishop Werner Krusche: Bishop who played a crucial role in reconciling the two halves of GermanyWerner Krusche was a bishop in the East German Protestant Church who clashed with the ruling SED, Communists as he sought to gain concessions for Christians in the German Democratic Republic, but was eventually credited for his part in advancing Germany's re-unification.Werner Krusche was born in the small...
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Heidelberg, Germany - Europe's first heavy-ion accelerator specially designed to destroy cancer tumours requires as much electricity to run as a town of 10,000 people, the doctor in charge said Friday.The Heidelberg Ion Radiation Therapy Centre (HIT) is to treat 1,300 patients with brain tumours and other difficult carcinomas annually. German health insurers have agreed to pay the enormous bill of...
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Heidelberg (Germany): The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has announced this year’s selection of 17 of Europe’s most talented young researchers as EMBO Young Investigators. The selection has been made out of 123 applicants from nine countries.M. Madan Babu (29) of India, a former student of Anna University, who has done his PhD in Computational Genomics and is now heading a group in...
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Allegheny County Council members Michael Finnerty and Matt Drozd -- the only two who faced opposition tonight -- rather easily dispatched their challengers by almost equal double-digit margins.With about 98 percent of all precincts reporting, Mr. Drozd, 65, a Republican from Ross held an 11-point lead over his challenger, Thomas Michalow, 38, a Democrat from Avalon in the District 1 council race.The...
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Many years ago, in a time that nowfeels like it was another life, we lived in Germany. It was West Germany then, aclearly distinguished part of the world very separate in almost every way fromthe other Germany, the place known as 'East'. Between the two was a vast realmwhere red-eyed dogs patrolled on leashes held tight by hardeyed soldiers, wherelife was a matter of belonging to the place from where...
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Embryonic development is like a well-organised building project, with the embryo's DNA serving as the blueprint from which all construction details are derived. Cells carry out different functions according to a developmental plan, by expressing, i.e. turning on, different combinations of genes. These patterns of gene expression are controlled by transcription factors: molecules which bind to stretches...
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