Recombinant human Erythropoietin is used in a method as a hemostatic agent for the treatment or prevention of bleeding from any organ or body part involved with benign or malignant lesions, surgical traumatic, non-healing/difficult to treat lesions, or radiation injury.

Devices and methods for removing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a CSF space of a patient at relatively constant flow rates for patients having normal intracranial pressures, e.g. patients not suffering from hydrocephalus. The devices and methods provide drainage paths which permit the removal of CSF at relatively low flow rates, usually below 0.2 ml/min, at normal intracranial pressures, e.g.

Conjugates are prepared from antinociceptive agents, particularly opioids or opioid analogs, more particularly dynorphins, endorphins, deltorphins, enkephalins or analogs thereof, by combining said antinociceptive agent with a material providing a functionally reactive group capable of reacting with a blood component (preferably a blood cell or protein).

The X-ray system includes a patient table (1, 2, 3) and a radiation module with a radiation source (6) and a radiation receiver (7) and can be universally used for the examination of a plurality of organs by means of a wide variety of methods.

A folding bed including a main frame and an inner bed spring frame pivotally connected to the main frame at generally the longitudinal midpoint of said bed spring frame. The latter can be inclined relative to the main frame and locked in the desired position of adjustment.

A device having special utility for holding medically-related conduits in a hospital setting is disclosed. The device comprises a generally flat, flexible pad having a gripper at one end thereof. The gripper is configured so as to selectively join the pad to a bedsheet, hospital gown or the like. A tape is disposed on the pad and extends across one surface thereof.

Taxane antineoplastic agents which have heretofore exhibited poor or non-existent oral bioavailability are administered orally to human patients suffering from taxane-responsive disease conditions and made sufficiently bioavailable to achieve therapeutic blood levels.

A standard cargo container is reconstructed into a readily transportable hospital unit for providing emergency treatment to injured survivors at a site of a major disaster, wherein the structural features embodied by the container contribute to its transportability to the disaster site (except, of course, instead of cargo, the container houses medical facilities and supplies), and subsequently at