| Radiofrequency Ablation Growing In Popularity As A Treatment For ...
Millennium Research Group forecasts that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures for cancer treatment will grow at almost 12% over the next five years in the US. According to Millennium Research Group's US Markets for Nonvascular Interventional Radiology Devices 2008 report, over 21,000 RFA procedures will be performed in 2007 on patients with liver, kidney, breast, lung, and metastatic bone cancers; by 2012, RFA procedures will reach over 36,000.
Physicians are opting for this surgery due to its minimally invasive nature and its ability to safely and precisely ablate small tumors. If the continued release of clinical evidence supports RFA treatment as a viable alternative to surgical resection, physician confidence in and the subsequent adoption of RFA devices take place.
"RFA can be used in cases where surgical resection poses too great of a risk to the patient," says Stephanie LaBelle, Analyst at MRG.
BET Networks Special 'What U Know Bout That? Rap-It-Up Sex Quiz' HIV ...
RAP-IT-UP SEX QUIZ" slated to premiere on Monday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. with an encore presentation on Friday, November 9 at 10:00 p.m. The one-hour news special is part of a longstanding effort to raise awareness about the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS in the Black community and to tackle a host of HIV/AIDS-related issues faced by BET's audience, including stigma and homophobia, HIV testing, substance abuse, and the impact of HIV/AIDS on personal relationships and family life. BET News visits the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami to get up-close and personal with young adults and to test them on how much they really know about safe sexual health, behavior and practices. BET News personality Jina Johnson hosts the informative discussion, and fellow BET personalities Lamorne Morris, Sharon Carpenter, and Samson Styles, along with BET News producer Antonio Neves hit the streets to quiz young adults and to talk about their own personal experiences.
PGW has a 'miraculous metamorphosis'
This is a company that is now worth something. It has a lot of debt, but it's worth something." And at the helm almost from the start has been Thomas Knud-sen, PGW president and chief executive, who had been a frequent critic of the company as a consultant working for the public advocate on rate cases. "We were adamant that we would pay the money back," Knudsen said. "This is the first step of the rebuilding of the company's finances." By Dec. 28, the company will shift $20.5 million to the city treasury. Earlier this year, the company paid $2 million back. By next August, Knudsen said the rest of the loan will be paid. In late 2000, PGW was teetering as the cost of natural gas shot up and its bill collections plummeted, Knudsen recalled. The fiscal crisis was so bad that PGW was facing a situation in which it could not pay its own January gas bill.
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