Abstract: Methods and devices to affect types, proportion, quantity, distribution, or proliferation of microorganisms within a female reproductive system.

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are described herein that enable and make assessments related to pregnancy, including assessments related to a labor-related status such as the onset of true labor. In some embodiments, a pregnancy monitoring system comprises a portable, noninvasive data acquisition device adhered to a patient's skin, comprising at least two electrodes to measure uterine electrical activity, signal processing means, data storage means, and a battery. Systems for notification of the labor-related status are described.

Abstract: Methods and devices to affect types, proportion, quantity, distribution, or proliferation of microorganisms within a female reproductive system.

Abstract: Some embodiments of devices and methods described herein may, among other uses, favorably cause the activation and/or deactivation vascular baroreceptors in order to achieve a desired impact on physiological condition, including but not limited to baroreflex-regulated conditions, hypertension, hypotension, nervous system disorders, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, renal disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, and insulin resistance. The devices and methods may be used in concert with each other and/or other treatments, medications, interventions, or behavioral regimens, and they may also be used in concert with devices and methods that perform or assist with any combination of the following: assessing or measuring a mammal's blood pressure; assessing, measuring, or predicting the impact of the described methods and devices on the patient's condition (including blood pressure); and/or protecting the surrounding anatomy from adverse effects.

Abstract: Methods and devices to affect types, proportion, quantity, distribution, or proliferation of microorganisms within a female reproductive system.

Abstract: A handle construction for racquets having opposing, flat ball-striking playing faces wherein the handle is of substantially octagonal outline of varying sized opposing surfaces, one pair of which are parallel to the playing faces of the racquet, the size variation between these opposing surfaces and other pairs of opposing surfaces among the composite surfaces of the handle are different to the degree that they are sensorially perceptive by sense of feel transmitted by impression gained only in the hand grip of the player without other observation. The determination of these surfaces involved at one or more of the corners of the handle's sectional outline is intensified to be more acute to the feel than the ordinary corner of a handle of normally octagonal outline of 135.degree.