Abstract: A beverage for equines, livestock (e.g., pigs, sheep, cattle, goats), or other hooved animals that encourages the animals to drink, providing hydration and electrolytes. The beverage is a combination of desired flavoring, e.g., a dry or powdered blend of alfalfa leaf powder or alfalfa meal; a sweetener, e.g., sugar; and one or more desired electrolytes, that is added to a liquid, e.g., water. Other desired flavoring can be mint, alfalfa mint, apple, peppermint.

Abstract: Invention embodiments described herein include methods and devices for stimulating mesenchymal stem cells in a stem cell source to differentiate into osteoblasts capable of forming bone. Devices and methods described include exposing a stem cell source, such as bone marrow aspirate, adipose tissue and/or purified allogenic stem cells, to an active agent, in a manner effective to form activated stem cells.

Abstract: Invention embodiments described herein include methods and devices for stimulating mesenchymal stem cells in a stem cell source to differentiate into osteoblasts capable of forming bone. Devices and methods described include exposing a stem cell source, such as bone marrow aspirate, adipose tissue and/or purified allogenic stem cells, to an active agent, in a manner effective to form activated stem cells.

Abstract: A method is presented for treating an inflammatory skin disorder in a human comprising: topically applying to the skin a composition comprising alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (?MSH) or an ?MSH analog in an amount effective to reduce skin inflammation in the human.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes an implant for improving bone growth including an osteoconductive scaffold and an osteoinductive small molecule. The osteoconductive scaffold can further include a polymeric binder. The implant can also include an osteogenic material to provide a viable cell population to assist the bone repair and remodeling. Also disclosed is a system for forming an implant for improving bone growth, as well as methods for forming the implant according to the disclosure, in addition to methods of therapeutic use of the implant.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes an implant for improving bone growth including an osteoconductive scaffold and an osteoinductive small molecule. The osteoconductive scaffold can further include a polymeric binder. The implant can also include an osteogenic material to provide a viable cell population to assist the bone repair and remodeling. Also disclosed is a system for forming an implant for improving bone growth, as well as methods for forming the implant according to the disclosure, in addition to methods of therapeutic use of the implant.

Abstract: Invention embodiments described herein include methods and devices for stimulating mesenchymal stem cells in a stem cell source to differentiate into osteoblasts capable of forming bone. Devices and methods described include exposing a stem cell source, such as bone marrow aspirate, adipose tissue and/or purified allogenic stem cells, to an active agent, in a manner effective to form activated stem cells.

Abstract: A system and a method for performing a cost-utility analysis of pharmaceutical interventions where each pharmaceutical intervention is associated with several potential health states. The system includes a processor and a database. The database contains for each pharmaceutical intervention several utility values associated with each health state and a probability for each potential health state associated with each pharmaceutical intervention. The processor is in communication with the database and determines a mean utility value for each pharmaceutical intervention by correlating each probability associated with each pharmaceutical intervention with the utility value associated with the respective health state. The processor also compares the pharmaceutical interventions the mean utility values of the pharmaceutical interventions by decision analysis.

Abstract: The sticker clip is a clip for keeping a roll of sheet material such as a sheet of scrapbook stickers displayed in an orderly fashion for dispensing to consumers. The clip is provided in the form of a pair of identical transparent rod-like rollers each having annular recesses adjacent both ends of each roller. The distance between the recesses on each roller is selected to be greater than the width of sheet of stickers on the roll. One roller is placed on the inside of the independently supported roll of stickers. A rubber band is provided in the annular recess of adjacent ends of the rollers on both sides of the sheet of stickers to bias the rollers toward each other. A transparent tube, preferably having a length equal to the width of the sheet of stickers is mounted over the roller that extends across the face of the roll.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating neuron development, maintenance and regeneration in the central and peripheral nervous systems of a mammal and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising leukaemia inhibitory factor with or without nerve growth factor useful for same. The present invention is particularly useful in the treatment of developmental and cerebral anomalies and neuropathies in mammals and in particular humans.

Abstract: A needle safety device is provided which allows a health care professional to dispose of a needle quickly and safely while also only using only one hand. The safety device comprises a housing having an orifice therethrough; a puncture detection system in the housing and comprising a first membrane secured over the orifice, a pH sensitive dye, and a gas for raising the pH above normal atmospheric conditions; and a securing system in the housing and comprising a curable adhesive, a curing agent, and a membrane for temporally separating said adhesive from said curing agent.