The new Abbott also sells medical devices such as artery-clearing drug-eluting Xience stent or its absorbable stent known as Absorb and diagnostic tests used in laboratories and hospitals such as its Architect platform.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved deep-brain stimulation to treat Parkinson's and a movement disorder known as dystonia, and it is used to treat chronic pain and severe depression.
The drug is generically known as paclitaxel and is used primarily to treat ovarian and breast cancers.
At the time, the Internet was known as Arpanet, and was used primarily by the government, and there was only one computer store in Santa Monica, Calif.
Although his voice was disguised, colleagues and friends easily identified him as a monsignor who frequently used to appear as anchorman and even celebrate Mass on a well known local Catholic TV channel.
After Fireman's Fund was sold, Mr. Byrne held on to its holding company, known today as White Mountains Insurance Group, and used it to do deals for smaller, often troubled, insurance companies before retiring in 2007.
Zephyr, as the craft was known, could be used for military applications, as well as for Earth-observation and communications.
Strips of eco-friendly, light-emitting diodes, known as LED lighting, are flexible and can be used to illuminate architectural details in a rainbow of colors.
With this in mind Dr Hover and Mr Englot, along with a team of colleagues, used a robot known as the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV), which was developed at MIT and has since been commercialised by a company called Bluefin Robotics.
Qualcomm wrote an operating environment known as BREW, Microsoft wrote Mobile Windows, and Nokia used Symbian.
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What we now call i-dosing are sounds previously known as binaural beats that have been used for research and sleep therapy.
Coconuts are also used to make chutneys, pickles known as sambols and cooking oil.
Paus was best known as a watercolorist, although he used oils on occasion and was expert at pencils and inks.
This procedure is known as ECMO -- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- and is used occasionally as a bridge to lung transplantation.
The connective cells, known as fibroblasts, are then isolated and an electrical current is used to force-feed them with the snippets of DNA that make factor VIII.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are now being used in border security and that is only set to increase, according to one industry source.
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The Swiss pharmaceutical giant has fought a legal battle in India since 2006 to patent a new version of Glivec, which is mainly used to treat leukemia and is known as Gleevec outside India and Europe.
The technique, known as 'photodynamic diagnosis', is already used to diagnose and treat other types of cancers, for example, certain skin cancers.
Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.
Google also is expected to announce that it will launch a service allowing other companies to rent computer servers to store data and power their websites and internally used business applications, an offering known as Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS, people familiar with the matter said.
China clay - also known as kaolin - is used in the manufacture of sanitary ware, paper and paints.
The machine first ran in 1951 and was known as the Harwell Dekatron - so named for the valves it used as a memory store.
Known as Nexus Root Toolkit, the program can be used to easily unlock and root Nexus devices, and can also return them to stock and re-lock the bootloader.
Pols, like then-governor Rod Blagojevich, used a form of smoke-and-mirrors known as pension-obligation bonds to avoid actually having to fund ever more generous benefits for his public-employee union cronies.
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The school is located in a mixed industrial-retail area near a Wal-Mart and a Toyota dealership and across a freeway from the O.co Coliseum, the home of the Oakland Raiders football team and A's baseball club that used to be known as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
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Known for creating art from found objects, Orozco has used Indian rupees as canvases and airline tickets for collages.
Copper sulphate, for instance, known as Bordeaux mixture, was invented in the 19th century for vineyards, and widely used until 1930.
President Bush used what is known as a recess appointment to bypass a Senate vote and install Bolton as ambassador nearly one year ago.
He also said teams would only focus on about 20% of the main roads and about 9% of well-used link roads, known as S2 roads.
To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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