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    HEART PACEMAKER
    January 30, 1957 - University of Minnesota, U.S.A.

    An external artificial pacemaker with internal heart electrode is first used. To maintain a patient's heartbeat rhythm an electrode was sewn to the wall of the heart and connected through the chest to an external desktop pulse generator. A team of scientists at the University of Minnesota, led by Dr C. Walton Lillehei, made this medical advance. However, such bulky equipment was not a good long-term solution since infection often occurred along the electrode wires, and the device required no interruption in the house electricity. So Dr. Lillehei also initiated research on the use of a small portable external pacemaker for these patients with heart block. This ultimately led to the development of the billion-dollar pacemaker industry.

    DERMABOND
    January 30, 1998 - Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.

    A new glue, Dermabond, able to replace painful stitches, won the unanimous vote of a medical advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration, which, in Aug 1998, approved it for marketing in the U.S. It was the first such product in the U.S. The manufacturer, Closure Medical, said Dermabond could seal off certain wounds quickly, without the need for painful shots, With the use of Dermabond, a wound can be kept closed, sterile and flexible while it is healing. A doctor simply presses the cut edges together and paints the glue across the top. The proper medical application takes skill and practice, so the glue isn't meant for home use. This is medical-grade glue that is a chemical cousin of Crazy Glue (which is too toxic to repair cuts) using proprietary cyanoacrylate technology.

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Straight hair is trendy and stylish and that is why hair straighteners are so popular with the people all over the world, which helps the user to achieve the same.

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The art of hair straightening is not new but it has been around for a long time. It seems to us that whether we are a curly haired woman longing for sleek, straight locks, or a straight-haired girl wanting to go even straighter, we are never satisfy with the hair we have. Such dissatisfaction has led to so many innovations and inventions. Looking few years back we find that our mothers and grandmothers used to employ to such tricks as ironing their hair straight. In that case, we are lucky enough to have a number of modern means like Electric Curling Irons, Electric Pressing Irons, Thermal Curling Irons, Electric Flat Irons, Electric Straightner Irons, Electric Crimpers, Flat Irons, Thermal Stoves, and more at our disposal to allow us to switch straight and curly as we wish in this twenty-first century.

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