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No. 6872: MARCONI 2000 MX8000 4 Slice with Low Slice Count on Tube CT Scanner


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Manufacturer: MARCONI
Model: 2000 MX8000 4 Slice with Low Slice Count on Tube
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What You Are Bidding On:
You are bidding on a 2000 Marconi MX8000 4 Slice CT Scanner w/ Low Slice Count on Tube:

The Tube was installed Oct. 29 2008, and as of 3-12-09, it has 13913 slices on it.

The Date of Manufacture is July 2000.

Product version 2.64.

The system does not have the standard console work desk as you will be able to see in the last two photos.

The system has a water circulator, but does not have a water chiller. The system was cooled by the Hospital water supply.

The system has a "Teal" power conditioner.

The options are:
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Offline Recon.
Condition:
The equipment is installed and operational, is in clinical use and is currently covered by an OEM service contract.
Inspection:
You are free to inspect this equipment but if you want to inspect the equipment please do so before you bid. If you would like to arrange to inspect this equipment click on "Email Seller" above.

The equipment is located in Illinois.

Available:
The equipment will be available immediately upon receipt of payment in full.
Warranty:
This equipment is offered in accordance with the "Auction Terms" and "Legal Notice" of www.dotmed.com. No warranty is expressed or implied, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. All equipment is sold "as is" and "where is".

Terms:
The Successful Bidder agrees to remit payment in full within 48 hours of the Auction's close.

If the Successful Bidder fails to remit payment according to the schedule described above, then the equipment will be sold to the next highest Bidder.

Deinstallation, Packing, Crating and Transportation will be paid by the Successful Bidder.

This unit will be deinstalled on March 19th.

Title will transfer from the Seller to the Successful Bidder upon payment in full.

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The brain directs the things we choose to do (like walking and talking) and the things our body does without thinking (like breathing). The brain is also in charge of our senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), memory, emotions, and personality.

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Stem Cell Move Heralds Hopeful New Era for Biomedical Research and for AIDS

March 9, 2009—President Obama’s removal of the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research signals a hopeful new era for medical research in general, and AIDS in particular. Of equal importance, it is a concrete example of the statement President Obama made in his inaugural address that he will “restore[s] science to its rightful place.”

Stem cell research could ultimately benefit people suffering from a host of disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, diabetes, stroke, spinal cord injury, and rheumatoid arthritis. Its promise extends to HIV/AIDS, a global epidemic that has already killed more than 25 million people worldwide.

In terms of AIDS, last year a group of physicians from Berlin reported on an HIV-positive man who developed acute leukemia. In an attempt to cure his leukemia he underwent a stem cell transplant. This is usually standard treatment in such cases, but his transplant had a unique twist. Rather than simply using the best match among available stem cell donors, his physicians also screened donors for a natural genetic mutation, one that renders a person resistant to infection by the most common forms of HIV. Now off all anti-HIV drugs for over two years, this man has no detectable signs of HIV or leukemia.

This first documented case of a functional cure for AIDS offers a startling illustration of the potential of stem cell-based therapies. It is not practical to search for such special mutations among stem cell donors and these mutations do not exist among African-Americans or Asians. But the potential to use embryonic stem cells – the ones covered by the former ban – to engineer these mutant cells to be used in such treatments offers new hope for people with the disease.

“There are still many challenges to be overcome and much research to be done before stem cells could be considered as a treatment or a cure for HIV/AIDS,” said Kevin Robert Frost, chief executive officer of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. “But as a result of President Obama’s action today, that research might actually see the light of day.”

The President’s executive order comes at an opportune time for researchers, who will be able to apply for a portion of the $20 billion in supplemental funding for the National Institutes of Health that was included in the economic recovery package.

“Science offers our best hope for bringing the global HIV/AIDS epidemic to an end,” said Susan Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A., amfAR’s senior policy and medical advisor and former U.S. assistant surgeon general. “And when science can proceed without political interference and policy is driven by scientific evidence, there is hope for a healthier future, including reaching the time when we might live in a world without AIDS.”

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First of all, there are populations in India and China with very high HIV prevalence rates—among them sex workers in some areas in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in India, and injecting drug users all over China and East Asia. We're also seeing new, very rapidly rising epidemics among gay men and men who have sex with men [MSM].

India's overall prevalence rate is relatively low, which gives the impression that there's no problem, but HIV doesn't have a normal distribution in the statistical sense. As I said, it's concentrated among groups such as MSM, sex workers, and injecting drug users, and there the numbers are bad. In Asia, we need to take a long view of the epidemic. The growth of the epidemic in Asia has been slower than we anticipated, that's true, and we haven't gone into an African type of scenario in the short term. But with a denominator of one-third of the world's population, one percent in China is 13 million people and 10 million in India—more than the total population of some African countries.

One of the lessons that we've learned about AIDS is that we must expect surprises. The new epidemics among MSM all over East and Southeast Asia are a surprise but they shouldn't be. What I think is key is that the response to AIDS in both India and China has been quite good, after initial denial and hesitation. Who would have thought even five years ago that China would now have maybe 500 methadone clinics? In India, these clinics have had real, measurable results. The evolution of the AIDS epidemic is something that depends on many complex issues, one being the political context.

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Around the Globe

Worldwide, women constitute half of all people living with HIV/AIDS.
Globally and in every region, more adult women (15 years or older) than ever before are now living with HIV.
Women are at least twice as likely to acquire HIV from men during sexual intercourse than vice versa.
Only 20% of young women aged 15 to 24 correctly identify ways of preventing HIV transmission and reject major misconceptions about HIV transmission.
In low- and middle-income countries, only one-third of pregnant women are currently offered services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute 59% of all people living with HIV/AIDS. Among young people aged 15-24, the HIV prevalence rate for young women is almost three times higher than the rate among young men.

Women and HIV

Women account for more than one in four new HIV/AIDS diagnoses and deaths caused by AIDS.
The proportion of AIDS diagnoses reported among women has more than tripled since 1985.
71% of women diagnosed with AIDS in 2005 contracted the disease through heterosexual sex.
African Americans constituted 66% of women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2005.
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African-American women are 23 times more likely to have AIDS than white women.
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