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	News: Iapyx Medical Secures Financing to Pursue Hospital-Acquired Infection Market. Genetic Engineering News - ...
		Iapyx Medical(TM), a developer of innovative medical devices, today announced a $9 million investment by Tavistock Life Sciences, bringing the Company's total funding to more than $12 million.
		Hospital-acquired infections add an enormous financial strain of over $5 billion annually on the healthcare system and are associated with the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. "Hospital-acquired infections impact one in every 10 patients in the U.S. with approximately 90,000 patients dying annually," said Shehan Dissanayake, CEO of Tavistock Life Sciences.
		The company has re-named itself after Iapyx, a wound healer and battlefield surgeon in Greek mythology who is one of the first people credited with identifying and treating the problem of surgical site infections.
	www.genengnews.com /news/bnitem.aspx?name=9899961 (416 words)

	Iapyx
		Iapyx or Lycaon, removing an arrowhead from Aeneas thigh using a forceps.
		Aenas is shown with his young crying son Iulus Ascanius.
		Even of divine origin Iapyx is not successful and Aphrodite his mother intervenes (the woman behind Iapyx) by giving her son a herb from the island of Crete (or Asia?), dittany, to be used to heal the wound.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Iapyx.html (159 words)

	Antiqua Medicina: Military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A wounded Aeneas is carried off the battlefield and taken to the physician to remove the dart from his thigh with forceps.
		In one of the climactic scenes at the poem’s conclusion (Aeneid XII.383-440), Aeneas is wounded in the thigh by an arrow shaft hurled by an anonymous soldier in the enemy camp.
		Although he was unable to help Aeneas, Iapyx was given his skill by Apollo himself to practice ingloriously the “silent arts”, i.e., medicine.
	www.med.virginia.edu /hs-library/historical/antiqua/textm.htm (591 words)

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		Iapyx An Apulian, and ancestor of Diomedes, according to a speech delivered by Venulus.
		Iapyx Name of a wind, said by Gellius (who cites V.) to blow from Apulia Iapyx A Trojan, son of Iasus.
		Iapyx attends to the wounded Aeneas, with the divine help of Venus.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jfarrell/temp/vp/july31/pontes.txt (4372 words)

	Aeneas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aeneas was then eneveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.
		When Troy lost the Trojan War, Aeneas, with his trumpeter Misenus, father Anchises, friends Achates, Sergestus and Acmon, healer Iapyx, wife Creusa, son Ascanius, all the Lares and Penates and Mimas as a guide (collectively Aeneads), traveled to Italy and became a progenitor of the Romans.
		He also took Achaemenides, one of Odysseus' crew from Sicily with him to Italy.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Aeneas (569 words)

	Skinner: Venus as Physician: Aen. 12.411–19
		In the mêlée following Juturna's disruption of the peace treaty between Trojans and Latins, Aeneas is wounded in the thigh by an arrow and helped back to camp by his lieutenants and son Ascanius.
		When Iapyx bathes the wound with this tincture, Aeneas' pain is allayed, blood ceases to flow, and the arrowhead drops unresisting into the doctor's hand.
		Venus arrives hastily, bearing the precious herb; her eyes are fixed with worry on her son's face.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2005/abstracts2005/skinner.html (602 words)

	Iapyx Medical Secures Financing to Pursue Hospital-Acquired Infection Market - Health - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Iapyx Medical™, a developer of innovative medical devices, today announced a $9 million investment by Tavistock Life Sciences, bringing the Company's total funding to more than $12 million.
		Iapyx Medical™ develops and manufactures single-use medical devices designed to combat the epidemic of hospital-acquired infections.
		The Iso-Line™ family uses isolation techniques to prevent exposure of patients and clinicians to contaminated devices.
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/759322/iapyx_medical_secures_financing_to_pursue_hospitalacquired_infection_market/index.html?source=r_health (430 words)

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