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Gas Masks Don't Always Fit an Emergency

...onal anxiety over bioterrorism drives you to buy a gas mask at the nearest army surplus store, take a dee...hs during the Gulf War associated with wearing the gas masks improperly. And those were people who were trained to use them. But if you insist, buy the bes...

Sniff out flatulence

...gg smell by the scientists while dimethyl, another gas isolated in tests, had a "sweet" bouquet. The res...blindfold test. Their job was to hold a syringe of gas three centimetres from their noses, slowly empty it and sniff. They had to rate the odour emitted on...

Pregnancy should not be confined

...l oxygen during air travel. In addition, because gas expands with increasing altitude, pregnant women should avoid consuming beans, sodas and other gas-producing foods or drinks before flying, and should wear support stockings to prevent any fluid from accumulating in their legs. Similar to all other a...

Weight-Loss Drinks Can Make You Gassy

...esting milk products may experience an increase in gas if they consume milk-based powder supplements desi...large increase in intestinal gas. The women passed gas three times as frequently--from about 10 times a day to 30 times a day--compared with those who dran...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

.... Arginine is an amino acid// that can produce the gas nitric oxide which, in turn, may improve the functioning of blood vessels. So you might think that arginine might help people with heart problems, especially those with angina, by enhancing blood supply to the heart. In fact the validation for argi...

The route to fertilization

...ers from Stanford have identified the nitric oxide gas as the chemical incitement for a cascade of chemic...e says,it begins with the build-up of nitric oxide gas inside the sperm.// The research is based on the sex lives of male and female sea urchins - spiny,...

Effective And Economical Agent For Anthrax

...nthrax and other bacterial spores. Methyl bromide gas was chosen for laboratory experiments because of i...yl bromide is more effective than chlorine dioxide gas as a building fumigant for anthrax. Methyl bromide would be the most effective treatment because th...

Rumbling stomach

...ntractions are strong, especially when a bubble of gas is moving through the digestive tract or when the stomach is empty of solids, the noise can seem deafening. The contractions are also exaggerated and noisy in some gastrointestinal diseases. If the noises are troublesome and no disease is present, do...

Transforming stem cells to lung cells

...sed them to develop into the cells responsible for gas exchange in the lungs. This is the first step towards replacing damaged lung tissue with healthy functioning cells. These could be developed so that the body would not reject them and could, in time, replace conventional lung transplants. The researc...

Fructose may cause uninterpreted abdominal pain

...ctose may be the cause if you have abdominal pain, gas and diarrhea.// Often people suffer from bowel sym...oducing copious amounts of hydrogen gas. It is the gas that can cause the unpleasant symptoms described above. The researchers gave a group of patients 2...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

...ersity of Pittsburgh pre-treated lab rats with the gas carbon monoxide - normally considered a deadly poison. They discovered that the carbon monoxide spared much of the vessel damage associated with transplantation and angioplasty in the pre-treated rats. The researchers claim that the carbon monoxide b...

Benefits of Nitric Oxide in the Treatment of Premature Infants

...om the University of Chicago tested the use of the gas in 207 premature infants during their first week of life. All were suffering from respiratory distress syndrome and were on mechanical ventilators to help them breathe. About half the babies were assigned to receive the active treatment, while the re...

Good News for New Borns With Hypoxic Respiratory Failure

...shown giving the infant nitric oxide as an inhaled gas is also effective for babies with HRF.The study shows inhaled nitric oxide is less expensive than the surgical option. In fact, for every 100 newborns with HRF, treatment with inhaled nitric oxide could save more than $440,000.Researchers conclude th...

Lack of Smell And Its Potential Risks

...tuations including not being able to smell a fire, gas leak or spoiled food. For the study, 445 patien...y ingestion of spoiled food, inability to detect a gas leak, and inability to detect a fire. Researchers say patients with an impaired sense of smell need ...

New Technique For Benign Breast Tumors

...tion. Doctors insert a probe into the tumor. Argon gas is passed through the probe to form an ice ball, which destroys the tumor. The body eventually absorbs it. The procedure takes about 30 minutes to 45 minutes and can be performed a few weeks after a biopsy. Specialists say its an office-based proced...

Contact Lenses Found To Slow Progression Of Myopia in Kids

Children who wear rigid gas permeable ( RGP ) contact lenses can minimize the chances their myopia will worsen over time// say researchers according to a recent study . More than 100 children ages 8 years to 11 for about three years. About half the group wore RGP lenses, and t...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...oxide enters into the atmosphere from kerosene and gas stove combustions, generators and other liquid fue... impairments. At high levels of concentration this gas can cause deaths. The researchers from UCLA have found out the carbon monoxide can cause oxidative ...

Pollution Free Hydrogen based fuel for Energy

...d electrolysis, 4) Hydrogen generated from natural gas 5) Hydrogen generated from coal gasification. "Wi...mbustion engine became engulfed in flames when its gas tank was punctured. But when the hydrogen cars fuel cell was punctured, since hydrogen is 14 times l...

Prevent Global Warming by Becoming A Vegetarian

Cooking meat consumes more oil and gas and can be a cause of Global warming//. The British physicist Alan Calverd, writing in this month's ‘Physics World’ said: "Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political u...

Research Shows Carbon Monoxide Prevents Inflammations

... presented new findings// on the properties of the gas carbon monoxide that can cure inflammations in pat.... Carbon Monoxide: This is a colorless odorless gas that is produced by incomplete combustion of gas, oil, wood, coal etc used in burners, stoves, fuel ...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...d operations, the patient's abdomen is inflated by gas so that the surgeon can insert a hand through the small incision through a special pressurised sleeve. Thus the kidney can be removed intact, making it possible to evaluate the cancer. With both the hand and laproscopic instruments doing the work, th...

Lessening operation and recovery time

...d operations, the patient's abdomen is inflated by gas so that the surgeon can insert a hand through the small incision through a special pressurised sleeve. Thus the kidney can be removed intact, making it possible to evaluate the cancer. With both the hand and laproscopic instruments doing the work, th...

WHO Steps Up To Create A Public Awareness About The Consequences Of Exposure To Radon

...r, colour or taste. Radon is a natural radioactive gas that emanates from the ground into the air. Radon gas in the air is present worldwide, its concentration depending on the highly variable uranium content ...

Natural Sulfur Can Treat Pain From Osteoarthritis

...(distilled MSM microprill 99.9% by high-resolution gas chromatography) and absence of heavy metals and microbial contamination were certified by an independent laboratory. Researchers found from using the WOMAC visual analogue scale that compared to the placebo, MSM produced significant decreases in WO...

Acute Toxicity Of Nano-Scale Zinc Powder: Severe Renal Damage And Anemia

...lyst in organic hydrogen reaction, automobile tail gas disposal, environmental protection, paints, pigment, metallurgy additives. Although zinc is an essential metal needed by mammals and commonly found in nutritional supplements, acute, high-dose oral exposure to zinc and its compounds generally resul...

A New Diagnostic Approach To Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease

...nfiltrates, restrictive lung disease, and abnormal gas exchange with considerable mortality and morbidity. ILD presents enormous diagnostic challenges because the differential diagnosis includes more than 100 conditions in both adults2 and children. Researchers from Texas and Colorado conducted a descr...

Global Warming Could Cause 5 Million Illnesses: WHO

...ch makes it even more important to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a short period of time....

Harsh British Winter Could Kill Upto 90,000 Pensioners

With rising gas prices and breakdown of electricity supplies, upto...er warning, parliament debated the rising price of gas - essential to warm homes - while some experts feared a breakdown in electricity supplies during the...

Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: The 21st anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy was on Saturday 30 doctors of the Bho... hospital in 2001. Apart from the survivors of the gas victims, it also treats private patients. The Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) has been im...

Poisonous Gas Caused Mass Extinction

...arth may have been triggered by poisonous volcanic gas which erupted in Siberia 250 million years ago // ...the city of Tura. New evidence for the volcanic gas hypothesis comes from a unique set of molecules preserved in rocks from the Dolomite mountains in It...

Genuine Laughter Is The Best Medicine!

... one human ancestor would hear another loudly pass gas while the individuals felt safe and were playing. Around two million years ago our ancestors evolved the ability to willfully control facial expressions. It was not long before fake smiles led to fake laughter, which can be used for emphasis in con...

Earth Will Feel The Impact Of Global Warming

...water to the deep sea, releasing stores of methane gas that leads to further global warming and a massive extermination of deep-sea marine life, they said. Edited (ANI)...

Air Pollution and Cancer

...stries, but smaller commercial establishments like gas stations and dry cleaning shops that were spewing in toxic chemicals. The national risk of developing cancer as a result of air pollution was 1 to 25 in a million, while Indiana's average risk was 33 in a million. "The EPA data (show) we are exposing...

Nerve Damage Can Be Prevented By Xenon Administration During Surgery

... The researchers successfully administered xenon gas safely to a group of 12 patients undergoing CABG. ...-term disability. Xenon is a naturally occurring gas and no instances of toxicity has so far been reported, that makes it an ideal candidate for use as a...

Xenon Could Limit Nerve Damage After Stroke

... conducted a clinical trial of administering xenon gas to patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graf...fter this procedure. The team administered xenon gas to 12 patients undergoing CABG on cardiopulmonary artery bypass. This treatment could revolutionize ...

3-D Imaging For Monitoring Reactor Systems, Power Plants

.... "Right now, the way to convert coal or natural gas to liquid fuels is in high-temperature, high–pressure reactors," Fan said. "But if we're going to develop processes to achieve high energy conversion efficiency, we need to be able to see inside those reactors to know how they work. That's why we dev...

‘Natural Spring’ Starts A Week Ahead Now Than Before: UNH Scientit

...rom global warming caused by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.” “Many of the indicators associated with end-of-winter or the beginning of the growing season show very uniform movement – about a week – earlier. This is consistent with predictions, and it is scientific evidence that we don’t nee...

Costly mistakes help better understand OCD: obsessive compulsive disorder

...s dearly, like deleting important files or leaving gas open, trigger specific // reactions in the brain. According to the published work of US scientists in the Journal of Neuroscience, one area becomes more active after "costly" mistakes. This may help understand OCD better. The study examined the br...

COPD Patients portray improved exercise performance after breathing a Special Gas

... new finding has revealed that breathing a special gas mixture may help in drastic improvement// of exerc...ts who had severe, but stable COPD. Four different gas mixtures were used to test the patients, 72 percent helium and 28 percent oxygen (Heliox28); 79 perc...

State Govt To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Bhopal Gas Victims

... safe drinking water to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy//. The announcement came a day after the B...llywood star Aamir Khan offered his support to the gas victims. Minister for Gas Relief Babulal Gaur told IANS that a Rs.17-crore (Rs.10.7 million) scheme...

Diagnostic Centre Inaugurated for Air Pollution at SRMC

...e Sky' project, which is looking to supply natural gas across the country. The SRMC centre will be headed by Kalpana Balakrishnan and Chest Medicine led by Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaran. Dr.K. Balakrishnan is the head of the Departments of Environmental Health Engineering and has done pioneering work ...

Premier Army Hospital Acquires PET-CT Scanner

...y glucose (FDG) and quality control equipment like gas chromatography, thin layer chromatography, high performance layer chromatography to conform to all safe drug regulations, a defence ministry statement said. Patients would be examined on the PET-CT scanner, where an anatomical CT image would be fus...

Tequila-The Real Stuff or Not

...ican government, Lachenmeier says. Using ion and gas chromatography, scientists analyzed 31 tequila samples of the 100 percent Agave category and compared the results to 25 mixed-tequila samples. The pure Agave tended to have significantly higher levels of certain chemicals, including methanol, 2-methy...

Police Look For Clue's Near Gas Stations In Teen Killing

...ton police who are now looking for clues in nearby gas stations. //Police hope to find if anyone filled c...uring the last weekend. Detectives are scouring gas stations near Franklin Park where the body was found. Police say the 19-year-old Milton High School ...

Soda Drinks Contain Benzene - A Carcinogen, Reports FDA

...ed to benzene e.g. workers from chemical industry, gas stations, gasoline distribution jobs, rubber industry, printing industry and leather industry have an increased risk. There is no upper limit set by FDA in soft drinks and it follows the level set by the US Environmental Protection Agency, i.e. 5 p...

Efforts To Replace Reading Glasses Are In View

...-M team used ultrafast laser pulses to create tiny gas bubbles within the intraocular lens. Before the bubbles diffuse, researchers hit them with high frequency sound waves, which push the bubbles against neighboring lens fibers. ‘Part of the sound is reflected, and from the characteristic of the refle...

Helium And MRI Scanning Clearly Detects Smoker Lungs – Research Find

...coloured images of lungs soft tissues, when helium gas was inhaled prior taking images. .... Fain and his team therefore reasoned that helium gas molecules are likely to have more space to move around in lungs with fewer functioning alveoli. T...

Six More Bhopal Gas Tragedy Continues to Take Toll

...ere weresix more victims dead from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy //. Doctors at a hospital that was set u...MUS), apressure group working for the cause of the gas tragedy victims. The BMHRC - Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre - came intobeing for the...

Well-Planned Surgeries Also Carry Health Risks

...lly, may accelerate it. “It’s like stepping on the gas pedal,” says Dr. Meiler. Studies have shown that taking drugs such as statins, used to treat high cholesterol, or beta blockers and clonidine, used for hypertension, can protect against some of this risk. “Giving beta blockers, statins, making sure...

Study Finds - Black Holes Are The Most Fuel-Efficient Engines

...5 litres) of gas. Huge bubbles in the hot cosmic gas of the galaxies, can measure hundreds or even thou...rom the black hole jets is believed to heat up the gas around the galactic center; without this source of heat, the gas would cool down and form new stars....

Air Pollution in Tamil Nadu is a Cause of Concern for Environmentalists

...et up volatile organic compounds (VOC) and sulphur gas monitoring stations in Manali, Mettur, Cuddalore, Tuticorin and other industrialised areas. The demand came after two samples from Tamil Nadu, out of 21 air samples taken from various parts of India, were found to be among three most-polluted in a...

New Technique to Identify Respiratory Problems in Children

...oes in and out of the lungs with each breath and a gas analyzer. The air which is breathed by the child i... mixture of oxygen and a tiny amount of a 'tracer' gas called sulphur hexafluoride. This is a tracer and allows doctors to measure the efficiency of the lu...

Doctors Urged to Help Turn Down the Heat

...is taken, a 60% reduction in Australian greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is possible, while still maintai...r government has not yet set a national greenhouse gas emissions reduction target beyond 2012." Doctors should take a lead in this push for prevention of...

Smell Decoding System In Brain –Research Find

...dentified the volatile compounds in each odor with gas chromatography. "A complex mixture like urine has at least a hundred separate compounds in it," Lin said. They analyzed scents as diverse as peanut butter, coffee and fresh bobcat urine shipped to the laboratory on dry ice. The researchers then exp...

Mosquito Repellant Resembling Body Odour on the Anvil

...he mosquitoes can detect by the technique known as gas chromatography-electroantennography. These are then compared to the components present in the commercially available insect repellents which are approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). Apart from mosquito repellants they are also carrying r...

Genetic Variations In Detoxifying Genes Lead To Lou Gehrig's diseases

... which are used to detoxify insecticides and nerve gas agents as well as for metabolising cholesterol low...as parathion, diazinon and chlorpyrifos, and nerve gas agents such as sarin. Previous research described a possible twofold increased risk for developing...

North East Having Highest Cancer Incidences In Country

...he figure of Bhopal which had witnessed a horrible gas tragedy over two decades ago, Dr A Nandkumar, NCRP officer in-charge told a medical conference here today. Nagaland and Manipur showed the highest age adjusted incidence rate for nasopharyngeal cancers. For cancer of tonsil, Darrang, Kamrup, Dibrug...

Researchers Use Bubbles in Cancer Treatment and Drug Delivery

University of Michigan researchers hope to use gas bubbles like corks to block oxygen flow to tumors,... flow to a tumor is called embolization, and using gas bubbles is a new technique in embolotherapy. What makes it so promising is that the technique allows...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

...d to have the third highest concentration of radon gas recorded to date in a home in Ireland and the dose received by the householders is analyzed to be equivalent to being exposed to 27 chest X-rays per day or 10,000 per year. The RPII said immediate action had been taken by having a radon sump instal...

Nitric Oxide Could Benefit Premature Babies

... the University of Colorado School of Medicine the gas was given soon after birth and it was found that t...for smaller babies on ventilators who received the gas although the risk of brain damage was halved in all babies who received the gas.Kinsella said, “We a...