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Lemons Could Give Relief For Patients Suffering From Asthma

... sun. But on earth, it is a dangerous component of air pollution. Numerous studies have shown exposure to ozone, even at low levels, induces airway inflammation and lung injury in humans and animals . Ozone scavengers are substances that devour ozone. Researchers believed these substances could be the k...

Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

...etermine the exact timing of chemically determined air mediated cancer initiations....

Pollution can cause damage to fetus in womb

In a pilot study in New York, air pollution due to combustion has been proved to cau...rs had observed the effect of prenatal exposure to air pollution due to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) that can penetrate placenta to affect the fe...

Mouse Allergen Found In Homes Could Trigger Asthma In Kids

The amount of mouse allergen found in the air in many inner-city homes could be significant enou...ce found in mouse urine that is circulating in the air and exposure increases their risk for developing allergic sensitivity to mice, just as it does for l...

Futuristic devices are here to take care of dental problems

...mouth rinses that kill bacteria and drill that use air and water to remove decay in tooth. Link: http://www.cds.org/media/release_detail.wu4?articleid=b69da66f...

Treatment For Sleep Apnea Found To Lower Blood Glucose Levels

...es wearing a mask that supplies a steady stream of air through the nose during sleep. This airflow keeps the nasal passages open to prevent airway collapse. It was observed that when CPAP was used for at least four hours every day, participants had a significant reduction in glucose levels. Patients wit...

Transmission Of Infectious Disease On Planes Analyzed

...us diseases // . Previous studies conducted among air travelers, including those involving the spread of...er study that examined transmission of SARS during air travel found sitting up to seven rows away could result in infection. Thus researchers say their evi...

Measuring Death Risk in COPD Patients

...earchers compared inspiratory capacity -- how much air is breathed in -- to total lung capacity in 689 COPD patients. Results showed 42 percent of the patients who took the new test scored below the 25 percent cutoff point, while 58 percent of patients scored higher than 25 percent. Among patients who di...

Antibiotics not to reduce rate of cardiac diseases

...onary heart disease. This bacteria spreads through air and causes pneumonia. On finding them in the affected arteries, one of the practices has been taking weekly course of antibiotics to prevent a heart attack. The participants of the study were people with a confirmed history of coronary heart diseas...

Air travel reduces oxygen level in the blood

...ers of UK, scientists have found that traveling by air seemed to lower the //oxygen level in the blood of...the passengers. The study was done to see whether air traveling, which has become so commonplace today, do have any effect on the health of the passengers...

Chemicals in clear plastics can cause learning difficulties

...s that are used as food grade materials for making air tight containers, drinking water bottles, even feeding bottles for infants. The scientists from Yale School of Medicine did the study to find out about the long-term exposure to BPA. The researchers have found that low doses of BPA in female rats le...

Peppermint or cinnamon smell can make drivers more alert

... and non-odor control. The odors were added to the air inside the vehicle with the help of an oxygen concentrator and were pumped for 30 seconds after every fifteen minutes at a very low flow, of about 1.3l per minute. Both the cinnamon and peppermint smell increases the ratings of alertness in compar...

Contraceptive pills may lead to deformities in babies

...s that are used as food grade materials for making air tight containers, drinking water bottles, even feeding bottles for infants. Research findings may be taken as analogical to humans and the result may be of grave concern, says the researchers of the study. , Bisphenol-A, BPA, oral contraceptive, et...

Obesity can affect asthma

...h thus shortens. This may lead to narrowing of the air passage. Also obese people have chronic low-grade ...at tissue and can affect the smooth muscles in the air passage and make them narrow. Hormones like leptin, which is pro-inflammatory, is found in higher le...

New device for ailing heart fitted into first patient

...r instructs the ballon to inflate or deflate using air from an external pump. With the fitting of the device on the 56 year old patient will lead to more observations being made on the feasibilty of the device....

Overweight mothers overfeed obese children

...MTAC). Maternal body composition was determined by air displacement plethysmorgraphy while for that of infants was done by skin-fold thickness. The results of the study showed that children born to obese mothers take more energy intake as carbohydrates than other normal infants. This was mostly because...

Plastic to cause breast cancer

...s that are used as food grade materials for making air tight containers, drinking water bottles, even feeding bottles for infants. This is a contaminant that can cause health problems on long-term exposure. Drawing parallels from an animal study, scientists of the study said that exposure to bisphenol-A...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

Pregnant mothers who are constantly exposed to air pollutions of big// cities may harm their unborn child by the air they inhale. Inhalation of polluted air of the metros can change the chromosomes of the fetus in wo...

Air pollution to affect diabetes patients’ cardiovascular risks

...sk of cardiovascular disease from the// heightened air pollution levels. The days when air pollutions are at higher levels, there had been more reports of hospitalization of diabetic patients...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...arbon monoxide at the exposure limit of 0.0025% in air can cause oxidative stress for the children. Oxidative stress happens when the free radicals in the body interact with the other molecules of the cell, and cause extensive damage to the proteins, membranes and genes. Free radicals are often produce...

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