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Neck Artery Treatment Apart From Clearing Plaques Boosts Memory

...over the last two years to look at whether using a filter to catch most of the debris during the procedure would reduce the disruptions so patients suffered no mental impairment. The data suggest that the benefits outweigh the harm. Patients performed well in memory tests and so-called executive function ...

Bicycle-Powered Portable Water Filter System For Disaster Zones

...ed with a mechanical pump and a membrane module to filter the water. Believed to be the world's first, NTU...e new pedal-powered system uses finer membranes to filter the water so it can be drunk straight from the tap, explained Tay. It takes just five minutes to d...

Sanyo’s Electrolysed Water Technology Effective In Suppressing Bird Fl

...by letting air containing the virus pass through a filter impregnated with electrolysed water, and the other, by spraying a mist of electrolysed water onto a cotton bud smeared with the virus. Officials from Sanyo have explained that the technology is useful in preventing the spread of bird flu virus, as ...

Prion Disease Agent Causes Heart Damage

...ntify brain-wasting diseases and possibly a way to filter or chemically treat blood to remove any infectious prion disease agents. Currently, in the United States individuals who lived in the United Kingdom for three months or more during the outbreak of mad cow disease from 1980 to 1996 are asked not to do...

CJD Filter Machine Scrapped

...has discarded the new machine that was designed to filter out CJD from donated blood after having spent €14m...s. The report also stated that trials on the CJD filter system were discontinued amid fears of its inadequate working and that CJD could still be passed thr...

Fat metabolism in fish to be studied in detail

...e answers about fish. Metcalf will use the genetic filter technology// to understand how fish actually metabolize fat. This study will aid in the understanding of the existing connection between fat metabolism and heart disease. According to Metcalf, Antarctic fish metabolize fat for fuel, unlike humans w...

Indo-American Doctor Fired By Cleveland Clinic

...ch he predicted that a Cordis stent and AngioGuard filter would be the first devices to gain FDA (Food and D...experienced reduced blood flow, likely a result of filter clogging, and "nearly 10 percent of those patients suffered a stroke within 30 days, an adverse outc...

Fresh Water Algae Filtered Out With Water Filtration Technique

...ultra filtration membranes with very fine holes to filter water, Microcystin toxins are small enough to slip...at sticks to organic molecules. It's often used to filter water and clean up environmental spills, and it's even administered to poison victims to clean toxin...

Key component of sunscreen heals sunburn and prevents skin cancer

...ite unlike the usual sunscreen lotions that simply filter out the UVA and UVB sunlight. This reduces the inflammation and pain that goes with sunburn – which is exacerbated by the iron - and also prevents the build up of harmful sunlight-generated free radicals, which can lead to the development of skin...

Nasal Plastic Surgery Improves Airway Function

...ose covered by mucous membranes that help warm and filter incoming air. Surgical procedures to treat these types of conditions are collectively known as functional rhinoplasty. Sam P. Most, M.D., formerly of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Cosmetic Surgery Center, Seattle, and now at St...

Drexel Research in Cytokines Could Treat Sepsis

... but the efficiency of treatment is limited by the filter material. The most popular filter material currently in use is activated carbon (charcoal). Its ability to treat poisoning has been kn...

Light Therapy Fights Depression With Sun Substitute

...in, which in turn produce the hormone serotonin. A filter blocks out harmful UV rays. The length of time spent looking at the lamp depends on its strength. Stronger light require just 30 minutes daily, while those with less strength require as much as two hours. "The best time to use the light is in the...

Blood Transfusions Raise Heart Patients’ Infection and Death Ris

...e hospitals and blood banks in deciding whether to filter donated blood to reduce the levels of white blood cells. This practice is increasingly common, but not yet universal, in the United States. The study is based on analysis of data from all Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 and older who had coronary a...

New Quartz References for Workplace Safety

...ng samples over a period of hours on a special air filter and using X-ray diffraction (XRD) to determine the amount of silica present in the sample. To be effective, monitoring requires accurate measurements of micrograms of silica on the filters, which in turn requires precise calibration of the measuremen...

QUT Scientists on the Way to Sifting Out a Cure for HIV

...tion is the filtration of minute particles using a filter with extremely small pores. "If we can remove co...ion flux or flow, and at the same time effectively filter out unwanted particles or viruses. He said another failing of current membranes was they often for...

Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood

...esults indicate that it is possible to use a resin filter to remove harmful prion proteins from the blood of...leukoreduced blood was then passed through another filter containing the new resin particles engineered to capture the prion proteins. A group of disease-free...

Healing Bone With Stem Cells

... a patient and, while still in the operating room, filter the extract through a specially designed scaffold that preferentially grabs bone-forming stem cells and boosts their growth and survival. The cells can then be directly implanted into the patient. "The field is just beginning," says Lee. "It will b...

Kidney Disease In Children: Common but Treatable

... (GFR), which estimates the speed at which kidneys filter waste material from the blood. To determine GFR, your doctors monitor blood levels of the substance creatinine. The higher the creatinine level, the higher the likelihood that the kidneys are not filtering at normal speed. In addition to blood tests,...

Hospital Projects to Take the Weight Off Overcrowded Ones

...ture if no "front-line" outlets are created now to filter through medical care seekers. ANN...

Delhi Hospital Medicos Calls Off Strike

...i had told IANS. The hospital has only one water filter outlet for drinking water. The doctors were also demanding more cleanliness in the hospital. Source-IANS/V...

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