gas 1 3

Tag: "gas" at medical news

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...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10