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Massive Recall of Magnetic Toys in US

...or more magnet components, or a magnet and another metal object are swallowed separately, they can attract to one another through intestinal walls. When this happens, parents and physicians may think that the materials will pass through the child. But with magnets this is often not the case. The magnets be...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...f the thigh bone, the femur, and replace it with a metal ball mounted on a rod implanted deep in the thigh ...s lightly shave the damaged femoral ball and fit a metal ball snugly over it. That ball rolls in a metal cup reinforcing the socket. The idea: Metal-on-metal...

US States Get Ready to Fight Mercury Pollution

... has become a growing health concern. Mercury is a metal that occurs naturally. It is released in a gaseous form when coal is burned in electrical generating plants. Smokestack emissions drift across state borders, and the mercury lands far from where it was released. As the mercury falls on lake...

MRI Robotic Biopsies Simplified by PneuStep

...botics Lab report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled // robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging. The motor that drives the devices can be so precisely controlled by computer that movements...

MRI-safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible

...ns Hopkins claims to have invented a motor without metal or electricity that can be used to perform cancer biopsies and therapies guided// by magnetic resonance imaging. The motor that drives the devices can be so precisely controlled by computer that movements are steadier and more precise than a human...

Pigeon Feathers to Judge Pollution Levels

...i Gate of the city had the highest levels of heavy metal pollutants. Source-IANS/M...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Affect Risk of Depression, Inflammation

...e said, where concerns are greater about the heavy metal contamination such fish might contain. Omega-3 is also available as nutritional supplements. “This study has shown that even in people who did not take supplements, maybe just a little bit more omega-3, could help reduce their markers for both stre...

Welders Assist Surgeons in Andhra Pradesh

...led for over two hours to extricate Sukur from the metal frame. But his ordeal was not yet over, as it ...ever was jutting out. But still nearly a foot-long metal piece was left stuck in Sukur's throat. He was then taken to the government hospital. It was a c...

Real Life Jekyll and Hyde

...m his wife to protect her.The couple even placed a metal barrier between them. But it was not enough, as Rogers would climb over it to get to her.Mrs. Rogers then moved to a different room to avoid her husband attacking her. Mrs. Rogers says: 'He becomes like this other person. He is aggressive and his...

Health Minister Concerned About the Suicide Rates in India

... become first, which later leads to depression and metal illness. Though women attempt to commit suicide more, it's men who get success in their attempts," Paul added. Source-IANS...

Trial Run of Copper to Combat MRSA

...ning to put the anti- bacterial properties of this metal to use. Selly Oaks hospital in Birmingham, which...il, says that copper suffocates the germs. "The metal reacts with the bacteria and inhibits their respiration - in effect it stops them breathing”, he opi...

'Pan'demonium Over Non -stick Pans

...ich supports the production of coatings present on metal surfaces and non-stick cookware. There is a fear that PFOA could remain in small amounts in the finished product as a residue. As a result, Australian authorities have recommended that PFOA be phased out gradually. A study conducted by the U.S. Env...

Multi-Year Data Shows PAD Treatment Prevents Amputation

...some cases, this is held open with a stent, a tiny metal cylinder. This is a minimally invasive treatment that does not require surgery, just a nick in the skin the size of a pencil tip. In general, balloon angioplasty and stenting has replaced invasive surgery as the first-line treatment for PAD. Random...

New Device Offers Hope to Children With Chest, Spinal Deformities

...lung growth. During surgery, the device – a curved metal rod – is attached perpendicular to the patient's natural ribs and lumbar vertebra. Most often used for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome, a condition in which the thorax is unable to support normal respiration or lung growth, VEPTR can be implanted i...

Cancer Cells Forming Blood Vessels Send Their Copper to the Edge

...o have broad implications on the regulation of the metal ion content in metal-binding proteins. If such dra...idly during angiogenesis, then the interactions of metal ions, such as copper, with the proteins and macromolecules that bind them in the cell must have very...

DNA-based Detection of Heavy Metals

... -- a kind of pocket that can only accommodate the metal ion of choice. In this case, the researchers ...ce of DNA that could distinguish uranyl from other metal ions, the researchers used a combinatorial approach called in vitro selection. Simple and cost-effec...

Pregnant Women Must Eat Fish-experts Warn

...an women. Yet Myers discovered no link between the metal and their children's cognitive test scores. Myers feels that the oils in fish may protect against mercury's toxicity, and hence, plans further research to test this notion. ANN...

Study to Explore Using Magnets to Correct 'sunken Chest'

...to open and rebuild the chest and the insertion of metal struts to hold the chest in place while it heals. Complications can occur because the struts are under significant pressure, and the painful recovery can take months. "The problem with present techniques is that they attempt to reshape the chest wa...

Now Fight Iron Disorders With a Drug Against Hypertension

...of its iron to make red blood cells. A lack of the metal can lead to dangerous anemias, but also too much iron can be detrimental as iron promotes the formation of toxic radicals leading to tissue damage. Iron overload is the consequence of one of the most common genetic disorders in Europe, hereditary hem...

Man-Made Proteins Could Be More Useful Than Real Ones

... Schepartz and colleagues now want to try to bind metal ions to the Zwit1-F structure. Metal ion binding would enable the researchers to begin designing enzymes based on the a-peptide, she explained. “We're also interested in generating versions that can assemble in membranes, as a first step toward makin...

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