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Mercury can Kill

...rom tests conducted at hospitals revealed that the metal was present in amounts far exceeding the prescribed limits. Prashant Pastore, lead investigator of the study, said in his report that around 70 thermometer breakages occur every month in 300 to 500 bedded hospitals. And, on an average, a hospital p...

Pure Gold can Cause Allergy

...n of cheap fancy jewellery in which the underlying metal layers consist of nickel and other base metals. So when patients have complained of "gold allergy," dermatologists have been quick to assume that the patients had allergies to nickel. That is because 10 to 12 percent of the female population and 6 ...

MRI Better Than CT for Diagnosing Strokes

... They cannot be used for patients with pacemakers, metal objects, or pregnant women. The cost of MRI scans is also significantly more than CT scans and requires skilled technicians to operate them. “The superiority of MRI in detecting stroke in ideal conditions is unquestioned,” said Dr. Lee Schwamm, a...

Benefits of Carbon Monoxide

...hulme Trust for a three-year study into the use of metal compounds for the controlled release of carbon monoxide into the bloodstream. Carbon monoxide is an anti-inflammatory, and they want to explore its potential in treating high blood pressure, heart disease and possibly cancer. The project builds on ...

Lead With a Poisonous Electron Shield

...reversible. Complexation agents that grab onto the metal cations are used as antidotes. However, these agen...fic, meaning that they also remove other important metal cations from the body. C. Gourlaouen and O. Parisel (Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université P...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...r domestic purposes will exhibit symptoms of heavy metal poisoning." Because of the contaminated river and ground water, villagers along the Hindon suffer from serious illnesses such as cancer, neurological disorders, stomach and digestive disorders, skin lesions and respiratory disorders, the report said...

Ex-workers Ask HLL to Accept Liability for Mercury Deaths

...ent to inform employees about the dangers of toxic metal when the factory started in 1983, said a former worker K. Gopalakrishnan. "We learnt about the harmful effects on mercury only recently from friends and experts outside," he added. "Even though mercury is a neuro-toxic chemical and a known poison...

Heart Defect Is Linked to Some Cases of Migraine Headache

...a while until it heals, so you don’t need a lot of metal and fabric.” Sorce-Newswise SRM...

A Laboratory Filtration System Kills 100 Percent Of Dangerous Microbes In Water

...ism called the Fenton reaction - a process wherein metal catalysts cause hydrogen peroxide to produce large numbers of free radicals. Free radicals are atoms or molecules that have an extra electron in dire need of a partner (they obtain the partner by stripping it from a nearby atom, damaging the "victi...

Chromium May Help Diabetes, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease

Most of us think of chromium as the shiny metal in the bumpers of cars. Chrome bumpers are long gone, but the metal plays a crucial role in human health//, reports Harvard Men’s Health Watch. ? Chromium and cholest...

Lead Laden Metal Necklaces Turn Noose on Children’s Neck

...g that the consequences may even turn fatal if the metal necklace or key chain is put in the mouth, chewed ...cember 2006. The key chain contains silver-colored metal rings and a petite silver-colored metal chain with a silver colored flower with the word "Best" engr...

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (And Eating Again)

...vis is no longer a diabetic,’” says the owner of a metal fabricating and distributing company in Long Beach. “That in itself is quite a statement. When I was a teenager, I hoped there would someday be a cure for diabetes, but I never thought my cure would happen this way. Back then, we never imagined that ...

Olive Oil Emulsions Prevent Cardiac Bypass Surgery

...ies. Since being introduced in 1994, stents--the metal mesh tubes placed in a coronary artery to keep it open after an interventional procedure--have worked in the majority of patients. Coated or drug-eluting stents, which prevented restenosis (the re-closing of the artery a short time after stent inser...

Raging Fire Consumes 45 Lives in a Drug Rehab Hospital in Moscow

...were choked to death by the fumes when asleep. The metal gate from the corridor was locked preventing the frantic inmates from escaping the horrifying fire. Apparently this gate was locked to prevent drug addicts from leaving the premises. Some windows on the second floor of this five storey hospital build...

Tougher Fiber Dental ‘bridges’ for a Brighter Smie

... an alternative to ceramics and mercury-containing metal amalgams. Strassler selected three commercially available fiber-reinforced composites for analysis. Dental composites made with glass or polyethylene fibers are sold as pliable ribbons that dentists mold into the required shape and then harden wi...

Using Heart Stents Tends to Form More Clots

...ve procedures on patients when compared with bare metal stents said experts Shares of companies that manufacture drug-coated stents have fallen in recent days amid concern the FDA panel will highlight the risks of the medical devices. Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson, are the only two licensed c...

Zinc – A New Key Player In Brain Circuitr

...rs had not been able to show conclusively that the metal plays a role in normal nerve cell transmission. However, in an article in the November 22, 2006, issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press, Heinrich Betz and colleagues conclusively demonstrate just such a role for zinc. In their exper...

Novel methods to view how a drug attaches to a cell

...ons. The uncharged platinum atoms gather into tiny metal clumps. Once they reach a certain size, they also become active and catalyze the dendrite growth by adding more platinum atoms from the platinum salt. Little by little, small, flat, platinum dendrites form within the double lipid layer. "The impo...

Voluntary Recall Of Tainted Painkillers

...ed users that the pills could contain fragments of metal after trace amounts were found in some of its 500-...ipment. When sweeping around 70 million pills with metal detectors, Perrigo inspectors found that 200 caplets contained pieces of metal ranging from 1-millim...

Fruit Yogurt Could Play An Important Role In Diabetes Management

...ls can damage cellular machinery much the way that metal is turned to rust. The extracts from blueberry yogurts had the second-highest concentrations of phenols and the most antioxidant activity, the researchers found, beat out only by soy (even the plain soy yogurt had higher phenol content than any reg...

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