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Signalife Recorder Transmits Heart Rate Data From Champ Car Driver in Real-Time

...ographic (ECG) data in the harsh environment of an open cockpit race car presents several challenges. To address these challenges, Signalife developed a novel ECG recorder capable of acquiring full clinical-bandwidth data from drivers participating in the Champ Car racing. "The data that we have been able...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...tato growers each had tiny strips of land in vast, open fields, making it easy for a blight to rampage through their single crop. In India, forests which could have preserved moisture when water was scarce were massively cut down by the British to make way for tea plantations. In Ethiopia, soil degradatio...

Pennsylvania Government's Partial Shutdown Ends

...ule Sunday night on whether to keep the facilities open until casino owners could argue their case that they should stay open. br> The second-term Democratic governor blamed Republicans, who control the Senate, for the potential furloughs, accusing them of dragging their feet on priorities he asked th...

Parental Match-making Blossoms in a Beijing Park

...eir CVs and hide their photos. And while some were open about the minutiae of their children's lives, none would give their names. Their shyness is also provoked by the horror that would greet them if their children knew they were being peddled in a park. "My daughter is very busy and she doesn't know...

Armani to Launch First Spa in Tokyo

...gner Giorgio Armani's group said Wednesday it will open its first spa this autumn in Japan, a nation beloved of both hot springs and high fashion. The Armani Group is opening its giant Armani/Ginza Tower in Ginza, one of Tokyo's ritziest districts, as part of its strategy to lure customers in Japan, al...

HIV Prevention Programs on a Massive Scale Turn Out Economical

... Institute. In the study, published in the online open access journal BMC Health Services Research, researchers examined six types of ongoing prevention interventions: voluntary counseling and testing, programs targeting sex workers, treatment for curable sexually transmitted diseases, information, educa...

Larger HIV Prevention Programs in India are Cheaper, Increase Efficiency

...cy Studies. The study is published in the online open access journal BMC Health Services Research....

Understanding HIV Interference With Infected Cell Division

...he mechanism by which it affects cell division may open new avenues for therapeutic intervention against HIV....

McDonald's to Start Coffee Chain in Japan

...ese unit of the global burger empire said it will open 15 "McCafes" in the Tokyo region next month and hoped to set up more from the next financial year. McDonald's, which was the pioneering fast food chain in Japan in the 1970s, said the new project was aimed at drawing people to "fast casual cafes." ...

The Importance of Junk DNA

...Decoding the information written in junk DNA could open new areas of medical research, particularly in the area of gene therapy. Scientists may find that transferring encoding genes into a patient, without also transferring the surrounding genomic sequences which give structure or meaning to these genes...

Strategies for the Summer

...py times when everyone wants to be outdoors in the open air rather than cooped up inside the house. But being out in the open summer for too long, can take its toll in way of heat strokes and excessive sun exposure. This is wa...

Modified Herpes Virus Keeps Arteries Free-flowing Following Procedures

...ys, One of the drawbacks of balloon angioplasty to open blocked arteries and the use of stents to keep them open is that arteries sometimes experience aggravation from the procedure. The balloon angioplasty, in ad...

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

.... These are dumped into the Noyyal River or in the open wasteland. Kalidass, an environmentalist, says: 'The agricultural lands will slowly become desert because of this sludge. Sludge will kill all the microorganisms in the earth. They will also contaminate water sources in the surroundings.' Environ...

More Cancer Testing Urged in Australian TV Studios

...eople look hard enough and long enough and keep an open book, just maybe there's some clues there to unlock some of the mysteries and some of the answers as to what causes breast cancer," he said. His wife was still in hospital but had received an "excellent prognosis" and the family hoped to have her ...

Los Angeles Diocese Opts for Huge Payout in Sexual Abuse Cases

...inal Roger Mahony recently told parishioners in an open letter that the archdiocese was selling its high-rise administrative building and considering the sale of about 50 other nonessential church properties to raise funds for a settlement. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge overseeing the cases ...

Arthroscopic Treatment of Tennis Elbow is Successful

...is much quicker with arthroscopic technique versus open surgery, while the complication rate is equal or less....

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

...uids like saliva, breast milk, vaginal secretions, open wounds, and even tears. The virus is virulent, because it could cause a host of associated chronic illnesses, like Hepatocellular carcinoma. It is estimated that more than half a million people worldwide die each year from hepatocellular carcinoma (...

War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry

... that reads muscle twitches as electric signals to open and close a hook or hand attachment. But its response time, even at less than a second, is so slow that Salzman prefers an old-fashioned, "body-powered" prosthesis, controlled by a cable and rubber bands. "I don't like having to wait if I want to g...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

...ied air at a continuous high flow rate through the open nasal cannula. While patients with severe sleep apneas may be more highly motivated to adhere to treatment with CPAP or surgery, younger, thinner and healthier patients with milder disorders may find the TNI approach appealing, according to Dr. Safw...

Queen Latifah Set to Open Burger Joint

Rapper/singer/actress Queen Latifah is set to open FatBurger fast food joint in Miami, Florida . The 37-year-old who plans to open the new South Beach diner revealed that she has been hooked to the idea of FatBurger since the time ...

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