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Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...ent effectively act as metal detectors. When a car passes over a loop, the detector sends a signal to a computer in a control box at the side of the road. The controller may simply count the number of cars that pass by and calculate average speed, or it may actively control traffic. Ramp meters are one ex...

MedAir AB Announces the Launch of Fingertip Pulse Oximeter

...and use of standard AAA batteries. The device also passes IPX2 testing against water ingress. Today's medical community knows MedAir for its accurate and easy-to-operate capnography and pulse oximetry monitors. The LifeSense(R) multi- parameter monitor, introduced in 2001, brought WIDESCREEN(TM) technolog...

Urine is a Rich Source of Phosphorus

...ing toilets but with the difference that the urine passes to a holding tank through a second set of pipes. Farmers empty the holding tank at regular periods by using the urine as fertilizer. She insists that the recycling systems provide additional benefits to the environment because the toilets use less...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...ts members will have their own vote, once the vote passes the AMA. Khan also recommended that parents should allow their children to be in front of television and computer screens for a maximum of one to two hours a day. Video game time would be included in that amount. The AMA would not be voting that a...

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

...tists say that oral sex is a risky sexual act that passes on the human papillomavirus or HPV between partners and may give cause to oral cancer even if the person does not smoke, drink or use any substance known to predispose to the disease. Says lead researcher Maura L. Gillison, an assistant professor o...

Estrogen is Important for Bone Health in Men as Well as Women

...nsity." When estrogen circulates in the body, it passes through the liver where several enzymes convert the standard hormone to other forms - some of these forms, or estrogen metabolites, are active and some are inactive. Individuals differ in how they process estrogen, so the levels of these estrogen met...

Smart Pill for Non-invasive Diagnoses of Stomach Problems

...ansponder, has made the process quick and easy. It passes through the stomach, intestines and bowel and transmits critical diagnostic informationpH, temperature and the amount of pressure in the stomach and intestinesto a receiver attached to a belt worn by the patient. A few days later, the doctors gathe...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...lieve that it is relatively safe because the smoke passes through water. However, serious forms of lung disease, oral and bladder cancer and addiction are associated with sheesha. Women who use them during pregnancy face an increased risk of having babies with low birth weight. It does not help to subst...

Orissa Under Anthrax Threat

...ed. Anthrax usually affects cattle but some time passes to humans if they eat contaminated meat. Antibiotics often cure the disease if it is diagnosed early. However, many people do not know they have anthrax until it is too late to cure it. A vaccine to prevent anthrax is available for military personn...

Anthrax Kills Six in Orissa

...two villages. Anthrax usually affects cattle but passes on to humans if they eat contaminated meat. The disease, if not diagnosed early, can be fatal....

Sunscreen Maybe Helpful in Preventing Skin Cancer

... UV radiation that reaches the earth from the sun) passes through window glass,' noted Hans-Georg Dauer, a dermatologist from Cologne. Dauer recommends shades for the car's back-seat windows so that children are not left unprotected. Kalbheim said that people should avoid exposure to direct sunlight as ...

Kenya to Implement National Food and Nutrition Policy

... are adaptable for Kenya.” If the current draft passes several steps of approval, it is expected that the official policy will be accepted by the middle of 2007. “We want to facilitate genuine ownership and collaboration on nutrition and food policy in Kenya,” Gleason concludes, “so that the many ministr...

New York Doctors Remove Gallbladder Through Vagina

...mall hole created in the stomach wall. The surgeon passes instruments through this hole to dissect the target organ, eventually extracting it through the stomach and out of the mouth. End result: no scars on the belly, no pain of cuts or wound infections. Dr.Bresler who performed the latest operation said...

Scientists Concerned About Gonorrhea’s Drug Resistanc

... to cephalosporin. Infection with gonorrhea that passes from one person to another during sexual activity increases the risk of passing on or becoming infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS)- a deadly condition in which the immune system begins to fail. Source-IANS...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...re are hitting the bottle. And the infected father passes on the disease to his children. What is the way out then? Of course concrete measures to reduce poverty and illiteracy, most urgently in the BIMARU region (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh), considered the most underdeveloped pock...

Meningitis in Infancy Erodes Academic Success

... who had had the infection did not manage any GCSE passes at grade C or above compared with just over 6% of the comparison group. Almost half of the teens at state schools who had had meningitis in early childhood failed to achieve the national educational standard of five grade C GSCE passes. This rate...

New Screening Techniques for Cervical Cancer in Chennai Government Hospital

... The physician focuses on the areas where no light passes through. Abnormal cervical changes and also abnormal blood vessel changes could be detected through cloposcope. The enlarged view provided by the colposcope allows the colposcopist to visually distinguish normal from abnormal appearing tissue and ...

Genetic Tests to Reveal ‘substance Abuse’ Tendencis

...s' health care. "Blood is the one substance that passes through all the other organs, and we now have the potential to make it a window into preventing and treating disease," he said. "Practitioners, as well as patients, need to understand the consequences. Fortunately, we have time before tests are devel...

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

.... The device takes donated blood from a blood bag, passes it through several “sandwiches” of the prion-capture resin beads placed between nonwoven fabric membranes, and places the filtered blood in a separate blood bag prior to infusion into a patient or blood donation recipient. The filter device, to be ...

Uric Acid Levels Tied to Impaired Thinking in the Elderly

... Most uric acid is filtered out by the kidneys and passes out of the body in urine. The level of uric acid in the blood increases if too much is being produced or if the kidneys are not able to remove it from the blood normally. The researchers said the mechanism linking uric acid levels and cognitive fun...

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