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Remote Device to Monitor Patients Daily at Their Homes

...nted defibrillator sends data to a wireless system placed in the patient’s home. The data is automatically transmitted to a secure Internet server where the physician can access this medical information anytime, from anywhere. Unlike other remote devices, which only transmit data if certain parameters are...

Stomach Banding Surgery Effective for Adolescents

... they eat. The ring is connected to a port that is placed underneath the skin at the time of surgery. At regular monthly visits, the ring can be made tighter or looser by injecting saline into the port. This minimally invasive procedure is usually performed in under an hour. It is reversible, adjustable, an...

Coffee Could Help Cure Baldness

...ages of hair loss. He extracted hair follicles and placed them in test tubes with solutions containing different levels of caffeine. The samples were left in the laboratory for up to eight days to monitor growth, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. At the end of the experiment, it was found that c...

Einstein's Tea Leaves Inspire New Blood Separation Technique

... blood enters a fluid chamber, and a needle tip is placed close to the surface of the blood at an angle. A voltage is applied to the needle, generating ions around its tip that repel the oppositely charged ions close to it. This creates an airflow known as "ionic wind" that sweeps across the surface of the ...

'Beavertail' Surgery Helps Tongue Cancer Patients

... to the point that they must be fed through a tube placed through their skin directly into the stomach, because they can't take enough food to maintain their calorie requirements. The so-called 'beavertail' modification adds more bulk to the tongue, helping protect it from the effects of radiotherapy. ...

Horse Heart Coherence May Be Key To Non-invasive Stress Detection

... Gehrke’s San Diego ranch where ECG recorders were placed on her and four of her horses. The subjects were monitored during a 24-hour period in which the horses experienced normal conditions and activities such as eating, grooming, being alone, and being ridden and accompanied by Dr. Gehrke. The ECG reco...

In Search of Truth - 'Lie Detector

...ected to the chest and abdominal region. A cuff is placed on the upper arm to detect blood pressure. Galvanometers or fingerplates are attached to the fingertips of the candidate. When subjected to questioning, variations in the physiological responses of the subject are translated into electrical signals t...

Allergic Reactions to Insulin Have Declined

...human insulin has been sequenced, and the sequence placed in bacteria. These modified organisms then produce the human insulin protein which can then be purified and used for therapy. Fewer people react to this 'recombinant insulin' because this is the human protein. Now that scientists know the gene seque...

Dawn Machine Beats Wintertime Blues

...ly during the final hours of sleep by an apparatus placed next to the bed. In their study, Dr. Michael Terman and Dr. Jiuan Su Terman of Columbia University randomly assigned 99 adults with SAD to one of five treatments: dawn simulation equivalent to that of May in northern temperate latitudes; a brief d...

Nanoparticle Uptake Zoom by Repetitive Motion

...a solution of buckyball-containing amino acids was placed on small sections of pig skin. In some experiments, the skin was held still, and in others it was flexed for either an hour or an hour and a half. Measurements were taken eight hours after exposure and 24 hours after exposure. The team found that t...

A Study Explores the Medical Potentials of Bucky Amino Acids

...solutions of buckyball-containing amino acids were placed on small sections of pigskin. In some experiments, the skin was held still, and in others it was flexed for either an hour or an hour and a half. Measurements were taken eight hours after exposure and 24 hours after exposure. Buckyballs are spheric...

Crucial Link Between Body Composition and Cancer Risk

... of transgenic mice were divided and one group was placed in cooler environs and another group, at a warmer place. It was seen that the mice at the cooler place expended more calories with an effort to keep the body warm and had lost weight, as compared o the mice in the warmer environs. These mice got heav...

Body Composition Is Key Player in Controlling Cancer Risks

...n consumption, confers cancer risk.” Nagy’s team placed transgenic mice into two controlled environments, either 27 degrees centigrade or 22 degrees centigrade, and fed them equal amounts of food. The mice living at the cooler environment needed more energy to regulate their internal temperature and so bu...

President Bush's AIDS-Fighting Program Fraught With Inconsistencies

...ght to light by the audit. Joe Farinella, a well placed regulator at the U.S. Agency for International Development said, "It's not good enough for the auditors to hear from the mission that we did A, B and C but we can't prove it to you, or there's no documentation to prove that we did it." While accept...

More Men Prompted for Syphilis Tests

...with an increase in syphilis tests. The cartoons placed in a gay newspaper, and poster-sized reproductions were posted on the streets, on bus shelters, on gay websites, and in gay bars. The researchers, led by Katherine Ahrens (San Francisco Dept of Public Health), conducted two surveys--one at six months...

Come Apart and Rest Awhile – It’s Christma!

... make them happy. The gifts are usually packed and placed at the bottom of the Christmas tree. People wait until midnight to open the goodies and celebrate the sparkle of Christmas with gifts, looking forward to the choicest blessings from God. On Christmas Eve, churches hold midnight mass and day service...

Unbelted Backseat Passengers Produce Deadly Results

...all child, or even if you have packages or luggage placed in the seat behind you, if they are not belted or safely secured, they can inflict fatal injuries to a driver," Mayrose warns. The researchers also tested the possibility of injury occurring during a side-impact collision to the driver's side of a ...

Olive Oil Emulsions Prevent Cardiac Bypass Surgery

...g introduced in 1994, stents--the metal mesh tubes placed in a coronary artery to keep it open after an inte...tent delivery. "Patients in whom stents cannot be placed are at high risk of abrupt re-closure of the artery which could lead to life-threatening complicatio...

Defibrillators Should Be Available in Ski Resorts

... week’s BMJ say that more defibrillators should be placed in ski resorts to help prevent sudden cardiac deat...used to restore a normal heartbeat. They are often placed in busy public places like airports and stadiums. Downhill skiing is the most popular winter sport...

Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

...e localized swelling under the tongue, where it is placed or mild itching in some persons. The fact that monthly injections can be replaced with popping a pill surely scores for the new vaccine pill. Grazax manufactured by Danish company ALK-Albello has been granted approval for sale in 27 countries inclu...

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