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Air Pollution Linked To Heart Disease And Heart Attacks

...diseases and heart attacks. Depending on the body size and the activity level, people on an average inhale between 3,000 and 6,000 gallons of air each day. Manufacturing, transportation, electricity generation, and other human activities spew a bewildering array of pollutants into that air. On days whe...

Pig Bacterium (Streptococcus suis) Kills 24 In China

... is caused by known bacteria from pigs, though the size and virulence of the outbreak has baffled the World Health Organization. "It's never occurred in an outbreak this big before," WHO spokesman Bob Dietz told AFP. "We're accustomed to seeing only one or two cases. We're not accustomed to this large num...

An Anti-cancer Smart Bomb delivered using a Nanocell

... nanocells to evade the immune system, while their size ( 200 nanometers ) makes them preferentially taken into the tumor. They are small enough to pass through tumor vessels, but too large for the pores of normal vessels. Once the nanocell is inside the tumor, its outer membrane disintegrates, rapidly ...

Size Of The Waist In Children Linked To Diabetes

Waist size in children has been linked to the health condition of insulin resistance and diabetes type 2. The research report is published //in the new edition of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The prevalence of childhood obesity has...

New Tools To Identify Flu Strains

... the genes are cut, you can separate them based on size in a gel." The pattern of fragment sizes tells you the locations of the cuts in the DNA, and this provides a "fingerprint" that distinguishes the type of flu. During that process, the DNA fragments are run though a gel, which, when it is electricall...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...rks varies according to the type of tissue and the size and nature of the damage. For more information read: http://www.medindia.com/know_ur_body/ immune.asp...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...e US, an operation that reduces the stomach to the size of a pouch that can hold 30 to 60 ml. The procedure also places a bypass around the middle portion of the small intestine to decrease the amount of calories absorbed. The weight-loss operation was also found to offer cure to obesity-related health ...

Children's Waistlines A Predictor Of Future Heart Disease

The size of children's tummies may offer a simple method of... levels of blood fats.The study measured the waist size of children aged six to 13 and compared the results with measurements of metabolic syndrome componen...

Sox 18 Slows Cancers

... Bioscience. "Tumours cannot grow above a certain size unless they attract growth of blood vessels, so by being able to control blood vessel development we may be ble to slow or stop the cancer, and the next step will be to establish which genes interact with Sox 18 to control blood vessel development an...

Making operation and recovery time shorter

...en surgery, the procedures greatly: * reduced the size of the incision* the complexitiy of the operation* patient's pain* recovery timeAt the U-M and many other centers Laproscopic techniques were performed with tiny cameras and instruments in tubes inserted through small incisions and have nearly replac...

New molecule to treat brain disorders found

...t to administer to patients as a treatment. Larger size molecules are not able to cross the barrier that prevents many drugs from entering the brain. Small molecules, on the other hand, can more easily enter the brain.Thus adenosine may be a potential treatment for brain ailments, according to inv...

An Eye Opener for the blind

...ckage has now been miniaturized so it is about the size of a dictionary and weighs approximately 4.5 kilos, including batteries. Dr. Dobelle said that the new artificial vision systems are expected to be made available, on a limited commercial basis, starting later this year....

Head Size Risks for Alzheimer's

...o researchers of University of South Florida, the size of a person's head may be one risk factor for Alzh...dy is not enough to definitively link smaller head size with an increased risk of Alzheimer's....

Handheld ECG: stethoscope of the future

... has reduced these echocardiography systems to the size of a laptop computer. For their study, the Duke researchers recruited Duke second-year medical residents and cardiology fellows who had no prior experience with echocardiography and gave them three hours of point-of-care echo (POCE) training.They we...

Mini motor for micromedical applications

... State’s Materials Research Institute is about the size of a grain of rice. They are 1.8 mm in diameter and 4 mm long.// Tiny, but powerfull, the smallest motor’s rotation can just be stopped with the pressure of thumb and forefinger, but those only slightly larger will tear the skin and draw blood. “Ini...

Lessening operation and recovery time

...en surgery, the procedures greatly: * reduced the size of the incision * the complexitiy of the operation * patient's pain * recovery time At the U-M and many other centers Laproscopic techniques were performed with tiny cameras and instruments in tubes inserted through small incisions and have nearly re...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...esearch, felt that there's a lot of work about the size at birth. Birth weight is a crude measurement. It ...study children who have had serial measurements of size in (the uterus) that follow their growth, and these observations take us back into early pregnancy. ...

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

...gs," he added . Such gold nanoparticles of uniform size can also be useful in labelling proteins , nucleic...articles are more conecntrated and more uniform in size than particles biosynthesised by previous methods that used a fungus , according to the paper publis...

New !! Birth Control Option For Men

...amp is placed across the vas.// The clamp is the size of a grain of rice and it clicks on and prevents sperm from passing through. In a study of 300 men, there was less pain and fewer complications such as swelling and bleeding. Researchers say Twenty-four to 36 hours after the procedure, you can get ba...

Titanium Rib Found To Be Effective In Treating Spinal Deformities In Children

...ld would eventually end up with a chest cavity the size of a 1-year-old or a newborn, say specialists. The titanium rib is an expandable prosthesis that's made out of titanium, It fixates to either a rib or parts of the spine, and it's to correct chest wall deformities or a spinal deformity. The titanium...

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