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El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...ith local influences such as monsoons and seasonal temperature changes, came from a hospital in Bangladesh that had tested all incoming patients for cholera for 18 years, from January 1980 to March 1998. The Ellner model took into consideration recent frequencies of cholera cases, an ENSO index based on sea-surf...

Frozen Canadian baby stages miraculous recovery

... a miraculous recovery. Read on to know more. The temperature outside was –24 degree Celsius and the baby was frozen stiff when she was brought to the hospital that doctors had difficulties opening her mouth. The girl heart had stopped and she was pulse less when she was brought to the hospital. Doctors at Edm...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...troke. The fever-reducer acetaminophen lowers body temperature in people who have had a stroke, according to a ne...dy conducted in The Netherlands. Rise in the body temperature during the first few days, though small enough that they hardly manifest as fever, has been linked t...

Dangers of heat

...rable people can begin to suffer problems when the temperature rises into the thirties. By the time the thermomet...y's thermoregulatory system stops working and body temperature rises to approximately 42C. Dr Ron Behrens, of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, told ...

Warm yourself to sleep

...swiftly if your hands and feet are warmer than the temperature of the bedroom. Herbal infusions, relaxation techn...t the Sleep Laboratory at Basel monitored the body temperature and functions of a group of young, healthy men as they nodded off. In every case, they fell asleep i...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...ll scale studies have found that lowering a baby's temperature may have beneficial effects. UK researchers are to investigate whether lowering a newborn baby's temperature by a few degrees can prevent the complications caused by asphyxia. Asphyxia can be caused by a numbe...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

Reducing body temperature by just a few degrees minimises brain damage resul...an abnormal heart rhythm. One group had their body temperature reduced to 34 to 32 degrees - hypothermia - over 24 hours, while the other group received normal car...

Smart Plastic As Surigical Thread

...engineered// to assume s string-like shape at room temperature and then transform into a medially useful shape when warmed by body temperature, said Robert Langer, o-author of a study in the journal Science. Langer, a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the plastic could be...

Chemists Discover Cation Considered Too Unstable To Exist

...ion is stable in the solid state for weeks at room temperature and in solution. The cyclopentadienyl cation is a common textbook example of an antiaromatic molecule, a molecule so electronically unstable and, therefore, extremely reactive that it should not exist for any length of time. Lambert believes the ca...

Combating insomnia with warm feet

... Shaver, is that better sleep occurs when the body temperature naturally lowers in the evening. By wearing warm b...ople with insomnia who have a reduced evening body temperature drop may experience a greater temperature change and go to sleep more easily. The booties are warme...

Flying with caution, with SARS

... Kong Airport Authority has begun to take the body temperature of all outbound passengers to prevent the spread of SARS. Airlines have trained staff to spot symptoms that might help identify passengers who are infected with SARS. Elevator buttons, water coolers doors and push plates are being disinfected hourly ...

Brain Temperature Tunnel dicovered

...as uncovered an area of the brain called the brain temperature tunnel. In what he calls a remarkable discovery, h...r the eye and nose is the entry point of the brain temperature tunnel. //He says this area of facial skin contains the highest amount of light energy on the surfac...

Common Plant Triggers Asthma

...toring stations and information on air pollutants, temperature and humidity levels.// They compared this data with the hospital admissions. The study reports there were close to 5,000 emergency admissions and half involved children. They found, at times, the emergency admissions rose but did not reach epidemic ...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...dicators of fertility -- changes in her basal body temperature and in her cervical mucus patterns -- plus some ca...uter that records and stores changes in basal body temperature also worked reasonably well.Thus researchers concludes that the symptothermal method of [natural fam...

Infant Fevers Found to Reduce Allergy Risk Later In Life

...r-related episodes. Researchers defined fever as a temperature of 101 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Half the children were evaluated again for allergies when they were between ages 6 and 7. Researchers tested the children for sensitivity to allergens such as dust mites, ragweed and cats. Results show 50 percen...

Stroke Patients May Benefit By Wearing Cooling Helmets

...ecovery in the long run after ischemic stroke. The temperature of the brain came down on surface cooling by Atleast 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit. It has also been noticed that the brain tends to function better in a cooler environment whereas organs like heart function better at normal body temperature. This type of c...

New Inhalation Anthrax Vaccine

...he injected liquid version and can withstand wider temperature extremes, in more extreme conditions without refrigeration. The vaccine has not yet been tested in humans, but investigators say clinical trials could be possible within the next two to three years.In laboratory tests using rabbits exposed to a leth...

Mother’s Milk Stored For Long Periods Found To Have Less Antioxidant

...t milk the longer it was stored and the colder the temperature at which it was stored. Researchers say this study is of special importance to premature newborns, since they are born with lowered antioxidant capacity and are susceptible to high levels of oxygen free radical activity....

Understanding The Mystery Behind Sleepless Nights

...bath at night , could get an individuals core body temperature elevated sufficiently and when one gets out of the bath their core body temperature starts to drop and it drops naturally as the individual dozes off. Passive body heat is found to lea...

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

...ominal cavity for a couple of houirs. The higher temperature increases the efficacy of the drug while the direct contact helps kill the carcinogenic cells. A trial was performed under Dr. Y Yoshida of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Fukui, Japan to test the efficiency and over-all surv...

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