Temperature in Medical News

FDA selects Sensotech's Wireless Temperature Monitoring System

The US Food and Drug Administration Laboratories in Massachusetts have selected Sensotech's new cutting edge Wireless Temperature Monitoring Systems to monitor and record the temperature of its laboratory equipment. Simi Valley, CA (PRWEB) -- The FDA laboratories have s...

Prevent Disaster with New Low Cost Temperature Scan Wireless Monitoring System

The newly released Temperature Scan Pro Wireless Monitoring System allows monitoring and logging of temperature, humidity and barometric pressure for up to thirty-two points. The system supports a variety of wireless monitoring devices for any application and environmental setting. The enterpri...

Philips Expands Emergency Healthcare Offering With Acquisition of InnerCool Therapies, a Leader in Body Temperature Management

AMSTERDAM and SAN DIEGO, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Royal Philips (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG ) announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of InnerCool Therapies Inc., a pioneer in the field of therapeutic hypothermia, which involves the management of a pati...

CenTrak Releases New Temperature Tag for Healthcare

CenTrak, a leading provider of Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and people indoors, today announced the release of its new Temperature Tag (TempTag) for use with its InTouchCare 2.0™ asset and people tracking system. CenTrak's TempTag is unique in its ability to tra...

SensoTech Awarded Wireless Temperature Monitoring Contract By Amerinet

SensoTech Inc, a market leader in Environmental Monitoring solutions for the Healthcare Industry, announced that its RFID Wireless Temperature monitoring and other environmental monitoring solutions, are now available to more than 2,300 Amerinet healthcare customers. Si...

Can lowering body temperature prevent brain damage in children who suffer cardiac arrest?

ANN ARBOR, Mich. In the first large-scale study of its kind, researchers at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the University of Utah will lead a multi-center study to investigate whether hypothermialowering body temperaturecan prevent or reduce brain damage in childre...

Cynosure Enhances Industry-Leading Smartlipo Laser Lipolysis Workstation with Increased Energy and Intelligent Temperature Sensing

Company's New Smartlipo MPX 46 Watts Enables Physicians to Melt and Remove Larger Areas of Fat 50% Faster, with Superior Patient Safety WESTFORD, Mass., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cynosure, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYNO ), a leading developer and manufacturer of a broad array of light-based ...

DeltaTRAK Responds to Swine Flu Outbreak With Full Line of Products for Temperature Sensitive Vaccines

PLEASANTON, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- DeltaTRAK(R), Inc., a leading manufacturer of cold chain management solutions and life science products has increased production of all products that help ensure product efficacy for vaccines and pharmaceuticals. All these products are designed to monit...

Saving Vaccines with SensoTech's Breakthrough in Vaccine Temperature Monitoring

Finally, there is a practical and affordable solution to meet the temperature monitoring requirements for vaccine temperature monitoring. SensoTech, the pioneers of embedded web-based wireless temperature monitoring, now offers a Vaccine Monitoring module. Simi Valley,...

ALSIUS CORPORATION PREPARED TO INVALIDATE ZOLL TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT PATENTS

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alsius Corporation (Nasdaq: ALUS ), the worldwide leader in intravascular temperature management (IVTM(TM)) therapies for critically ill patients, today announced that it is prepared to respond aggressively to the patent lawsuit brought against it...

Patient Temperature Management Systems Enjoying Wider Usage

LONDON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With issues around patient comfort gaining momentum, hospitals and healthcare decision makers are recognising the need to consider patients' relief and welfare. This is leading to a growing demand for patient temperature management systems, which are being used for ...

More Than Temperature Puts Elderly at Risk in Heat

Medications, lifestyle are also contributing factors to hyperthermia, agency warns SUNDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Because aging affects the body's ability to respond to summer heat, older adults are particularly at risk for heat-related illnesses such as heat stroke, heat fatigue...

Cool, Dry Air Blown Under Football Shoulder Pads Reduces Body Temperature and Heart Rate, New Research Finds

New Possibility to Reduce Potential for Heat Illness, Study Suggests Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) July 10, 2008 -- Cool, dry air flowing between the athlete and their football pads reduces core body temperature and heart rate dramatically, thereby reducing the likelihood of...

Cool, air blown under football shoulder pads reduces body temperature and heart rate, research finds

ORLANDO, Florida Cool, dry air flowing between the athlete and their football pads reduces core body temperature and heart rate dramatically, thereby reducing the likelihood of heat-related illness, a study released today at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting...

Adroit Medical Systems Awarded Premier Supplier Contract for Temperature Therapy Systems

New three-year agreement extends alliance members' access to medical product company's industry-leading, non-invasive temperature therapy systems. LOUDON, Tenn., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Adroit Medical Systems, Inc. today announced its award of a 36-month suppli...

FDA Approves NOVO NORDISK's NovoSeven(R) RT (Coagulation Factor VIIa [Recombinant] Room Temperature Stable) for Hemophilia Patients With Inhibitors

First Recombinant Room Temperature Stable Treatment for Hemophilia With Inhibitors Offers More Flexibility and Convenience to Patients PRINCETON, N.J., May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novo Nordisk today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved NovoSeven(R) RT ...

ThalesNano Announces the Launch of X-Cube Flash(TM), its Next Generation High Temperature and Pressure Continuous Process Reactor

BUDAPEST, Hungary, PRINCETON, New Jersey and LONDON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ThalesNano Inc. today announced the launch of the latest in its Cube(TM) flow reactor series, the X-Cube Flash(TM). This novel product is validated with several important chemistry applications. The X-Cube Flash(TM) ...

More than Seventy Percent of Top US Hospitals Control Patient Temperature with High-Tech Arctic Sun(TM)

Automated non-invasive cooling avoids DVT danger; precise control of rewarming key to averting brain damage LOUISVILLE, Colo., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Led by the nation's top hospitals, adoption of the safest, most effective cooling technology-the non- invasive Arctic Sun(R)...

Iowa State University researcher's work on gender, temperature link in reptiles published in Nature

AMES, Iowa An Iowa State University researcher who spent four years in Australia studying reptiles is having his findings published in the journal Nature this week. Nature is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of science, and is the most-cited weekly science journal in t...

New buffer resists pH change, even as temperature drops

Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a simple solution to a problem that has plagued scientists for decades: the tendency of chemical buffers used to maintain the pH of laboratory samples to lose their efficacy as the samples are cooled. The research team, headed by chemistry profe...

Researchers Discover Key to Body’s Ability to Detect Subtle Temperature Change

Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body’s sensing capabilities. Vision, for example//, is made possible in part by rhodopsin, a pigment molecule that is extremely sensitive to light. It is involved in turning photons into electrical signals that can be decoded by...

Sensor Images Show Soaring Temperature and Pollution Levels in UK

Summer temperatures have been on an all time high in the United Kingdom, and space sensors have also been keeping tabs on the rising temperature and pollution levels. //According to the Met office reports, during the period from 15th to 19th July, the temperatures were a record high in UK along wit...

Evolution influenced by Temperature change

Professor Hunt and Roy from University of California, San Diego has published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences// their views on evolution of bigger animals from small animals. Researchers found that evolution also occurred in deep sea animals and they found that...

Brain Temperature Tunnel dicovered

Physician and scientist M. Marc Abreu, M.D., says he has uncovered an area of the brain called the brain temperature tunnel. In what he calls a remarkable discovery, he says this precise area of the brain controls the key function and critical factor for life preservation and human performance -- b...

Menthol Receptor-A Thermosensitivity Determinant in Cold Temperature

According to a study in Nature by Yale School of Medicine, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of Wisconsin, the menthol receptor detects a wide range of cold temperatures and relays the information to the brain. The finding solves the mystery of how impo...

Substance P May Pre-empt VIP in Regulating Temperature

An elusive neurotransmitter pathway in the skin may have been isolated by University of Oregon researchers, a discovery that, if confirmed, //would be a leap forward in understanding how temperature regulation occurs. In other words, they may have found a major player in the machinery that allows p...

98.6 degrees no longer the benchmark for normal temperature

Dr. Carl Wunderlich, a 19th-century German physician gave us the magic figure of 98.6 degrees. This was done by him after collecting and analysing over a million armpit temperatures for 25,000 patients.// This has been corrected by Harvard researchers and appears in the April issue of the Harva...

Hospice Partners On Call Selects Category 5 Hurricane Rated 1Vault Networks to Safeguard Server and Call Center Infrastructure

...s migrated its back-up infrastructure to a colocation cabinet in the 22,000 square-foot, raised floor 1Vault Data Center, which is monitored for ideal temperature and humidity levels. In addition to guaranteeing redundant power to ensure uninterrupted service, 1Vault is also providing redundant and dive...

United Cargo Launches Temp Control Service

...re and pharmaceutical products that require strict temperature controls and monitoring during transport. B...ical products often require transport under strict temperature conditions in order to remain viable for use, Temp Control offers three temperature ranges to meet customers' specific shipping needs:...

Cooling treatment after cardiac arrest is cost-effective, Penn study shows

... of more than 300,000 people each year in the United States and leaves thousands of others neurologically devastated. The treatment, which lowers body temperature to prevent damage to the brain and other major organs when blood flow is restored to the body following cardiac arrest, is considered a good value whe...

Makers of the High-Tech 'Thermal Angel Blood Warmer' Say Lawmakers Should Look for Private Sector Solutions During Health Care Debate

...al care administration because it helps prevent a trauma victim's core body temperature from dropping to a hypothermic level. Why is it so effective? Pre... 9 oz.), the Thermal Angel utilizes advanced technology which regulates temperature almost 5,000 times per second. It also requires only 30 seconds to set up a...

Nurses Choose Exergen TemporalScanner(TM) Thermometer as 'Most Valuable Product' in Annual Industry Survey

...day-to-day practice. Exergen's infrared temporal artery thermometer is the most accurate and least invasive product on the market and provides temperature readings in just two seconds. With a gentle stroke of the forehead the instrument captures the naturally emitted heat from the skin over the temporal...

The San Francisco SPCA Launches Online Guide for Summer Pet Health & Safety

...ety tips for summer will help you and your pets enjoy the season: 1. Never leave your dog/cat in the car--even with windows cracked down . The temperature can rise in minutes with deadly results. Learn to recognize the symptoms of heat stroke . And always carry your veterinarian's telephone number; be...

Scientists Find Way to Make 'Good' Brown Fat

...ctory in the fight against obesity and type 2 diabetes. Brown fat is "good" fat because it burns energy, acting as a furnace, to help regulate body temperature by generating heat. The more of this fat you have, the leaner you tend to be. "Brown fat is necessary for thermogenesis [heat production], to preve...

Cardium Completes Sale of InnerCool Therapies Business to Royal Philips Electronics

...sue Repair Company. InnerCool Therapies ((R)) , InnerCool ((R)) , Celsius Control System ((R)) , RapidBlue(TM), CoolBlue(TM). Accutrol ((R)) , temperature Control Element ((R) ) and TCE ((R) ) and UroCool (TM) a re trademarks of InnerCool Therapies, Inc. (other trademarks belong to their respective owner...

Tips for Transporting Your Pet in California

...aving a pet in your lap while driving. -- Never leave pets unattended in vehicles, as they can get injured, stolen or suffer or even die from temperature extremes. The California Veterinary Medical Association is the largest state veterinary medical association in the United States , ...

Guard Against Swine Flu at Summer Camp

...ted children. Consider leaving siblings behind when visiting a child at camp. The H1N1 virus is particularly contagious among children. Check your temperature the night before and the morning of your visit. Bring some extra alcohol-based hand sanitizer with you. More information The American Academy...

Swine Flu Vaccine on Track for Fall: CDC

... around the world. "This virus is not going away," Schuchat said, adding that it's still causing infections in the United States in the summer, "in temperature and humidity conditions that are not very favorable to seasonal influenza virus transmission." On Friday, the CDC was reporting 40,617 confirmed ca...

Life-Saving 'Thermal Angel' Blood Warmer Is Immediately Available For Use By U.S. Troops In Harm's Way

... The high-tech Thermal Angel helps to prevent a trauma victim's core body temperature from dropping to a hypothermic level. "The first 60 minutes after a trauma...s. The Thermal Angel utilizes advanced technology which regulates temperature almost 5,000 times per second. It requires 30-45 seconds to set up and star...

U.S. Debut: Holistic Health And Beauty From The Rainforest - New Book Reveals Closely Guarded Malaysian Health and Beauty Secrets Introducing the World to Time-Honored Tradition of Ramuan

...e. For example, the book breaks down the idea that food possesses "hot" or "cold" values; the terms hot and cold are not specifically associated with temperature but rather indicate latent properties associated with certain dietary items. In order to bring balance to the body, "cold" foods like cucumber and eg...