PA's Smoking Ban Should Filter Into Homes and Cars Too, According to Temple University Expert
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On September 11, the Pennsylvania smoking ban will filter into public places. "Now it is up to individuals and families to make their homes and cars smoke-free too," said Jennifer Ibrahim, Temple University assistant professor of public healt...It's Probably Time to Replace Your Vehicle's Cabin Air Filter
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- If you get headaches, allergic reactions or breathing problems riding in your car, it's probably time to change the cabin air filter. Cabin air filters clean the incoming air and remove allergens, and should be replaced every 12,000 to 15,000 miles, or p...Bicycle-Powered Portable Water Filter System For Disaster Zones
Researchers have developed a portable water filtration system, powered by bicycle that can be used in disaster zones//. The Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) institute of environmental science and engineering unveiled the unit, consisting of a bicycle coupled with a mechanical pump and ...FDA Approves New 3000 IU Vial Size for Kogenate(R) FS, antihemophilic factor (recombinant)
...ab & Go packaging with BIO-SET(R), a compact and complete reconstitution system. Grab & Go includes the Terumo(R) SURFLO(R) Infusion Set with filter and other materials necessary for safe reconstitution and fast recombinant factor VIII treatment in a small, tamper-evident box with anticounterfeitin...Freezing Kidney Cancer: Hot Treatment Should Be New Gold Standard for Destroying Small Tumors
...d the tenth in women. The most common type of kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma, which forms in the lining of the renal tubules in the kidney that filter the blood and produce urine. Approximately 85 percent of kidney tumors are renal cell carcinomas. More than 32,000 Americans each year are diagno...For Old or Young Dialysis Patients, AV Fistulas Remain Pure Gold
...rolyte and acid-base balance. A machine is used to filter blood outside one's body, allowing blood to flow, a few ounces at a time, through a special filter that removes wastes and extra fluids. The clean bl... has averaged more than 90,000 annually. Kidneys filter waste from the blood and regulate other functions ...Infant Blood May Provide Insights into Diseases Present at Birth
...most countries around the world. Typically, this involves pricking the heel of newborns, also known as a "heel stick," to get a few drops of blood on filter paper. The blood is then screened for diseases for which early diagnosis and therapy can cure, prevent, or lessen the effects of the disease. The li...Nephros Completes Pivotal U.S. Clinical Trial for its Hemodiafiltration Products
... used for on-line HDF therapy. The OLpur(TM) MD220 filter employs our proprietary Mid-Dilution diafiltration...e Ultrafilter (DSU). The DSU has the capability to filter out bacteria, parasites, viruses and other biotoxi...sign reduces the risk and facilitates detection of filter failure. With initial applications targeted at inf...Boston Scientific Carotid Artery Stenting Trials Produce Positive Three-Year Results
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Description: The Portex® Thermovent® T helps provide protection to the exposed airway of the tracheostomy patient. It is small and extremely lightweight making it ideal for active young children as well as adults. With a high rate of heat and moisture recovery, it ensures patient comfort and reduces sec...Hydrophobic Tubing Filter (green-tinted PVC)
Description: The Portex® Thermovent® T helps provide protection to the exposed airway of the tracheostomy patient. It is small and extremely lightweight making it ideal for active young children as well as adults. With a high rate of heat and moisture recovery, it ensures patient comfort and reduces sec...HCSMC700 HME w/bacterial viral filter w/CO2
Description: HME w/bacterial viral filter w/CO2...Research team finds that microorganisms filter nitrogen from small streams
MANHATTAN, KAN. -- To understand how nitrogen accumulates in large rivers and oceans miles and miles away, scientists like Walter Dodds looked at small streams flowing closer to home. Dodds, a professor of biology at Kansas State University, didn't have to look any farther than his own campus f...New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress
Safety in transfusion medicine is an ongoing challenge to blood services worldwide as new threats, such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), emerge. An update on the latest measures to protect the public from the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called Mad Cow ...New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer
... potential to transform how candidate protein biomarkers are evaluated. SID-MRM-MS, combined with complementary techniques, could provide the critical filter to assess protein candidate performance without the immediate need for other detection or quantification tests. This would provide the critical missin...Protein regulates movement of mitochondria in brain cells
...the expression of HUMMR which, in turn, mobilizes mitochondria. More mitochondria in the correct position may mean the cell has a greater capacity to filter out toxic levels of calcium. Rempe and his colleagues are now investigating the role that HUMMR may play in stroke models, particularly whether or not...A tiny frozen microbe may hold clues to extraterrestrial life
... " H. glaciei isn't a pathogen and is not harmful to humans", Dr Loveland-Curtze added, "but it can pass through a 0.2 micron filter, which is the filter pore size commonly used in sterilization of fluids in laboratories and hospitals. If there are other ultra-small bacteria that are pathogens, then the...Zebra mussels hang on while quagga mussels take over
... in many ways. Their habitats overlap, and both are suspension feeders that filter water to extract their food. But the cousin species are different in many w...s of tiny microorganisms provided a food base for fish. Because the mussels filter the microorganisms, the waters today are surprisingly clear, allowing light...International Products Corp.'s Lab Offers Filter Membrane Compatibility and Studies
BURLINGTON, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- International Products Corporation's ( http://www.ipcol.com ) research laboratory is now capable of performing filter membrane compatibility and performance studies using a versatile lab filtration system. "We have the ability to evaluate any typ...New Gas Clean Filter Technology From Varian, Inc. Reduces Contamination in GC, ICP and GC/MS
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI ) announces today three significant advances to its Gas Clean Filter System, for delivering clean gases for GC (gas chromatography) and GC/MS (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry), LC/MS (liquid chromatography/mass...New filter clears up fiber optic communications
AMES, Iowa - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the massive amounts of data that travel daily over optical fibers to people throughout the world. The new technology, a three-dimensional photonic crys...Angiotech Pharmaceuticals announces FDA 510(k) clearance of the Option(TM) Inferior Vena Cava Filter
VANCOUVER, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANPI , TSX: ANP) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the Option(TM) Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter in the United States, for use in both permanent an...Easy Clean DNA Spin Filter from Primm Labs
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Description: The SYBR Safe photographic filter (S37100, Photographic Filters for Fluorescent DyeStained Gels and Blots) is ideal for black-and-white photography of gels stained with the SYBR Safe DNA gel stain, the safer ethidium bromide alternative. Note that the SYBR Safe photographic filter is identical to t...AcroPrep 96 Filter Plates, 1 mL from Pall Life Sciences
Description: ...Captiva 96-well 20u Filter Plates from Varian, Inc.
Description: Captiva 96-well Filter Plates are offered in several versions. The Captiva 0.2 um and 0.45 um depth filter plates are ideal to prepare precipitated protein samples for LC/MS analysis. Filtration is simple, versatile, and necessary to prevent clogging of expensive HPLC columns. The Captiva 10 um gla...PureLink HiPure Plasmid Filter Midiprep Kit from Invitrogen
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