Older Motorists Improve Driving Performance With Physical Conditioning
New Haven, Conn. Older people who performed a physical conditioning program developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine were able to maintain or enhance their driving performance, potentially leading to a safer and more independent quality of life. As the number of older drivers i...Photos: Don't Let Them See You Sweat This Summer
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...arts may predict the player's chance of an arm injury later, a new report says. Such knowledge could help the pitcher avert the injury by changing conditioning strategy, the study's author said. A five-year study of 144 professional baseball pitchers linked injuries to a player's strength in three shoulder...Sokolove Law Launches Chinese Drywall Consumer Advocacy Hotline
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... The AGS' Foundation for Health and Aging (FHA) suggests these steps for seniors to help stay safe in the summer months: Use air conditioning in the home or go where it's air-conditioned -- a shopping mall, grocery store, senior center, movie theatre, museum or library, for example. (Fans ar...Ceremony at Passavant Area Hospital to Launch Efficiency Improvements
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...nclude: Solar thermo-chromic films being developed by Professor George Chen and his collaborators offer the potential to reduce a reliance on air conditioning by utilising unique window coatings that change colour in reaction to external temperature. Internal room temperatures can then be controlled without ...American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- April 29, 2009
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... surgery and cosmetic dermatology, and into other medical specialties," said Rheins. "There is a continuing need for adjunct palliative skin conditioning products for use following all sorts of minimally and more invasive cosmetic procedures - laser, dermabrasion - by physicians engaged in aesthetic med...New Partnership Integrates Vibration Therapy Into Stem Cell Procedures
...ring Inc., of Toronto, Ontario. The partnership between the two companies grants SpineSmith the exclusive rights to sell WAVE's pre-surgical vibration conditioning technology -- effectively introducing the approach to the orthopedic and neurological marketplace. The WAVE system, which stands for Whole-body Adva...Rabbit Anti-Kv4.2 Polyclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from GeneTex
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