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Most H1N1 patients with respiratory failure treated with oxygenating system survive illness
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Despite the severity of disease and the intensity of treatment, most patients in Australia and New Zealand who experienced respiratory failure as a result of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) and were treated with a system that adds ...
Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...
Oxygen + MRI might help determine cancer therapy success, researchers find
Jun 03, 2009 |
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A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients, report researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS
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Jun 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked ...
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Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record
Jan 07, 2009 |
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The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...
Scientists discover new hemoglobin type
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemo-globin. Haemoglobin transports oxygen in the red blood corpuscles. When bound to oxygen it changes colour. The new haemoglobin type appears optically ...
'Normalizing' tumor vessels leaves cancer more benign
Feb 12, 2009 |
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A report publishing online on February 12th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests a counterintuitive new method to make cancer less likely to spread: by normalizing the shape of tumors' blood vessels to ...
Safe for Passengers with Lung Disease to Travel by Air
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxygen levels while flying are substantially less than at ground level. Current guidelines for in-flight oxygen levels are sufficient to support the needs of passengers with non-obstructed lung disease. According ...
Bioengineered proteins: Trial confirms new way to tackle cancer
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Re-engineering a protein that helps prevent tumours spreading and growing has created a potentially powerful therapy for people with many different types of cancer. In a study published in the first issue of EMBO Molecular Me ...
Alligators hint at what life may have been like for dinosaurs
Apr 17, 2009 |
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During the last 540 million years, the earth's oxygen levels have fluctuated wildly. Knowing that the dinosaurs appeared around the time when oxygen levels were at their lowest at 12%, Tomasz Owerkowicz, Ruth ...
Gene variant linked to moderated symptoms of beta-thalassemia
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Beta-thalassemia is a serious, potentially life-threatening disease that affects red blood cells, cells that carry oxygen via hemoglobin throughout the body. As part of the SardiNIA Study of Aging, supported by the National ...
Biologists identify the molecular basis of high-altitude adaptation in mice
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have long known how adaptive evolution works. New mutations arise within a population and those that confer some benefits to the organism increase in frequency and eventually become ...
Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight
May 18, 2009 |
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Pregnant women who are indigenous to the Andes Mountains deliver more blood and oxygen to their fetuses at high altitude than do women of European descent. The study helps explain why babies of Andean descent ...
Red blood cell transfusions under scrutiny
Nov 27, 2007 |
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Bristol scientists have found that red blood cell transfusions given to people having heart surgery could increase the risk of heart attack or stroke.
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