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Bird-Like Breathing System

Meat-eating dinosaur from Argentina had bird-like breathing system

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.





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Breathing problems during sleep associated with calories burned at rest

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Individuals with sleep-related breathing disorders appear to burn more calories when resting as their conditions become more severe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Su ...


Will giving coffee to babies keep them awake as adults?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An F1000 evaluation looks at a Canadian study on how giving caffeine to newborn rats has a long-lasting and detrimental effect on sleep and breathing in adulthood.


Older men with breathing problems during sleep more likely to have irregular heartbeats

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Increasingly severe sleep-related breathing disorders in older men appear to be associated with a greater risk of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), according to a report in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...


Mathematics simplifies sleep monitoring

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A UQ researcher has created a new way to measure breathing patterns in sleeping infants which may also work for adults.


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Cockroaches Control Their Breathing to Save Water

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many insects have been known for decades to hold their breath when resting, but the reasons have not been well understood. A new study on cockroaches suggests the insects reduce their breathing ...


MIT pieces together the mechanism that allows 2 pacemakers to control breathing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two pacemakers in the brain work together in harmony to ensure that breathing occurs in a regular rhythm, according to new research from MIT scientists.


COPD-related problems hard to swallow

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exhibit a disordered breathing-swallowing pattern that may account for their higher risk of aspiration pneumonia, according to new research from ...


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Christmas turkeys to improve their health, thanks to Manchester scientists

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created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester researchers are investigating the breathing mechanics of birds to help farmers breed fit, healthy turkeys with bigger, juicier breast meat.


Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...


New light on link between snoring and cognitive deficits in children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

About two-thirds of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB)— snoring or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)— have some degree of cognitive deficit, but the severity of the cognitive deficit has been notoriously difficult ...



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