News tagged with rhythmic breathing


Strike a yoga pose to strike down stress

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When hyperventilating sometimes seems the only option to stress, Petri Brill has a healthier suggestion: yoga.





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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.


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 ...


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.


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Scientists make paralyzed rats walk again after spinal-cord injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 3

UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill.


Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk o ...


Adenotonsillectomy may offer long-term benefits for children with breathing problems during sleep

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created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two and a half years after children with sleep-related breathing disorders had surgery to remove their tonsils and adenoids (glands in the back of the throat), they appear to sleep better than they did before the procedure ...


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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 ...


Why We Smell Better When We Sniff

Study on olfactory nerve cells shows why we smell better when we sniff

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 13, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Unlike most of our sensory systems that detect only one type of stimuli, our sense of smell works double duty, detecting both chemical and mechanical stimuli to improve how we smell, according to University ...


Popular stomach acid reducer triples risk of developing pneumonia

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A popular stomach-acid reducer used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients needing breathing machine support increases the risk of those patients contracting pneumonia threefold, according to researchers at Wake ...


Individual cells isolated from biological clock can keep daily time, but are unreliable

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alexis Webb enters a small room at Washington University in St. Louis with walls, floor and ceiling painted dark green, shuts the door, turns off the lights and bends over a microscope in a black box draped with black cloth. ...



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