News tagged with shivering
When it comes to brain damage, blankets take the place of drugs
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Have you ever covered yourself with a blanket to stave off the shivers? A new study shows that a blanket can also help alleviate shivering in patients who have been cooled to prevent brain damage.
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Seals protect brain during icy dives
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Oct 10, 2006 |
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Norwegian scientists say they've determined seals cease shivering during long icy dives to conserve oxygen and, therefore, minimize brain damage.
Researchers reveal the science of shivering
Dec 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s Neurological Sciences Institute have uncovered the system that tells the body when to perform one of its most basic defenses against the cold: shivering. The scientists ...
Britain's 'how to beat swine flu' man gets swine flu
Aug 07, 2009 |
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A man who appeared in British adverts telling people how to avoid swine flu has gone down with the virus himself, he admitted Friday.
The grass is greener after a cold winter
Jan 25, 2006 |
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We may well be shivering through an unusually chilly winter, but the dip in temperature is not all bad news, at least for your lawn. Researchers at Harper Adams University College, Shropshire, believe a cold winter leads ...
Adaptive functional evolution of leptin in cold-adaptive pika family
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Jan 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have put forward the viewpoint for the first time that adaptive functional evolution may occur in the leptin protein of the pika (Ochotona) ...
Study shows link between influenza virus and fever
Nov 16, 2009 |
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One feature of the "new influenza" is a sudden rise in temperature. Up to now it was not exactly understood how this reaction occurs. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...
Research provides new view of the way young children think
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 24, 2009 |
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For parents who have found themselves repeating the same warnings or directions to their toddler over and over to no avail, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers them an answer as to why their toddlers ...
Tropical birds have slow pace of life compared to northern species, study finds
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May 23, 2007 |
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In the steamy tropics, even the birds find the pace of life a bit more relaxed, research shows. Tropical birds expend less energy at rest than do birds living in more northern climates, according to a study published online ...
Ice slurry technology can save heart attack victims, surgery patients
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When treating cardiac arrest victims, doctors can't call a time-out. Without the ability to obtain fresh oxygen from blood pumped through the body, brain cells start to die in just minutes. ...
Preventing 'Sick' Spaceships
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2007 |
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Picture this: You're one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent electrical outages. So you ...
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