News tagged with waste fluids

Anti-microbial catheter to cut infection risk for dialysis patients

Medical experts at The University of Nottingham have shown that an innovative anti-microbial catheter could vastly improve treatment and the quality of life for many community-based dialysis patients.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Snapshot of dialysis: Who's getting treated at home?

Home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise in both the developing and developed worlds, but developed countries appear to be turning to them less often, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bits of life, drop by drop

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss scientists are working on creating artificial living tissues using a very special kind of inkjet printer. Still in its initial stages, this technology could nonetheless soon provide ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ohio quakes probably triggered by waste disposal well, say seismologists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earthquakes that have shaken an area just outside Youngstown, Ohio in the last nine months—including a substantial one on New Year’s Eve—are likely linked to a disposal well ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ohio quakes could incite fracking policy shift

(AP) -- In Ohio, geographically and politically positioned to become a leading importer of wastewater from gas drilling, environmentalists and lawmakers opposed to the technique known as fracking are seizing on a series ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Discovering Autism: An unsettling boom

Amber Dias couldn't be sure what was wrong with her little boy.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Vasodilator hormone improved kidney function, blood flow in PKD model

After a four-week course of the vasodilator hormone relaxin, kidney function and blood flow immediately improved in lab rats genetically altered to model polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a life-threatening genetic disorder, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Going with the flow: Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels

Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New device measures viscosity of ketchup and cosmetics

A device that can measure and predict how liquids flow under different conditions will ensure consumer products – from make up to ketchup – are of the right consistency.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Laboratory on wheels

Electric and hybrid vehicles will be conquering the cities: cars, bicycles, buses and trains. This is why new ideas are in demand for individual and public transportation. In "Fraunhofer's System Research ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Improving the physics of grocery store display cases to save energy

Shoppers don't usually give a second thought as they reach into a cooler to grab milk, cheese or prepackaged lunches. Open-front refrigerated display cases, which make up roughly 60 percent of the refrigerated ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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