News tagged with blood flow
Washing away painful wounds
More than six million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds -- open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. The bedridden elderly and infirm are prone ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 26, 2009 |
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British group unveils facial reading lie-detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team of researchers led by Professor Hassan Ugail of Bradford University have demonstrated a new type of lie-detector at the annual British Science Festival in Bradford. Instead of hooking people ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Deciphering hidden code reveals brain activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a Penn ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Tiny turbine in human artery harvests energy from blood flow
(PhysOrg.com) -- A small turbine located inside a millimeters-wide human artery could harvest enough energy from blood flow to power implanted medical devices, such as pacemakers and drug-delivery pumps. The ...
May 20, 2011 |
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New hybrid drug, derived from common spice, may protect, rebuild brain cells after stroke
Whether or not you're fond of Indian, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern food, stroke researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center think you may become a fan of one of their key spices.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 10, 2011 |
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New CPR technique for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest increases survival by 53 percent
A study led by Dr. Tom P. Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine at The Medical College of Wisconsin, shows an alternative method of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation increases long-term survival of patients.
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Food for thought, er, well... Study finds brain wolfs energy to stop thinking
Ever wonder why it's such an effort to forget about work while on vacation or to silence that annoying song that's playing over and over in your head?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Bacteria use caffeine as food source
A new bacterium that uses caffeine for food has been discovered by a doctoral student at the University of Iowa. The bacterium uses newly discovered digestive enzymes to break down the caffeine, which allows it to live and ...
May 24, 2011 |
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Team grows arteries with most elastic protein reported, big step for living vascular grafts
University of Pittsburgh researchers have grown arteries that exhibit the elasticity of natural blood vessels at the highest levels reported, a development that could overcome a major barrier to creating living-tissue replacements ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Researchers show how Alzheimer's plaques lead to loss of nitric oxide in brain
A researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has discovered that the deadly plaques of Alzheimer's disease interact with certain ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Do we clamp the umbilical cord too soon?
The timing of umbilical cord clamping at birth should be delayed just a few minutes longer, suggest researchers at the University of South Florida's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 24, 2010 |
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Remarkable new images show a 4-D view of the heart
(PhysOrg.com) -- What does the racing heart of someone in love - or on a fast treadmill - really look like? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) now have pictures ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Balance organs affect brain blood flow
The organs of the inner ear have a direct effect on brain blood flow, independent of blood pressure and CO2 levels in the blood. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience used a series of human centrifu ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Secret to healing chronic wounds might lie in tiny pieces of silent RNA
Scientists have determined that chronic wounds might have trouble healing because of the actions of a tiny piece of a molecular structure in cells known as RNA.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Vultures use face flushing technique for instant status updates
Tech savvy humans who use social media sites to instantly update their 'statuses', may be behaving like vultures who use 'face flushing' as a visible way of instantly updating their own status when interacting ...
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Blood flow
Blood flow is the flow of blood in the cardiovascular system.
It can be calculated by dividing the vascular resistance into the pressure gradient.
For more information about Blood flow, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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