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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Medical imaging breakthrough uses light and sound to see microscopic details inside our bodies
See it for yourself: a new breakthrough in imaging technology using a combination of light and sound will allow health care providers to see microscopic details inside the body. Access to this level of detail potentially ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 22, 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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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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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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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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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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Neurologists Investigate Possible New Underlying Cause of MS
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurologists at the University at Buffalo are beginning a research study that could overturn the prevailing wisdom on the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers will test the possibility that ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Vitamin C: A potential life-saving treatment for sepsis
Physicians caring for patients with sepsis may soon have a new safe and cost-effective treatment for this life-threatening illness. Research led by Dr. Karel Tyml and his colleagues at The University of Western Ontario and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 17, 2010 |
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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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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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Astrocytes affect brain's information signaling
Astrocytes are the most common type of cell in the brain and play an important role in the function of neurons - nerve cells. New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that they are also directly involved ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Blood flows differently through the brains of schizophrenic patients
Researchers in Germany have used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) to map cerebral blood flow patterns in schizophrenic patients quickly and without using radiation ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 26, 2010 |
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Researchers find new proteins that regulate blood pressure, flow
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified key players in a little-known biochemical pathway that appears to regulate blood pressure. The findings, reported in the early online version ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Daily dose of beet juice promotes brain health in older adults
Researchers for the first time have shown that drinking beet juice can increase blood flow to the brain in older adults – a finding that could hold great potential for combating the progression of dementia.
Nov 02, 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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