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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Invention could improve cancer drug delivery, lessen harmful effects of chemotherapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- An invention by University of Arizona researchers may provide a way to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to cancer tissues in controlled doses without harming healthy body cells.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Brain scans show effects of Parkinson's drug
Neuroscientists using a new brain imaging technique could see an investigational drug for Parkinson's disease get into a patient's brain and affect blood flow in several key structures, an indicator the drug ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 30, 2010 |
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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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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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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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New Approach Developed to Improve Drug Delivery in Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- By using mathematical modeling to understand blood flow, researchers -- including the UA's Timothy Secomb, a pioneer in the field -- have proposed a novel approach to treating cancerous tumors.
Jul 19, 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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