News tagged with blood oxygen levels
Dangerous blood pressure increases during exercise can be blocked: research
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified one reason people with hypertension experience an even greater increase in their blood pressure when they exercise, and they've learned how to prevent the rise.
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Let me hear your heart beat
(PhysOrg.com) -- What if monitoring your heart rate were as easy as listening to music while you jog? Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double duty: keep you in tune ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Opioid-blocking medication reduces brain's response to alcoholism cues
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have produced the first evidence that the opioid blocker extended-release injectable naltrexone (XR-NTX) is able to reduce the brain's response to cues that may cause alcoholics ...
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May 26, 2010 |
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Systems biology helps to understand hematopoiesis
After blood loss, large amounts of the hormone Epo flood the hematopoietic system in the bone marrow. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg have now published an article ...
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May 21, 2010 |
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High-altitude climbs may cause corneal swelling, but do not appear to affect vision
Swelling commonly occurs in the corneas of mountain climbers, but does not appear to affect vision at altitudes of up to 6,300 meters (about 20,670 feet), according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Early lessons from the H1N1 pandemic: Critical illness in children unpredictable but survivable
Lessons learned from the first 13 children at Johns Hopkins Children's Center to become critically ill from the H1N1 virus show that although all patients survived, serious complications developed quickly, unpredictably, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Most H1N1 patients with respiratory failure treated with oxygenating system survive illness
Despite the severity of disease and the intensity of treatment, most patients in Australia and New Zealand who experienced respiratory failure as a result of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) and were treated with a system that adds ...
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...
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Jul 14, 2009 |
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Oxygen + MRI might help determine cancer therapy success, researchers find
A simple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test involving breathing oxygen might help oncologists determine the best treatment for some cancer patients, report researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Lower levels of key protein influence tumor growth in mice, study shows
Tumors need a healthy supply of blood to grow and spread. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that regulates blood vessel growth that is often found at less-than-normal levels ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Safe for Passengers with Lung Disease to Travel by Air
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxygen levels while flying are substantially less than at ground level. Current guidelines for in-flight oxygen levels are sufficient to support the needs of passengers with non-obstructed lung disease. According ...
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May 19, 2009 |
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Wireless drug control
Electronic implants that dispense medicines automatically or via a wireless medical network are on the horizon. Australian and US researchers warn of the security risks in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of ...
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on record
The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount ...
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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