News tagged with sodium bicarbonate

Baking powder for environmentally friendly hydrogen storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is under consideration as a promising energy carrier for a future sustainable energy economy. However, practicable solutions for the easy and safe storage of hydrogen are still being ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bicarbonate adds fizz to players' tennis performance

Dietary supplementation with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) on the morning of a tennis match allows athletes to maintain their edge. A randomized, controlled trial reported in BioMed Central's open access Journal of th ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Baking soda: For cooking, cleaning, and kidney health?

A daily dose of sodium bicarbonate -- baking soda, already used for baking, cleaning, acid indigestion, sunburn, and more -- slows the decline of kidney function in some patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Sodium bicarbonate reduces incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy

A meta-analysis of 17 randomised controlled trials has shown that pre-procedural treatment with sodium bicarbonate based hydration is the optimal treatment strategy to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). The research, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Robotic cats, a kitten mummy and a major UK vet gathering

A possible new feline disease identified by veterinarians in Scotland leaves cats walking like robots. Meanwhile thousands of years and miles apart, new research sheds light on cats bred to become mummies in Egyptian antiquity. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Red mud's carbon capture clue

(PhysOrg.com) -- An environmental disaster that occurred in Hungary in 2010 could lead to a new way of removing carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Calcium and vitamin D may not be the only protection against bone loss

Diets that are high in protein and cereal grains produce an excess of acid in the body which may increase calcium excretion and weaken bones, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Scientists identify blood component that turns bacteria virulent

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have discovered the key chemical that signals Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, to become lethal. This finding opens up new avenues of exploration for th ...

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created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Major paper informs debate on use of good cholesterol raising drugs in reducing heart disease

An international clinical trial to test whether a drug with the ability to enhance levels of good cholesterol is effective in reducing major cardiovascular disease events, which was terminated prematurely because of a mortality ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 05, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Flies prefer fizzy drinks

While you may not catch a fly sipping Perrier, the insect has specialized taste cells for carbonated water that probably encourage it to binge on food with growing microorganisms. Yeast and bacteria both produce ...

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created Aug 29, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Orange, grapefruit juice for breakfast builds bones in rats

It may sound like Saturday cartoons: a strong-boned rat that can't be broken. But a couple of Texas researchers say the real hero is citrus juice.

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created Jun 06, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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