Word: airflow
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...solution to overdiagnosis, says Aaron, is simple: consistent, objective testing to identify asthma more accurately. A spirometry test, for example, measures the rate and volume of airflow during the patient's exhale, before and after using an inhaler. "If you came in with chest pain, [the physician] would do an electrocardiogram. If you came in complaining of high cholesterol they would do a blood test. But we're not measuring asthma before we start to throw medicines at it. We're making the diagnosis on spec, as it were...
...relying on a collaboration between the government and Partners in Health, which provides private funding, to address another challenge in TB care: the need to isolate the sickest patients to prevent them from spreading the disease. Lesotho now boasts its first 10-to-15-room facility equipped with negative airflow, which contains and filters air circulating through TB wards. A single such center is hardly enough, but it is a start. "It shows you it is possible," says Raviglione. And that is the most powerful lesson in TB today. The bug can adapt; if we're smart...
...suffer from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), forcing me to live in a sterile laminar airflow quarantine. Although that would be pretty awful...
...every four years for a full evaluation of their sleep habits. Having undergone one of those overnight polysomnographies, I can tell you that they are no fun. Researchers attach little electrical leads all over your body-including your eyelids-to measure brain activity, eye and muscle movement, leg movement, airflow, chest and abdominal movement, heart rhythm and oxygen saturation. In the Wisconsin study, the subjects were also asked to complete the Zung depression survey, a 20-question test carefully designed to determine whether you are clinically depressed. (See more about sleep...
Current car AIR INTAKE Since debris can sometimes get caught in the current car's grille and hinder airflow, the new car prevents overheating by drawing in air below the bumper DRIVER'S SEAT By shifting it 4 in. (10.2 cm) closer to the car's midline, the driver is more protected from impacts on his side WINDSHIELD It is built more upright to increase drag and slow...