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...occurred while processing this directive]That business is pliable, flexible sensors. (Think Silly Putty with a circuit.) DeepStream, in Bangor, Wales, has invented a way to fit sensors into any nook or cranny in order to do everything from reducing commercial energy consumption to monitoring sugar levels in the bloodstream...
...brainstem. When you spot potential danger--a stick in the grass that may be a snake, a shadow around a corner that could be a mugger--it's the amygdala that reacts the most dramatically, triggering the fight-or-flight reaction that pumps adrenaline and other hormones into your bloodstream...
...that can cause diarrhea, if left untreated, to escalate from an unpleasant experience to a life-threatening condition. Normally, 50-75% of the human body is water. The small intestine serves as its key pumping station, absorbing water and nutrients through its walls. There, nutrient-rich fluids enter the bloodstream, which transports them to other parts of the body. But when the intestine detects a pathogen in its midst, it stops soaking up fluids and disgorges its contents in a watery rush of stools. The consequence is what we know as dehydration. Oral rehydration treatment can reverse dehydration in more...
Both compounds work by constricting the blood vessels in the nose. But, says Leslie Hendeles, a professor of pharmacy practice and pediatrics at the University of Florida, "phenylephrine doesn't get into the bloodstream very effectively" because it is so quickly metabolized by the digestive system. That made Hendeles and a colleague curious about why the Food and Drug Administration considered the drug effective in the first place. They tracked down the studies on which an advisory panel had based its recommendations back in 1976 and were surprised to learn that seven of the 11 studies showed the drug...
...part of the modern-day medicine cabinet for wounded athletes. During an appearance on MTV Cribs three years ago, Owens was agog over the healing benefits of the chambers, which basically pump a high concentration of oxygen into patients under deep-sea pressures. The pure oxygen flows into the bloodstream, helping with wounds that might otherwise be difficult or impossible to heal, says Dr. Jeff Stone, medical director at the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit at Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas. The chambers have helped diabetics, cancer victims and people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning...