Wearable mask allows vegetative patients to communicate by breathing
Engineers have devised a wearable mask that exploits static electricity and carbon nanotubes to enable patients in intensive care units, ...
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Drug reduced frequency of breathing pauses in sleep apnea
A new University of Gothenburg study has paved the way for the first drug treatment for sleep apnea. Compared to ...
Fighting viruses is as easy as breathing
The average person will take more than 600 million breaths over the course of their life. Every breath stretches the ...
Breathing restored within ten minutes for 80 per cent of overdose patients
A single dose of a nasal spray invented at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) restored breathing within ...
Hugging a “breathing” cushion to ease anxiety
Researchers have developed a huggable, cushion-like device that mechanically simulates breathing, and preliminary evidence suggests it could help reduce students’ ...
Handheld breathing device could reduce breathlessness and improve physical fitness in long COVID patients
New research presented at The Physiological Society’s Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows ...
Underwater ‘breathing’ plants could be key to stress-resistant crops
Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of “lysigenous aerenchyma,” air channels that help transfer ...
Breathing: the master clock of the sleeping brain
LMU neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet. While we sleep, the ...
Nearly 2 million children worldwide develop asthma as a result of breathing in traffic- related pollution
WASHINGTON (Jan. 5, 2022)--Nearly 2 million new cases of pediatric asthma every year may be caused by a traffic-related air ...
Pain and anxiety impact breathing on a cellular level
LA JOLLA—(December 17, 2021) You’re startled by a threatening sound, and your breath quickens; you smash your elbow and pant ...
High pressure (hyperbaric) oxygen resolves severe COVID-19 breathing difficulties faster than standard therapy
High pressure (hyperbaric) oxygen resolves severe breathing difficulties in COVID-19 patients much more quickly than standard therapy, taking an average ...
COVID long-haulers may experience abnormal breathing patterns, chronic fatigue syndrome
Many long-haul COVID-19 patients have chronic fatigue syndrome and other breathing issues months after their initial COVID-19 diagnosis, according to ...
COVID-19 transmission risks rise during labor with patients’ heavier breathing
Some medical procedures can put health care workers at higher risk for contracting COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases. With these ...
Smaller breathing tubes are better when intubating singers, everyone
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 8, 2021) – Smaller is better when it comes to the flexible plastic endotracheal tubes placed in the ...
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nTIDE May 2022 COVID Update: Uncertainty about inflation tempers good news for people with disabilities
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A closer look into the emergence of antibiotic resistance in bioaerosols and its monitoring
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Wildfires may have sparked ecosystem collapse during Earth’s worst mass extinction
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Hidden in caves: Mineral overgrowths reveal ‘unprecedented’ sea level rise
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Scientists find greenhouse gas warming likely cause of industrial-era sea level rise
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Organoids reveal similarities between myotonic dystrophy type 1 and Rett syndrome