Sentences with phrase «of iron lung»

I mean, how can you not believe a little girl who can describe in detail the pain of polio and the sound of the iron lung in which her mother is caged?

Byron described Wired's balance sheet as «growing worse by the minute, as if some kind of financial Ebola virus were spreading through the operation... Peel away all the financial razzmatazz and Wired Ventures has turkey written all over it — a business dependent on the financial equivalent of an iron lung for continued survival.

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They also are rich in iron, which helps transport oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body, and is integral for energy production and metabolism.

Their major hurdle: to come up with a replacement for hemoglobin (an iron - enriched protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) that can be directly introduced into the human circulatory system.

Red blood cells contain an iron - rich protein called hemoglobin, which carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body.

Using data released in December 2012, Murray and his colleagues have calculated that road accidents in 2010 cost humanity 75 million years of healthy life — more than measles, lung cancer, tuberculosis or iron - deficiency anemia.

It isn't until NTHI moves into the lungs and middle ear — where heme - iron is sequestered as part of the body's immune response — that the bacterium causes the most problems.

Eldad Hod, MD, Pathology & Cell Biology, will receive $ 2,372,019 over four years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for «Neurocognitive Effects of Iron Deficiency in Blood Donors.»

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

Iron — This nutrient is an essential component of hemoglobin, an erythrocyte protein that transfers oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.

Iron, on the other hand, is an important component of hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to transport it throughout the body.

Iron: most significantly found in hemoglobin, it binds to oxygen from your lungs and delivers it the rest of the tissues and muscles in your body.

Iron is an important component of hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen from your lungs to transport it throughout your body.

Interaction among heme iron, zinc, and supplemental vitamin C intake on the risk of lung cancer: Iowa Women's Health Study.

Iron is an integral component of hemoglobin, which transports oxygen from the lungs to all body cells, and is also part of key enzyme systems for energy production and metabolism.

This would be her passel of mostly anonymous children and a coterie of other contesters, the Affadaisies, organized by Dortha (Laura Dern) and including an always beaming lady in an iron lung painted happy - yellow (such irony, while perverse, gives the movie an occasional welcome edge).

The Sessions tells the remarkable, funny, heartfelt and optimistic story of California - based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes, in an award - worthy performance), a man who lived most of his life in an iron lung after having survived a bout...

Mark O'Brien (Hawkes) spends ninety percent of his day living in an iron lung.

Who: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy and Moon Bloodgood What: A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

She was good - natured about answering, and went on to talk about the trepidations she did and didn't have about accepting the role of Cheryl Cohen - Greene, the sex - surrogate who helped Mark O'Brien, a polio survivor living for the most part in an iron lung, discover his sexual identity.

Casting Director: Ronnie Yeskel Director: Ben Lewin Writer: Ben Lewin, based in part on an article by Mark O'Brien Starring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks The Pitch: The true story of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien (Hawkes), who spends long periods of time confined to an iron lung due to a childhood battle with polio.

It speaks of final breaks from the past (the writer of an old television show Walter reveres and partly credits for his survival in Vietnam is cocooned in an ancient iron lung) and of the hopelessness of the future in the old guard's illiterate, mute, criminal, and insolent offspring.

Few of the year's films had the emotional impact and courage of Ben Lewin's «The Sessions,» with John Hawkes as a polio victim in an iron lung for years, who dreams of having sex with a woman, and Helen Hunt as the sex therapist who helps him.

Liver, for example, is one of the most nutrient - dense foods available, particularly rich in vitamin A and B12, while heart is a natural source of taurine, an amino acid vital to life, and lung is high in iron as well as vitamins B12 and C.»

On display is woodworking equipment, typewriters, a candy floss machine, agricultural machinery, an old washing machine, a potato sorter, water pumps, engines of all sorts, telephones, a rather large aeroplane engine, an iron lung... and that's just part of the collection!

If this were 1950 and we were trying to defeat polio, Andy's approach would be the equivalent of building better and smaller mobile iron lungs.

Charges for medication, x-ray services, laboratory tests and services, the use of radium and radioactive isotopes, oxygen, blood transfusions, iron lungs, and Medical Treatment; dressings, drugs, and medicines that can only be obtained upon a written prescription of a Physician or Surgeon.

Expenses for medication, x-ray services, laboratory tests and services, the use of radium and radio - active isotopes, oxygen, blood transfusions, iron lungs, and medical Treatment.

Tags for this Online Resume: Care Plans, MDS reports, Iron Lung, Ventilators, Sranscribe Doctors Orders, IV insertin Certified, Oxygen Tents, Portable X-Rays, Ultra Sound, G - TubeI Insertion, placement, Irrigigation and feeding, CPR / Basic Life Support, Supervision, MDS's, Care Plan Documentation, Transcribe Dr. Orders, Supervision of CNA's and other staff, Iron Lung and Ventilators, X-Ray Training, Ultra Sound, G - Tube insertion, Irrigation and feedings, Able to prepare certain lab work, Visit with patients and family members to ensure proper Nursing Care is being provided, Work well with with others, Familiarize self with patient needs and habits, Maintain accuarte, detailed reports and records