Sentences with phrase «of tissue health»

A novel technique to use the body's natural sodium (salt) content to provide a more detailed picture of tissue health and disease is to be pioneered by MRI experts at The University of Nottingham.

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As the man sprayed the remains, «bits of tissue and blood were washed into the gutters,» a state health report said.

At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

The National Institutes of Health awarded contracts totaling $ 76 million in 2014 to biomedical scientists for fetal tissue research.

It makes up about 30 % of all the protein in the human body, and is found in your bones, tendons, ligaments, connective tissues and skin, and plays various roles in your overall health.

If using organic cucumber, don't peel it — there's lots of naturally occurring silica (a mineral) which is known to help promotes joint health by strengthening the connective tissues.

If fibrin excess can trigger unwanted inflammation in nerve tissue and increase breakdown of the myelin wrapping the nerve cells (a process that is usually referred to as demyelination), health problems like multiple sclerosis (in which there is breakdown of the myelin nerve sheath) may be lessened through reduction of excess fibrinogen and / or fibrin.

A natural source of manganese, copper and selenium, our Shredded Coconut can boost your daily energy, increase metabolism and immunity, prevent anaemia and fight candida, strengthen arteries and connective tissues, and promote cardiovascular health.

It helps the skin in replacing tissues and contributes to its elasticity and the overall health of the skin.

Dr. Frank Jobe, orthopedist for the Dodgers and a founder of the National Athletic Health Institute, says, «It's quite spectacular on soft - tissue injuries like sprains, contusions, bursitis and tendinitis.

The body has the ability to repair normal wear and tear every day to maintain the health of the tissues, but if the wear and tear exceeds the body's ability to repair, there will start to be gradual, permanent damage to tissues,» Moseley said.

«Breast milk is a human tissue and therefore carries the same risks that transferring other human tissues carry,» said Ron Harkey, section chief of tissue, blood banking and cytology surveillance for the California Department of Health Services.

There's prolonged, more intense pain postpartum, a longer hospital stay, readmission to the hospital, an upsetting or emotionally traumatic birth experience, less early contact and connection with the baby, depression and mental health problems, low self - esteem, relationship issues, difficulty functioning and doing usual daily activities postpartum, chronic pelvic pain from scar tissue, problems with and discontinuing breastfeeding - along with the associated risks to mom and baby of not breastfeeding.

And regarding the non-thermal effect, they hold that «to date, research does not suggest any consistent evidence of adverse health effects from exposure to radiofrequency fields at levels below those that cause tissue heating.»

VITAMIN E: Protects body's store of Vitamin A, tissues and fat from destructive oxidation, and breakdown of red corpuscles; strengthens capillary walls; regulates menstrual rhythm; prevents loss of other vitamins; aids blood flow to heart; lowers blood cholesterol and fatty acids; vital to cell health; regulates protein and calcium metabolism.

Kimberly - Clark Corp., which manufactures personal care, tissue and health - care products including Pull - Ups training pants, has compiled extensive research in the area of toilet training.

Of course, more research needs to be done to study the exact correlation, but again, fetal tissue seems to be super helpful and coming to the rescue of Moms» future health woes down the roaOf course, more research needs to be done to study the exact correlation, but again, fetal tissue seems to be super helpful and coming to the rescue of Moms» future health woes down the roaof Moms» future health woes down the road.

If your health care provider does an episiotomy — an incision in the tissue between the vagina and the anus that can help ease the delivery of your baby — you're also at risk of postpartum bleeding and infection.

Use of products containing this technology has been clinically proven to enhance tissue oxygen levels, improve athletic performance, and sleep quality, health and wellness.

«Research shows weight - bearing exercise delivers a multitude of health benefits to both mom and baby, including delivering more oxygen to mom's muscles and tissues, and therefore to the baby through the placenta.»

Typically genetic predispositions to certain disorders, and other negative influences cause declining health of a living organism's tissues and function.

Eligible conditions include cancer, HIV / AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, Huntington's Disease, or others as added by the New York State Commissioner of Health.

Sen. Jose Peralta today will announce a bill that would require a range of applications, including for public colleges, professional licenses, state - funded health insurance programs, and state income tax returns, to include a registration line for the «donate life registry» for organ, eye, and tissue donations

Health officials are reminding the public to cover all sneezes and coughs using a tissue or the crook of the arm, avoid persons with flu - like illness, to stay home from work and school if you experience flu - like illness and to remain home for 24 - hours after a fever has subsided without the use of fever reducing medications.

Judging the entries were Bob Goldman of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert Krulwich, science correspondent for National Public Radio, Dave Mosher, science and technology correspondent for Business Insider, and Clare Waterman, of the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics at the National Institute of Health.

What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

Müller's diverse training prepared him to enter the field of biomaterials science, and today he directs the Department of Health Sciences and Technology's Institute for Biomechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, leading a multidisciplinary laboratory that studies the structure and mechanical behavior of natural and engineered tissues.

Instead, the researchers wanted to learn how tissues on the outside of the early ducts communicate with the tubes» lining, says Yao, of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

They also discovered that while the growth rates of drought - affected plots were unchanged, levels of tissue maintenance and the general health of trees were reduced.

Now that they know what mummification does to the body's tissues, they can extrapolate with more accuracy the health conditions of ancients who were mummified.

Matters of the heart can be complicated, but York University scientists have found a way to create 3D heart tissue that beats in synchronized harmony, like a heart in love, that will lead to better understanding of cardiac health and improved treatments.

We showed that a one - time dose of the drug mirabegron stimulates human brown adipose tissue so that it consumes glucose and burns calories,» said lead author Dr. Aaron Cypess, who conducted the work at Joslin Diabetes Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and is now at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

In 2008 the National Institutes of Health launched the $ 190 - million Roadmap Epigenomics Project with the goal of cataloguing the epigenetic marks in the major human cell types and tissues.

Scientists at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, have found another secret of longevity in the tissues of the longest - lived rodent, the naked mole rat.

Gaining confidence that their compound was appropriately targeting the plaques, the researchers worked with the National Institutes of Health to obtain brain tissue from people who died of Alzheimer's and performed the same type of staining.

Dr Kos, who leads the adipose tissue biology group at the University of Exeter, said where obese people carry their fat can have an impact on their health.

In fact, recent breakthroughs in the creation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS) and the engineering of biodegradable scaffolds to create tissues may ultimately be applicable to most health conditions known to humankind.

In a related editorial, Tiffany Cossey, M.D., and Nicole R. Gonzales, M.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, write: «Although sICH may be an uncommon occurrence, the known risk weighs heavily on the decision of clinicians to administer tPA [intravenous tissue plasminogen activator], as well as on the decisions of patients and families regarding treatment.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Will she tell the Department of Health that it should establish a central register of tissue banks approved for supplying human tissue for treatment and research?

Regenerative medicine represents a new frontier in science, which seeks to understand the mechanistic basis of tissue aging, repair, and regeneration and to leverage this knowledge to improve human health.

The new work, by James Mitchell at the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues, suggests that holding back calories causes cells to produce hydrogen sulfide, which somehow makes tissues more resilient and prolongs the life of laboratory organisms.

In 2010, Radovitzky's group, working in concert with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a part of the U.S. military health system, developed a highly sophisticated, image - based computational model of the human head that illustrates the ways in which pressurized air moves through its soft tissues.

Based on studies of other tissues, the genes very well could play an essential role in the health of the corneal endothelium, according to the study authors.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

That goal is part of the Tissue Chip for Drug Screening program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health to improve ways of predicting drug safety and effectiveness.

Mr. Goldstein, a PhD candidate at the Hofstra North Shore - LIJ School of Medicine, has been working with a team of surgeons at the North Shore - LIJ Health System for the past year on determining if 3D printing and tissue engineering could be used for tracheal repair and replacement.

The lingering of the fetal DNA, research suggests, may be a mixed blessing for a mom: The cells may benefit the mother's health — by promoting tissue repair and improving the immune system — but may also cause adverse effects, such as autoimmune reactions.

The ability of cancer cells to change position within body tissues through cell migration and invasion represents the biggest threat of cancer to human health.