Low Iron Levels Cause Weakness In Women Who Are Not Anemic
...ver; at the final stage, they become anemic due to insufficient iron to produce new red blood cells. Haas and Zhu focus on the first stage, while most medical practitioners are interested in the final stage. Iron deficiency is the leading micronutrient deficiency in the world, in both developed and developing co...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...g to do" is, by itself, an excellent but decidedly insufficient reason for managers actually doing it. Finally, a...nservative medical management were, by themselves, insufficient to reduce injuries. So the company began to use ergonomics principles to redesign and reduce physica...New Research Suggests REM Is About Eyes Not Dreams
...er these circumstances, theoxygen supplied will be insufficient and corneal suffocation possibly leading tocell death will result. To demonstrate that aqueous circulation virtually stops when the eyelidsareclosed, Maurice stained the aqueous with a fluorescent dye and charted itscurrents. In a closed ..."Genes, Vitamins, Homocyst(e)ine And Cardiovascular Diseases"
...mocysteine levels. The most common is probably an insufficient intake offolic acid or of vitamin B-6, as demonstrated by Dr. Selhub and his colleaguesin subjects from the Framingham Study (Selhub, et al, JAMA 1993;270:2693-98). Moreover, many investigators have demonstrated that folic acid supplementationlowers ...Researchers Discover How Ulcer Bug Becomes Antibiotic-Resistant
...cription, and it usually is used at doses that are insufficient to kill allthe H. pylori cells a person might carry. That person therefore would accumulate resistant strains, selected by the drug, and sensitive strains, which would make hydroxylamine in the stomach. "If I lived in a society where gastri...New Airway's 'Smarts' Ensure That Patients Get Plenty Of Oxygen
...und and corrected, such errorscan lead not only to insufficient ventilation but also to stomachrupture, airway trauma, irreversible damage to the heart orbrain, or even death. The new endotracheal tube sidesteps these perils with"smarts" derived from ultrasound transducers smaller than apencil's eraser -- mi...Consumer-Oriented Environmental Policy Unsuccessful
...onmentally-friendly goods and technology is as yet insufficient to deal with thethreat to the environment. Literature: K.J. Noorman and A.J.M. Schoot Uiterkamp (eds.) 1998, GreenHouseholds? Domestic Consumers, Environment and Sustainability. London,Earthscan Publications Ltd. Further information: Dr. Klaas Jan N......eye (keratoconjunctivitis sicca) could becaused by insufficient tear production. New research suggests the condition alsomay be the result of tears evaporating too quickly, resulting in inadequatemoisture in the eye. This unusually rapid evaporation appears to be the resultof a flawed lipid structure, the layer o...Research Reveals Environmental Injustice In N.C. Communities With Large Hog Farms
...hogoperations and excluded 67 that had closed, had insufficient data, didn't use aliquid waste management system or were owned by universities. They analyzed the remaining 2,514 hog farms in conjunction with data on4,177 census block groups, areas of about 500 households used for counting U.S.residents. T...Genetic Research Boosts Understanding Of Iron's Path Through Body, Diseases Of Iron Metabolism
...alf the normal number of transferrin receptors are insufficient to do thejob. Since these mice exhibit a form of anemia, the transferrin receptor genemight be mutated in some anemic people, says Andrews, who, as a pediatrichematologist, sees patients with rare forms of this disease. Moreover, the mutant m......the brain isreduced or blood to the brain contains insufficient oxygen. For some time, researchers have thought that the administration of magnesium mayhave a "protective effect" on brain cells, although the exact mechanism has notbeen understood. Neonatologist Richard C. Krueger, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., discussedthe ...New Areas Of High Biological Diversity Discovered
...wever, studies of biodiversity have hitherto taken insufficient account ofthe soil fauna and the lower animals, even though more than a million species ofinvertebrates such as worms, insects and molluscs are known. This is an enormousbiodiversity when compared with only about 10,000 species of birds, 4500 species...Fathers pass infertility to sons
...ing about five to ten percent of infertilemen with insufficient sperm production. The research was published in the Julyissue of the journal Human Reproduction . Page also noted that researchers in Taiwan published an article in the Juneissue of the journal Fertility and Sterility that describes anotherfamily...Lemurs critical to regeneration of Madagascar forests
...emurs for dispersal. This study shows that "it is insufficient to leave a forest alone to regenerateif lemurs have been eliminated from it," says Ganzhorn. "We should reintroducelemurs, increase connectivity and especially stop fragmentation of whatever is left."...New gene therapy found safe for treating coronary heart disease
...pain (angina), the size of the heart areareceiving insufficient blood, the patient's response to exercise on a treadmill,and the amount of motion in the diseased area of the heart wall. Three of the 15 patients who underwent bypass surgery died within 145days of their operations. None of the deaths resu...Growth factor may determine who grows new blood vessels that protect against heart attacks
...F) aperson produces when the heart muscle receives insufficient oxygen -- acondition called hypoxia. The Israeli ...red markedly in VEGF production when the cells got insufficient oxygen. Those patients who produced the most VEGF during hypoxia also had the mostextensive collater......rom the social, biological and physical sciences; insufficient communications among local, state, federal and private propertymanagers; whether current planning is effective; what the public wants and will accept in order to maintain the quality of theiroutdoor experience; the economic impacts on local commun...Evidence for historic global warming published in Science
...PTM, the mass of methane from this region alone is insufficient to explain the magnitude of global perturbations at the LPTM. Other sections deposited on the middle to lower slope during the LPTM also must exhibit features similar to those reported here." Besides Pak, co-authors on the paper are: Mir...Researchers seek clues to help newborns with abnormal lungs
...abies born with pulmonary hypoplasia (PH) or small insufficient lungs, with coexistent congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), and the mouse model that they have established. Affected human and mouse newborns have defects of heart and lung and microvasculature of the lung (network of small vessels which supply blo...Mice unable to synthesize vitamin C should become valuable research tool, scientists say
...terol," she said. But themost striking effects of insufficient vitamin C in the mice are abnormal changesin the wall of the aorta, the main artery channeling blood from the heart to thebody. "Marginal vitamin C deficiency affects the vascular integrity ofmice unable to synthesize ascorbic acid, with pote...