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'Tis the season for toy safety
Date: Dec-18-2013Each year nearly 120,000 children under age 14 are treated in hospital emergency rooms for toy-related injuries. During the holiday shopping season, Safe Kids Greater Augusta would like to remind parents to only purchase safe, age-appropriate toys. Here are some ideas. Newborn to age 1: Babies explore with their eyes, hands, and mouth. Crib gyms, floor activity centers, activity quilts, squeaky toys, and soft dolls or stuffed animals are good choices.Ages 1 to 3: These little ones like to climb, jump, walk, throw, and play rough and tumble games.
Bedside Pressure Mapping helps reduce pressure ulcers
Date: Dec-18-2013New research published in WOUNDS, the most widely read, peer-reviewed journal focusing on wound care and wound research, demonstrated improved patient outcomes in the prevention of pressure ulcers for intensive care unit (ICU) patients with the use of Wellsense's M.A.PTM, the first-ever continuous bedside pressure mapping system. The results of the study, "A Continuous Bedside Pressure Mapping System for Prevention of Pressure Ulcer Development in the ICU: A Retrospective Analysis" show real-time, ongoing pressure monitoring using M.A.
Regenstrief and IU investigators identify first biomarker linked to delirium duration
Date: Dec-18-2013Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Aging Research have identified the first biomarker that appears to be linked to the duration of delirium. This novel role for S100ß as a biomarker for delirium duration in critically ill patients may have important implications for refining future delirium treatment in intensive care unit patients.Delirium in older adults is associated with increased probability of developing dementia and to a high death rate. Duration of delirium in the ICU has been identified as an independent predictor of mortality.
Mechanism by which fungus kills mosquito larvae - verdict of accidental death
Date: Dec-18-2013The findings of a ground breaking study by a team of academics led by Swansea University could have far-reaching implications for the control of mosquito larvae across the world. The study into the mechanisms by which the insect pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae kills mosquito larvae has been published by the world renown PLOS One research journal. No other study to date has examined the fungus-mosquito interactions in such detail.
Scientists find first definitive proof of MERS coronavirus in dromedary camels
Date: Dec-18-2013Scientists from the Netherlands and Qatar have produced the first definitive evidence that Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infects camels. The researchers used gene-sequencing techniques to show that three camels from a site where two humans contracted MERS-CoV were infected with the virus.
FDA grants approval of a Phase 3 pivotal study for ST10 for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia in chronic kidney disease
Date: Dec-18-2013Shield Therapeutics, an independent specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of mineral-derived hospital pharmaceuticals, today announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a Phase 3 pivotal study of ST10, its novel oral iron-replacement therapy, for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in pre-dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Major imaging study uses Siemens MR technology to transform disease research
Date: Dec-18-2013UK Biobank, a world-leading health research resource, is putting preparations in place for a study to help scientists gain a more detailed understanding of a wide range of diseases including dementia, cancer and heart, bone and brain disorders. Drawing on the MR imaging capabilities of a MAGNETOM® Aera and a MAGNETOM Skyra from Siemens Healthcare, it is expected to be the most detailed study of its kind ever undertaken. The MR systems will be used to obtain the crucial translational research images of participants' hearts and brains.
Swimming ants don shades to save their eyesight
Date: Dec-18-2013Australia's unusual swimming ants take their own 'sunglasses' when they go to the beach - to shield their sensitive eyes from bright sunlight.Scientists at Australia's Vision Centre (VC) have discovered how the world's only swimming ants manage to cope with extremes of light and darkness, and how they navigate between their nest and food sources."These ants are found in North Queensland, where they establish nests in the mangrove swamps where ocean and land meet," says Dr Ajay Narendra of The VC and the Research School of Biology (RSB) at the Australian National University (ANU).
Swimming ants don shades to save their eyesight
Date: Dec-18-2013Australia's unusual swimming ants take their own 'sunglasses' when they go to the beach - to shield their sensitive eyes from bright sunlight.Scientists at Australia's Vision Centre (VC) have discovered how the world's only swimming ants manage to cope with extremes of light and darkness, and how they navigate between their nest and food sources."These ants are found in North Queensland, where they establish nests in the mangrove swamps where ocean and land meet," says Dr Ajay Narendra of The VC and the Research School of Biology (RSB) at the Australian National University (ANU).
'Tis the season for toy safety
Date: Dec-18-2013Each year nearly 120,000 children under age 14 are treated in hospital emergency rooms for toy-related injuries. During the holiday shopping season, Safe Kids Greater Augusta would like to remind parents to only purchase safe, age-appropriate toys. Here are some ideas. Newborn to age 1: Babies explore with their eyes, hands, and mouth. Crib gyms, floor activity centers, activity quilts, squeaky toys, and soft dolls or stuffed animals are good choices.Ages 1 to 3: These little ones like to climb, jump, walk, throw, and play rough and tumble games.
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