Blood pressure is not hard to measure, but the necessary equipment for clinically accurate measurements – a cuff, a pump, and stethoscope or electronics – is bulky and heavy.
However, researchers have recently found that a person's "pulse wave velocity" is closely linked to blood pressure. This is the rate at which the pulse pressure wave passes through the blood circulatory system.
Read more »A Japanese centre which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul bio-technology company and the dog's owner said on Wednesday.
Cloned foetuses from the black labrador retriever named Marine were in April implanted into a surrogate mother dog, said Ra Jeong-Chan, president of RNL Bio.
"We are going to see the clones around the end of May," Ra said.
Marine, who is six and half years old, lost her ability to reproduce when she had her womb removed because of disease.
Read more »
Specific bacterium found in 100 percent of halitosis patients. Oral biologists at the University at Buffalo have confirmed that a bacterium known as Solobacterium moorei is directly associated with chronic bad breath, or halitosis.
Halitosis is a long-lasting and often emotionally devastating condition caused primarily by bacteria living in the mouth. Researchers in the UB School of Dental Medicine have been in the forefront in identifying the bacteria that cause bad breath.
Read more »
Recent comments
6 weeks 21 hours ago
6 weeks 4 days ago
7 weeks 5 days ago
7 weeks 5 days ago
7 weeks 5 days ago
7 weeks 5 days ago
7 weeks 5 days ago
7 weeks 6 days ago
7 weeks 6 days ago
7 weeks 6 days ago