Tag: "flights" at medical news
54 per cent of air passengers experience significant reduction in oxygen levels
...on extra oxygen." 55 passengers were on long haul flights
that lasted for more than two hours and the remaining 29 were on short haul flights. The measurements obtained from both groups were very similar. None of the subjects had severe cardio-respiratory problems and no-one required permission from their d...
K-State professor takes chemistry to another world
... graduate student in chemistry, have taken several flights
on NASA's microgravity research aircraft. "The 'vo... the future, Culbertson plans to take several more flights
in hopes of qualifying the microfluidic devices for a future space mission. Culbertson said that NAS...
Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
...itions is limited due to the small number of space flights
involving women. Only three women have spent six months or more in space, compared with 48 men (including 20 who have spent more than a year and one more than two years). Isabelle from France, who works in the food industry, is very conscious of the...
Airport screening unlikely to prevent spread of SARS or influenza
...ptoms during a flight to the UK (0-3% for European flights
and a maximum of 21% for the longest flights
from East Asia). Although influenza has a much shorter incubation period than SARS, the average pred...
CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past
...ic vehicle for launching satellites a trio of test flights
took place in the early 1990s, although these used an earlier upper stage design, the Breeze-K. Then the Russians approached German industry and what was then Daimler Chrysler Aerospace (DASA for short now part of EADS) formed a joint venture with K...
Darkness more than triples EMS helicopter crash fatality risk
...g pilots with night-vision goggles, reducing night flights
by using a protocol to determine which cases absolutely require helicopter transport, using better restraints, energy-absorbing landing gear and seats and crash-resistant fuel systems--are most efficient and cost effective, according to the study aut...
Immobilisation not the only trigger for DVT during long-distance air travel
...after air travel; with a greater risk after longer flights
than after shorter ones. The mechanism of clot formation during air travel, however, is unclear. Scientists think immobilisation for long periods could play a part, but flight-specific factors may also contribute. To investigate, Frits Rosendaal (Lei...
Wearing compression stockings reduces risk of DVT on long-haul flights
People wearing compression stockings on long-haul flights
may have one tenth the risk of developing a deep v...igned to either wear or not wear stockings, before flights
that would last at least seven hours. "We found nine such trials involving over 2,800 people of diff...
Air travel and pandemic flu
...ople. Once a major outbreak was under way, banning flights
from affected cities would be effective at significantly delaying worldwide spread only if almost all travel between cities could be stopped almost as soon as an outbreak was detected in each city. It would be more effective to take other measures th...
Bone research in Space Symposium, June 2, IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis
...rtant for astronauts particularly on long duration flights
and future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars. Similar approaches may help maintain bone density in the elderly and possibly reduce the profound health consequences of osteoporosis." The Symposia culminates months of intensive preparation by t...
Air travel and flu: Post-9/11 restrictions delayed start of season
...s been shown to be influenced by air travel. After flights
were restricted following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the flu season started about two weeks later than usual. In both the northern and southern hemispheres, influenza epidemics occur annually during the winter flu season. Given the concerns...
A public health lesson from 9/11: To curb the flu, limit flights
...ign flu strains. In September 2001, international flights
fell 27 percent (from 4.9 to 3.5 million passengers), and peak flu mortality that winter was delayed by two weeks. In 2002, international travel was still down by 10 percent, and the U.S. peak was again delayed. "When we first looked at our data w...
Travelers need to know more about diarrhea
...erta study. A survey of 104 vacationers boarding flights
for Mexico revealed that their general level of kn...out. Of the travellers, surveyed as they boarded flights
from the Calgary International Airport in March and April of 2005, more than 80 per cent knew that f...
IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...aign will continue with a number of other airborne flights
over sea ice in the coming days....
Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in support of CryoSat-2
...ms are in place, we look forward to our scientific flights
and getting our hands dirty processing and analysing the airborne radar altimeter data over Austfonna. One fascinating aspect of such work is that the campaign actually allows us to look into the future and see what the CryoSat-2 mission will see and...
Heading to Siberia: UH signs agreement with Russian Academy of Sciences
...Wake Shield Facility flown on three Space Shuttle flights
to the International Space Station with a plan to develop new thin film materials in the vacuum of space. Heading up this present effort are Alex Ignatiev, professor of physics, chemistry and electrical and computer engineering, with his team at UH...