How to lose weight without really trying
Cravings not only aid to the difficulties of losing weight but can also affect you mentally, according to London-based nutritionist Rick Hay. He said chromium - found in broccoli - could help. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Antioxidants protect cells from harmful water contaminant
(Experimental Biology) Antioxidants such as vitamin C could help reduce harmful effects from hexavalent chromium, according to a new study performed with human cells. The contaminant, which is often produced by industrial processes, was featured in the biographical movie Erin Brockovich. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - April 8, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Researcher finds dangerous levels of metals in liquor sold in Uganda
UCLA Extension ’s Ochan Otim is a chemist who specializes in developing methods for quantifying and assessing the health risk associated with organic and metal contaminants in the environment. For the last few years, Otim, who grew up in Uganda, has been driven to use his expertise to try to help solve a dangero us mystery in his country of birth.Why were so many people having health problems and even dying because of alcohol consumption?The two-decade civil war in Uganda beginning in the late 1980s ravaged the country with violence, abductions, concentration camps and  starvation. The inhumane conditions and abject pov...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 1, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Scientists Threw a Smartphone in a Blender to Reveal the Contents
The latest results in scientific research have come from an unlikely machine: the blender. Scientists at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom wanted to investigate what materials were used to create an iPhone, so they turned to the friendly kitchen tool to blend a phone to dust. Then, the researchers added sodium peroxide, an oxidizer, and mixed the combination at nearly 500 degrees celsius — that’s more than 900 degrees fahrenheit. The brainchild of two geologists at the university, the project sought “to demonstrate why we should all take a keener interest in what is contained within everyda...
Source: TIME: Science - March 14, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Rachel E. Greenspan Tags: Uncategorized Bizarre onetime Science viral Source Type: news

10x Genomics Brings Total Funding to $243M with Latest Round
10x Genomics is kicking off the year with a $35 million extension to its series D round. This brings the Pleasanton, CA-based company’s total financing to date to $243 million. Meritech Capital led the round and Fidelity along with Wells Fargo participated. As a company, we’ve seen tremendous growth and expansion in the last year,” Serge Saxonov, CEO and co-founder of 10x Genomics, said in a release. “We’ve released new products, announced new facilities, and welcomed two incredible companies to the 10x team. Today’s...
Source: MDDI - January 7, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Business Source Type: news

Latest RESPONSE Scoliosis System Meets U.S. Food and Drug Administration Standards
The RESPONSE 4.5/5.0mm Scoliosis System is designed for treating the needs of pediatric patients with spinal deformities. The system’s hybrid implant technology provides the option of 4.5 mm rod (cobalt-chromium) or 5.0mm rod (titanium or cobalt-chromium) and multiple implant connector options. The product features proprietary set screw thread design and pedicle screw head that accepts multiple rod diameters in either cobalt chrome or titanium.This story is related to the following:Medical Equipment& Supplies (Source: Industrial Newsroom - Health, Medical and Dental Supplies)
Source: Industrial Newsroom - Health, Medical and Dental Supplies - December 17, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Source Type: news

Should You Develop Your Own Material Specification and Skip ASTM ’s?
The basic format for an ASTM standardized metal alloy for medical uses includes a specification of the required elements as well as one or more undesirable elements for which there is a maximum allowable amount. For example, ASTM F2886, last approved in 2017, covers Metal Injection Molded Cobalt-28Chromium-6Molybdenum Components for Surgical Implant Applications. While the name gives part of the recipe, a more-detailed list of elements specifies that chromium must be between 27 and 30%, and molybdenum between 5 and 7%. Thus, these major required alloying elements together constitute 32 to 37% of the mix. Twelve other eleme...
Source: MDDI - November 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: William A. Hyman Tags: Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news

Biotronik receives FDA approval for covered coronary stent
  [Image from Biotronik]Biotronik has received FDA approval for its PK Papyrus covered coronary stent system. The PK Papyrus coronary stent system is a balloon-expandable covered stent that is placed in the coronary artery using a balloon catheter delivery system. The stent system is designed to treat tears in heart blood vessels, known as coronary artery perforations. It is manufactured from cobalt-chromium metal alloy and covered with a polyurethane membrane. Get the full story on our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing. The post Biotronik receives FDA approval for covered coronary stent appeared first on...
Source: Mass Device - October 30, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Cardiac Implants Featured Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Regulatory/Compliance Biotronik Source Type: news

E-Cigarette Warnings Coming To High School Bathrooms Nationwide
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration will stage a massive education campaign aimed at the nearly 10.7 million teens at risk for e-cigarette use and potential addiction, the agency said Tuesday. For the first time, the agency will take the message that vaping is dangerous into high school bathrooms and social media feeds of those at-risk youth to stop what the FDA calls an epidemic of e-cigarette use by minors. The trend was flagged in a 2016 report from the US surgeon general, which cited a 900% increase in e-cigarette use by high school students between 2011 to 2015. More than 2 million...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News e-cigarettes FDA vaping Source Type: news

360 dust analysis at IUPUI offers free test of household dust contaminants
(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science) US and Canadian households can easily determine whether dust in their homes harbors dangerous contaminants such as lead or chromium by sending what they collect when vacuuming to IUPUI's Center for Urban Health for free analysis as part of global 360 Dust Analysis project. Results will benefit citizen scientists who send in sample and inform environmental researchers around the world. There has been little previous research on composition of, and risks associated with, house dust. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures
Magnetic multilayer devices that exploit magnetoresistance are the backbone of magnetic sensing and data storage technologies. Here, we report multiple-spin-filter magnetic tunnel junctions (sf-MTJs) based on van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures in which atomically thin chromium triiodide (CrI3) acts as a spin-filter tunnel barrier sandwiched between graphene contacts. We demonstrate tunneling magnetoresistance that is drastically enhanced with increasing CrI3 layer thickness, reaching a record 19,000% for magnetic multilayer structures using four-layer sf-MTJs at low temperatures. Using magnetic circular dichroism measure...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Song, T., Cai, X., Tu, M. W.-Y., Zhang, X., Huang, B., Wilson, N. P., Seyler, K. L., Zhu, L., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., McGuire, M. A., Cobden, D. H., Xiao, D., Yao, W., Xu, X. Tags: Materials Science reports Source Type: news

Dutch defense ministry apologizes for chromium-6 exposure
The Dutch government has apologized and agreed to compensate military personnel who contracted illnesses including cancer after working with paint containing the toxic element chromium-6 (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

How Drones Are Helping Scientists Study and Protect Endangered Whales
The above video was provided by Intel. If you’re a six-foot human standing on a paddleboard, it’s just as well you don’t know that a 60-foot, 40-ton humpback whale with 16-foot flippers is surfacing directly beneath you. The only thing more unsettling would be if there were four 60-ft., 40-ton humpback whales with 16-foot flippers doing the same. Just such a don’t-look-down moment played out off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 2016. Ordinarily, it would have been the kind of experience that the paddleboarder—who came through unharmed—would have described to his friends with...
Source: TIME: Science - May 31, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Drones Source Type: news

Stryker ’ s Howmedica owes $13m in fees in Zimmer Biomet patent spat
Stryker‘s (NYSE:SYK) Homedica is on the hook for approximately $13.3 million in attorney’s fees and $513,258 in costs due to Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) as a result of a patent dispute, according to recently unsealed court documents. The award is the result of a long-running patent spat over polymers between the two companies that ended in four of Howmedica’s patents being invalidated, court documents indicate. The fees were awarded on April 20, and unsealed earlier this month. Last June, the New Jersey Supreme Court approved a bid to consolidate state court lawsuits against Stryker over an allegedly defective hip...
Source: Mass Device - May 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Legal News Howmedica Osteonics Corp. Stryker zimmerbiomet Source Type: news

Novel scientific method to derive water quality criteria of metals
(The University of Hong Kong) Increasing contamination of marine ecosystems by metals such as mercury, cadmium, chromium and nickel has been a global environmental concern, because elevated concentrations of metals can pose hazards to marine organisms, and humans who may consume contaminated seafood. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 7, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news