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Exploring the latest innovations in healthcare. SOLNA, Sweden (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 Aerocrine AB announced today that their NIOX MINO® device will be featured in an upcoming episode of Health Heroes, set to air later this year via the Discovery Channel. Aerocrine is focused on improving the management and care of patients with inflammatory airway diseases, such as asthma. This segment of Health Heroes will focus on Aerocrine's NIOX MINO®, a point-of-care device designed to...
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CO2Meter.com, a worldwide provider of atmospheric gas measurement equipment, has released independent testing of the SprintIR Carbon Dioxide Sensor by Gas Sensing Solutions Ltd (GSS) in the UK which confirms it is the fastest carbon dioxide sensor in the world. Using a 5% CO2 version of the SprintIR sensor, a vacuum pump and custom software, CO2Meter.com's engineers recorded 20 carbon dioxide level readings per second during normal...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Doctors routinely use blood or urine samples to test for signs of illness or disease and a new study from a group of Swiss researchers indicates that a person’s breath could soon be added to that list. According to the study, which appeared in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the researchers were also able to discriminate between individual breath signatures as if they were fingerprints. Previous research has shown that trained...
Board certified pulmonologist discusses the role of exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) testing in asthma diagnosis and management. Despite many advances in understanding the complexities of the disease, many patients do not receive adequate care to control their asthma. Portland, OR (PRWEB) February 07, 2013 The identification of potential asthma biomarkers has led to the development of noninvasive methods for assessing inflammation in the airways, including eNO testing to measure the level of...
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nonin Medical, Inc., a leader in noninvasive medical monitoring, announced today that the company's LifeSense(®) and RespSense(TM) capnography monitors now achieve globally recognized requirements for medical electrical equipment used while professionally transporting a patient outside of a healthcare facility.* These requirements are globally recognized by regulatory bodies. Not all capnographs meet these requirements. (Photo:...
A new study published in BJS has demonstrated for the first time that a simple breath analysis could be used for colorectal cancer screening. The study is part of the "Improving Outcomes in Gastrointestinal Cancer" supplement. Cancer tissue has different metabolism compared to normal healthy cells and produces some substances which can be detected in the breath of these patients. Analysis of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) linked to cancer is a new frontier in cancer screening....
