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Hibernation Study Yields Insights About Organ Protection (Institute of Arctic Biology)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
Novel adaptations discovered in hibernating animals may reveal ways to mitigate injuries associated with strokes, heart attacks and organ transplants, according to researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Duke University ... This is in part because organ tissue is damaged when blood flow ceases or is reduced when a heart stops or an organ is removed....

ALERT: Smoke Advisory (City of Imperial, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
Therefore, the ICAPCD is advising all individuals, especially those with respiratory issues, heart or lung disease, infants and older adults to take appropriate precautions such as, but not limited to, limiting their activities outdoors ... The ICAPCD will also continue the current NO BURN status for ......

Smart street lights coming

Edit The Hindu 22 Jun 2016
In a major step to reduce complaints on street lights operation, the Tiruchirappalli City Corporation has planned to install a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to remotely operate and monitor street lights in all 65 wards of the city ... It will have all equipment to get live data on functioning and non-functioning street lights, the reasons of non-functioning street lights and so on....

Mississippi Burning Case Officially Closes After Half A Century, On The 52nd Anniversary

Edit Inquisitr 22 Jun 2016
Officials in Mississippi after more than half a century are closing the Mississippi Burning case, in which three civil rights workers were kidnapped and murdered ... The Mississippi case gained notoriety with the 1988 movie, “The Mississippi Burning.” The film won several awards including an Academy Award for best cinematography, via IMDb ... Mississippi Burning marker near the Mt....

Two Los Angeles-area Wildfires Threaten to Merge after Forcing Evacuations

Edit Voa News 22 Jun 2016
Two rapidly growing wildfires burning a few miles apart in parched foothills just northeast of Los Angeles threatened to merge Tuesday after forcing the evacuation of more than 700 people, officials said ... The fires burning more than 20 miles (32 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles have forced at least 700 people to evacuate, Mitchell said ... Meanwhile, a half-dozen other wildfires burned across California....

A heart for Mumbai from Aurangabad

Edit The Hindu 22 Jun 2016
Organ donation is picking up in small towns of Maharashtra, with Aurangabad on Tuesday making a second heart donation to Mumbai in five months. The heart was rushed to Mumbai where it was transplanted into a 38-year-old Thane resident. This was the 20th heart transplant carried out in the city ... The heart was then ......

Hundreds of new evacuations across West as wildfires surge

Edit The Jakarta Post 22 Jun 2016
In Southern California, two adjacent fires in the San Gabriel Mountains 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles burned out of control but had not destroyed any homes while their combined size grew to more than 8 square miles ... The two fires erupted separately Monday and scared homeowners before burning mostly away from the cities ... as it burned for weeks....

Eliminating blood test may increase availability of donor hearts

Edit Science Daily 22 Jun 2016
A blood test that results in donor hearts being rejected may be unnecessary in predicting the success or failure of heart transplants. If transplant centers placed less emphasis on the test, more hearts would be available to treat patients with end-stage heart failure. Currently, only one in three donor hearts are accepted for transplant, say authors of a new report ... ....

Lucky patient gets donor heart within 10 days of registration

Edit DNA India 22 Jun 2016
A lucky 38-year-old Thane resident received a donor heart within 10 days of getting himself registered with the cadaver organ donation programme of the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC) ... The donor heart was flown in from Aurangabad within 1 hour and 20 minutes ... The heart left Aurangabad's United Ciigma Hospital at 6.35am and reached the airport at 6.42am....

Heart Failure Patient Given Second Wind in Order to Play Sax (Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The longtime keyboardist who has played for R&B; star Rick James and Sacramento blues legends Johnny Heartsman and Robert Nakashima was in heart failure ... As a thank-you, he played for the people who saved his life - the clinicians of the Sutter Transplant and Advanced Heart Therapy Services. In December 2016, Ussery was outfitted with a left ventricular assist device that keeps his heart beating blood to his lungs and other organs....

Heart Failure Patient Given Second Wind in Order to Play Sax (Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The longtime keyboardist who has played for R&B; star Rick James and Sacramento blues legends Johnny Heartsman and Robert Nakashima was in heart failure ... As a thank-you, he played for the people who saved his life - the clinicians of the Sutter Transplant and Advanced Heart Therapy Services. In December 2016, Ussery was outfitted with a left ventricular assist device that keeps his heart beating blood to his lungs and other organs....

Getting a Single Source of Truth for Your Data (Cisco Systems Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
We, as manufacturing supply chain and operations teams, value our staff who have the information and data we need. We focus our efforts on gathering and assembling data from all our sources ... With the information being out of date, we make sub-optimized decisions on stale data ... We spend our time converging on a single view and establishing data facts ... Data Virtualization allows you to bring data together from disparate systems....

Baidu Creates Own Indexes to Paint Picture of China’s Economy

Edit Bloomberg 22 Jun 2016
is using its own trove of data to measure China’s economy, devising new gauges that may paint a better picture than the government’s ... An example is jobless data, with an unemployment rate staying between 4 percent and 4.3 percent in every quarter since the end of 2002, through a domestic boom, the global financial crisis and now an economy growing at its slowest pace in 25 years ... “So a lot of people are suspicious about that data.”....
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