Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Children in Utah develop E. coli illness from playing around lawn sprinklers
Happily jumping around lawn sprinklers or playing with garden hoses on a hot summer day: An idyllic childhood scene.
May 10, 2024
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News tagged with irrigation
Surgery
First-of-its-kind splatter study examines infection control during oral surgery
A first-of-its-kind study from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry examined the patterns of splatter contamination created by rotary instruments and irrigation during oral surgery. This study is the first to examine ...
Nov 17, 2023
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Neuroscience
Warmer brain-irrigation fluid in surgery more efficacious, could halve the number of repeat operations
A simple method can halve the number of repeat operations to remedy bleeding under the cranium, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. The method is based on replacing irrigation fluid at room temperature with fluid ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Twice-daily nasal irrigation reduces COVID-related illness, death
Starting twice daily flushing of the mucus-lined nasal cavity with a mild saline solution soon after testing positive for COVID-19 can significantly reduce hospitalization and death, investigators report.
Sep 13, 2022
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Medications
Pot users are less prone to sinus problems
Could smoking pot somehow help keep sinus problems at bay?
Aug 1, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Preliminary study finds organic vegetables contaminated with wide range of disease-causing microbes
New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April), suggests that disease-causing amoebas that live on organic leafy vegetables ...
Apr 23, 2022
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Health
Global food, hunger challenges projected to increase mortality, disability by 2050
A new study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and RTI International (RTI) projects that global chronic and hidden hunger will increase the overall ...
May 20, 2021
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Health
Tips to reduce possibility of foodborne illness
Recent instances of salmonella contamination in some produce have led to widespread recalls and heightened consumer concern over food safety.
Sep 3, 2020
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Neuroscience
Novel technique helps explain why bright light keeps us awake
In recent decades, scientists have learned a great deal about how different neurons connect and send signals to each other. But it's been difficult to trace the activity of individual nerve fibers known as axons, some of ...
Oct 15, 2019
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Health
Keep pets away from gardens to prevent food-borne illness
Animal waste tainting fresh produce is one of the major causes of food-borne ailments. So farmers markets and pick-your-own growers who fear fecal contamination are increasingly guarded about tolerating pets near their edibles.
Apr 30, 2019
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Irrigation
Irrigation may be defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall. Additionally, irrigation also has a few other uses in crop production, which include protecting plants against frost, suppressing weed growing in grain fields and helping in preventing soil consolidation. In contrast, agriculture that relies only on direct rainfall is referred to as rain-fed or dryland farming. Irrigation systems are also used for dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining. Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, which is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
Irrigation is also a term used in medical/dental fields to refer to flushing and washing out anything with water or another liquid.
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