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Safety tips to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning during winter

On January 4, 2018, a 13-year-old girl died and dozens of people were injured by carbon monoxide poisoning in Perth Amboy, NJ.

5 Jan 2018

Quitting smoking found to be one of the toughest New Year's resolutions

Most New Year's resolutions fail. A study, from the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Public Health, found that that "quitting smoking is the most difficult resolution to keep.

30 Dec 2017

Research: Fuel poor households on lowest incomes also at risk from CO poisoning

New research to be launched in Parliament today at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group finds fuel poor households on the lowest incomes are also at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning.

5 Dec 2017

Carbon monoxide poisoning not routinely detected in healthcare system, report reveals

An All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group and Policy Connect’s Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Saving Lives, Advancing Treatment report has identified that symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are not routinely being detected in the healthcare system.

12 Oct 2017

Bedfont’s piCO Smokerlyzer involved in smoking cessation study at Maastricht University

Manufactured by second-generation family company, Bedfont Scientific Ltd.

From Bedfont® Scientific Ltd 11 Oct 2017

Inexpensive soy filters could lead to better air purification

Air pollution is a major public health issue worldwide. Filters can help improve the quality of the air we breathe, but they also contribute to landfill when they are finished with and thrown away, as they are often made of plastic.

4 Oct 2017

Metabolic changes after quitting could help explain how ill-effects of smoking may be reversible

Even after years of smoking, the body has a remarkable ability to repair itself. Now in a study appearing in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, scientists report that certain metabolic changes occur soon after quitting, and these changes could help explain how some ill-effects of smoking might be reversible.

21 Sep 2017

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes double their risk for smoking tobacco cigarettes

Teenagers who try e-cigarettes double their risk for smoking tobacco cigarettes, according to a new study.

18 Sep 2017

Carbon monoxide poisoning easily detectable with Bedfont's ToxCO monitor

The ToxCO CO monitor has been designed by Bedfont, based in Kent, to safely and effectively screen patients for carbon monoxide poisoning. Known as the silent killer, CO is a colourless, odourless, highly poisonous gas that is produced when fuels are burned incompletely. Everybody is exposed to CO in everyday life; from boilers, open fires, cars, generators and even burning your toast.

18 Sep 2017

Gas Safety Trust conducts workshop to explore new ways for diagnosing CO poisoning

Diagnosing carbon monoxide poisoning is notoriously difficult, as it produces common, non-specific symptoms such as headaches and nausea and mimics other, more common ailments such as flu and food poisoning.

11 Sep 2017

Substitution of gasoline for ethanol in dual-fuel vehicles increases level of polluting nanoparticles

When ethanol prices at the pump rise for whatever reason, it becomes economically advantageous for drivers of dual-fuel vehicles to fill up with gasoline.

28 Aug 2017

Hurricane and flood handbook provides tips on how to prepare before the storm

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1 and runs for six months, is expected to have a near-average number of storms.

26 Aug 2017

Vaping devices helping to reduce traditional smoking rates

According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, there is finally an increase in the smoking cessation rate. The study finds that more people using e-cigarettes are responsible for quitting smoking and these electronic devices can actually help reduce the traditional smoking rates. The study was published yesterday in the British Medical Journal. Researchers looked at data from a national survey and large population based study between 2001 and 2015.

26 Jul 2017

Cigarette smoking causes diverse harm that extends way beyond the lungs

Warning: Cigarette smoking presents far more health hazards than you probably realize.

14 Jun 2017

Vaisala instruments monitor air quality in the Helsinki region

Vaisala instruments will measure the air quality in the Helsinki region in a new measurement network to be built by the Smart & Clean project parties -Vaisala, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY, University of Helsinki, Pegasor, and Helsinki Metropolitan Smart & Clean Foundation - during 2017 and 2018.

From Vaisala Corporation 9 Jun 2017

JGU chemists develop technique that reduces toxic effects of cigarettes

Chemists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed a technique that reduces the toxic effects of commercially available cigarettes.

30 May 2017

Bedfont Scientific offers chance to win new Smokerlyzer for World No Tobacco Day

Bedfont Scientific Ltd.

From Bedfont® Scientific Ltd 25 May 2017

Bedfont Scientific named as one of top 25 companies on the Future List

Bedfont is a small family business that specialised in the design and manufacture of breath and gas analysis monitors for medical application for over 40 years.

From Bedfont® Scientific Ltd 25 May 2017

Study identifies two T cell biomarkers that may predict survival trajectory of IPF patients

Two T cell biomarkers appear to predict the survival trajectory of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a lung disease that has a varied, but ultimately devastating, impact on patients, according to new research presented at the ATS 2017 International Conference.

22 May 2017

UTA scientist develops portable breath monitor to detect flu virus

Perena Gouma, a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has published an article in the journal Sensors that describes her invention of a hand-held breath monitor that can potentially detect the flu virus.

31 Jan 2017