Dementia

Dementia describes a range of symptoms of cognitive decline. For example memory loss, problems with reasoning and communication skills, and a reduction in a person's abilities and skills in carr...

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is produced endogenously when ultraviolet rays from sunlight strike the skin, and can be found in some foods. Vitamin D promotes calcium absorption in the g...

Ventricular aneurysm

Ventricular aneurysms are usually aftereffects of myocardial infarctions. When the heart muscle (cardiac muscle) partially dies during a heart attack, a layer of muscle may survive, and being severe...

ImuXen

ImuXen® is a liposomal technology platform designed to improve the delivery and effectiveness of DNA, protein and polysaccharide vaccines. Proof of concept preclinical studies with a number of...

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Nabi

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human), Nabi-HB, is a sterile solution of immunoglobulin (5 1 percent protein) containing antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs). It is prepared from plasma...

Silver Dragon Discovers One Meter of 1,570 g/t Silver, 46.8% Lead and 7.2% Zinc at Its Dadi Silver-Polymetallic Project in China

BEIJING, Aug. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silver Dragon Resources Inc. (OTCBB:SDRG) ("the Company") is pleased to announce recent results from the ongoing 2012 drilling program at its Dadi Silver-Le...

How silver turns people blue

Ingesting silver—in antimicrobial health tonics or for extensive medical treatments involving silver—can cause argyria, condition in which the skin turns grayish-blue. Brown University researcher...

Silver Wheaton buys silver production at 2 mines

Silver Wheaton Corp. said Wednesday that it agreed to buy all of HudBay Minerals Inc.'s silver production from two mines, along with some of the gold production from one of them, for about $750 millio...

Three Young Adults Receive the Paul Silver Tribute Award

PHOENIX—ASF put out a call for applications in July 2012 for the Paul Silver Tribute Award. This award was created in memory of Paul Silver, an Alport Syndrome patient who was a film and music edito...

Silver Is Toxic To Bacteria But Too Small A Dose May Enhance Microbes' Immunity

Rice University researchers have settled a long-standing controversy over the mechanism by which silver nanoparticles, the most widely used nanomaterial in the world, kill bacteria. Their work comes w...

Silver Dragon Signs Definitive Agreement to Sell Erbahuo Silver Mine in China

BEIJING, June 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silver Dragon Resources Inc. (OTCBB:SDRG) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its 70% interest in the Erbahuo Sil...

Silver Dragon Discovers 1.3 Meters of 1,715 g/t Silver, 9.6% Lead and 1.73% Zinc at Dadi, Reports Progress at Aobaotugounao

BEIJING, Aug. 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silver Dragon Resources Inc. (OTCBB:SDRG) ("the Company") is pleased to announce recent results from the ongoing 2012 drilling program at its Dadi and Aobao...

Silver Dragon Discovers 1.5 Meters of 732 g/t Silver, 3.28% Lead and 9.56% Zinc at Dadi, Reports Progress at Aobaotugounao

BEIJING, July 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silver Dragon Resources Inc. (OTCBB:SDRG) ("the Company") is pleased to announce recent results from the ongoing 2012 drilling program at its Dadi and Aobaot...

In vacuo reduction of silver orthophosphate with graphite for high-precision oxygen isotope analysis.

The reduction of silver phosphate with graphite under vacuum conditions was studied at final reaction temperatures varying from 430 to 915°C to determine: (i) the CO(2) extraction yield, and (ii) the...

Large-scale synthesis of uniform silver orthophosphate colloidal nanocrystals exhibiting high visible light photocatalytic activity.

Silver orthophosphate nanocrystals with controlled particle size have been synthesized using a simple, reproducible and easily scaled up route based on the reaction between silver ions, oleylamine and...

Nanoscale investigation of the impact of pH and orthophosphate on the corrosion of copper surfaces in water.

Advanced surface characterization techniques were used to systematically investigate either the corrosion or passivation of copper after immersion in water as impacted by pH and orthophosphate water c...

Role of Orthophosphate As a Corrosion Inhibitor in Chloraminated Solutions Containing Tetravalent Lead Corrosion Product PbO(2).

Addition of orthophosphate has been commonly employed to suppress lead levels in drinking water. Its detailed mechanism and time required for it to become effective, however, have not been fully eluci...

Synthesis of Silver/Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Particles via a Combination of Inverse Miniemulsion and Silver Ion Reduction in a "Nanoreactor".

Silver salt/poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (poly(HEMA)) hybrid particles were first prepared by inverse miniemulsion polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) with silver tetrafluorobora...