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How Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is Used In Medical Treatment
What is hyperbaric medicine? Hyperbaric medicine is the specialty that uses high pressure oxygen to treat a number of complex medical conditions. The treatment involves using a hyperbaric chamber to increase pressure while the patient breathes 100% oxygen, which significantly increases the oxygen level in the blood stream and subsequently all cells of the body. Hyperbaric chambers may be pressurized from 1.5 to 3x the normal atmospheric pressure. What types of conditions does hyperbaric therapy help treat? Increased oxygen levels help speed many healing processes. To mention a few; activat…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Report: Climate Change Heating Up N.J. Faster Than Almost All Other States
New Jersey's average annual temperature has risen by nearly 2 degrees Celsius since 1895, double the average for the lower 48 states, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. Of all U.S. states, Alaska's average temperature has risen by the most, followed by Rhode Island and New Jersey. Other states in the Northeast, including Connecticut and Massachusetts, are close behind. A temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is regarded as a critical climate warming threshold. Scientists fear that if average global temperatures rise by 2 degrees above the 1895 average, the conseque…
Hackensack, NJ
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Feds Issue Public Health Alert For Chicken Products Over Possible Salmonella Contamination
Federal authorities issued a public health alert Friday over raw chicken products possibly contaminated by Salmonella. The Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. products affected -- which may include raw whole chicken, raw chicken parts, -- were produced and sold to consumers from last September until this past June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said. The agency issued the alert "out of an abundance of caution due to concerns about Salmonella illnesses reported in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States that may be associated with raw chicken pr…
