Here is a brief outline of our Tour #35 schedule: Sunday (Nov. 2): Tour delegates met at our Munich airport hotel this evening for an informal welcome reception. Most North Americans had to leave on Saturday to get to Germany on Sunday, due to North Atlantic flight schedules and losing time zones. Because participants join us from all over the world, everyone made their own airline arrangements. Monday (Nov. 3): Our deluxe motor coach took us from Munich to Baden-Baden. In the afternoon a half [...]
Oxygen Therapies? Yes! But with which oxygen? Physical and biological characteristics of the oxygen forms and their therapeutic applications The atmospheric air in which scavengers of aerobic organisms – thus also of humans – has adapted in the course of millions of years, and up to 50 years ago was still a pure gas mixture made above all from nitrogen and the five forms of oxygen (O2, O2•-, O2•+, 1O2, O3), the so called 21% NITROX. The air of today is burdened in many ways (SOx, NOx, >COx, >O3, [...]
FAQs: Points of Interest! This is a column that has been missing from the past few issues, but with the recent introduction of new instrumentation there has once again been a flurry of phone calls and e-mails asking about these devices and comparisons to other competitive products. I must say I am always reluctant to make comparisons between OIRF recommended instrumentation and the “other guys”. It has always been our philosophy that we should never run down the “other guys” to make our own products [...]
A special report on the MEDICA Trade Fair Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov. 14 - 17, 2007 November 20, 2007 Dear Members: As I write this report I have been home from Germany for less than a day and even though jet lag is settling in, I feel strongly invigorated by my recent experiences. This year a number of the companies that we normally see at the Medicine Week Congress in Baden-Baden opted not to participate in that program. The Medicine Week congress has been gradually getting smaller and smaller each [...]
Commentary submitted by Dr. Brian L. Mac Coy The field of physics worships at the altar of c, the velocity of light. It is widely regarded as the inviolate constant which affects all things: from our knowledge of astronomy to the very behavior of subatomic particles. The idea that the speed of light is constant and unbreachable is at the foundation of modern physics and it is a key factor in Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which led to his deduction E=mc2 (in which the total amount of [...]