Scientific Reference Links
Air ionisation and colonisation infection
To determine effect of negative air ions on colonisation/infection with methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobacter species in an intensive care unit. Design: Prospective sin...Read more +
http://www.springerlink.com/content/y203q5776x1775n5/Differential negative air effects on learning disabled and normal-achieving children
Forty normal-achieving and 33 learning disabled (LD) children were assigned randomly to either a negative ion or placebo test condition. On a dichotic listening task using consonant-vowel (CV) combina...Read more +
http://www.springerlink.com/content/t028854627279361/'Effect of air ions on healing of wounds of rat skin' PubMed
Rat skin was deprived of epidermis and the wound was exposed to ions generated with Bion 80 apparatus, for 3 h, just after wounding, only once. In comparison with the control, positive air ions retard...Read more +
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3709755'Effect of negative air ions on the potential for bacterial contamination of plastic medical equipment' BMC Infectious Diseases
In recent years there has been renewed interest in the use of air ionizers to control the spread of infection in hospitals and a number of researchers have investigated the biocidal action of ions in ...Read more +
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/10/92/abstractEffect of Negative Ions on Drivers
The influence of negative air ions on driver's mental stress and fatigue was investigated in this study. Two kinds of driving-task loading, produced by a simple driving simulator, were conducted u...Read more +
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200218/000020021802A0675071.php'Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder with a high output negative ionizer' PubMed
This study was designed to evaluate the antidepressant effect of negative ions in the ambient air as a potential treatment modality for seasonal affective disorder. Twenty-five subjects with winter de...Read more +
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9395604