Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Medical technology has tried to answer the call. It has come up with a panoply of methods and machinery, some of them known for decades but refined and repackaged to fit today's needs and concerns. While bloodless techniques vary from hospital to hospital, they invariably begin with medicinal and nutritional approaches to increase a patient's blood count before surgery. Efforts are made to guard against unnecessary blood loss from tests, and standard blood drawings are either reduced or eliminated altogether. And since an intensive-care patient during an average stay must part with close to a liter...
...reason for such urgency is that no matter how carefully a surgeon cuts out a malignant tumor, the few stray cancer cells that are inevitably left behind will begin to grow again. TGF-beta and dendritic cells, or any one of a dozen other treatments under investigation by Black and others, could lead to the true cure for brain cancer that is Black's long-term goal...
...clearly a period at least early on where patients are not getting any type of pain relief," explains director Yurt. "It's too risky. You don't want to give them too much morphine. Otherwise they'll drop their blood pressure." Once the blood pressure stabilizes, however, doctors can begin dripping morphine directly into the veins, gradually increasing the dosage if the pain persists. Still, Yurt admits, "we can never relieve the pain completely...
...your days with irritability and all-consuming depression. Worst of all, you know that the disease cannot be prevented or stalled, arrested or cured. To learn that you have the offending gene is to receive a virtual death sentence that leaves only two questions unanswered: When will the nightmare begin? And how long will your suffering last...
...stereotypes abound as the postseason games begin (TIME Daily...