Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's doctors command. And, yes, she sometimes prescribes a pot of her own chicken soup, which she drops by a patient's home. Jean Sweeney-Dunn, who runs Community Nursing Services for the Elderly in Elmira, N.Y., asks $2 for a urine test and $5 for a blood-sugar analysis, a fraction of what a physician would charge...
Other alternative publishers can tell similar tales. Phoenix New Times Editor Lacey once resorted to digging ditches and selling blood to keep going. But the hardships often pay off in financial and psychic dividends. "Being a small independent voice is fun," says North Carolina Independent Publisher Steve Schewel. So is making money by giving your work away...
...taken acid note of it, as has the Cathy comic strip, while ABC's Nightline has given it more serious treatment. To millions of men, it may, in fact, be a more promising potion than the elixir of love. Reason: minoxidil, which is otherwise used to treat high blood pressure, apparently can regrow hair on balding heads. When a Washington hospital announced three years ago that it was seeking gleaming pates on which to test the hair restorer, 10,000 eager volunteers called in, jamming the switchboard for three days and forcing the staff to use disaster control lines...
During the five-hour procedure, an Allegheny plastic surgeon detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty...
...Your scores are not a shining beacon on your application," Heath said. "Don't spend all of your blood, sweat and tears on those tests...