Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hicks, Eleanor Bron and Jonathan Hyde. The stand opened with The Duchess of Malfi in a faithfully Grand Guignol rendition of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. Actors clad in funereal black moved menacingly amid the stately but decaying gray palatial sets; virtually the only color was a frequent splash of blood. The ensemble followed with an energetic rendition of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
...operations were needed because massive radiation destroys vulnerable bone-marrow tissue. The vital substance acts as the body's production center for blood cells that carry oxygen, help to cause clotting and provide immunity against disease. Victims of damaged marrow can die within weeks of severe anemia, hemorrhaging and infection. To transplant the tissue, physicians use a syringe to draw out healthy marrow--usually from a donor's hipbone--and inject it into the patient's bloodstream. The marrow cells make their way naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor...
...doctors' toughest job was screening out those victims who might recover without the risky operation as well as those too ill to benefit. Of the patients selected for transplants, some had received such a heavy dose of radiation that their white blood cells, which are needed to match tissues, had already been destroyed. That forced the doctors to use the liver tissue from fetuses, which is also a source of blood cells and is less likely to be rejected In future nuclear accidents, Gale suggested, blood samples should be taken from all victims within 48 hours so that they will...
Essex's lab is also working to develop a more sensitive AIDS screening test. The test currently in use screens the blood for antibodies to the AIDS virus. That procedure presents certain difficulties; there is a lag time "between infection and the presence of antibodies of two to three months, but the individual still has the virus," Essex says. "We need to look for earlier markers...
...started slugging each other in the face again and the roar of the crowd welled up like a stock car engine at the Firecracker 500: rrroooAAARRRR! the crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight and the players seemed to enjoy raising a ruckus so I tuned out the ESPN announcer who was pontificating about sportsmanslike conduct. A few minutes in the penalty box, I thought...