Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean's Office will be a wonderfully effective means for breaking up-and-coming freshman partiers from the bad habits of beer drinking that currently impair the social graces of many upperclassmen. Future freshmen will be able to turn to more practical and productive drinking methods, thereby achieving higher blood alcohol levels than their predecessors ever dreamed of. The administration is taking the first step towards bringing the University's much maligned student social life into a new age. Let us all raise our shot glasses to their foresight and innovation...
...University of Medicine and Dentistry last week reported the first case in the U.S. of infection by a second deadly AIDS virus, HIV-2. The strain was first discovered in West Africa in 1985; since then some 100 cases have turned up in Western Europe. The reason for concern: blood tests for HIV-1 do not always detect HIV-2, making it possible for the infection to slip through AIDS-screening procedures in blood banks...
...infected patient is a native of the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa. Her diagnosis was quickly confirmed at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with specialized blood tests that are not yet commercially available. CDC officials insist that her HIV-2 infection is an isolated case. Epidemiologists have screened nearly 23,000 U.S. blood samples for HIV-2 in the past 13 months without finding a single case. Says the CDC's Gerald Schochetman: "At present there is no great concern...
...could become the cardiologist's dream. It is inexpensive, readily available, effective in low dosages and relatively nontoxic for most people. First derived from willow bark and now chemically synthesized, aspirin works by blocking the manufacture of hormone-like chemicals called prostaglandins that are instrumental in the formation of blood clots...
...Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, cautions that for aspirin-sensitive people a suddenly increased intake of aspirin could be "tragic...