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...study shows that the beverage, which is more popular in Eastern cultures, can protect heart arteries by keeping them flexible and relaxed, and therefore better able to withstand the ups and downs of constant changes in blood pressure. Led by Dr. Nikolaos Alexopoulos of Athens Medical School in Greece, the researchers found that among 14 subjects, those who drank green tea showed greater dilation of their heart arteries on ultrasound 30 min. later than those drinking either diluted caffeine or hot water. That's because, the scientists speculate, green tea works on the lining of blood vessels, helping cells there...
LINDSAY LOHAN may have a secret half sister. Officials await blood-alcohol-test results to confirm...
...prototypes with limited commercial availability, such as a tank top that wirelessly monitors cardiac patients and sports clothes that keep track of breathing. Other projects include fabrics that look and feel normal but are embedded with microcomputers, solar panels and energy-harvesting systems, as well as fabrics that measure blood oxygen levels and track biochemicals in sweat and bedsheets that monitor depression...
...known her entire life, and pregnancy was no longer a concern. "If you know for a fact that you can't become pregnant and you don't know anything about sexually transmitted diseases," she says, "why would you use a condom?" Five years later, a routine blood test revealed that she had contracted...
...lung - the place where the lung does its business of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide - break down. So tiny little air sacs become bigger ones - and they're less efficient in transporting oxygen. The lung can't grow new walls for these air sacs. The lung loses tiny blood vessels and can't grow new ones. So that's permanent...