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...interrupted, similar to a surge on an electrical line, for brief periods of time. In some, but not all cases, this interruption can result in loss of consciousness or uncontrolled muscle spasms. Seizures can also be caused by more obvious events, such as a brain injury, fever, low blood sugar or lack of oxygen...
Garbage collectors have historically set the bar for messy jobs. But laundry workers, particularly in hospitals, deal with a more perilous kind of waste. When bio-hazardous materials aren?t disposed of properly, they sometimes find their way into laundry rooms. "They have blood, needles, body parts, bits of fingers, everything in those bags," says a worker quoted in the Brennan Center report, "Unregulated Work in the Global City," referrring to the bags of hospital linens that he is required to wash...
...restaurant behind the mosque just as police had finally taken control of the riot. The explosion killed at least 13 people, including eight policemen who had gathered as part of the security detail around the mosque. Witnesses say parts of shredded police uniforms scattered the street amid pools of blood and body parts...
...fluorescent tag is piggybacked on to the peptide. After doctors excise a tumor, they use a special camera that captures nearinfrared photons to then look at the body and see any stray cells the scalpel left behind. At those wavelengths, light from the fluorescent marker cannot be blocked by blood, other body fluids or even thin bone...
...Those dire developments were only the most recent wave of scandal dogging the Tour. Tuesday night, l'Equipe broke news that one of the race's top stars, Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov, had tested positive for a prohibited blood transfusion after wowing fans with a resounding time-trial victory over the weekend. Although an appeal is possible and a backup analysis by the lab entrusted with testing is routine, Vinokourov promptly dropped out of the race and hustled home - a move replicated by his entire Astana team, at the request of Tour organizers seeking to protect the race's reputation. Though...