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...medical school before there was penicillin. He'd lived out his career someplace in Western New York - someplace where he was The Doctor. Our guest had done it all: took out gallbladders and appendices, delivered babies, pulled teeth, set fractures, pinned hips, even opened skulls when the pressing blood threatened his patients' lives. The rest of the team was clearly a little bored with this Jack of all Trades. He noticed it and I flushed with embarrassment for him. I connected with this little man. Head, hands and heart devoted to the sick, he could handle any problem...
...What they discovered was a sleep state in which the brain is, in many ways, every bit as active as when it's awake; a state in which, compared with other stages of sleep, the heart beats faster, breathing quickens, blood pressure and blood flow to the brain (and sexual organs) rise, while the eyes move rapidly beneath their lids. Brain waves are low-voltage and high-frequency-the opposite to the brain waves of deep sleep, more like what goes on when a person is awake, thinking and talking. Awoken from this paradoxical state that Aserinski and Kleitman called...
...only hovers at 279 individual birds. According to a recent U.C.-Santa Cruz study, about one-third of 18 tested birds - easy victims because they are strictly scavengers and therefore chow often on lead-laden carcasses and gutpiles left over by hunters - had high levels of lead in their blood. Lead, says Andreano, is perhaps the primary barrier to the species' recovery...
...study followed a sample of U.S. women over a six-year period, recording the amounts of trans fatty acid in their red blood cells. Participants with high trans-fat levels were found to have three times the risk of developing...
...increased level of trans fat in the blood inevitably leads to higher chances of coronary disease,” said Qi Sun, a lead author of the study and a graduate assistant at HSPH...