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...blood money, and unfortunately I had to join the jackals...
This recliner with electronic biosensors can measure things like weight and blood pressure when a person just plops in it to watch television. The readings are transmitted by phone line to a control center where a nurse reviews them and can chat with the patient about his condition from the screen of his TV set. Commwell, Inc., the Illinois firm that makes the chair, hopes to lease the system to customers for $150 a month beginning...
...open-heart surgery and buy a few more years of life. But reports on patients outfitted with the latest form of stents, which are coated with a drug that fights scar formation, show that the tiny pieces of metal scaffolding may increase the risk of potentially deadly blood clots in the heart. For now, doctors still believe that the benefits of the stents outweigh the small chance of clot formation, especially for patients who have just had a heart attack. Stents inserted in the first 12 hours after an attack (preferably within the first 90 minutes) had the best chance...
Think you're safer because you talk on a hands-free cell phone while driving? Think again. Using either type of phone while trying to drive a car is roughly equivalent to driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08%, which is high enough to get you arrested in any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for driving under the influence. Folks who use hands-free cell phones in simulation trials also exhibited slower reaction times and took longer to hit the brakes than drivers who weren't otherwise distracted. Data from real-life driving tests show...
...even if the heart is created from these master stem cells, scientists still have to master the process of recreating the normal development of heart tissue in the lab. They have to understand the delicate and perfectly timed steps involved in coaxing some stem cells to develop into heart blood vessels, while guiding others on the path to becoming the steadily beating heart muscle that methodically pumps blood to the entire human body...