Word: bloodstream
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This technique uses slightly radioactive dyes, which are injected into the bloodstream and then tracked in the blood by special rotating cameras. A three-dimensional image of blood flow is created, which doctors use to diagnose diseases of the brain, heart and other vital organs...
Tonight, though, it's just the tips of our fingers which get stained. That's enough. I once was told that once newsprint ink gets on your hands, it enters your bloodstream and stays forever...
Corey said sodium azide is water-soluble, and has to be ingested to enter the bloodstream...
...doctors, homocysteine is nothing new. As long ago as 1969, Harvard physician Kilmer McCully--now with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Providence, R.I.--was studying the unusual case of an eight-year-old boy who had died of a stroke. McCully found that the boy's bloodstream was fairly awash in excess homocysteine and that his arteries had the sclerotic look of an elderly...
This difference of opinion has significant implications for treatment. Intravenous antibiotics can cost tens of thousands of dollars, especially if hospitalization is required. Moreover, there is a risk that the catheters used to administer the drugs may become contaminated, leading to serious infections of the bloodstream and even the heart. Clearly, intravenous antibiotics should not be withheld from people who truly need them. Who truly needs them is, of course, what's in dispute. The NIH is funding a $4.5 million study in an effort to sort out both the best definitions and the best treatments for chronic Lyme disease...