Word: bloodstream
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...started to feel sick. By the time he got to bed, his flu-like symptoms gave way to achy joints and feverish dreams. That's when he got suspicious that he had dengue fever, the mosquito-borne virus that, in its deadly form, causes blood to seep from the bloodstream into tissue and eventually from the body's orifices. Several days later, doctors diagnosed the expat aid worker with a milder, non-lethal variation of the disease. Since there are no drugs or vaccines for dengue, Tind Simmons did what some 38,500 infected Cambodians did this year: he drank...
Scientists have known for decades that stem cells sometimes migrate from the bone marrow into the bloodstream. But they have not yet understood the “meaning and consequences” of this phenomenon until now, von Andrian said...
That business is pliable, flexible sensors. (Think Silly Putty with a circuit.) DeepStream, in Bangor, Wales, has invented a way to fit sensors into any nook or cranny in order to do everything from reducing commercial energy consumption to monitoring sugar levels in the bloodstream...
Most cases of MRSA outside health-care settings are mild, appearing as red, swollen pustules on the skin, and can be controlled with antibiotics other than ones from the penicillin family. These cases are usually not the so-called invasive infections--those that enter the bloodstream and can damage tissues. Last month, however, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention released a report on invasive MRSA estimating that in 2005, there were 32 cases per 100,000 people in the U.S.--a troublingly high number--and that 14% of these occurred in people with no documented history...
...Zadroga family requested a second review by the city medical examiner, part of the process to add Zadroga’s name to the official list of 9/11 victims. The report, released last month, concluded Zadroga had injected crushed prescription pills into his bloodstream, which scarred his lung tissue...