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...Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and at Chicago's Rush University. Swelling and inflammation trigger bronchiospasm, a clenching of the muscles surrounding the air passages, further choking off the oxygen supply. Inadequate oxygen in turn damages the alveoli, the sacs of cells that transfer oxygen into the bloodstream...
...People can have it in the back of their throats, but it doesn’t cause meningitis until it invades the bloodstream,” DeMaria said. “It is chance whether or not that happens...
...either sensitize your body to insulin's effects or help your body produce more of the hormone. But some of your best allies in this struggle are your muscles. Building them up and using them regularly in such pursuits as walking or dancing draw more glucose out of the bloodstream and increase insulin's efficiency. It also pays to avoid easily digested foods--like chips, nondiet soda and other junk food--which require large amounts of insulin to metabolize. Finally, losing a little weight usually makes insulin's job a lot easier...
...PANCREAS RELEASES INSULIN Rising levels of glucose in the blood trigger the pancreas to secrete insulin into the bloodstream...
Xinmin is a village on the verge of extinction. Nearly every resident of this swampy, 1,000-strong hamlet in the central Chinese province of Hunan is infected by the parasitic worm Schistosoma japonicum. It spreads through the bloodstream, lays eggs in the liver and bladder, wriggles into the brain or embeds itself in the spine. Renal failure and paralysis may follow; death is painful and untimely. That is the grim fate awaiting Xinmin villager Wang Zengkun. The 45-year-old rice farmer first experienced the stomach cramps and bloody diarrhea that signal schistosomiasis three years ago. For a while...