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...have enough to worry about. Moms-to-be with low levels of calcium in their blood usually draw on reserves stored in bone. The problem? That's exactly where the body's excess lead is also locked away. Consequently, the heavy metal is also released into the bloodstream, where it can travel to the fetus and impair mental development. Older expectant moms face the biggest risk because they have that many more years of accumulated lead in their bones. What to do? Keep calcium levels high during pregnancy with dairy foods, leafy vegetables or supplements...
Once the sepsis of lawyers enters the bloodstream, then the body politic may abandon hope. Just as there is no mortal's life that can be said to be without sin, so hardly one vote in one precinct of America is beyond the challenge of legal ingenuity. Democrats don't like the butterfly ballots of Palm Beach County, Florida? How about the homeless with their Democratic bribes of Lucky Strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? How about those illegal aliens in California? Two can play the game. Let's have a look, your honor, at California, Washington, New Mexico, Iowa.... We nuke...
...drive yourself to the hospital. Call an ambulance. Then, if you think of it, chew on an aspirin; 325 mg is the recommended dose, and chewing gets the drug into the bloodstream faster. A single tablet can stave off some of the damage. Above all, don't tell yourself, "I can't be having a heart attack, I'm not feeling any chest pains." Let a doctor make the final call. For more information on heart attacks, visit time.com/personal or americanheart.org E-mail Christine at gorman@time.com
...blood. As many as 20% of women with early breast cancer whose tumor has not, as far as anyone can tell, spread to the lymph nodes have a recurrence of the malignancy after their treatment. Current thinking is that they must already have had so-called micrometastases in their bloodstream and that a blood test might eventually uncover the problem ahead of time. Depending on the result, doctors could then pursue more aggressive treatment...
MOLECULAR MEDICINE Streaming through the body by the billions, nanobots could chip plaque from arteries, gang up on bacteria and viruses, scour toxins from the bloodstream, repair broken blood vessels--and dozens of jobs doctors haven't dreamed...