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...example, claims to have isolated a substance in urine that turns tumor cells back to normal. The new office might also look into a faddish AIDS therapy that has patients paying up to $20,000 to be hooked up to dialysis-like machines that pump ozone into the bloodstream...
...plains of Africa about 4 million years ago, in the early days of the human species, that the notion of romantic love probably first began to blossom -- or at least that the first cascades of neurochemicals began flowing from the brain to the bloodstream to produce goofy grins and sweaty palms as men and women gazed deeply into each other's eyes. When mankind graduated from scuttling around on all fours to walking on two legs, this change made the whole person visible to fellow human beings for the first time. Sexual organs were in full display, as were other...
Those lucky enough to ingest the spores without becoming seriously ill seem to acquire immunity. More serious cases are often mistaken for pneumonia, since the fungus flourishes in the moist, warm environment of the lungs. In about 1% of victims, the disease spreads beyond the lungs through the bloodstream -- typically to the skin, bones and the membranes surrounding the brain, causing meningitis. "There was a time when I saw three new cases of cocci meningitis a year," says Dr. Royce Johnson, chief of infectious diseases at Bakersfield's Kern Medical Center. "Not long ago, I saw three new cases...
Healy finds the Finnish study "very provocative." It suggests that at least part of estrogen's protection is indirect: by triggering the monthly menstrual flow, which carries away iron, it reduces levels of the metal in the bloodstream and lessens the threat of heart attack. When periods cease after menopause, the reasoning goes, iron begins to accumulate and the risk rises...
...cell adhesion and wound healing. Brooke first came to doctors' attention as an infant, when her umbilicus and teething sores failed to close and became infected. Strangely, Brooke's lesions contained no pus -- the carcasses of millions of white cells that pile up at infection sites -- even though her bloodstream was teeming with infection-fighting white cells, or leukocytes...