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...months and four brain operations later, Big is in a coma in a Bangkok hospital. The odds are that he will die?not from injuries sustained in the car crash but from an infection by a lethal fungus that blooms in Bangkok's klongs. The fungus entered Big's bloodstream when his heart stopped and his lungs filled with water. Undetected, it attacked blood vessels in Big's brain, causing a massive hemorrhage two weeks after the crash...
...There’s a misconception at Harvard if you have sex when alcohol is in the bloodstream than it is always rape and that is not true,” says Wilson. “However, if a person is intoxicated to a point of incapacitation then it is sexual assault...
...deal that would create the world's third largest biotech firm. The idea, says Mullen, is to "bring business discipline to science and medicine." In other words, he wants to inject a sobering dose of planning and budgets into an industry that has more hype than earnings in its bloodstream. Mullen's vision didn't immediately play well with biotech investors, many of whom prefer the promise of blowout growth to steady profits. Shares of both companies dropped sharply. Biotech's allure since the benchmark Genentech ipo 23 years ago has been its promise to deliver wonder drugs that will...
...deal that would create the world's third largest biotech firm. The idea, says Mullen, is to "bring business discipline to science and medicine." In other words, he wants to inject a sobering dose of planning and budgets into an industry that has more hype than earnings in its bloodstream...
...Bonow of the American Heart Association. "But the surface has become eroded, exposing the material beneath the surface to the blood, which causes blood clots. And it turns out that the women who have this plaque erosion tend to be women who smoked." Those clots can travel through the bloodstream, wreaking havoc in the heart or the brain...