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...terrified brain would signal the adrenal glands, located on top of the kidneys, to release hormones, including adrenaline (its more technical name: epinephrine) and glucocorticoids (see chart), and the nerve cells to release norepinephrine. These powerful chemicals made the senses sharper, the muscles tighter, the heart pound faster, the bloodstream fill with sugars for ready energy. Then, when the danger passed, the response would turn...
Precisely how these powerful chemicals affect the course of heart disease, cancer and other illnesses isn't well understood yet, but preliminary research has yielded some tantalizing clues. When serotonin circulates in the bloodstream, for example, it appears to make platelets less sticky and thus less likely to clump together in artery-blocking blood clots. For years, heart-attack survivors have been advised to take a children's aspirin daily for clot prevention; such drugs as Prozac, which keep serotonin in circulation, seem to have a similar effect...
...perfect, but it's close. It's a patch about the size of a matchbook, but as thin as a piece of tape, that delivers the same estrogen and progestin found in a standard birth-control pill. The hormones pass from the patch through the skin and into the bloodstream. It's waterproof and won't fall off; just find a discreet place to stick it on your body, and change it once a week. If only it were invisible. INVENTOR Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical AVAILABILITY Now, $25 to $40 a month TO LEARN MORE www.orthoevra.com...
...object of people coming to the game is to get totally inebriated, they can certainly find some service that will provide a hypodermic needle that will insert alcohol directly into the bloodstream,” Hanson said. “I regard Harvard students as living on a plane informed by a higher understanding of health issues and also issues of social decency that will lead them not to see as an objective of alcohol simply getting totally looped...
Beer bereavement runs rampant in the Yard. Those protesting new restrictions on the availability of alcohol claim that if we alter the manner in which alcohol is delivered to the bloodstream, students will drink more. A corollary of that line of thought is that any controls on alcohol, especially banning alcohol for those under 21, produces more drinking...