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...have heard that moderate alcohol consumption--about a drink a day--can lower the risk of heart disease. Now researchers say the risk is reduced even further in men who carry a gene that slows the rate at which alcohol is metabolized. The longer alcohol stays in the bloodstream, the more it can exert such beneficial effects as raising levels of good, HDL cholesterol. Who has the gene? Mostly white guys; 1 in 6 is thought to carry...
...heart is actually stopped for as long as two hours while a heart-lung machine takes over the job of oxygenating the blood and pumping it through the body. Studies have shown that microscopic bubbles of air or tiny bits of fat and plaque are often loosed into the bloodstream in the process. Even if they are too small to trigger a full-scale stroke, they may cause minor damage in the cerebral tissue...
...Bush with his sports-jock patter made his first postelection visit to Clinton with his rock-star genes, they just clicked. The new guy had no questions about Third World debt. He wanted to know what made the place tick and how you mainline yourself into the nation's bloodstream. Clinton told Bush he was lucky to know already where the light switches were and to have hired people who had been there before. Bush asked Clinton what he thought about Bush's calling him "the Shadow" during the campaign. Had it spooked Gore? Must have, Clinton said; he didn...
...promise of the new drug systems, M.I.T.'s Langer is still looking ahead to what many researchers hold out as an ultimate goal: a magic bullet placed in the bloodstream that "goes right to where you want it and only there, and does exactly what you want it to do and only that. We are not there...
...there, it's hard to get worked up over a toenail fungus or a case of athlete's foot. But the fungi that cause these and dozens of other infections are not as trivial as they may seem. Fungi have a way of turning nasty--seeping into the bloodstream and invading vital organs. Lately they've been doing that more and more, thanks to increased travel (which exposes people to fungi for which they have no immunity) and to immunosuppressant drugs (which leave patients vulnerable to what would otherwise be innocuous fungal infections). "The kind of thing that used...