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...retrieve satellites for repair or help nudge additional units into place. In their idle hours occupants will browse through the station's library or play video cassettes. They will exercise regularly, perhaps on fixed bicycles or treadmills; such exertion ensures continued muscle tone and the health of the cardiovascular system in the less taxing weightless environment. Even couples may be allowed on board, since there are already several husband-and-wife astronauts. Shuttles will pay regular visits to bring supplies and equipment and carry off manufactured products...
Your recent article concerning the Medical School dog lab inaccurately portrays the first year class's reaction to the lab. An overwhelming majority, 153 out of 165 students, voluntarily participated in the eighthour lab which investigates different aspects of cardiovascular physiology. The lab is performed under the closed supervision. All participants are required to attend an orientation the day before the lab to view a move of the procedure, especially the anesthetic regiment. A protessor, doctor, or graduate student in physiology guides a team of four to five students through the procedure...
...would the Soviet Union want to spend 78 million rubles (about $117 million) on a single cardiology complex? Answer: a Soviet epidemic of heart disease. As in the U.S., cardiovascular diseases are the U.S.S.R.'s No. 1 killer. In America over the past decade the death rate from stroke has fallen 37% and from heart attacks it has dropped by 25%, largely owing, many cardiologists believe, to an aggressive program for the treatment of hypertension. By contrast, the Soviet death rate from heart-related diseases more than doubled between 1960 and 1980. Among the causes, according to U.S. researchers...
Though researchers at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine warned this summer that using inversion gear could be dangerous for people with histories of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, glaucoma and several other ailments, sales have not been hurt much. Gravity Guidance expects its revenues to surge from $12 million in 1982 to at least $25 million this year. The success of the company's products has spawned several imitations, including a Japanese-made device called the Gravitator Inversion Gym, which sells...
...expensive lab-bred type. Harvard uses about 2500 pound dogs a year and professors say the measure would make the current level of research prohibitive by boosting animal prices tenfold. It might also stem completely some areas of research, because breeders specialize in smaller dogs, such as beagles, while cardiovascular research, for example requires larger dogs such as German shepherd or retrievers...