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...Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., nurses decided to see just how loud it got in recovery rooms where thoracic-surgery patients were trying to sleep. At the 7 a.m. shift change, the noise level shot up as high as 113 db--about as raucous as a jackhammer. The nurses finally hit on a simple solution that can help anyone get a little quiet time: they closed the door...
...natural world this is known as parthenogenesis (from the Greek for "virgin birth"), a reproductive strategy used by some insects, invertebrates and the odd fish or reptile but unheard of in mammals. Given the technical difficulty, it's unlikely that you'll see this offered at the local IVF clinic anytime soon...
Alarmingly, it's not just middle-agers and seniors who are turning up with the problem. So are kids. Dr. Keith Ferdinand treats patients in a community health clinic in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans and has lately been shocked to see more and more young patients coming in with elevated pressure. Four years ago, he treated his first 18-year-old heart-attack victim. "We're seeing not only a growing number of cases of hypertension in young people," he says. "We're also seeing a growing number of complications from...
Some pet cases have reaped surprisingly large awards. Marc Bluestone of Sherman Oaks, Calif., won a $39,000 jury award last February after Shane, his mixed-breed Labrador retriever, valued by the court at $10, died just days after coming home from a two-month stay in a pet clinic. Although the suit took five years, cost more than $300,000 in legal fees and is on appeal, Bluestone says it was all worth it: "I can't get my baby back, but I did get justice...
...months of speculation about the cause of Viktor Yushchenko's grotesquely disfigured face, doctors at a prestigious hospital in Austria presented evidence last Saturday that the Ukrainian opposition leader--just like that country's recent election--had been poisoned. Tests done during his third trip to Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic showed that the presidential candidate's blood contained such high levels of dioxin--a toxic by-product of the manufacture of certain disinfectants and herbicides, and an ingredient in Agent Orange--that it was difficult to get an accurate measurement. "The needle was literally off the charts," Rudolfinerhaus director...