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...Shander, 49, an Israeli-born physician who majored in Asian languages as an undergraduate, is passionate about anything, it is blood. Not only because it is, as Goethe observed, "a very special juice," the fluid pumped by our hearts through arteries, veins and capillaries, and without which the body's cells would be starved of oxygen and nutrients; nor only because he knows blood transfusions save lives; nor simply because 70% of those transfusions are administered by anesthesiologists...
...suctioned out by cell-saving machinery, cleaned and then returned to the patient's body. Red blood cells can also be saved through hemodilution. In this procedure, hemoglobin-rich blood is pumped unit by unit from a vein and replaced by an equal number of units of a nonblood fluid to expand the volume to normal; the patient's own drawn blood is held for use after surgery. In another technique, doctors may use albumin, a protein found in plasma that is acceptable to many who refuse transfusions on religious grounds, to maintain or increase blood volume, or to manage...
WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...
However, nothing happened because protesters had forgotten to bring along the requisite lighter fluid and matches...
...Only at Harvard would we have a theoretical plan to burn the building and [have] no one bring lighter fluid and a match," Blustein says...