Word: lancet
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...British incident is more worrisome and appears to be the first documented case of transmission from patient to medical worker. However, this case has several unusual features. According to the journal Lancet, it was not an ordinary needle-prick injury since it may have involved the actual injection of infected blood. Also, the nurse's patient apparently had contracted AIDS in Africa, where the virus seems to have different characteristics from its American cousins and appears to be spread primarily by heterosexual contact...
...paper published in the Lancet, Dr. Robert Gerety and his associates described a new virus that appears to be the cause of the disease. The organism, though not completely identified, evidently belongs to the same category of unusual microbes as the AIDS virus, a class known as retroviruses. The discovery could lead to tests to screen donated blood in about a year. Says FDA Commissioner Dr. Frank Young: "It is very important news for the American people...
...impact of major life events on health has been reconfirmed many times. A study published earlier this year in the British medical journal Lancet reported that the incidence of fatal heart attacks rose sharply in Athens in the days following the 1981 earthquake there. Stanford Neurochemist Barchas has found that a high score on the Holmes-Rahe scale is linked to elevated levels of the hormones associated with stress: adrenaline (which scientists have re-christened epinephrine), norepinephrine and beta-endorphin. An Australian study of bereavement has shown that eight weeks after the death of their spouses, widows and widowers have...
...technique, developed by a team headed by Surgeon Judah Folkman of Children's Hospital Medical Center and described in the Lancet, the bone is made into strips, blocks, chips or powder and soaked in hydrochloric acid to remove all minerals. It is then dried, sterilized and stored. When needed, it is mixed with a saline solution. Says Plastic Surgeon John B. Mulliken, also of Children's Hospital: "The powder, which then has a pasty consistency, is used to caulk around defects, to fill in holes, irregularities, and is shoved into places hard to get at. The chips, though...
Indeed, a study published last month in the Lancet, a British medical journal, found that the incidence of heart attacks in almost 5,000 vasectomized men was about the same as that for 24,000 men who had not had the operation. Responds Alexander: "The survey involved mostly men who had had relatively recent vasectomies, and atherosclerosis may take ten years or more to develop...