Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone knows, in humans. It can trigger a rare but frequently fatal human disorder called primary pulmonary hypertension, which destroys blood vessels in the lungs and heart. European research on fen/phen shows that using such drugs for more than three months boosts the risk of pph from the normal 1 or 2 in 1 million patients to 18 in 1 million. A study published three weeks ago in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the rate is actually as high as 46 per 1 million patients...
...There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a paperback-size automatic defibrillator that can shock a stopped heart back into a normal rhythm...
Bayne took full advantage of the new technology that Sunday morning in Point Loma. Although he could not feel a pulse at his patient's wrist, he was able to determine that it had fallen from a normal 80 beats a minute to 38 by placing a digital pulse monitor the size of a lemon on the woman's finger. He then touched her chest with a portable EKG machine and analyzed her cardiac rhythms. Had there been any indication that she was suffering a heart attack, Bayne would immediately have called 911. When he determined that wasn...
...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...
...BOOKS, Sept. 2], I need to set the record straight about the cost of the book. You say that at the end of buying the six installments, a reader will have shelled out a total of $18.94 for "what would have cost around $6.99 if it had been a normal, one-volume, mass-market paperback." The retail prices for new books from authors like King are as high as $27.95 in hard cover and $7.99 in paperback. To the millions of King fans who would pay $27.95 to read a new King novel, $18.94 is a reasonable price. The public...