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Scientists have linked dioxin, the most toxic element in Agent Orange, to cancer in animals. Researchers in Italy and Viet Nam claim dioxin is tied to birth defects in humans. Veterans also blame the chemical for headaches, sexual dysfunction and organ damage. They say perhaps 80,000 soldiers were exposed to dioxin. The Federal Government says there is no way to tell, although some 45,000 soldiers have been tested and a federally financed study is under way at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health...
Created by the University in the mid-1970s to help patent and copyright their discoveries and inventions, the CPC has evolved into an organ that spends 90 per cent of its time on technology transfer, Atkinson says...
Diagnosing Arrhythmias. A large percentage of the heart disease deaths in the U.S. each year are due to arrhythmias, irreguLar heartbeats that occur when the organ's electrical impulses are disrupted. Normally, the millions of heart cells contract in specific sequence as an electric current flows from one part of the heart to another. Irregular rhythms are associated with coronary artery disease, faulty valves and heart muscle damage resulting from hypertension, heart attacks or excessive drinking. When the system shortcircuits, the heart develops abnormal rhythms, which can lead in extreme situations to fibrillation, a disorganized twitching of the heart...
Even more spectacular is an operation that researchers at the University of Utah hope to do soon: implantation of an artificial heart. The challenge is formidable, since the heart is one of nature's masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime pumps enough blood through the 60,000-mile circulatory system to fill 13 million bbl. The Utah heart, dubbed the Jarvik 7 for its designer, Robert Jarvik, is made of plastic and aluminum and powered by electricity. The implant operation will be performed by Utah Surgeon William DeVries. He will...
...eventually complained about the hand-me-downs: "You know, Father, it's a great bore, you always giving me your old mistresses to sleep with and your new boots to break in!" Retorted Dad: "You should look on it as an honor. It proves you have a thick organ and a narrow foot...