Word: oxygenated
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...called weak nuclear interaction were a tiny bit stronger or weaker than it is, for example, stars wouldn't blow up in the mammoth supernovas that spread elements like carbon and oxygen out into space--and without those elements, there would be no water and no organic molecules. If the strong nuclear force were just one-half of 1% stronger or weaker, stars could not make carbon or oxygen in the first place. In 1999 Martin Rees postulated that there were "just six numbers" that make life possible, although other theorists have since added several. And because there...
...American Medical Association. Doctors at Duke Clinical Research Institute analyzed data from three big trials involving more than 24,000 patients, 10% of whom had had transfusions during their first 30 days in the hospital. Researchers speculate that transfused blood may lack nitric oxide--essential for delivering oxygen to tissues--and cause harmful inflammation. Transfusions can't be halted, says the study's lead author, but cardiologists can be more selective about who gets them.--By Sora Song
...small, darkened room filled with computer screens and telephone switchboards, Dr. Robert Baron listens intently as a 33-year-old man's medical symptoms are described. The man, who had briefly passed out, is in severe pain from his kidney area and is getting oxygen. The doctor sits across the hall from the emergency room at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., but his patient is a little farther away: on an airplane 30,000 ft. over the Middle East. Yet within minutes, Baron has diagnosed a kidney stone, suggested preliminary treatment and arranged for medical personnel...
Beyond hemoglobin, there are totally synthetic blood substitutes like perfluorocarbon (PFC), a cheap, inert molecule with an enormous capacity to carry oxygen. Those fluids behave like an additional reservoir of oxygen for the body to utilize during exercise. However, because PFC has a short half-life and is effective only when individuals breathe abnormally high concentrations of oxygen, it will probably remain a very difficult technology to abuse...
...would exposure to influenza during pregnancy increase the risk of schizophrenia? No one knows. Perhaps the infection somehow damages the developing brain. Or the reason may have something to do with how influenza affects the mother's lungs, decreasing the amount of oxygen that can get to the fetus. But even if the link is real, it would account for just 14% of schizophrenia cases...