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BOSTON--A test that blows puffs of oxygen at the eye identified Alzheimer's patients in a group of elderly people, suggesting it may help in diagnosing the mind-robbing disease, a researcher says...
...domed cities are good, but some may mind that basic physics, chemistry and planetary geology are completely ignored. One example of Total Recall's revised laws of nature: bad guys die instantly in a vacuum, but good guys live long enough to be rescued. Another: melting ice releases oxygen...
...spark goes out of their souls. It may help for these people to know that in addition to the miracles that modern medicine can perform, the heart can make its own bypass around the occluded arteries and that collateral circulation can provide a rich supply of oxygen. A heart attack need not be regarded as consignment to a mincing life-style. Under circumstances of good nutrition, a reasonable amount of exercise and a decrease in the wear and tear of stressful events, life expectancy need not be curtailed...
...ambulance St. Andrew turned on oxygen, spritzed nitroglycerin under McKinney's tongue to relieve the hypertension and potential heart problems, and briefed a hospital over the phone. He warned McKinney to be ready for "a stick," then put in the IV needle to administer the diuretic drug Lasix, which dilates blood vessels. McKinney rallied as his pressure slipped down to 164 over 120. "I was scared," he admitted hoarsely. "I didn't think I'd make...
...department reported that poor patient care was at least partly responsible for twelve deaths that year at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. In one case, a 30-year-old woman with chest pains died after waiting 5 1/2 hours for a chest X ray; she was never given oxygen or an EKG. At Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, an 18-year-old woman who needed a tracheotomy had her throat inadvertently slit and both jugular veins cut by the hospital's trauma doctors. Despite massive bleeding, she managed to recover...