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...ERYTHROPOIETIN EPO regulates red-cell production, and these cells deliver oxygen throughout the body. Developed to alleviate anemia in patients with kidney disease, synthetic EPO is a diet staple for many long-distance runners, swimmers and cyclists. The oxygen boost it provides can improve an athlete's performance in a 20-min. run by 30 sec.; in a marathon, by as much...
...BLOOD DOPING In 1972 Dr. Bjorn Ekblom of Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports drew a quart of blood from each of four athletes, removed the red cells and put them in cold storage. He reinfused the cells a month later and found that his subjects' increased oxygen-carrying capacity allowed them to run as much as 25% longer on a treadmill before reaching exhaustion. Blood doping was born. In 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team coach Eddie Borysewicz set up a back-alley clinic in a Los Angeles motel room. Four of the seven athletes who doped won medals...
...longtime observer of Olympic sport says, "Athletes are going to Hemopure, and they're crazy. This new stuff--artificial bloods, tissue enhancers to increase oxygen profusion in the tissue--some of it can short out your system drastically. You OD on some of this stuff, you're dead...
...loss, it is designed to reach trapped submariners anywhere in the world within three days. It could have come--had the Russians asked--to the Kursk's aid last week. Should American submariners find their vessel sinking, they have been trained to pull emergency stores of food and oxygen into whatever living space remains. They know that the rescue sub's goal is to hook up with a downed submarine within 72 hours of an accident. So on any stricken U.S. submarine, the survivors' goal is simple: Stay alive for one week, giving rescuers more than enough time to bring...
...first heart attack at age 37--and two more before his 48th birthday--Dick Cheney has been pretty lucky. When the first one hit in 1978, doctors were learning new ways to treat and prevent heart attacks, which occur when the flow of oxygen-rich blood is partially interrupted and some of the heart tissue dies. He had his second and third in 1984 and 1988, during a decade of extraordinary progress in the medical and surgical treatment of heart disease. By the time he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in August 1988, the procedure had become almost routine...