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...BLOOD SUBSTITUTES They are the new wave. Blood substitutes, or artificial hemoglobins, were designed to obviate the need for transfusions in surgery and help patients in hemorrhagic shock. Hemopure, the brand name of one substitute, contains no red cells but consists of ultrapurified, modified bovine hemoglobin suspended in a salt solution. Now in clinical trials in the U.S. it was fast-tracked for approval in South Africa and found its way to the black market. Canadian track coach Dan Pfaff recently told the Toronto Sun that he believes many athletes formerly on EPO have switched to undetectable Hemopure...
Most of the more than 50 million Americans who suffer from high blood pressure will eventually need some combination of medications. But drugs can do only so much. Doing it naturally--with simple lifestyle changes such as losing weight, exercising more, reducing salt intake and drinking less alcohol--can be just as effective and lead to a lot fewer complications...
...Bush-Cheney ticket with both men's record - and the politician for whom such scrutiny is a comfortable experience is indeed an exotic species. The Gore campaign's comments about having nothing but the highest regard for the press ought, too, to be taken with copious amounts of salt - after all, the vice president was once an ink-stained wretch himself...
...Arctic rise just a few degrees, the sea ice could disappear entirely, but even a partial melting could devastate the northern hemisphere's climate. A combination of melting ice, increased precipitation and runoff from melting glaciers on land could leave a layer of buoyant freshwater floating atop the denser salt water, at a point in the North Atlantic where water ordinarily cools and sinks. The lighter freshwater wouldn't sink, interrupting the vertical circulation at a crucial point in the cycling of heat through the ocean--as if you're grabbing a conveyor belt and slowing it down...
...past few years are indicative, not much. Today, the top 1 percent of Americans control 38 percent of the household wealth, and the top 20 percent control 83 percent - figures that have both increased in the past decade. And you can bet that those groups look more like Salt Lake City than Los Angeles. White is disproportionately the color of Congress, the Supreme Court and, most important, the corporate boardroom. The 29 percent of assembled minorities are, in broad strokes, the lower classes - earning less, going to prison more...