Word: serums
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...somebody like myself," he says. In the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory, cardiologist Anthony Mathur uses a probe to map the electrical activity in Johnson's heart. Mathur finds 75% of it damaged, the consequence of earlier undetected heart attacks. Then he takes 10 syringes filled with either blood serum containing stem cells from Johnson's own bone marrow or just blood serum - as part of the experiment, neither patient nor doctor knows which - and injects them directly into Johnson's heart through a catheter threaded into the main artery in his left thigh. Mathur hopes the $5.5 million, four...
...researchers have found such cardiovascular benefits as: decreased blood pressure and oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol and improved blood flow through coronary arteries. A study from 2006 reported benefits in men with prostate cancer: 8 oz. daily of the juice slowed activity of residual tumor cells, as measured by serum PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels. Such encouraging results should inspire larger, better studies...
...looked at the swimming pool outside, back at him and then at the pool again. He saw the woman she could be. The conversation they had that night, he thought, was one of their best. Andrea was unguarded. Later she told him that the Haldol injection was a "truth serum"--and that she hated how it caused her to lose control of herself...
...revolutionary field of regenerative medicine. The "presidential lines" were of limited value; there were not nearly as many as scientists initially thought would be available--more like 21 than 62, and they were old, in some cases damaged and most likely contaminated with the mouse feeder cells and calf serum used to grow them. Top U.S. scientists, many of whom depend on federal grants, decamped to labs in Europe or Singapore, where the government has made biotechnology a national priority. Some states have tried to fill the gap--California voted for a $3 billion bond initiative to fund stem-cell...
...TRUTH SERUM Regular facials at Ole Henriksen are a ritual for Hersh. "He's an L.A. institution, and he started his business mixing products in his kitchen. I can't live without this Truth Serum Collagen Booster." $38 at Ole Henriksen Face/Body, 310-854-7700; products at olehenriksen.com...