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...Lanka: Peace in The Balance Diabetes Hope U.S. Massachusetts General Hospital scientists announced a breakthrough that may lead to a cure for insulin-dependent diabetes. The researchers were able to not only halt, but even reverse, the progress of the disease in diabetic mice by injecting them with spleen cells from healthy mice...
...year-old girl screamed in agony as the E.R. technician carried her out of the ambulance. Her arms and legs were fractured, her spleen and lungs damaged. Rawand Ratrout, a Palestinian anesthesiologist, inserted intravenous drips into the girl's smoke-blackened arm. She ordered a nurse to inject the patient with a muscle relaxant while the technician, Mohammed Assaly, checked the girl's ventilator, careful not to touch her face, which was burned raw and bloody. "I always imagine what would happen if I were this victim," says Ratrout. In this case, that required more imagination than usual. The young...
...brain, after all, is only another organ, and it operates on the same biochemical principles as the thyroid or the spleen. What we experience as feelings, good or bad, are at the cellular level no more than a complex interaction of chemicals and electrical activity. Depression represents an imbalance in that interaction, one that can kill just as directly as more obviously physical ailments. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 30,000 people commit suicide, with the vast majority of cases attributable to depression. But depression's physical toll goes far beyond the number of people who take their...
...less than 20 ft. from the school door. Driving away, she heard a loud sound andturned around to see her nephew on theground. His science teacher, Karen Pumphrey, walked out to find the boy grimacing in pain. "I've been shot," he told her. Suffering from injuries to the spleen, stomach, pancreas, lung and diaphragm, he is in critical but stable condition...
...reason people read Palahniuk. His books are not so much novels as jagged fables, cautionary tales about the creeping peril represented by almost everything. It's a world so attracted to death that, as one character says, reincarnation seems like just a form of procrastination. If Palahniuk wears his spleen on his sleeve, for a lot of Lullaby he wears it well. Too bad that in the final stretch he steers into some demented supernatural gore, and you recall that the publisher is billing this book as Palahniuk's first attempt at a thriller. Anybody looking for chills...