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...Doctors use balloon angioplasty to unclog a coronary artery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...clearing the junk food from your pantry and hooking your kids--the earlier the better--on healthy, attractive snacks like fruits (try freezing some grapes) or carrot sticks with salsa. Not only will they lower your children's blood pressure; these foods will also boost their immune system and unclog their plumbing. Meanwhile, make sure your kids spend more time on the playground than with their PlayStation. Even if they don't shed a pound, vigorous exercise will help keep their blood vessels nice and wide, lowering their blood pressure. And of course, they'll be more likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Boys, Beware | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...used to call them every one-and-a-half to two months to have them unclog the pipes," Mauroudi says...

Author: By Alex B. Livingston, | Title: Will A $20 Million Renovation Project Fix All The Problems? | 3/23/1993 | See Source »

Crowe devotes most of the two hours to Linda (Kyra Sedgwick) and Steve (Campbell Scott). Steve busies himself with engineering an atmospherically beneficent supertrain to unclog his beloved city's roads. Linda's environmental organization saves the world...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Sexy, Spunky and Single | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...women had to undergo surgery to have their tubes cleared. Now the problem can be overcome in a doctor's office, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With a tiny balloon similar to those used to clear blocked arteries, scientists were able to unclog the Fallopian tubes in 64 of 77 women, 22 became pregnant within a year. Dr. Edmond Confino, who pioneered the technique at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, estimates that it could help nearly one-third of the 1 million American women who suffer from blocked tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Revolution in Making Babies | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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