Word: vascularized
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...rank." Remarked a specialist of another: "I wouldn't take my dog to that quack." But the doctors were generous in their praise of other colleagues. The result is a book that lists the names and addresses of top-ranked physicians in specialties ranging from allergies to vascular disease and-as a bonus-throws in the names and locations of leading hospitals, clinics and specialty centers...
People with diabetes or other circulatory or vascular diseases are especially susceptible to frostbite and should take special care to avoid prolonged exposure to the cold, she said...
...that insulin does not improve the diabetes-associated vascular problems from which most diabetics die eventually. The focus on insulin as the "cure" distorts the picture most people have of diabetes and of the measures that might in fact improve...
Most headaches are brought on by anything from simple, tension-induced tightening of the muscles in the head or neck to more serious injury or illness, such as a blood clot or tumor. But migraines belong to a different and puzzling category known as vascular headaches. They seem to stem from a swelling of cranial blood vessels, which may be accompanied by some local inflammation. Some doctors also implicate bodily chemicals, notably histamine and serotonin. Investigators at Baylor University have even reported that over a prolonged period of time migraines may damage some brain cells?apparently without any noticeable mental...
...medication does not help everyone, and in the 1960s physicians began turning to a more powerful weapon?me-thylsergide maleate (Sansert), a chemical kin of LSD. One drawback: it must be used cautiously because of its occasionally serious side effects (hallucinations, nausea, vascular disease...