Word: vessels
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...health. Now her skin wrinkles around her body like an oversize suit, and her twig-size bones can barely hold her vertical as nurses search for a vein to take blood. In the frail arms hooked up to transfusion tubes, her veins have collapsed. The nurses palpate a threadlike vessel on the child's forehead. She mews like a wounded animal as one tightens a rubber band around her head to raise the vein. Tears pour unnoticed from her mother's eyes as she watches the needle tap-tap at her daughter's temple. Each time the whimpering child lifts...
...time. Even if they did nothing legally wrong, they can't escape the fact that people died. So the U.S. has been very quick to apologize profusely at an official level. And it's quite likely they'll accede to the Japanese request that they salvage the fishing vessel, if it's feasible at that depth. If the bodies are down there, it's the least they...
...Baikonur A Russian cargo vessel launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan docked with the beleaguered Mir, as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the 15-year-old space station. The successful docking of the unmanned Progress M1-5 ship, which is carrying twice its normal fuel cargo, was slightly behind schedule?however, Russian officials still anticipate that Mir will be destroyed, as expected, in early March. If all goes according to plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will...
...open with a tiny stent--is that the treatment works 90% of the time. In the short term, at least. After six months the artery closes back up again in 1 patient out of 4. Now scientists have come up with a hot new idea: blast the treated vessel, stent and all, with radiation. Two preliminary studies suggest that the odds a zapped vessel will reclog are reduced as much...
...heart attack. But statins don't work for everyone. So drug companies are studying the biochemical pathways by which the body pulls cholesterol that has already been manufactured out of a cell. "By turning this reverse cholesterol transport on, you'd be able to stimulate removal of cholesterol from vessel walls back to the liver for excretion," says Dr. Richard Gregg, vice president of metabolic- and cardiovascular-drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Taken in combination with statins, such drugs could virtually sweep the arteries clean of cholesterol...