How Stroke Victims Are Left Waiting 24 Hours for Vital Scans
It can hold information for years, or even a lifetime, but without some use, stuff in there can get "freezer burned." We make and store memories by forging new neural pathways to the brain from things we take in through our five senses. The stimuli that our nerve cells detect,...
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, medical researchers who studied the brains of animals and stroke victims discovered that different brain areas controlled different activities. In the 1870s, for example, German physiologists Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig electrically stimulated a spot in a dog...
To pump the thickened blood, the heart must work harder, which increases the chances of heart attack and stroke. Artificial Oxygen Carriers Artificial oxygen carriers are man-made substances that can do the work of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in your blood. Doctors use them to treat...
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Newer medical research is showing that venom can be used in medicines to help with both strokes and malignant tumors. The venom of the pit viper is being used in a medicine called Viprinex that expands the window for treatment for stroke victims. As research continues, who knows how else ...
Although the commandeered Boeing 757 obliterated the first and part of the building's second floor, the third, fourth and fifth floors remained, suspended in midair for 35 minutes. Hundreds of people had the chance to escape. That is because, in a remarkable stroke of luck, the terrorists...
had gone on ahead, but other elephants came to help get her back on her feet. But she fell again,” and died. “And for the next week we saw elephants coming up to her carcass, looking, concerned, rumbling, smelling her, feeling all over, even trying to get her back on her feet....
Janet had been conned. “I see it so much at work that I wasn’t surprised,” Lori admits. “But I was frustrated my mom wasn’t willing to do anything about it,” such as file a complaint. Janet died last year. “It’s humiliating when you get ripped off,” Lori adds. “It ...