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...problem that doctors have been wrestling with for several years, as study after study shows a disturbing spike in heart disease and death in patients receiving transfusions. The trend affects almost every group of critically ill patients - from trauma sufferers in the ER to heart attack victims, patients with anemia and those undergoing chemotherapy. This increase in death and heart disease, doctors say, is unrelated to infectious blood-borne diseases or allergic reactions that often follow transfusions. "After you control for sickness and all sorts of things, patients who receive transfusions still have more heart attacks. It makes no sense...
Previous trials have shown that heart disease patients, for example, who receive a blood transfusion to help restore oxygen to deprived tissues, have a 25% chance of having a heart attack and an 8% chance of dying within 30 days; similar patients who do not get transfused have an 8% chance of a cardiac event and a 3% chance of death. Stamler hypothesizes that without NO, red blood cells cannot drill their way into tiny blood vessels; rather, they pile up in narrow passageways, blocking blood flow instead of increasing it and hampering the heart...
Wouldn't it be more effective if banked blood could simply be improved? Stamler's study suggests it can: by replacing nitric oxide in stored blood, Stamler showed that the risk of heart attack and death from transfusion dropped dramatically, at least in mice. And there's reason to believe such replenishment could work in human patients as well; already, premature babies born with lung and respiratory problems are placed in NO-rich environments to ensure that their still developing tissues get the oxygen they need to grow properly. For now, the American Red Cross, which oversees 14 million units...
...second on a nine-yard reverse to sophomore wideout Mike Cook right on the heels of a fumble recovery at the Cornell 9-yard line.That fumble was the third Big Red turnover of the first half, as Harvard’s defense completely shut down the Cornell attack. After Cook’s touchdown with 3:11 remaining in the first half, the Big Red had amassed just 17 yards of offense.But the momentum quickly shifted on the extra point after the reverse touchdown, as sophomore kicker Patrick Long kicked the ball low and into the back...
...Last month, young Catalan nationalists publicly set fire to photos of the visiting monarchs in Girona. The perpetrators were arrested, but they inspired a string of royal photo burnings in other parts of the region. In otherwise democratic Spain, an "attack on the dignity of the monarchy" is still a crime and the burnings, along with a few other anti-monarchical incidents, have sparked something of a crisis. Is this the beginning of the end for Spanish royal reverence...