Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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These clinical scientists are now hypothesizing that this simple organic molecule may ward off cancer and heart disease by scooping up charged oxygen atoms, dangerous particles which wreak havoc as they roam through the body's circulatory system...
Although they have no direct evidence,clinicians have seen oxidized LDL (LDL which hasabsorbed oxygen ions) devastate cells grown inpetri dishes, and they have suggested that itwould cause similar damage--perhaps even promotecancer growth--when shuttling through thecirculatory system of a human...
Protoporphyria victims suffer from a defectiveenzyme, which causes the protoporphyrin moleculeto seep into the subject's skin rather thanincoporating itself into the oxygen-carryinghemoglobin in the bloodstream, where it belongs.At the body's surface, the errant molecule reactswith oxygen in the air, causing severe itching andburning...
...With the oxygen going out of the U.S. economy and Japanese collectors scared by the descent of their stock index, the fall sales at Sotheby's and Christie's are jolted by a major shake-out in the art market. Top-quality works still command good prices, but the overhyped contemporary field suffers a massacre, with many offerings going unsold. Moreover, the decline casts new doubts on the competitive tactics of the auction houses...
...cope with these challenges, the emergency room is understaffed, under-funded and understocked. Once, during a "Code Blue" emergency resuscitation. the heartbeat monitoring machine ran out of paper. Another day, I tried to help as nurses searched for a valve to open an oxygen tank needed by a patient. The next week, I was sent to other parts of the hospital to track down scarce gauze and urinals...