Guest guest Posted October 15, 2001 Report Share Posted October 15, 2001 NON-TEXT REMOVED > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > AOL users: look for your links at the bottom of the page. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Anthax exposure at NBC in NYC > > NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- An employee of the NBC news > network at 30 Rockefeller Plaza has been exposed to > anthrax. NBC News President Andy Lack Friday said the > woman is " in good health and in good care. " New York > Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the woman opened a suspi- > cious letter that contained a powder on Sept. 25 and > has been monitored since. The woman was exposed to > anthrax through the skin and developed a low-grade > fever and a rash. She was placed on antibiotics and > was expected to recover. > > " CatSper " protein turns sperm into sprinters > > According to a study published in Nature, scientists have > discovered a protein (named " CatSper " ) that gives sperm > tails the whiplash motion they need to swim well and pene- > trate eggs. The research, lead by Dr. Clapham of > Harvard Medical School, may lead to new contraceptive > drugs or their opposite, treatments for male infertility. > According to Dr. Clapham, an inadequate amount of CatSper > doesn't in itself inhibit the production of sperm or > cause infertility. The infertility is caused by the > sperm's inability to approach the egg with force enough > to penetrate it. Scientists believe developing a drug > that blocks CatSper may be a breakthrough contraceptive > that could be taken by either males or females. > > Heartbeat Goes On After Death > > For the heart of an 80-year-old man, the beat still goes > on -- hours after he died. Surgeons at the University of > Pittsburgh Medical Center gave other doctors a glimpse > of the future this weekend when they showed how an > experimental machine, the Portable Organ Preservation > System (POPS), might one day be used to keep transplant > hearts from deteriorating in the crucial hours before > they are put into recipients' bodies, according to an > Associated Press article. > > Ordinarily, hearts that are to be transplanted are taken > from the donor's body and chilled until they can be used. > But such a heart can only last about six hours. > > Using the POPS, warm blood is kept flowing through the > organ, giving surgeons more time to get potential > recipients to the hospital. > > The machine has already been used on a human kidney and > animal organs. The 80-year-old man's heart was not ear- > marked for any transplant, and doctors plan on keeping > it connected to the machine, developed by TransMedics > Inc. of Woburn, Mass., for 24 hours. > > Wild Mushrooms Blamed for Disease > > A French scientists says his experiments with mice show > that people who continually eat a particular variety of > mushroom popular in the United States and Europe may > risk developing a muscle-wasting disease, even death, > reports CNN News. The mushroom, known in the United > States as " man on horseback " or " yellow-knight fungus " > and in France as " bidaou " and " canari, " may be respon- > sible for at least three deaths among 12 cases of the > disease known as rhabdomyolysis during the last 12 > years, says the report. > ************************************************************ AOL Links ************************************************************ > > <a href= " http://www.shagmail.com/sub/sub-health.html " >Subscribe</a> > <a href= " http://www.shagmail.com/unsub/health.html " >Unsubscribe</a> > <a href= " http://www.shagmail.com " >FREE Newsletters</a> > ____________________________________________________________ > > END OF HEALTH TIPS > Copyright 2001 by Pulse Direct, Inc. All rights reserved. > Feel free to forward this, in its entirety, to others. > > Copyright 2001 by United Press International. > All rights reserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2001 Report Share Posted October 15, 2001 THANKS MOM GOOD INFO. LUV U JO http://community.webtv.net/jowaca/JOSFAVORITEPICTURES NON-TEXT REMOVED > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > AOL users: look for your links at the bottom of the page. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Anthax exposure at NBC in NYC > > NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- An employee of the NBC news > network at 30 Rockefeller Plaza has been exposed to > anthrax. NBC News President Andy Lack Friday said the > woman is " in good health and in good care. " New York > Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the woman opened a suspi- > cious letter that contained a powder on Sept. 25 and > has been monitored since. The woman was exposed to > anthrax through the skin and developed a low-grade > fever and a rash. She was placed on antibiotics and > was expected to recover. > > " CatSper " protein turns sperm into sprinters > > According to a study published in Nature, scientists have > discovered a protein (named " CatSper " ) that gives sperm > tails the whiplash motion they need to swim well and pene- > trate eggs. The research, lead by Dr. Clapham of > Harvard Medical School, may lead to new contraceptive > drugs or their opposite, treatments for male infertility. > According to Dr. Clapham, an inadequate amount of CatSper > doesn't in itself inhibit the production of sperm or > cause infertility. The infertility is caused by the > sperm's inability to approach the egg with force enough > to penetrate it. Scientists believe developing a drug > that blocks CatSper may be a breakthrough contraceptive > that could be taken by either males or females. > > Heartbeat Goes On After Death > > For the heart of an 80-year-old man, the beat still goes > on -- hours after he died. Surgeons at the University of > Pittsburgh Medical Center gave other doctors a glimpse > of the future this weekend when they showed how an > experimental machine, the Portable Organ Preservation > System (POPS), might one day be used to keep transplant > hearts from deteriorating in the crucial hours before > they are put into recipients' bodies, according to an > Associated Press article. > > Ordinarily, hearts that are to be transplanted are taken > from the donor's body and chilled until they can be used. > But such a heart can only last about six hours. > > Using the POPS, warm blood is kept flowing through the > organ, giving surgeons more time to get potential > recipients to the hospital. > > The machine has already been used on a human kidney and > animal organs. The 80-year-old man's heart was not ear- > marked for any transplant, and doctors plan on keeping > it connected to the machine, developed by TransMedics > Inc. of Woburn, Mass., for 24 hours. > > Wild Mushrooms Blamed for Disease > > A French scientists says his experiments with mice show > that people who continually eat a particular variety of > mushroom popular in the United States and Europe may > risk developing a muscle-wasting disease, even death, > reports CNN News. The mushroom, known in the United > States as " man on horseback " or " yellow-knight fungus " > and in France as " bidaou " and " canari, " may be respon- > sible for at least three deaths among 12 cases of the > disease known as rhabdomyolysis during the last 12 > years, says the report. > ************************************************************ AOL Links ************************************************************ > > <a href= " http://www.shagmail.com/sub/sub-health.html " >Subscribe</a> > <a href= " http://www.shagmail.com/unsub/health.html " >Unsubscribe</a> > <a href= " http://www.shagmail.com " >FREE Newsletters</a> > ____________________________________________________________ > > END OF HEALTH TIPS > Copyright 2001 by Pulse Direct, Inc. All rights reserved. > Feel free to forward this, in its entirety, to others. > > Copyright 2001 by United Press International. > All rights reserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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