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• Treatment helps hard-to-transplant get kidney
Filtering a patient's blood, called plasma pheresis, before transplant. Another is intravenous immune globulin, or IVIG, a mix of infection-fighting antibodies that basically crowd out the bad kidney kind with run-of-the-mill types. They're ...
• EarthTalk: Painkillers and electric bikes
Many of us may be too dependent on over-the-counter painkillers to treat the occasional headache, especially given the side effects of such drugs. Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) can increase the risk of heart and circulation problems—including heart ...
• Levi cuts pattern for a greener bottom line
That’s the equivalent of driving a car 78 miles, taking 53 showers and watching a plasma TV screen for 318 hours. “If we can consume less energy, materials, and water, we can reduce our costs, and those cost savings drop to the bottom line ...
• Experiment almost creates lightning
The laser pulses form large numbers of plasma filaments, or ionized channels of molecules in the air, that act like conducting wires extending into the thundercloud. The lasers used by Kasparian's team generated small local electric discharges near ...
• Border Patrol boosts struggling towns
He bought a plasma television at Best Buy. Stan Selby, 31, of Annapolis, Md., pays $700 a month for a one-bedroom apartment and eats at restaurants near the new shopping mall. El Centro is the seat of Imperial County, an agricultural powerhouse whose ...