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Archives for August 2012

This Could Be BIG…

D. Kunkel/Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.; D. Bell/Harvard University; J. Kheir/Children’s Hospital Boston; C. Porter/Chris Porter Illustration From BusinessInsider.com

Through the years we hear about quite a few breakthrough medical advances that never seem to make it into actual practice, but if the early news pans out on this one, it appears that scientists Children’s Hospital Boston have found a way to keep a patient alive, with vital organs oxygenated in the event of respiratory failure or cardiac arrest, for up to 30 minutes, via a technology that “packages oxygen in microbubbles for direct delivery via injection to blood and tissues.” (Imagine the increase in survival rates if paramedics or emergency room doctors could have an extra 30 minutes to recover and stabilize a patient.)

Details on the invention can be found here as part of Business Insider’s Game Changers series.

 

Silverthorn’s Physiology has Arrived

It’s been a mad month at the Bookstore (no time for posting – apologies), but we’re just about ready for the Fall Rush, and a key component of that state of readiness is the arrival of the ‘hot off the presses’ 6th edition of Human Physiology – used for PHYL 1000 and 1010.

Building the new package for this year’s edition was expected to delay delivery until just before -or just after- the start of the semester, so this early appearance will still allow a little over a week for those who want to avoid the lineups that come along with those first classes.

 

(Granted, this won’t be earth-shattering news for those of you who may be off-campus visitors, but for the more than 500 students who will be using this book, we thought we’d better spread the news.)

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