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Spleen Defined
an organ, about the size of a fist, located on the left side of the abdomen, below the diaphragm. It is the primary filtering system for the blood, removing foreign material and initiating immune reactions which result in the production of antibodies. It is also regulates the number of red blood cells in the system, destroying old red blood cells, which have a lifespan of just 120 days.
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Scientists Make Red Blood Cells From Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Published August 20, 2008, 5:20 am, Medical News Today
US scientists have developed an efficient way to make mature red blood cells on a large scale using human embryonic stem cells to make young red blood cells and then maturing them in the lab. The development opens the possibility of making almost unlimited amounts of transfusion blood in the lab although experts caution there are still many hurdles to overcome.
Clinic Gets Boy Teaching Dummy
Published August 19, 2008, 9:11 pm, Northeast Tampa News & Tribune
Daisy has a new friend. Thanks to 5-year-old Allison "Allie" Blain of Temple Terrace, All Children's Specialty Care Clinic on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard recently welcomed a new teaching dummy named Donald. He now shares center stage at the facility with Daisy, a fellow instructional puppet and bosom buddy with Allie and many of its other young patients.
"Elegy'': Somber sex
Published August 19, 2008, 4:47 pm, San Jose Mercury News
"Elegy'' is such a serious, oftentimes grave exploration of desire and the ways of aging and desperate flesh that it's a miracle the two central characters — a literary star named David Kepesh and his much younger lover, Consuela — have as much sex as they do.
Expert: Elderly woman's death was avoidable
Published August 18, 2008, 9:24 pm, York Daily Record
The onset of skin ulcers that became necrotized tissue was a slow painful process for Bernadette Leiben, a health professional said Monday.
by Kristin Longley | The Flint Journal
Published August 18, 2008, 11:05 am, The Flint Journal
You might say Scott Kronick is the guy to know these days in China. As all eyes are trained on Beijing for the Olympic Games, the Flint Township native has been tapped by corporate giants and the media as someone who can bridge the culture gap between China and the Western world.
Such a big spleen!
Published August 16, 2008, 5:49 pm, The Star
Various conditions can cause a person’s spleen to enlarge, and this might cause some problems.
QB Takes Big Step On Road To Recovery
Published August 16, 2008, 4:18 pm, The Tampa Tribune
I suppose in the world of Bucs football, you know, the big picture, it doesn't matter.
'The odour of death mingles with the smell of charred timber'
Published August 16, 2008, 3:18 pm, Sunday Herald
tanks litter the streets, soldiers' corpses rot under the hot sun and shell-scarred apartment blocks look like they are about to collapse like a pack of cards.
Riverside boy undergoes bone marrow transplant for rare Hurler's syndrome
Published August 16, 2008, 2:34 pm, The Press-Enterprise
Newborn J.R. Brunmier's problems began with a series of respiratory problems thought to be asthma. Then during the boy's 12-month checkup, his pediatrician saw signs of something more serious. He was worried about the infant's appearance, said Keri Brunmier, J.R.'s mother.
Making pneumo shot a rule rather than an exception
Published August 15, 2008, 2:31 pm, Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Very soon, a number of private hospitals around the country will begin requiring their elderly as well as their other high-risk in-patients to get a pneumococcal shot before they are allowed to go home.
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- The 5 Organs Network of Chinese Medicine - Spleen/Stomach
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- Brad Barrett's Iraq Paper: Fake? Political paper graded by a South Carolina teacher
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- How The Immune System And Brain Communicate To Control Disease: nervous and immune systems interact in the spleen
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