Can Images Kill?

Can stress kill?

Although stress doesn?t usually lead directly to a person?s demise, long-term exposure can increase the chances of developing life-threatening conditions. Stress is an influential force that can either fuel someone through a public speaking engagement or make them feel sick to their stomach. When someone experiences stress, the body perceives a threat and responds with the "fight or flight" res...

Can lack of communication kill?

What you don't know can kill you.

Description: Practical, easy–to–follow advice that saves lives Based on the author's thirty years of hands–on experience working in the field of industrial fuel systems and combustion equipment safety, this book integrates safety codes with practical, tested, and proven guidance that makes it viable to specify, operate, and maintain industrial fuel and combustion systems as safely as possible. ...

What you don’t see can kill you.

Traumatic retroperitoneal hematoma is a potentially life-threatening condition associated with both blunt and penetrating injury mechanisms to the structures in that region.

The thrill can kill: murder by methylation.

Why babies of crack-cocaine mothers develop heart problems has always been a mystery. In this issue of Molecular Pharmacology, Zhang et al. (p. 1319) show that a specific methylation occurs at the protein kinase Cepsilon (PKCepsilon) promoter of the babies born of mother rats exposed to cocaine. This reduces the expression of PKCepsilon, a naturally cardioprotective enzyme, which provides a pla...