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Cooling May Have Helped Save Everett's Spine

When paramedics wheeled Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett into Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Hospital Sunday, a life-threatening spine injury had rendered him functionally quadriplegic -- and potentially paralyzed for life. But an experimental treatment may have drastically improved his chances of walking again, according to some doctors. The treatment, which involves an infusion of ice-cold saline, nudges the body into a state of hypothermia -- a step aimed at limiting the cascade of events...Full Story
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