07/03/2005: 
Technologica
Zombie Dogs In Pittsburgh: Medical Reanimation Now A Reality
from FOX News and
Pittsburgh Live
Last month, researchers at the Safar Center For Resuscitation Research in Pittsburgh announced that they had developed a method of preserving trauma victims for 2 to 3 hours after an accident called Applied Emergency Hypothermia. The technique involves introducing an ice-cold salt solution into the bloodstream, which would drop the core body temperature enough to preserve the organs until the person could be properly treated. After treatment, the person would have warm blood reintroduced into the bloodstream and the heart would be restarted with an electric shock. This treatment had been tested on dogs, and the researchers discovered ways to reanimate the subjects after 3 hours. Clinical trials on human subjects may start within a year.
This treatment, which promises to be one of the most important medical breakthroughs ever, and when perfected, will save many lives per year, has received little to no press coverage. The press coverage it has received has largely been of the exploitative variety, focusing on the "zombie dogs" and failing to even mention the name of the procedure. Check out the links to the articles above in order to contrast and compare the two ways in which this story has been reported.
