Doctors Claim Suspended Animation Success

Philoneist.com writes to tell us the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that US doctors have developed a process to induce hypothermia in trauma patients, shutting down their bodily functions for up to three hours. The process has been proven about 90% effective in trials with pigs and now the doctors would like the go ahead to test it on humans who would "probably die" under normal care.

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That was the plot of 'John Doe'..

[Channard]

.. a sci fi/mystery series that got axed. The story revolved around a guy who had no memory of who he was but apparently knew everything and went to wacky adventures every week, hoping to find out what really happened. His Ultimate Knowledge (TM) made him a whiz at tracking down serial killers and so forth, as you'd imagine.

One of the shows creators revealed in some TV guide or other that had the show got an extra series or two, it would have been revealed that John was in fact the result of an experiment by a mysterious group to gain all the knowledge of the universe. They believed that such knowledge was revealed at the moment of death, hence John was killed and brought back again. But the series got axed before any of that could really be explored.