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...atop a mountain about three miles from the stranded submarine they found the corpses of 11 North Koreans. At first officials in Seoul speculated that they had committed suicide rather than surrender: all were shot in the head. But it turned out they had also been shot in the abdomen and from behind with a rifle. Among the dead were the submarine commander, a colonel, his deputy and the navigator. South Korean officials suspect the best-trained infiltrators in the group had killed the crew in order to improve their own chances of survival...
Rebecca Strunk suffered increasing discomfort as she lay recovering from a hysterectomy at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Again and again, the 46-year-old mother of two complained of pain in her upper abdomen, and again and again the people who came into her room to care for her wrote down "incisional pain" on her chart, although the incision was in her lower abdomen. Finally, after three days, as her temperature spiked and her blood pressure plummeted, Strunk's doctors suspected the truth: her bowel had been nicked in the surgery, and she was succumbing to a massive...
...cancer recurred. Then three years ago, as her remissions grew ominously shorter, Haut enrolled in an experimental trial of monoclonal-antibody therapy at Michigan. Over the course of five weeks, she received four infusions of antibodies loaded with radioactive iodine. The result? The tumors in her groin, chest and abdomen disappeared, and to this day Haut remains cancer-free. In a recently completed study, 19 out of 21 B-cell lymphoma patients treated at Michigan responded with partial to complete remissions...
...abdomen) is the body area that has launched a thousand fitness devices. Each aims to create what bodybuilders call a six-pack, a perfect row of muscles...
...Most women undergoing surgery for early stage OVARIAN CANCER are not thoroughly checked to see if the disease has spread to their abdomen and lymph nodes, a study shows. The step can make the difference between life and death...