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Cranberry sauce Cranberries are high in vitamin C and condensed tannins, the heart-healthy compounds also found in red wine. An added bonus: research shows that cranberries reduce bladder infections by sweeping away bacteria that adhere to the urinary-tract lining. But chefs, go easy on the sugar...
...crowd, many journalists spent the night craning to look at parts of ourselves that we had only pictured before in an abstract way. Is my liver really that big? And my brain that small? Could those two conditions possibly be related? I was fascinated by the corpse's gall bladder, an organ my doctor once threatened to remove, and which I had consequently associated only with pain and fear. Glistening, vibrantly colored and full of tiny, multifaceted stones, I now saw that it also had a strange beauty, displaying our bodies' perfect, if seldom seen, balance between fragility and resilience...
Milt passed away in 1989. We were married for 39 years. He was ill for two years with bladder cancer and then bowel cancer. He was originally given three months to live, and he just would not accept this. He wanted to live. At the very end, I called his pain specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She said, "I can't help him unless he comes into the hospital." Even after all these years I still cry when I think about it--he wanted life so much that he was willing to go back into the hospital. There just wasn...
Klaus Eckstein hopes that he will never have to go to Zurich. Four years ago the 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, who lives in Cambridge, England, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The disease was successfully treated with chemotherapy and surgery, "but if it returns and can no longer be cured, I am determined to go to Switzerland," Eckstein says. "I don't want to suffer needlessly." Eckstein would not be traveling to Zurich to see its famous Bahnhofstrasse. He would be part of a small but growing number of non-Swiss known grimly as "death tourists," terminally ill people...
Joseph E. Barton ’64, a community advocate who mediated an ongoing battle between the Red Sox and residents of the Fenway neighborhood, died of bladder cancer a week ago Monday...