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...Mateo, Calif., was sent by her obstetrician to the prenatal diagnosis clinic of the University of California-San Francisco. Ultrasound scans showed that she was bearing twins, a boy and a girl. At 28 weeks the female fetus seemed normal, but the male's kidneys and bladder were swollen with fluid backed up in the urinary tract...
...anyone afflicted with a sweet tooth, Government rulings in the past decade have been decidedly sour. First the Food & Drug Administration barred cyclamates because they might bring on bladder cancer. Then after saccharin was also linked to bladder cancer, the agency proposed banning that sweetener, an action averted only by an act of Congress. Last week the FDA broke new ground, announcing its approval of a low-calorie sugar substitute called aspartame...
...Wheel, and that he was involved in the most famous of the 1920s West Coast celebrity trials--the case of Fatty Arbuckle, in which Arbuckle, a famous film comedian, was accused of raping a woman and subsequently killing her by the sheer weight of his enormous bulk rupturing her bladder. It was perfect fodder for the tabloids of the day, but little is known of what Hammet had to do with it. Arbuckle was acquitted...
...glad you came, because tomorrow I'm going into the hospital.' And I said: 'What's wrong Mama?' And she said, 'Well, I'm not feeling well. I saw my doctor and I told him there's something wrong.' He had been treating her, the doctor, for a gall bladder for five years. She was taking Pepto-Bismol. And then she said, 'But I said to him, No. I want to go in the hospital, to take whatever tests can be taken.' Quite a smart woman. [Looks up to make sure you realize this.] And the doctor said...
...streets one night when he suddenly felt a gripping pain in his chest. In the previous eight years he had had two similar experiences, but after thorough physicals, including blood tests and electrocardiograms, doctors could find nothing wrong with his heart and attributed the pains to a mild gall bladder attack or chest muscle strain. This time, though, Weiner was given a new diagnostic test. Doctors injected a radioactive substance into his bloodstream, then took pictures of his heart with a special camera that detects radioactivity. The pictures revealed that his heart was not getting an adequate supply of blood...