Word: bladder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Every so often they'd file us off the bus for meal breaks, coffee breaks and bladder breaks. We would take in a local place, like Joe's Real Bar-B-Q Cafe in Amarillo, where the patrons still wear cowboy hats and look askance at anyone who saunters in with a Maoist cap on his long haired head. I ate fast and left before the posse arrived...
...Puzo had a vision of his own. "It was Christmas Eve and I had a severe gall-bladder attack. I had to take a cab to the Veterans Administration Hospital on 23rd Street, got out and fell into the gutter. There I was lying there thinking, here I am, a published writer, and I am dying like a dog. That's when I decided I would be rich and famous...
Does saccharin cause bladder cancer in human beings? This question is at the center of a debate that has raged since March 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration announced?largely on the basis of tests on rats?that it was planning to ban the artificial sweetener. Deluged with complaints from food manufacturers and consumers, Congress imposed an 18-month delay on the ban. Now come two reports that question the wisdom of any prohibition of saccharin...
...study at Johns Hopkins University, Epidemiologists Irving I. Kessler and J. Page Clark questioned 519 patients with bladder cancer. The patients were asked about their consumption of saccharin and cyclamate (an artificial sweetener banned in 1970) in beverages and foods. Their answers to these and questions relating to smoking habits, occupation, diabetes and other factors were then compared with responses from 519 patients who were matched for sex, race, age and marital status but who did not have cancer or any bladder problems. The results, reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that consumption...
Urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra, the channel carrying urine from the bladder. In gonorrhea victims, it is caused by the gonococcus bacterium. But in a majority of cases of NGU, no gonococcus can be found-hence the name nongonococcal urethritis. Though the cause of NGU cannot always be determined, researchers have in recent years identified a culprit in about half the cases: a tiny bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, the same microbe that causes trachoma, an eye disease...