Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for the surging popularity of videoscope surgery is simple: correctly performed, it can dramatically reduce surgical trauma. Since 1987, when the first diseased gall bladder was removed in this fashion, rave reviews from patients have made it almost rare for a gall bladder to be removed the old-fashioned way. And for good reason. "Before," says Dr. Eddie Joe Reddick, a retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that...
...Technically, it's inaccurate to suggest that I ran," he said in an interview from party headquarters, his Maplewood, N.J., home. "I'd say I strolled. I run only to the bathroom. I've got a little bladder problem, you see. I like my beer, but I just can't hold it. You know, I've heard the reason beer runs through your body so fast is that it doesn't have to change color. But that's a story for another...
...prevent the growths. So far, research has shown a pronounced effect on mice; preliminary studies are being carried out on 50 women who are at high risk for such cancers. Broccoli and its relatives also contain beta carotene, a substance that could help ward off lung, throat and bladder cancer. The same compound may also reduce the risk of heart attack. Researchers at Harvard Medical School report that men with clogged arteries who were fed beta carotene supplements suffered half as many heart seizures and strokes as did men given placebo pills...
...trying to get to sleep are still battling their bodies' natural inclinations, this time to get up. When they do manage to doze off, their rest tends to be fitful, since other bodily functions keep to their usual rhythms. "Nightworkers are often up at noon because their brain and bladder wake them up," explains Dr. Charles Czeisler, director of the sleep laboratory at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The average nightworker sleeps less than the typical dayworker does...
...Micheline Mathews-Roth, an associateprofessor of medicine at the Medical School, saysthat she expects to publish a paper sometime in1991 directly linking beta carotene to theprevention of bladder cancer...