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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blood stains on the seat of the car of Dr. Terry Andrews indicated that he accidentally shot himself in the scrotum when a gun he was carrying in his waistband went off, according to campus security director Dominick Moro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Ethanol has a harmful effect on nearly every organ in the body. Chronic heavy drinking increases the risk of myocardial disease and high blood pressure. Alcohol eats away at the stomach and intestines, causing bleeding in some drinkers. Alcoholic males may experience shrunken testes, reduced testosterone levels, and even impotence. Sustained drinking sometimes disrupts women's menstrual cycles and can render them infertile. Among expectant mothers, drinking can produce birth defects and is a major cause of mental retardation in American children. Even the immune system's efficiency is reduced by alcohol. Studies are under way to determine whether heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...severe malnutrition. The high caloric content of ethanol also causes fat to build up in the liver, one of the earliest stages of alcoholic liver disease. This is frequently followed by scarring of the liver tissue, which interferes with the organ's task of filtering toxins from the blood. The slow poisoning leads to other complications, including cirrhosis, an often fatal degeneration of the liver that affects at least 10% of all alcoholics and is especially hard on women. "They die of cirrhosis earlier than men, even though they consume less alcohol," says Judith Gavaler, an epidemiologist at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Heather Linstad drew first blood in the game for the Friars halfway through the first stanza. But then, White began to weave her magic. She stoned a Providence two-on-zero break while the Friars were on the power play, as junior Julia Trotman was serving a tripping minor...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Friars Pummel Icewomen | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...participants, while otherwise healthy, was chosen for his high overall cholesterol level. Starting in 1981, doctors gave half the test group gemfibrozil, which, among other effects, increases HDL while moderately lowering LDL. The other half received a placebo. More than 82,000 visits to the clinic and 500,000 blood tests later, the LDL levels of the men given gemfibrozil had dropped 8% and their HDL levels had risen more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Battle of the Lipoproteins | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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