Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take the claim by one Harvard researcher who says that the odds of developing primary liver-cell cancer, one of the world's five most deadly forms of the disease, may be twenty-five times as high in a person who tests positive for the Hepatitis C virus as in those that...
While it has long been known that the Hepatitis B virus leads to primary liver-cell cancer, researchers now believe that Hepatitis C also contributes to its formation. Primary liver-cell cancer is cancer which originates in the liver, as opposed to metastatic cancer, which spreads to the liver from other regions of the body...
...Resnick's study did not determine the number of B positive patients, and Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Bruce D. Walker says that it is not clear that Hepatitis C alone, rather than untested-for Hepatitis B virus or another causative agent, is sufficient to cause liver-cell cancer...
Resnick insists that both viruses are prevalent in liver-cell cancer--not as cofactors but instead working independently. He says it can be shown that the absence of one virus make the other more probable...
POTOSI, MISSOURI -- With 20 hours remaining until he was to be executed, Lloyd Schlup, dozing in his death-watch cell in Potosi State Correctional Center, received a call on the phone that 12 hours later would bring his reprieve by the Governor. A voice mentioned Schlup's family, staying nearby, and said, "The state will take care of you tomorrow. We'll be glad to put them out of their misery." In terror, Schlup began to vomit. Who were the resourceful telephone ghouls? Almost surely prison employees...