Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every standard medical and logical, Henry Jackson, lying unconscious in a New Jersey hospital on his 32nd birthday, was finished. Massive internal hemorrhaging had drained him of 90% of his blood. His level of hemoglobin--the vital, oxygen-carrying compound in his red cells--had plummeted from a normal reading of 13 to an ominous 1.7, a number that one of his doctors characterized as "incompatible with survival." A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions because of biblical references...
...microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam) has been available for a half-century...
Some critics claim that Interneuron steamrollered Redux through the FDA and that the agency acted irresponsibly in approving it, charges that the company and the agency vigorously deny. What nobody on either side considered, though, was the possibility that either Redux or its parent compound fenfluramine might damage heart valves...
This is not the first time that scientists have lauded broccoli's anticancer benefits. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Paul Talalay and his colleagues first isolated sulforaphane from broccoli in 1992. Tests showed that the compound reduced the incidence of breast tumors in rats by 60%. While vitamin E and other antioxidants attack rogue cancer-causing molecules directly, sulforaphane works indirectly by boosting the body's cancer-fighting defenses. Not all broccoli plants are created equal, however. The amount of sulforaphane found in fresh broccoli varies wildly, making the vegetable an unreliable anticancer agent...
Meanwhile, Althorp is not a burden the earl can avoid. The maintenance, costing some $700,000 a year, is enormous, and revenue for the compound has come mostly from renting out portions of it for corporate entertaining. Rumor said that Spencer was thinking about building houses and, astonishingly, a superstore on the estate to add to its earning potential. "Althorp," notes Brooks-Baker, "is not a place you leave...