Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some physicians have found evidence that aspirin may literally act like the hormones and stimulate the patient's adrenal glands to work better. A similar added benefit is suspected, but not yet proved, for victims of kidney stones: originally prescribed only to relieve the pain, aspirin may help to keep new stones from forming...
BREAKTHROUGH (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Medicine-Shape of the Future," a special on kidney transplantation and other new advances...
Drugs in Time. The cell-typing system has already been tried on patients. At New York Hospital, one girl got a kidney transplant from her mother, whose cells showed little antagonism to her own. When cell tests showed that rejection activity was building up, the doctors were able to give rejection-suppressing drugs in good time. After careful cell matching, another girl received a kidney from her father. Some five months after transplantation, the kidneys are still working well...
...Herbert Hoover, 89, at his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, rallying after a bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell...
...started out as a civil engineer but soon decided that there were more piasters in trade, in the 1940s and '50s piled up a $100 million empire in chemicals, paper, shipping, sugar and cotton, only to have it all nationalized by Nasser in 1961; of heart and kidney ailments; in London...