Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Referral to the Toronto center comes from community groups and immigration lawyers. But many survivors still enter countries as normal aliens. One Afghan woman, admitted to a Montreal hospital last year and treated for kidney infection and hysteria, was not identified as a torture victim for months. There are problems of language and culture, says Cowgill, and few doctors recognize the signs of torture. Many patients also are tight-lipped about their ordeals...
With his tall and portly frame, his gleaming bald head and jovial, Buddha- like countenance, James Beard was central casting's dream of a food writer come true. Almost until his death last week of a heart attack following a kidney infection, Beard, 81, remained a monumental and genial presence in New York City food markets and restaurants, where his passion for good eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica...
...years ago my husband received a kidney transplant. His options at the time were a transplant costing $30,000, chronic dialysis (which would have cost $100,000 thus far) or death. If he had not decided to have the transplant, I and our four young children would have received $100,000 in Social Security benefits through the years. Instead, my husband is a productive, taxpaying member of society. A $30,000 transplant has proved to be the economical choice...
...gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease. The Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel has reported that at least 88 Faith Assembly members have died from treatable illnesses or injuries...
...sickly, solitary Spanish poet who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destructión o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave, he was the only member not killed...