Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...error refers to the standard margin of confidence used in all professional statistical analysis. The story refers to a 2.8% rise in deaths from heart at tacks. My study reports a 2.8% rise in cardiovascular deaths, which include overall heart disease and also death from strokes, kidney disease and diabetes...
...reason for the sterile response to Reagan's first Kremlin missive. The exhaustive analysis of each phrase and word that the national-security experts made of Yuri Andropov's replies gave hope there was a personal heartbeat coming through. But when doctors hooked him up to the kidney-dialysis machine, they must have plugged in his pen too. His later responses seemed drained of life. The latest letter Reagan sent to Chernenko met with such a canned response that Reagan brought it up publicly two weeks ago, an unusual show of frustration. Discouraged? Reagan has rarely met another...
...more than his or her Olympic medal: a growing body of medical evidence indicates that athletes who take steroids have experienced problems ranging from sterility to loss of libido, and the drug has been implicated in the deaths of young athletes from liver cancer and a type of kidney tumor. Steroid use has also been linked to heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center and who has just published a book on steroid...
DIED. George Zaharias, 76, huge, exuberant, cauliflower-eared professional wrestler who gave up his own highly successful career to manage that of his wife, Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, the top all-round woman athlete in the world until her death of cancer in 1956; of kidney and heart disease; in Tampa...
...were highly limited, so much so that it was safe to make such a promise without fear of the impending ethical questions raised by devices such as respirators or organ transplants. But many aspects of this oath are simply outdated; in fact, it includes a promise never to remove kidney stones, a standard procedure today which was fatal at the time the oath was written...