Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robbing them with his extravagant spending. Inevitably, the Chancellor's age and health became a major issue. Kreisky is much older than the leaders of other political parties, and for the past three years he has had to undergo twice-weekly dialysis treatments because of a severe kidney ailment. When journalists asked him about his chances of serving out a full four-year term, he would sometimes snap: "Everybody must die some day, but I won't be rushed...
...parts per trillion can cause birth defects, cancer and other serious illness in laboratory animals. Last week the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported that 112 of 130 residents tested in Imperial, Mo., near dioxin-contaminated Times Beach, showed abnormalities in blood, liver or kidney functions. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, director of the environmental-science lab at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan: "No question about it, dioxin is harmful to humans. It is manmade. As a result, the human body doesn't know how to break it down. We store it in our bodies and accumulate...
DIED. Norbert Pearlroth, 89, researcher who, believe it or not, from 1923 to 1975 was the sole discoverer and documentor of all the obscure and fascinating trivia that made up the syndicated comic strip Ripley's Believe It or Not; of heart and kidney diseases; in New York City. Hired by Strip Creator and Illustrator Robert Ripley for his linguistic abilities and memory for detail, Pearlroth thereafter spent seven days a week every week in the New York Public Library, unearthing at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters...
...brought Jarvik and DeVries together was Dutch-born Surgeon and Medical Engineer Willem Kolff, 72, who calls himself "the oldest artificial organist." The founder of Utah's artificial-organ program got his start in the field by creating the first artificial kidney, a crude dialysis machine he pieced together from cellophane and other simple materials he found in Nazi-occupied Holland in the early 1940s. He designed his first artificial heart in 1957 when he was at the Cleveland Clinic. It sustained...
...Assessment, as many as 66,000 Americans a year might qualify for an artificial heart, should it be approved for general use. Clearly, very few individuals could afford the device. The U.S. Government now spends $1.8 billion a year on Medicare assistance for the 60,000 Americans who require kidney dialysis. If Medicare were to be extended to artificial-heart patients, that could mean an added burden to tax payers of as much as $5.5 billion annually. Dr. Willard Gaylin, president of the Hastings Center, an institute just north of New York City for the study of biomedical ethics, points...