Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear, the copycats have not yet killed anyone. But whoever put mercuric chloride into Excedrin Extra-Strength capsules purchased by William Sinkovic of Aurora, Colo., narrowly missed. Sinkovic, 34, suffered acute kidney and liver failure. Emergency surgery saved his life, but he is still in serious condition...
...essence, K & M's work is of the same kidney as Alexander Zinoviev's The Yawning Heights: a prolonged satire that is bureaucratically realistic; a machine that recycles its own absurdity; above all, a meditation on the entropy of rhetoric, the way cliches wear down and finally deflate one another. K & M's work is obliged to resemble what they poke fun at: anyone can caricature an official Russian political picture, but only Russians can do it effectively. This involves a steady sequence of double takes: Just how serious are these guys, anyway? One can imagine some...
HOSPITALIZED. Janet Gaynor, 73, winner of the first Oscar for Best Actress (1929), in serious condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney; and Mary Martin, 68, star of Broadway's original South Pacific and TV's first Peter Pan, in good condition with two fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis and a punctured lung; after a vehicular accident; in San Francisco. Gaynor and her husband Paul Gregory, 61, and Martin and her pressagent, Ben Washer, 76, were riding in a taxi when they were struck broadside...
...experimental use in the U.S. since 1979, cyclosporine, says Sandoz, has dramatically increased survival rates for kidney transplants, from a range of 45% to 55% to a range of 80% to 90%, and for liver transplants from 30% to 70%. The first heart transplant using cyclosporine was performed in December 1980 by a Stanford University team, including Oyer and headed by Dr. Norman Shumway, who had pioneered the first heart transplant in the U.S. twelve years earlier. The team has now done 36 transplants using cyclosporine, and although Oyer cautions, "It's too early to tell," the preliminary...
...long afterward, Lilly sent out a letter to U.S. physicians emphasizing that elderly people with impaired kidney or liver functions should not be given the full recommended dosage of the drug. Last week a Lilly research vice president denied knowing about the British fatalities from liver disease until informed by the FDA in May. For his part, FDA Commissioner Hayes testified that his agency did not learn of them earlier because "we don't have the wherewithal to solicit information from all countries where a drug is used...