Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of joggers' ailments runs on and on. First there were the workaday shin splints and stress fractures. Then, somewhat more exotic, the threat of jogger's nipple and jogger's kidney. In winter, male marathoners have been known to run into penile frostbite. And women runners, it now appears, may face a problem of their own, jogger's infertility, which turns out to be easily reversible if they just stay off their feet...
Crowley speculated that eventually doctors may be able to use the drug to "tamper with the natural growth process." People who produce insufficient natural growth hormones, or who failed to grow normally because of kidney disease, malnutrition, or other disorders, might be able to use the drug to "catch up," he said...
...would serve his full 13-year sentence, and many West Germans still believe he should have done so. But the official attitude began to change as Guillaume's health deteriorated. Earlier this year he was moved from Rheinbach prison, outside Bonn, to a hospital for treatment of a kidney disorder and high blood pressure. In the end, the Bonn government decided that this was the best time for his release. As a West German parliamentary leader put it last week, "If we had waited any longer, the market value of this spy would probably have dropped...
Giamatti, who was prevented from delivering his remarks in person when he was hospitalized for removal of a kidney stone, also lamented a rise in "antiSemitic episodes" and the growing visibility of the Ku Klux Klan. The New Right, he said, has "licensed a new meanness of spirit in our land, a resurgent bigotry that manifests itself in racist and discriminatory postures; in threats of political retaliation; in injunctions to censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny...
U.M.C. officials are hesitant to comment on just what the heart and kidney statistics may mean. Cautions U.M.C.'s Chief Nephrologist Paul Gulyassy: "Don't assume that every time anybody dies there is negligence." Irate patients and families, however, have slapped U.M.C. with 20 lawsuits seeking more than $500 million in damages...