Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rescue workers and others in the path of the cloud reported breathing difficulty and skin irritation. Medical officials said prolonged contact with the gas might cause liver, kidney and lung damage...
...years since, Merigan and his Stanford team have successfully used IF to treat shingles and chicken pox in cancer patients. In other studies, IF has prevented the recurrence of CMV, a chronic viral disease that sometimes endangers newborn babies and kidney- transplant patients. Israeli doctors have also used IF eyedrops to combat a contagious and incapacitating viral eye infection commonly known as "pink eye." Researchers are now trying a combination of IF and the antiviral drug ara-A in patients with chronic hepatitis B infections. Interferon investigators have high hopes that the drug will be equally active against other viral...
...most mysterious piece in the show (and the least reproducible) is Victory Over Sin, 1980, a room designed by West Coast Artist David Hammons. What one sees, by the light of a yellowish ceiling lamp, is three gray walls covered with a repeated motif of two kidney shapes, each with a pair of fuzzy black dots, which, on close inspection, turn out to be human hair. The floor has sprouted barely visible wands and reeds, no higher than low marsh grass, each painted in bands of primary color and adorned with more of the same hair. A burial site...
...friend Carolyn Matuszak showed him a picture of the beautiful blond and told him that she was an heiress who had been injured in a car crash. Kyle was now being kept a virtual prisoner (under an assumed name) in a local hospital, hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine and watched over by a fiercely suspicious attorney...
After the amputation of his left leg on Jan. 20, to relieve a circulation blockage, the formidable 87-year-old patient at first appeared to be recovering strongly. Three weeks later, however, he suffered a severe relapse, with kidney failure and heart problems. Last week the terse bulletins issued by his team of eight Yugoslav doctors said his condition "continues to be grave," in spite of some response to "necessary measures of intensive treatment." Those measures included kidney dialysis. Then late in the week, he contracted pneumonia...