Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chances are that people in the later stages of the disease will have to stay on combination therapy the rest of their lives--assuming they can tolerate the often excruciating side effects, which range from diarrhea and fatigue to spasms, kidney stones and liver damage. They also have to bear in mind that they are probably still infectious and that eventually--perhaps in a few years, perhaps longer--their immune systems will probably once again collapse...
...first human kidney transplant was performed at Harvard, and the goldfish swallowing craze of the 1940s was started by a Harvard student, Lothrop Withington...
...AFRICAN AMERICANS who must suffer discrimination in silence have higher blood pressure than those who can afford to challenge racist treatment. The finding may explain why blacks as a group have such high rates of stroke, heart disease and kidney failure...
...second race against Melvin Watt, Martino still advocates returning control to "citizens, local government and North Carolina--in that order." He opposes abortion, but believes that the government shouldn't legislate morality. A kidney doctor who rose from poor immigrant roots, Martino would rather focus on education, and says improving schools would solve a host of other ills...
...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...