Word: kidney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murray, who this week celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation from the Medical School in 1943, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his early work on kidney transplants, But his desire to don scrubs and a scalped began much earlier...
Surveys of doctors themselves show how many are unaware of their patients' options or unwilling to respect them. Many health-care workers knew little about new laws that allowed them to withhold or withdraw machines like respirators and kidney machines or even feeding tubes. Many rejected the idea that once a treatment is started, it can still be dropped, even though the law upholds a patient's right to do so. Though the courts have recognized the right of patients to refuse food and water, 42% of health-care workers rejected that option...
Drums of Heaven describes a terminal wasteland where the "tears of the crocodile water the sun" and "kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust." Feeding Frenzy uses sepulchral organ chords and a throbbing bass line to drive home its point that civilization has bloodied its own waters; Garrett sings, "Computers and shovels, churches and brothels/ Mannequins and skeletons, cities and dust bowls/ Here we go again/ Hear the clamor of the feeding pen." Garrett, who ran unsuccessfully for the Australian Senate in 1984, sings like a man on a mission, his voice stoked with righteous indignation as he lashes...
...fish) Magnesium necessary for muscular contractions all unprocessed food (whole seeds, legumes) Iron essential for production of meat, liver, beans hemoglobin Zinc unknown, involved in fighting infec- animal products, especially tion meat Iodine important for thyroid gland's hor- iodized salt mone synthesis Selenium essential for enzymes catalyzing seafoods, kidney, liver hydrogen peroxide
...prompt. Unfortunately, all four antifungal drugs in use are disagreeable and often toxic. The worst, victims agree, is amphotericin B, known as "Ampho the Terrible" to those who have to have it injected into the base of their skull for meningitis. The side effects include nausea, fever and kidney damage. In severe cases, where the fungus has permanently damaged lung or bone tissue, surgical repair may be needed. Since the drugs serve only to suppress the fungus, not to kill it, those who develop a severe case of valley fever may require treatment for years and can never be sure...