Word: kidney
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Even seemingly harmless medications sometimes turn out to be delayed-action disasters. Millions of people who once relied on the pain killer phenacetin to soothe headaches and aching joints have an increased risk of developing kidney disease and other life-threatening ailments, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The study also raises questions about the safety of another popular analgesic, acetominophen...
...called APC pills, the now discontinued pick-me-ups that also contained aspirin and caffeine. Although phenacetin is still available primarily by prescription in some European nations, including Germany, Belgium and France, it has been banned in the U.S. since 1983 because of its suspected links to anemia and kidney disease...
...least a year with those of 621 women who used the drug less often or not at all. The researchers found that women who took phenacetin regularly had an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease; they were also more likely to die from urologic or kidney disease. Aspirin posed no such risks...
Another of George's gifts is his ability to overcome adversity. Last winter, the award-winning writer entered a hospital for a kidney transplant only days - after knocking out a cover on Pentagon cutbacks. Within three months, Church was back in action, dazzling everyone with his wordplay -- and his horseplay. Once, while attending a luncheon, a straight-suited IBM economist whispered in George's ear, "Gee, it must be great to have a job where you can dress like that." At the time, George was sporting a red jacket, red tie, yellow shirt and gray-and-red-checked slacks. "Believe...
...banned at Metro because of the fog, but takeoffs were allowed to continue because visibility on the runways was declared to be above the required quarter-mile minimum. Captain William Lovelace, making only his 13th flight after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would have...