Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hospitals that used to go on bypass once or twice a year now do so every week. In California emergency rooms open and shut like tollgates depending on the traffic. Because surgeons were too busy, one homeless woman who was transferred to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center to have a kidney stone removed was released with a waste-collection tube protruding from her body. She was told to come back for surgery -- in one month...
...relief from the aches and pains of arthritis, menstrual cramps and other ailments. But like many other pain killers, ibuprofen, sold under such brand names as Advil and Medipren, can sometimes inflict pain. According to a report in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, the medication could cause kidney failure in about 1% of the people...
...study of twelve women with mild kidney disease, researchers at Johns Hopkins found that above-normal doses of ibuprofen led to kidney failure in three patients. Two of those patients also had adverse reactions to standard over-the-counter doses given three times a day. The kidney condition disappeared when use of the drug was stopped...
...recluse. Wasn't she the star who, in the 1932 film Grand Hotel, had murmured, "I want to be alone" and then played out that role for the rest of her life? What else could excite the old awe when she died last week, at 84, ) from complications of kidney disease? After all, Garbo stopped making movies when she was 36, nearly a half-century ago. She never won an Oscar. She worked with few good directors, made fewer great films than any star of comparable magnitude. She appeared in 14 silent features, then 14 talkies beginning...
When Dr. Stanley Hellerstein's two-year-old granddaughter Toba came to visit him in Kansas City last summer, his household garbage doubled. The reason: Toba's disposable diapers. That set Hellerstein, the chief kidney specialist at Children's Mercy Hospital, thinking about the 300,000 disposable diapers the hospital was using every year. At Hellerstein's urging, the hospital now swaddles its babies in cloth diapers that are provided by Kansas City's General Diaper Service...