Word: kidneys
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DIED. Charlie Smith, reputedly 137 and the oldest U.S. citizen on Social Security records; of heart and kidney failure; in Bartow, Fla. Smith claimed that he was born in Liberia, was lured onto a slave ship in 1854 and sold to a Texas rancher named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...
...Correspondent Ross H. Munro, Marcos exuded confidence as he talked about the future of his regime and his country. Despite rumors that he has serious medical problems the slender, black-haired President appeared to be thoroughly relaxed and in good health. He described the rumors that he is receiving kidney dialysis treatment as "ridiculous." Excerpts...
...investigation leading to the discovery, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, was launched three years ago when John Q, 37, checked in to the Boston hospital for surgery. He had malignant tumors in both kidneys, a condition that occurs in only 1% to 2% of all Americans with renal cancer and almost never before age 50. While taking the patient's history, doctors were startled to learn that one of his aunts also had kidney cancer. Turning sleuths, a team led by Dr. Robert S. Brown studied 40 family members spanning three generations. The resulting...
...chromosomes. Part of chromosome No. 3 was attached to chromosome 8 and vice versa, a condition that geneticists call balanced reciprocal translocation. Brown and his team speculate that the interchange first occurred in an ancestor, perhaps through spontaneous mutation. It affected genes on the chromosomes that may direct normal kidney growth or protect against kidney cancer. Passed on through the generations, the translocation seems to be a visible warning sign that its bearer has a good chance of developing cancer...
...changing Boonton, Vt. comes Margo Philipson, a dumpy Michigan housewife with a history of kidney trouble and a well-developed martyr's complex. She is searching for her missing husband, a handsome minister who she secretly believes married her as an act of self-punishment. The Rev. Philipson was supposedly killed five years earlier, when his small plane crashed in the Canadian woods. But he has been spotted near Boonton by a hippie who once lived next door to the Philipsons back in Michigan...