Word: kidneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operate carefully to avoid so-called crush syndrome, the slow buildup of toxins in the damaged limbs of trapped victims. Without proper treatment, like the intravenous infusion of liquids even before people were freed from the rubble, the condition could result in the death of survivors through kidney failure...
...bright spot for Harvard was the return of midfielder Nikhal Singh, who had missed the Columbia game with a bruised kidney...
Playing without All-Ivy forward Nikhil Singh--who was sidelined with a bruised kidney suffered in the booters' opener against MIT Wednesday--the Crimson squandered numerous scoring opportunities...
Andropov, who became Soviet leader after the death of Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, continued to groom Gorbachev as a key lieutenant. After Andropov was incapacitated by kidney disease in late 1983, it was Gorbachev who reportedly shuttled daily from the Kremlin to the hospital outside Moscow where Andropov lay hooked up to a dialysis machine. "During his last months, Andropov ran the U.S.S.R. through Gorbachev," says one Soviet historian. Gorbachev's time to run the country in his own name had not yet come when Andropov died in February 1984. The Kremlin Old Guard conferred the leadership...
Interferon's performance against other forms of cancer has been inconsistent, but when it does work, the results can be dramatic. It has produced complete remissions (though not necessarily permanent cures) in advanced cases of kidney cancer; in malignant melanoma, a lethal form of skin cancer; and in Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that often strikes AIDS victims. In one study reported in Houston, just five out of 52 patients with advanced melanoma were successfully treated with interferon. But this handful was extraordinary: all signs of cancer disappeared within four months, even though the disease had spread to such...