Word: kidneys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...star who has branched out from his ongoing hit series, Different Strokes, to make TV and feature films (his latest, Playing with Fire, about a teen-age arsonist, is scheduled to air early next year); in fair condition and improving after a three-hour kidney transplant operation; in Los Angeles. It was Coleman's second transplant, replacing an eleven-year-old donated kidney that began to fail two years ago. He is expected to resume shooting his TV series in seven weeks...
...suggests that a xenograft adjusts to the needs of its new host, no one really knows what to expect. Also unknown is the long-term effect of cyclosporine, which Fae may have to take for the rest of her life. The drug has been found to cause liver and kidney damage and to increase the risk of certain cancers...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage-Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s...
Working hard to present a confident air, Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel told reporters to look for "hard kidney shots" from...
...early hits as a child star in the 1950s with Johnny Otis' blues show, but whose lifelong battle against drugs turned her career into a series of retirements and comebacks punctuated by hits like Release Me (1962) and What a Difference a Day Makes (1975); of liver and kidney disease; in Torrance, Calif. Appearing with the Beatles on British TV in 1965, she was acknowledged by them as a major innovative force in rock 'n' roll. Her death came only three weeks after that of Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton, a rip-roaring blues shouter who also...