Word: kidneys
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...hurdle" if the Vatican validated a cure reported by a priest in Guwahati, India, on Sept. 5, the 10th anniversary of the beloved nun's death. The cure in question, originally reported by the Asian Catholic news agency UCA News, was described as "the disappearance of a half-inch kidney stone in his lower ureter...
...graduates from medical school: Sandel: “Now consider a second case: This time you’re a doctor and transplant surgeon. You have five patients each in desperate need of an organ to survive. One needs a heart, one a lung, one a liver, one a kidney, and the fifth a pancreas. But you have no organs and you’re about to see them die, until suddenly you remember that in the next room there’s a healthy guy who came in for a checkup, and he’s taking...
...minute walk to Anchor & Hope, which deserves its reputation for what the Brits call great pub grub, including steak-and-kidney pie and braised rabbit. Save space for pudding. Annoyingly, no reservations...
...benefits of a 1% drop aren't small, and they go beyond blood-sugar control: That reduction translates to a 15% to 20% decrease in heart attack and stroke risk and a 25% to 40% lower risk of diabetes-related eye or kidney disease. "To envision the importance of exercise, imagine an inexpensive pill that could decrease the hemoglobin A1C value by 1 percentage point," write Dr. William Kraus of Duke University Medical Center and Dr. Benjamin Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, in an accompanying editorial. "Diabetes experts would be quick to incorporate this...
...idea it played this role, says Dr. Saul Malozowski, a senior endocrinologist at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders. "The skeleton used to be thought of as just a structural support system. This opens the door to a new way of seeing the bones." The finding parallels discoveries in the 1990s about the metabolic activities of fat - another body tissue that was once seen as inert...