Word: kidneys
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...tumor from the inside out. Salmonella is a familiar but unwelcome interloper in kitchens and at picnics, thriving in uncooked meats and other food products such as eggs. Once in the blood, its surface coat can trigger septic shock, a hyperaggressive immune response that can lead to liver and kidney failure and a dangerous drop in blood pressure. Confined to a tumor, however, the bacterium could be a potent cancer killer. Like the measles virus, salmonella zeroes in naturally on tumor cells. "If an animal has a tumor, that tumor is salmonella's favorite place to go," says David Bermudes...
...Jackson in 2000, when the accuser was 10 and suffering from what was diagnosed as incurable leukemia. Surgeons removed his left kidney and spleen and a 16-lb. tumor. He was given large doses of chemotherapy, which doctors said would either save his life or kill him. The kid deserved a break. When he asked to meet his hero, Michael Jackson, it was arranged...
...away, leaving her muscles showing. Her jaw would not open. There was an ugly red scar from her breast to her belly button where surgeons had opened her up twice--once in Baghdad and again at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to check her lacerated liver and kidney. Sections of the scar still keep opening up in a cascading "buttonhole" effect: one hole opens, then heals; then another opens. One has been left open now so that pus can flow out of her body. "It stinks really bad. It's hard to accept. Why me?" asks Frentz...
...Kidney disease...
...DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, once America's perkiest, most popular female teen idol, who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms nationwide when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, California. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts, but showed a more serious side in films like Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...