Word: liverance
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Amid a controversy sparked by nationwide liver-donor shortages and a fevered public policy debate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School affiliate, announced the creation of a "multidisciplinary" liver medicine center to bring needed care to Boston-area liver patients...
Alcohol-related health problems like liver disease, heart disease, hypertension, and emotional and mental health problems "tend to accrete," Clark says...
Drinking hurts--from the confused tumble down the stairs, to a painful death from liver damage. Still, 43 percent of college students "binge drink," according to an Oct. 24 New York Times report...
...list of health problems either caused or exacerbated by alcohol abuse includes a broad range of organs and systems from the heart and liver, to the stomach, esophagus, and mouth...
LIFE AT THE PUMP There's new hope for patients whose colon cancer has spread to the liver. Survival rates improve dramatically when cancer-fighting drugs are delivered directly to the liver through a pump implanted in the belly after the malignancy is surgically removed. In a study, 85% of patients who received chemotherapy via the pump along with standard chemo were still alive after two years, compared with 72% on standard chemo alone...