Word: livered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clinics across the U.S., but it has already sparked a fierce debate among physicians and health-care policymakers. Just last week, the Food and Drug Administration warned doctors that protease inhibitors, a key ingredient in the new therapies, can cause diabetes--in addition to known side effects that include liver complications and debilitating nausea. Are the benefits worth the risks? Could overuse of antivirals unleash a new strain of drug-resistant superviruses? Will the availability of a morning-after treatment make people relax their guard? Will there be a widespread return to the risky sexual practices that preceded the AIDS...
Believe in institutions--governments, universities, families, all that. No one believes in institutions anymore, not even the institutions, but endurance is not chopped liver. You are an institution (quite a fine one, if your mother and I are any judge), a composition of tested parts that have evolved into a body that stands...
...priority after having to make a split-second decision to donate the organs of his 22-year-old daughter killed in a car accident in 1993; Senator Bill Frist, a surgeon who actually did transplants; and Representative Joe Moakley, who walks the halls of Congress thanks to a donated liver--will launch National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week and celebrate the fact that this year, for the first time, 70 million Americans will get donor cards along with their tax refunds...
...body parts was so ghoulish that families hardly discussed it and doctors, in the infancy of transplant technology, rarely raised it. Even now, after decades of increasing public comfort, the thought that a hospital might be eyeing you not as a patient to be saved but as a new liver for Mickey Mantle is very spooky...
DIED. PAUL HENSON, 71, bold telephone chief whose costly construction of the first major fiber-optic network turned Sprint into the third largest U.S. long-distance carrier; of complications from liver cancer; in Palm Springs, California...