Word: livered
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...understand the risks and wonders of estrogen therapy, it helps to know something about the hormone's natural role in the body. Estrogen is powerful stuff. Receptors for the hormone are found in some 300 different tissues, from brain to bone to liver. This means that in one way or another, all these tissues respond to the presence of estrogen. Some, including tissues in the urinogenital tract, the blood vessels, the skin and the breasts, require estrogen to maintain their tone and flexibility...
HOSPITALIZED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 67, head of the Chicago Roman Catholic diocese; for the removal of malignant tumors in the liver and pancreas as well as a cancerous kidney and lymph node; in Maywood, Illinois. Bernardin faces extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments...
Mickey Mantle is back at Baylor University Medical Center, being treated for some signs of liver rejection. Doctors are giving him strong doses of steroids to combat his immune system's rejectionof the new organ.The reaction occurs in about 65 percent of liver transplant recipients, officials say, and drug treatment usually takes care of the problem...
Doctors say Mickey Mantle is doing "remarkably well" after undergoing a second operation to stop bleeding around his newly transplanted liver . A hospital spokeswoman said such bleeding sometimes occurs in transplant cases and does not mean the body is rejecting the organ, which seems to be functioning well. Mantle, who was expected to be out of bed and moving around a bit by the end of the day, remains at Baylor Medical Center in critical but stable condition and could return home in two to three weeks...
Mickey Mantle is recovering from liver transplant surgeryearly this morning. Theformer Yankee great, 63, received the organ just two days after doctors at Baylor University hospital decided that his advanced liver cancer, complicated by hepatitis, would soon kill him otherwise. Physicians insisted that Mantle's age and deteriorating condition -- not his fame -- put him at the top on the waiting list when they found a new liver Wednesday night. "A lot of people were suspicious of this--last night we'd heard it could be three or four weeks, and now today he has the new liver," says TIME Dallas...