Word: livered
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...acetaminophen -- even as little as taking one pill a day -- might double the risk of kidney failure, a study released today concludes. The research, conducted at Johns Hopkins University and published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, also reported that moderate doses can cause liver damage, though researchers say both kidney and liver failures remain rare. Among the findings: the risk of kidney failure jumped 40 percent for people taking acetaminophen twice a week or more, and it increased 100 percent for a daily dosage. (Aspirin, meanwhile, does not appear to harm the kidneys.) Ending...
...Mono is very variable, due to liver involvement," Rosenthal says. "If there are liver problems, that causes the most fatigue...
Hyland went home for a week to recuperate, missed three weeks of classes and dropped a class; a month later, his liver and spleen are still not back to normal...
There is no specific therapy for mono, and bed rest is the best prescription. Botein also says: "[UHS] tells you not to drink alcohol until the liver count comes down...
...close were the Presleys that the singer may never have recovered from the death of his mother Gladys, who died of liver problems in 1958, just after Presley had gone into the service. Presley was more than bereft; he was cleaved. The open coffin finally had to be covered with glass because he still wanted to kiss and hug his mother, pleading with her to come back. It was a different Presley who went back to the Army, and then to serve in Germany. He seemed to be haunted ever after by her, as we, still and likely always, will...