Word: livered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that's the case, it would add to the growing list of statins' unexpected benefits. Initially the drugs were designed to inhibit the liver's ability to make cholesterol, but it turned out that they not only lowered LDL, but raised levels of HDL, or good cholesterol, in the blood as well. In the early 2000s, researchers reported that statins also reduced inflammation, a process that appears to contribute to the rupture of unstable plaques in the heart vessels, which triggers heart attack...
...addition to compromising the integrity of the game, these substances also have many deleterious health effects. While enhancing aerobic and strength capabilities in the short term, performance-enhancing drugs have been shown to cause many longer-term health conditions like heart disease and liver damage—problems that should not affect professional athletes or the youngsters who aspire to imitate their sports heroes...
...highly structured. After the guests arrive and take their seats at the table, the chairman (what? don't your dinner parties have a chairman?) asks them to stand and receive the haggis. Everyone rises as the entrée of entrails - haggis is made by stuffing a sheep's heart, liver and lungs along with oatmeal and spices into the stomach lining, so that it looks like an oddly distended football - arrives on a platter, usually with a bagpipe band following behind. Someone then gives a boisterous rendition of one of Burns' poems, "Address to a Haggis." When he recites...
Earlier in the day, Bloomberg News reported that the SEC had begun a routine investigation into Apple's disclosure's about Jobs's health. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg has also claimed that Jobs "is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment of cancer." Apple has declined to comment...
...wheelchair after crashing; another rider attempting a trick called the "Sterilizer" had an accident that sent him into convulsions in front of the crowd. In 2007, a skateboarder attempting a massive jump fell five stories to a wooden ramp and ended up in the hospital with a bleeding liver, bruised lung and bad case of whiplash...