Word: livers
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...After heart disease and cancer, alcoholism is the country's biggest health problem. Most deaths attributed to alcoholism are caused by cirrhosis of the liver (13,000 per year). An alcoholic's life span is shortened by ten to twelve years. Recently, medical researchers have found evidence suggesting that excessive use of alcohol may also quietly contribute to certain kinds of heart disease, and that it eventually damages the brain (see box page...
Some recent research indicates that even social drinking can have both immediate and possibly long-range deleterican have both immediate and possibly long-range deleterious effects on the body. According to Dr. Peter Stokes, a psychobiologist at Cornell University Medical College, the liver becomes fatty and therefore less efficient after only a few weeks of downing three or four drinks a night. But in the early stages, at least, the condition can be reversed by abstinence. More moderate imbibing-two drinks a night with meals, say-almost certainly does no harm to most people. New studies link drinking to heart...
Inevitably, the alcoholic develops a fatty liver, and his chances of developing cirrhosis, a condition in which liver cells have been replaced by fibrous scar tissue, are at least one in ten. A severely damaged liver cannot adequately manufacture bile, which is necessary for the digestion of fats; as a consequence, the alcoholic often feels weak and suffers from chronic indigestion. This may be made worse by gastritis, which is caused by alcohol irritation of the sensitive linings of the stomach and small intestine. The troubles of a heavy drinker do not end there, and through damage to the central...
Died. Richard Howard Stafford Grossman, 66, brilliant British leftist; of cancer of the liver; in Banbury, England. The burly intellectual, famed for his trenchant criticism of British society and politics, went to Parliament as a Laborite in 1945, later served in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first Cabinet and as leader of the House of Commons. From 1970 to 1972, he edited the New Statesman, the influential left-wing weekly to which he had contributed for years...
...Doctors have long suspected that industrial exposure to vinyl chloride, a plastic substance, is dangerous. Their suspicions were further aroused recently when abnormalities were discovered in the livers of a number of workers in a B.F. Goodrich Co. chemical plant in Louisville, Ky., and it was found that four of the men had a malignancy called angiosarcoma of the liver. Last week the cancer was discovered in two more of the employees and confirmed as a contributing cause of death in an employee of a West Virginia plant. Although the action comes too late to save the workers who have...