Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cohn has claimed lately to be suffering from liver cancer, which he says is now in remission. Even so, throughout the proceedings the old courtroom pugilist was unrepentant. "This is just a bunch of nobodies trying to get me because I'm a somebody," he told reporters in April. He may now seek to appeal his disbarment...
...court" by failing to appear on a disorderly conduct charge brought last year, when she purportedly disrupted a lecture by Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland. To protest the cleric's alleged support of the International Monetary Fund, a perennial LaRouche target, Hart handed Weakland a piece of raw liver, calling it a pound of flesh. Hart's attorney said she was unable to appear in court last week because she was in West Germany "campaigning for patriots" in that country's upcoming parliamentary elections. Hart garnered attention earlier this spring by leading an anti-drug parade through Chicago's Loop...
...modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses exceeding 800 rads and were listed in "grave condition." Nineteen of them were chosen either for transplants of bone marrow from donors or for more experimental transplants of liver tissue from fetuses. At week's end eleven of the 35 had died, including six who had apparently undergone transplants...
...without the risky operation as well as those too ill to benefit. Of the patients selected for transplants, some had received such a heavy dose of radiation that their white blood cells, which are needed to match tissues, had already been destroyed. That forced the doctors to use the liver tissue from fetuses, which is also a source of blood cells and is less likely to be rejected In future nuclear accidents, Gale suggested, blood samples should be taken from all victims within 48 hours so that they will be available for tissue typing...
...them over a long period of time. Therefore researchers have to worry whether the chemicals could harm the body over the longterm. "We must imagine lifelong high dose therapy to keep the virus continually suppressed. We have to think about what those chemicals will do to the liver and kidneys," Haseltine says...