Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cited the recent liver transplant at Boston's Children's Hospital as being a direct result of experimentation with monkeys at Harvard labs...
...building block of the outer membrane of cells, and it is a principal ingredient in the digestive juice bile, in the fatty sheath that insulates nerves, and in sex hormones such as estrogen and androgen. Although most of the cholesterol found in the body is produced in the liver, 20% to 30% generally comes from the food...
...year-old girl named Stormie Jones made medical history on Valentine's Day by becoming the world's first person to receive simultaneous heart and liver transplants. But to doctors, Stormie is more than a medical milestone; she is an example of the worst that can happen when cholesterol levels go wildly out of control...
When two bypass operations failed to help the ailing child, doctors decided on a radical, last-ditch effort to save her life: a liver transplant. The cells of the liver are specially equipped to remove harmful LDL cholesterol from the blood, but because of her genetic defect this mechanism was not working in Stormie's liver. The hope was that a new organ would cleanse LDL cholesterol from her blood and perhaps even reverse the buildup in her arteries. There was one hitch, however. Says Pediatric Surgeon Basil Zittelli of Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where the transplant...
Each member of the panel agreed that EDB constitutes a tremendous health hazard and that even the smallest traces present too great a rink. EDB has been linked to liver cancer in laboratory animals, but its effects on humans have yet to be fully tested...