Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name Opren, took place years under the name Opren, took place after the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the equivalent of the FDA, reported that it had received notice of more than 3,500 adverse reactions linked to the drug, including the 61 deaths, many of them associated with liver, kidney or gastrointestinal damage. U.S. consumer groups contend that there was no way that Lilly could not have known about the 28 British deaths that occurred prior to the drug's U.S. approval in April. Indeed, accounts of some deaths from liver disease, all among the elderly, were reported...
DIED. Pierre Balmain, 68, chosen designer of the aristocracy and one of the reigning leaders of haute couture during Paris' halcyon dominance of the fashion world; of liver cancer; in Paris. A onetime architectural student who apprenticed to Couturiers Molyneux and Lucien LeLong before opening La Maison Pierre Balmain in 1945, he was one of those who introduced the postwar soft, feminine "new look," a welcome relief from the severe, mannish lines of the 1930s and 1940s. His subtly tailored suits and classic dresses could be worn from one year to the next, reflecting Balmain's wish...
...committee advised Americans to drink only "moderate" amounts of alcohol, although it did not specify how much. Alcohol consumption, particularly when combined with smoking, has been linked to mouth, larynx, liver and lung cancers. Panel members were not, however, able to confirm reports that dietary fiber reduces the risk of bowel cancer. Nor was the evidence sufficient to convince them of the prophylactic benefits of vitamin E or the perils of preservatives, food dyes and other chemical additives...
...delight. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who has written about Lebanon since 1946, remembers the hospitality of the countryside, the farmers in their fruit groves forcing a stranger to accept gifts of grapes and white figs and apples and pears. He remembers the magnificent village breakfasts of arak, kebab, grilled liver, tomatoes, yogurt, onions, eggs fried in pottery pans and flavored with sumac...
...finally succumbed to the likes of Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in San Quentin and who later won fame with the video generation as the bumbling, comic Sergeant Biff O'Hara in TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from 1954 to 1960; of liver cancer; in Ashland, Ore., on April...