Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, who was in a Hartford hospital undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the liver...
...year were Australia (smoked lamb in eucalyptus leaves, sautéed shrimp on fish patties in hollandaise sauce) and South Korea (rolled beef, stuffed duck with apple rings and chestnuts). The Americans produced sea bass stuffed with crabmeat and fried in batter; also, turkey breast stuffed with Virginia ham, liver and giblets, then baked and served rollatine. Both dishes took months to perfect but cost less than $3 a serving to prepare, not including labor costs. Explained Richard Schneider, a New Jersey restaurateur: "We have to be bottom-line conscious these days. You can't make money serving lobster...
Hepatitis B can be among the most unpleasant of illnesses. In its more severe form, the viral liver infection produces a loss of appetite, vomiting, fatigue and jaundice. In some cases, the infection leads to cirrhosis or perhaps even cancer of the liver. The villain virus appears in the blood, saliva, semen or breast milk of about 200 million human "carriers" who may show no signs of the disease but can transmit the virus to others...
...contemporary toxicologists were to conjure up a cause-and-effect grammar for lethal chemicals, asbestos would stand for lung cancer, benzene for leukemia, Kepone for sterility, vinyl chloride for cancer of the liver. The links between these chemicals and certain ailments are now clearly limned, in medical circles as well as in popular mythology. But the connections with diseases for other substances are merely suspicions and likely to remain so for a long time...
...year-old East Asian scholar said he thought the bleeding may have been caused in part by a 1964 stab wound that damaged his liver while he was ambassador to Japan. Reischauer also has an ulcer--which he ruled out as a probable source of the recent bleeding--and he suffered a mild stroke five years...