Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some families may not want to have two members undergo major surgery at once. But for the Smiths, the risk was well worth the possible returns. Says Teresa: "Once you've given someone a big piece of your heart, it's easy to throw in a little bit of liver...
When it comes to hepatitis, doctors, like children, must learn their ABCs. As they have long been taught, the liver-destroying disease is caused by two distinct viruses, known as A and B. But many patients show no signs of having been exposed to either virus. Earlier this year scientists took a significant step toward solving the riddle of non-A, non-B hepatitis by moving on down the alphabet. They identified a third virus that produces hepatitis and called it type C. Last week researchers announced another milestone: the first effective therapy for hepatitis...
Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, two separate teams of scientists found that treatment with the drug interferon halted destruction of liver cells in about half the patients with chronic hepatitis. A total of 207 people were studied by the two teams, one led by investigators at the University of Florida, the other at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases...
Many of the people who contract hepatitis C never show symptoms. But like Typhoid Mary, they become silent carriers of the disease. About half those infected eventually suffer liver damage. Some 15,000 patients a year develop cirrhosis, and a small number may get cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...
Doctors in Chicago transplant part of a mother's liver to her daughter. Researchers discover a promising treatment for hepatitis...