Word: livers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second time in as many weeks, the FDA is recalling a drug. This time it's the painkiller Duract, pulled from pharmacy shelves for causing serious liver damage and even death. Don't despair. Doctors can still prescribe nearly 20 similar- and safer-alternatives...
DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment...
...torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just happen," he says, and explains that as collagen, the matrix of supportive tissue under our surfaces becomes brittle, skin wrinkles and veins shoot off in odd directions. While flaking skin, itching, red spots and sun spots--sometimes called liver spots--are an inevitable part of aging, especially among light-skinned Caucasians, skin cancer is not. People who baked away on a beach during their youth are most prone to skin cancers 20 years later. "The sun can do them in," Tomecki notes. Warning signs are new hard bumps on the skin...
...last week approved a combination of potent antiviral drugs for chronic hepatitis C, the deadly liver disease that afflicts 4 million Americans. The therapy is six months of interferon injections plus oral doses of the drug ribavirin.There are serious side effects, such as birth defects, but the treatment reduces the hepatitis virus to undetectable levels in 45% of patients, vs. only 5% of those on standard therapy...
Well, maybe not. For one thing, it would cost more than $1,000 a year. And the drug has potentially serious side effects, including possible liver and muscle damage, both of which could be aggravated the longer I take the stuff. Neither factor would necessarily outweigh lovastatin's benefits. But consider this: while lovastatin reduced "acute major coronary events" more than a third, 90% of those in the placebo group didn't develop such major heart problems either...