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...Conan & Co. are preparing comedy bits with names like "Raw Liver," "The Hunt" and "Tweeter." Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen's old E-Street Band, is expected to lead the show's resident combo. O'Brien's wish list of guests includes Larry Bird, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Get Smart's Don Adams and biographer Robert Caro. But the star will be Conan, and the sizable shadow will be Dave's. "He did ; something innovative in the 12:30 time slot," O'Brien says. "And I'm inheriting this legacy. So I feel a responsibility both...
...Hospital in Philadelphia. As tears began to well, the Lakebergs made plaster imprints of the tiny hands of their daughters Amy and Angela, then picked them up and hugged and kissed them. Born seven weeks ago, the girls were Siamese twins, joined breast to belly, with a fused liver and a shared heart. As they cuddled the girls, Reitha, 24, and Ken, 26, knew that they would not see Amy, "the ornery one," alive again. Her fingernails had been left bare while her sister's had been painted pink by nurses to help doctors easily distinguish the girls. For surgeons...
...participants in a clinical trial of the drug fialuridine, a new treatment for chronic hepatitis B, suffered from a bad reaction to the drug and died of liver failure. Nine others remain hospitalized. Eli Lilly, fialuridine's American manufacturer, quickly stopped all tests in late June, after the 11 patients started showing dangerous symptoms...
...advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that heavy drinkers should not take excessive amounts of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and similar painkillers. Acetaminophen is already known to cause liver damage in very large doses; since alcohol also puts a strain on the liver, the combination can be dangerous. The panel wants the FDA to put warning labels on the medicine bottles...
...addressing more than one issue at a time and hence going terminally "out of focus." Now they're saying he succumbed to that rare disease, virtually unknown among recent Presidents -- the deadly "lurch to the left." Look at the bleeding heart, the conservative coroners are saying; the yellowish liver, the jerky knee. Maybe poor Bill spent too much time holed up in the White House with Hillary...