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...think it is an homage to Portnoy’s Complaint, where he masturbated into a piece of liver...
...notion that India's upstart pharmaceutical firms could be a threat to Goliaths such as Pfizer or Merck might sound as hard to swallow as cod-liver oil. India is the world's fourth largest drug producer by volume, but its fragmented industry of 20,000 companies is still stunted in terms of revenues. Last year, the total value of India's drug sales including exports came to $6.5 billion, less than the $8 billion Pfizer raked in from a single blockbuster product, its anticholesterol drug Lipitor...
...Organs In tests, the bioartificial kidney has saved lives. A mix of living and manufactured parts (a cartridge full of tiny plastic fibers bearing thousands of working kidney cells), the device is a temporary fix for patients awaiting a transplant (the cells die after a few weeks). A bioartificial liver is also in the works. Other possibilities: a bioartificial heart, lung and pancreas...
...days later, though, his liver failed, eventually leading to his death...
...days later, though, his liver failed, eventually leading to his death...