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...reactive protein, is a substance manufactured by the liver in response to the immune system's alarms. It can easily be picked up in the blood and provides a convenient measure of how inflamed the heart arteries may be. Ridker's team, which pioneered the study of CRP's role in heart disease, tracked the levels of both CRP and LDL ("bad" cholesterol) in nearly 28,000 women for eight years. They found that women with high levels of CRP were twice as likely to have heart disease as those with high LDL, and that many women who later suffered...
...practice helped feed one of Europe's greatest periods of intellectual fervor. Even though we were there to record the scandalized reactions of the crowd, many journalists spent the night craning to look at parts of ourselves that we had only pictured before in an abstract way. Is my liver really that big? And my brain that small? Could those two conditions possibly be related? I was fascinated by the corpse's gall bladder, an organ my doctor once threatened to remove, and which I had consequently associated only with pain and fear. Glistening, vibrantly colored and full of tiny...
...DIED. ROMAN TAM, 52, Hong Kong pop icon whose crooning formed the soundtrack to the city's entertainment golden age of the 1970s; of liver cancer; in Hong Kong. The flamboyant star took advantage of his mainstream popularity to shake up the city's conservative show business world, performing in drag and posing nude for a local magazine...
When he retired in 1997 upon being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, Malt was chief of gastroenterologist surgery, chief of the Nutritional Support Unit, and surgical chief of the Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Center...
While the current drugs available to treat VOD can cause severe bleeding, defibrotide—a single-stranded piece of DNA—can repair blood vessel damage on the surface of the liver without harsh side effects, according to the research team...