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Toward the end of James Dickey's life, after his liver had sent in its formal resignation (in the form of alcoholic hepatitis), he quit drinking and--though a ruin of a man, hardly able to take 10 steps without collapsing into a chair--blossomed forth with an extraordinary intellectual...
Ronald Beamish, 69, visiting from England, went over to Chestnut and felt for a pulse; it was failing. "You'll be all right," he said. "You'll be all right." Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a heart surgeon in his former life...
When this fortified E. coli, which researchers dubbed the O157:H7 strain, takes hold in the body, it behaves savagely. Doctors believe the bacterial toxin first destroys blood vessels in the intestines, which accounts for the bloody diarrhea that is the signature symptom of the infection. The toxin then passes...
Why does lying on the back make such a difference? Researchers suspect the answer has more to do with physics than pathology. As anyone who has ever held one knows, babies are weak. But what you may not realize is just how weak their lungs, in particular, are. If by...
The Louisville doctors, of course, knew they would probably run into a buzz saw. Not so much over the surgery. That will be tedious and exacting, requiring the joining of dozens of nerves, blood vessels, tendons, muscles and bones, but it's the sort of delicate operation that hand surgeons...