Word: renals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems-religious, renal, linguistic-that so agonizing- divide India, Untouchability is perhaps the most massive. Reviled, for thousands of years, as a people whose ch contaminates, the Untouchables upied the absolute bottom of a solemnely which perfected the arts of soc elevation and degradation. Today, both men and women called Scheduled state by the government, called Hari- (children of God) by many follow- of Gandhi, called simply ex-Untouchables by Isaacs, are still at the bottom. There are 65 million of them-one Indian in seven...
...vitamin D does no harm. But in unpredictable cases, any excess over normal requirements causes unnatural calcium deposition in the fetus: its bones, especially the base of the skull, grow unusually dense, and chalky deposits narrow the aorta. Sometimes the aorta is narrowed around the origin of the renal arteries so that the kidneys are starved of blood and the affected baby suffers from extremely high blood pressure...
...victims of kidney disease who make headlines are those whose kidney breakdown is so bad that they need the most dramatic and resourceful treatment-the use of an artificial kidney, or, most daring of all, a kidney transplant. But in all the world probably no more than 300 renal-disease patients have had transplants. In the entire U.S., patients being kept alive with an artificial kidney number hardly more than...
...illness and death. Most patients recover, but each year in the U.S. 45,000 die of insufficient kidney function. Dr. E. Hugh Luckey, physician-in-chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, cited this somber statistic as introduction to a pair of hour-long seminars on renal diseases broadcast by New York's educational WNYC-TV Channel 31. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, the programs gave general practitioners and internists the latest word on diagnosis and treatment-much of it new knowledge gained since most of them got out of medical school...
...tieing off of irregular arterial vessels is likely to lead to infarction (destruction through lack of oxygenated blood) or atrophy (malfunction through an insufficient arterial blood supply of a segment of the kidney, proportional to the diameter of the artery involved, as there are no intra-renal capallary by-passes present in the organ...