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Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who helped found the creative nonfiction style known as New Journalism, died of acute renal failure on Saturday...
...Natural remedies: They are not uniformly benign. Renal failure, seizures and bleeding disorders are a few of the known side effects of pills you can buy in health food stores. Socrates, we recall, was killed by an all-natural drink...
...hundred years ago or so this saying was true: "Who knows lues (or syphilis) knows medicine." That venereal disease, which most docs today have never once treated, was known as the great imitator - it could present itself as a fracture, a brain tumor, consumption (like TB), back pain or renal failure. By the 50s, 60s and 70s, American medicine had to deal with strong doses of ethyl alcohol, and the spectrum of alcohol-related diseases was nearly as broad as syphillis'. The stumble-bum from New York's Bowery was easy to see. The huge vascular operations...
...Here pumping the chest, inflating the lungs, filling the blood vessels and starting the heart were the immediate and technically demanding needs. It was only when the medicine was unknown to us or very complex - renal failure cases, rare diseases or cancer patients on weird experimental chemo - that we looked to the medical residents for help...
WILLIAM SHATNER has always given of himself to the people--but never something quite this close to his heart. The Boston Legal star sold his kidney stone for $25,000 to raise money for the charity Habitat for Humanity. Captain Kirk's renal calculus was snapped up by online casino Goldenpalace.com which added the specimen to its collection of oddities, including a partially eaten sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary. "This is a bold new addition to our fleet," said the casino's CEO, evidently a longtime Trekkie. Shatner says his stone is no mere lump...