Word: spinal
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...dialysis and coronary-bypass surgery combined." Many younger people are victims, including children with persistent bed-wetting trouble. Incontinence, which can range from slight leakage to total absence of control, can be caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis and cancer, as well as by damage to the spinal cord, congenital defects, an enlarged prostate or a weakened sphincter muscle around the opening of the bladder. In the last case, any sort of physical stress -- jogging, jumping, even sneezing or laughing -- can trigger an accident...
...This is Spinal...
Unlike alpha interferon, AZT can pass through the blood-brain barrier and counteract HTLV-III viruses that have invaded the brain. This may be vital to any successful anti-viral substance that is developed, Hirsch says, because otherwise the virus will simply sequester itself in the brain, the spinal cord, and the peripheral nerves. However, he says that alpha interferon--which is known to be useful in combatting some AIDS-related cancers--may prove valuable in combination with other anti-viral drugs. "[AZT] may turn out to be more useful," he says, "although I don't think we should jump...
...list, "sections" fits in just one notch above "spinal taps...
...give up. A ninth-generation descendant of a founding family of South Carolina, Barbara Biffinger Pfeiffer Pinckney of Savannah was born with a silver spoon in her mouth; she was also born needing steel braces on her legs for seven years to correct badly turned-in feet and a spinal deformity. "Restless and bored" with the schools and rules that came with her heritage, she eventually quit college and at 21 left the U.S. for what became eleven years in Europe, Africa and Asia with little more than the 65-lb. rucksack she carried on her back...