Word: stomachics
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...infectious disease? In some cases the answer is at least partly yes. Viruses are thought to play a role in liver and uterine cancer and some forms of lymphoma. Now comes the news that bacteria may actually be a major culprit in the world's second most common malignancy: stomach cancer, which afflicts an estimated 700,000 a year worldwide...
...separate studies of 130,000 and 6,000 people, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Stanford and Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu found that people infected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were three to six times as likely to develop stomach cancer over a 20-year period as those who were not infected. "This is not just a little risk we're talking about," says Stanford's Julie Parsonnet, though she points out that not everyone infected with the bacterium develops cancer. Indeed, the bug, which may enter the body through dirty water or human contact...
...even not being able to find any job at all within the Reagan Administration if she continued to resist Thomas' alleged overtures. At one point, she said, the stress she experienced from the tension of her relationship with Thomas caused her to be hospitalized for five days with acute stomach pains...
...been there. When she was 13, she directed a short "tone poem," Hands of Time, a series of shots of hands that depict life from cradle to old age: a baby, a couple getting married, a man cocking a rifle, a man's hand on a pregnant woman's stomach, and an old man holding hands with a little kid. In one day, she had to write the treatment for it, select the cast, direct the crew, and decide on the editing order. Foster remembers the film as "lyrical, very pretty...
...yielded a trove of detail. He was a 20- to 40-year-old man, about 160 cm (5 ft. 3 in.) tall, with tattoos in the shape of crosses and lines. The wear on his teeth suggests a diet of meat and stone-ground meal. (An analysis of his stomach contents may yield more information about his eating habits.) Well equipped for an Alpine trip, he wore a jacket of tanned leather stitched together with fine thongs. His leather boots were lined with hay to keep out the winter chill...