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...days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, a surgical mentor to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, pressed on as others were giving up. With an impressive Stanford University team, he found ways to use smaller doses of toxic antirejection drugs; was an early proponent of a safer alternative, cyclosporine; and dramatically improved transplant survival rates...
...Fight” is the work of a haunted man. America’s increasing militarism, the toxic synergy between industry and the Armed Forces, and the specter of Dwight D. Eisenhower have spooked filmmaker Eugene Jarecki into producing yet another documentary about America’s abuses of power domestically and abroad...
...decommissioned 26,000-ton giant - stripped of guns and under an assumed name - was stalled on what the French had hoped would be its last journey, bound for the world's biggest shipbreaking yards on the beaches of Alang in western India. The ship, which is riddled with potentially toxic asbestos and has already been rejected by Greece and Turkey, made no headway for several days as French authorities battled Egyptian efforts to hinder its passage through the Suez Canal. It finally started sailing again late last week, but it is by no means certain that the Indians will ever...
...family of five seated in the back row and ask them to tip it on into the restroom? What I most certainly did not expect was that, in the wake of our exchange, said attendant would become so anxious about what precisely I would do with my toxic cargo that I would be given permission to leave my seat and take the bag to the back myself...
...toxic are the drugs? Patients in both groups lost their hair and were at risk of developing fatal infections as well as nerve and kidney damage. The intra-abdominal-therapy patients became sicker midway through treatment and felt worse for as long as a year afterward. But even those who could tolerate the therapy for only a short time derived some benefit...