Word: esophagus
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...also central to the Baby Doe ruling. Baby Doe ws an infant boy born in 1982 suffering from Down's syndrome, a congenital condition characterized by mental retardation. An Indiana hospital let him starve to death after his parents decided to forgo surgery to remove an obstruction in his esophagus. Profoundly upset by the news, President Reagan ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent all further instances of calculated neglect. In 1983 the department proposed a set of controversial regulations requiring child-protection agencies to police federally assisted hospitals and examine medical records to prevent willful neglect...
...which corn is force-fed to farm-raised ducks through a funnel down their throats. Some argue that gavage is inhumane, while others counter that the physiology of a duck is not the same as a human. "It seems terrible if you don't know that a duck's esophagus is lined with a very thick cuticle, if you don't realize that baby ducks are fed by their mother pushing her beak down the baby's throat," says Ariane Daguin, owner of D'Artagnan, the largest foie gras purveyor in the U.S. Recent studies by Dr. Daniel...
Goldman is an international leader in the field of anatomic pathology, specializing in gastrointestinal diseases of the stomach, colon, and esophagus...
...number of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis. Ordinary obesity--weighing at least 20% more than you should--correlates with milder forms of these diseases as well as with increased incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and cancer of the uterus, colon, kidney and esophagus. But what is normal, and how much should you weigh...
...indeed. The news from last week's ASCO meeting reassured me that I made the right decision when I rejoined the Celebrex study. Joining the trial in the first place seemed utterly logical--I had cancer of the esophagus, and I was going to go after every advantage I could. My surgeon, Dr. Nasser Altorki, chief of thoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, is both a top esophageal specialist and a researcher. He has been investigating--along with my oncologist, Dr. Roger Keresztes, also at Weill--whether COX-2 inhibitors have a role in making...