Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosen, 44, needs all this food -enough to feed a family of eight-as a result of treatment for a mysterious and frustrating intestinal disorder, Crohn's disease. A chronic inflammation of the bowel, Crohn's afflicts an estimated 1 million Americans, including 100,000 children. It goes by a variety of other names, including regional enteritis, ileitis and granulomatous colitis, depending on which part of the intestinal tract is affected. Repeated flare-ups can totally block the intestine. Fistulas or abnormal passages may develop in the inflamed bowel and lead into adjacent organs. In some instances...
...Addison's disease," but the public was told that he had "a partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After he was felled by a heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing daily bulletins that went so far as to describe presidential bowel movements. Lyndon Johnson was generous with details of his 1965 gall bladder operation-and, as a now-famous photograph attests, he even showed off his scar for the nation...