Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree on the health benefits of regular, moderate exercise, no one is sure of the physiological mechanisms involved. It may be that exercise increases coronary blood flow, decreases clotting or both, which would limit the blood-vessel blockages that cause cardiovascular problems. And some scientists speculate that exercise increases bowel motility, a factor in avoiding colon cancer. Those questions may be answered in part by the next phase of the investigation, which is expected to include more than 40,000 people. Such speculations are literally academic, though. For the average man or woman, the message is clear: get moving...
...levamisole, a medication commonly used by veterinarians to clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies were some 1,700 cancer patients, most of whom had been operated on for Dukes' C colon cancer. In this stage of the cancer, the tumor has penetrated the bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month's Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that 49% of patients receiving the treatment were still alive after five years, in contrast to 37% of another group that...
...question that transforms Richard Goodwin's account of the 1960s, Remembering America, from an eloquent narrative into a bizarre romp around the psychoanalyst's couch. After beginning with a fascinating account of the Charles Van Doren quiz show scandals, Goodwin winds up with elaborate discussions of LBJ's bowel movements. The result is both controversial and trivial, leaving Goodwin to contemplate rising book sales and a sinking reputation...
...would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish...
Those tidings are particularly welcome to the elderly. About 13% of all people over 65 have urinary incontinence, and twice as many women as men are affected, according to preliminary findings of a Harvard Medical School study. (No similar study exists on loss of bowel control, though estimates suggest the figure is far lower.) Nursing homes spend $8 billion a year to cope with the bladder problem, reports Gerontologist Neil Resnick of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, "more than is spent on the general population for dialysis and coronary-bypass surgery combined." Many younger people are victims, including children with...