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Shevlin suffers from chronic kidney disease, an incurable type that necessitated the removal of the organ. Now, in order to prevent a fatal buildup of toxins in his blood, he must report to the university hospital three times a week for kidney dialysis, a six-hour cleansing process that enables him to survive until he can get a kidney transplant. Since his illness wiped out his small savings, Shevlin lives on welfare payments of $178 a month, while the State of California pays for most of the cost of his treatments -which amounts to $3,000 a month...
Estes Kefauver was a good man but he did not have Adlai Stevenson's qualifications for the Presidency. He made a fatal mistake in ignoring the power brokers and convention delegates in favor of the people, but his impressive victories in Tennessee were evidence enough of political vitality, Gorman's account of his career is well researched but not well written; bland in style and only minimally concerned with the depth of Kefauver's personality. Albert Gore will have time to read this book (in Tennessee, not Washington) but not many others will make the effort...
...Angeles, and Gardner, of the U.S.C. School of Medicine, led the California team participating in the experiments. The National Cancer Institute also took part. The West Coast phase started in 1968 with the study of tissue from a seven-year-old girl suffering from rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare, generally fatal cancer that attacks the body's voluntary muscles. Though the child died, the doctors did manage to take a sample of her tissue and keep it growing in culture. Suspecting that these cancer cells contained viruses, the researchers tried to coax them out of the tissue with radiation, cancer-producing...
...Edward B. Hager, clinical instructor in Medicine, and Dr. Constantine L. Hampers, instructor in Medicine are the president and executive vice president, respectively, of National Medical Care, Inc. (NMC), a company designed to make a profit from the treatment of patients with fatal kidney diseases...
...down on his back and slashed him four times in the throat leaving the serrated knife buried deep within. He stabbed him four times in the abdomen into the colon, all fatal wounds. He bled to death, helped by the throw pillow with which Tex smothered his face to stop the screams...Not to be outdone. Katie took the carving fork and stabbed both bodies with it. Seven double punctures punctured here and there into the abdomen of Mr. LaBianca, till she left it embedded in his flesh near the navel to the bifur cation of the tines. Katie said...