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...drank heavily in his prime and still enjoys a nightly whiskey or two at 74. India's leader takes painkillers for his knees (which were replaced due to arthritis) and has trouble with his bladder, liver and his one remaining kidney. A taste for fried food and fatty sweets plays havoc with his cholesterol. He takes a three-hour snooze every afternoon on doctor's orders and is given to interminable silences, indecipherable ramblings and, not infrequently, falling asleep in meetings...
Moore led the way in the development of organ transplantation and heart surgery methods, heading the team that performed the first organ transplant in 1954—transferring a kidney between identical twins...
...Muslim." Qureishi's accusations are hard to deny: even hardened nationalists admit that an overwhelming body of anecdotal evidence and witness reports point to state complicity, and even involvement, in the anti-Muslim pogrom. Hamid was simply another victim, says Qureishi, shot by a policeman in the right kidney April 23 while standing in the doorway of his family home. Up a narrow alleyway a few meters away, Qureishi points to the quiet flagstone courtyard where on the same day she found Yusuf Khan, father of four, beaten unconscious with steel pipes. She carried him to an ambulance...
...bending of rigid shapes lends their models a palpable warmth, as realized in their Maria Colonel apartment block designed in the mid-1970s in Seville. The outer structure is angular and somewhat abrasive, but the courtyard within is organic and comforting, having been constructed in the shape of a kidney or an artist’s palette...
Vieweg, who is attempting to develop vaccines for prostate and kidney cancer using a patient's own white blood cells, is acutely aware of the heartbreaking dilemma posed by clinical trials. "We make it clear that we cannot promise cures. We make it clear that there is the possibility of adverse effects. We tell them the benefit is probably to the next generation of patients. And yet we know these patients are clinging to the hope that this will have an impact on their tumor." How can they...