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...Soulé's Le Pavilion, followed by Joe Kennedy's favorite, La Caravelle. But the man from the Times has a taste that is nothing if not eclectic. He is always on the lookout for a good bowl of chili or a tasty batch of delicatessen chopped liver. And, for his money, the Chock Full O' Nuts sandwich chain rates high indeed-although he reports sadly that during the past two years its frankfurters have gone into a decline...
Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance-the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to aid in the long and complex process of digestion. In the young, the gall bladder usually stays healthy and does its job quietly and uncomplainingly. By the time a man reaches his middle forties, his gall bladder becomes increasingly subject to infection (cholecystitis) or filling up with gallstones (cholelithiasis), or both...
...gall bladder. A second set of X rays, forwarded to the President's longtime friend and personal physician, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, gave added evidence that the gall bladder contained stones. Since some bile always passes directly through the common duct from the liver to the duodenum, and the duct seems able to develop some storage capacity of its own, man can live without his gall bladder. Thus surgery to remove the offending organ (cholecystectomy), far from being a desperate last resort was the doctors' first choice...
...Hoagland's hunch seemed to pay off. Methylphenidate not only roused would-be suicides from their comas, but it was also effective for patients suffering from coma resulting from brain damage and liver failure. For the first time, such patients were able to swallow food and medication, cough up sputum and mucus, thus avoiding one of coma's worst complications, suffocation...
...recent years, doctors began to agree that this kind of adult diabetes did not result from any failure of the pancreas to produce insulin. They speculated that insulin, although produced in the right amount, was destroyed somewhere in the body, perhaps in the liver. Now they know better. Latest findings about diabetes, confirmed independently by Stanford University's Dr. Gerald Reaven and the University of Michigan's Dr. Lawrence Power, show that the level of insulin, or at least of what they cautiously call "insulin-like activity," is actually higher in the blood of obese adult diabetics than...