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...they patiently waited for planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...
...visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif...
...Saud is supposed to be suffering from hypertension, a weak heart, a polyp in his digestive tract, asthma, and Allah knows what else. When eleven doctors converged at his bedside, things looked, from the outside at least, pretty grim. It turned out that Saud was complaining about his liver (his own remedy: banana puree in Chantilly cream with five scoops of ice cream for breakfast), and his blood, for which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors are there," he said, "not because the King...
...England Journal's warning covered reports from three topflight medical centers (Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian, Stanford University and the University of Michigan) of cases in which patients died after otherwise successful operations under halothane. Some autopsies showed the liver to have become a mass of dead tissue. Some patients who survived had liver disease for weeks or months...
Alerted U.S. anesthesiologists are planning to go right on using it, but cautiously. It probably should not be given twice within two or three months to the same patient. Physicians will watch, both before and after an operation, for signs of liver disorder. Stanford's Dr. John Bunker, one of a team reporting two deaths, says that "on the basis of what seems to be an almost infinitesimal number of complications from halothane, I don't think a moratorium on the drug is justifiable now." The Food and Drug Administration, still studying the reports, was inclined to agree...