Meredith saves her father’s life on ‘Grey’s’

Just as Meredith and Derek were settling into married life (sort of), Meredith was shocked when Lexie brought in their father, Thatcher, who had a failing liver as a result of years of alcoholism. He was desperately in need of a transplant and didn't qualify for a donor liver because he hadn't been sober long enough. Only a personal donation would suffice, and — wouldn't you know it — only Meredith was a match.

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Q&A: What's the problem with taking Tylenol?

Anyone who’s ever popped a painkiller to tackle a tough headache or an aching back had to pause at the federal Food and Drug Administration’s latest warnings this week.

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Madoff aftermath cuts funds for the vulnerable

In the sweeping scope of the Bernard Madoff investment scandal, it’s just a little loss.

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Massive chemo dose targets cancerous liver

Bill Darker grinned as he headed into the operating room for a dramatic experiment: A super-high dose of chemotherapy dripped directly into his cancer-ridden liver, 10 times more than patients normally can tolerate.

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Doctors test latest attempt at artificial liver

There's help for failing kidneys and failing hearts. But there's no fix for a dying liver. Doctors are trying to change that at a few hospitals around the country, testing a machine packed with human liver cells as a last-ditch chance to survive sudden liver failure.

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High Tylenol Doses Linked to Liver Woes

Healthy adults taking maximum doses of Tylenol for two weeks had abnormal liver test results in a small study, researchers found, raising concerns that even recommended amounts of the popular painkiller might lead to liver damage.

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Poll. A couple of completely unrelated questions.

When I got my first wristwatch for Christmas in (I believe) 1969 I automatically put it on my left wrist with the face on the top of my wrist. I guess because that's how my dad wore his. However it wasn't long before I noticed that different people wear them differently.

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The study suggests youth taking certain types of anti-psychotic medications have three times the risk of developing abnormally high blood sugars or Type 2 diabetes and two times the risk of being overweight or obese.

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"I first took coke when I was 18 and at university.

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The human liver fluke, a freshwater parasite endemic to areas of Thailand, Japan, and Siberia, triggers human liver cancer by creating harmful cell mutations, encouraging tumor growth, and stopping normal cell death, according to a study released yesterday in the journal PLoS Pat …

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What's Wrong With Organ Meats?

When I was a child, the thought of eating liver was so gross. When I became an adult, I was able to put away childish things and began to eat liver. In the 30+ years since I have been eating it I have never once questioned it's palatability, until now.

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Antoine's liver seemed made to fit Billy. Mayo Clinic doctors couldn't tell Billy's wife the organ donor's name. But Karin Powell said they told her it was perfect for him.

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Kara Ventura, a nurse practitioner and transplant coordinator in New York, answered the call from Dr. Gadi Lalazar, in Hadassah's liver unit, about 3 a.m. on Thursday, July 16.

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JUST two cans of fizzy drink a day can cause severe long-term liver damage. Sugar-laden drinks have now been found to cause a condition normally the result of chronic alcohol abuse. In severe cases fatty liver disease can even lead to victims needing a transplant.

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The chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, who has been on a medical leave since January for treatment of what he called a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant two months ago at a hospital in Tennessee, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

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APPLE boss Steve Jobs was last night recovering well despite being forced to accept a transplanted liver that was badly designed and with limited scope for expensive upgrades.

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Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple for the past six months, received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

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"The moderate drinkers tend to do everything right — they exercise, they don't smoke, they eat right and they drink moderately," said Kaye Middleton Fillmore, a retired sociologist from the University of California, San Francisco, who has criticized the research.

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A number of foods, especially liver, shellfish, nuts, avocados and mushrooms, contain abundant amounts of copper. When you eat copper-containing foods, the copper is absorbed by your small intestine, bound to circulating proteins in your blood and delivered to your liver.

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Food and Drug Administration officials said on Friday the manufacturer of Hydroxycut has launched a recall of the dietary supplmenent, used by people trying to shed kilograms, and by bodybuilders to sharpen their muscles.

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Sugar, the nutritional pariah that dentists and dietitians have long reviled, is enjoying a second act, dressed up as a natural, healthful ingredient.

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Excerpt: Like any parents, they would give anything to help their daughter. But little Jasmine Mirza's mother and father have given her more than most - she is the first child in Britain to receive living organ transplants from both parents.

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Excerpt: THREE-YEAR-OLD Mehul Kumar is lucky to be alive after being speared through the torso with a 3-foot (1 metre) iron rod. The boy, from Jharkand, India, was rushed to the hospital after he impaled himself falling off a terrace and onto a rod last week.

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Encouraging findings show that omega-3 fats may help protect the liver from obesity-related damage, which may otherwise lead to diabetes.

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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.

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Excerpt: Artie Lange is back on the Howard Stern Show again.

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Excerpt: The Howard Stern Show returned after a two-week vacation without comedian Artie Lange yet again.

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Excerpt: (NaturalNews) The current mainstream model of human health tells us that we are predestined to encounter certain illnesses, and that our weight is largely down to genes.

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(Nov 27) - A baby girl in India is fighting for her life after she was born with her heart and part of her liver growing outside her body, Reuters reports.Surgeons at the north Bengal medical college, located near Siliguri, India, are working to move the newborn's organs into the …

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Researchers reveal patients low on list get worse organs and face lower survival rates.

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The main ingredient in most liquid soaps lining store shelves is triclosan, a pesticide that kills bacteria. Turns out you just need to banish germs from your hands, not kill them.

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