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- <text id=89TT0975>
- <title>
- Apr. 10, 1989: Recovering:Barbara Bush
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 10, 1989 The New USSR
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 35
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- <body>
- <p> RECOVERING. Barbara Bush, 63, First Lady, from Graves'
- disease, a thyroid ailment; in Washington. The disorder, which
- has caused the President's wife to lose 18 lbs. and suffer from
- swollen eyes, results when an overactive thyroid gland produces
- an excess of hormones. The White House said Mrs. Bush will
- continue to treat her condition with a drug that blocks output
- of thyroid hormones.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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