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...year later came the diagnosis of TBM, defined as a weakness of the tracheal and bronchial walls due to softening of the supporting cartilage. In other words, Amya’s windpipe is especially susceptible to collapse...
Five years after his father's death, when Wyeth was 33, some bloodstains on his pillow led him to the discovery that he was suffering from bronchiectasis, a disease of the bronchial tubes of one lung. They were removed in an operation so drastic that his chest had to be opened from top to bottom, slashing his shoulder muscles so that he thought he might never be able to paint again. While convalescing, he painted The Trodden Weed, with his arm suspended in a sling from the ceiling. The boots that flatten the weed once belonged to Howard Pyle...
...basis of a statistical analysis of 19 trials involving some 35,000 patients, researchers believe that 4,000 of these deaths are actually being triggered by two drugs found in inhalers sold under the names Serevent, Advair and Foradil. The drugs relieve symptoms but can, without warning, increase dangerous bronchial inflammation. Asthma, on the rise since the 1980s, afflicts more than 20 million Americans...
...individual visits, calls and messages through envoys had failed. To keep their mission secret, they waited until well after dark Saturday to take off from Liverpool, where Straw had been showing Rice around his constituency. They used Rice?s 757 and, knowing that Straw was suffering from a lingering bronchial infection, she insisted he sleep on the pull-out bed in her cabin. To his embarrassment, Straw learned only the next morning that Rice had slept on the floor by the galley...
...Norway's other great alpine skier, 31-year-old Lasse Kjus. He won his first Olympic medal at Lillehammer and has two overall World Cup championships as well as a total of 15 Olympic and world championship medals. Despite struggling for the past few years with chronic sinus and bronchial problems, Kjus came to Salt Lake City expecting to win medals. In the men's downhill he made silver and won bronze in the giant slalom...