Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brigham doctors were well aware that pregnancy is notoriously hard on a normal woman's paired kidneys. Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become...
...bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that are bafflingly similar to those of other illnesses: bellyache, nausea, vomiting and either diarrhea or constipation. At different stages come irritability, lethargy, rigidity, convulsions and coma leading to death...
...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...dressing room afterward, Moore told reporters: "I'd like to fight Ramos again." Then he seemed to fall asleep. He arrived at the hospital in a deep coma. Doctors diagnosed "severe contusions to the brain stem," listed his chances of survival "extremely poor...
...Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What the Landau case did, they conceded, was to undermine such arguments as the one propounded in last week's London medical journal Lancet, that doctors should not seek to prolong the lives of braindamaged patients in "irrevocable comas." By previously accepted standards, Landau had been in such a coma for months...