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Herbert C. Hoover, President of the United States from 1929 to 1933, died yesterday morning at the age of 90. He had been in a coma in his Manhattan apartment since Saturday, when he suffered an internal hemorrhage...
...most healthy people, the disease is usually marked by nothing more than a bad headache and moderate fever. But in some victims, especially the very old and the very young, it has devastating effects: headache, stiff neck, high fever and vomiting. Some patients have convulsions and lapse into coma; a few of the survivors suffer crippling brain damage. On the average, SLE kills 10% of those it strikes. Despite more than 30 years of research, no satisfactory vaccine has yet been developed to immunize humans...
...because doctors are not on the alert for it. And even when they suspect it, it is hard to diagnose. Its symptoms are the same as those for which the patient was taking antacids-nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. In its later stages, alkalosis may bring on muscle spasms, fever, coma, and finally death...
...soon." Last week he had helicoptered back to Delhi from a four-day vacation in the cool hills surrounding Dehra Dun. He woke as usual at 6:30 a.m., but instead of performing his customary yoga exercises, complained of pains in his back. Within minutes, he collapsed in a coma from which he never recovered. At 2 p.m., he was dead. A Cabinet minister rose in Parliament and announced in a choked voice, "The Prime Minister is no more...
...boxer who won 17 heavyweight bouts in the U.S., lost five (including one each to Cassius Clay and Archie Moore); of brain injuries suffered when he was knocked out by San Francisco's Johnny Riggins in September 1962; in Mendoza, Argentina. Despite three craniotomies, Lavorante remained in a coma for 18 months, though nurses fed him meals, guided him through exercises, even trained him to comb his hair...