Word: coughing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...purer vaccine against whooping cough has been shown to be just as effective--or even more so--as the current available vaccine in preventing the disease in infants. It also causes fewer of the troubling side effects, such as high fever, local inflammation and lethargy...
Grancio had some key steals from Foyle and also caused Foyle to cough up the ball on numerous occasions. Foyle, who averages 24.3 points a game and rarely fouls out, only had 15 points and fouled out with two minutes left in the game thanks to Grancio's smothering defensive pressure...
...help them up. Gerald Barba, 39, a peacetime Navy veteran who broke his neck in a swimming accident, praises the dedication of the staff at the VA Hospital in the Bronx, New York, but says they are shorthanded. "Sometimes when I need to have my lungs suctioned--I cannot cough--no one comes until I'm bubbling over, gargling for breath." Winsick confirms that in Long Beach, staff and services are being "nibbled away all the time.'' A diabetic who usually sees a podiatrist once a month, Winsick says none has been available for several months...
...annoyances remain. An assistant manager seemed vaguely huffy when Martinez asked for help finding cough drops. The clerk assigned to the task was polite but, Martinez confided, "sometimes they just take my [walking] stick and pull me along...
...insurance live in families with full-time workers. A single illness or injury will plunge a family into crisis. Often health-care concerns override all others in determining whether someone stays on welfare or goes to work. Being poor means making choices: the phone bill or the gas bill? Cough medicine or snow boots? In hard times, health insurance is a luxury; you can't eat peace of mind. So when Briana Harris, 17, fractured her leg sliding into home in a softball game last month, her parents' pain was as real as hers. "We're going to be faced...