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...recipient of the transplant surgery, which took place in June, is Claudia Lorena Castillo Sánchez, a 30-year-old Colombian mother of two who lives in Barcelona. A cough she developed in 2004 was later diagnosed as tuberculosis, and by March of this year, her condition worsened to the point where one bronchus - the extension of the trachea that connects to the lung itself - was blocked. The only possible conventional treatment was to remove one of her lungs, a procedure that would have dramatically impaired her quality of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spain, a Transplant That Rules Out Rejection | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...injury to me. He was in Sadr City, in an uncovered truck, when a bullet entered his shoulder from above. How it didn't hit a major artery, I'll never know. And now Tomas is paralyzed from the nipples down. Tomas can't walk. Tomas can't cough. Tomas throws up every morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Donahue | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...Change some of the details above and you could have the Chinese Product Safety Scandal of 2007. That round was touched off when the death of more than 100 Panamanians was traced back to cough medicine tainted with dietheylene glycol from China. Then hundreds of pets in North America were killed by eating food made from Chinese raw ingredients, also tainted with melamine. As last year's scandal spread, problems were found with Chinese-produced toys, tires, seafood and toothpaste. Even as the Beijing took extreme steps to solve the problem, such as executing Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Melamine Woes Likely to Get Worse | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...food scandals, the response was narrowly focused on the exposed cases. The country's top watchdog revoked the business licenses for two companies that produced adulterated wheat gluten blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America and another that shipped the diethylene glycol used in cough medicine that killed more than 100 Panamanians."While China's State Council announced new rules for stricter controls on food producers and tougher punishments for violators, poor oversight allowed producers to adulterate dairy products and animal feed with melamine until the latest scandal broke in September. And that means that after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Melamine Woes Likely to Get Worse | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...think that we’re providing a complicated but useful and low cost data set,” Church said, adding that genetic information is also available on many of the PGP-10’s traits, including everything from height to a tendency to cough often...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof's Personal Genome Project Reveals DNA Secrets | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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