Word: coughs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bring various other medical supplies: Pepto Bismol, Tylenol, cough syrup, etc. The prices at Harvard Square drug stores are outrageous, and when you come down with a mysterious freshman illness at two in the morning, they're not open...
...others. Says Henderson: "People who are ill with Ebola are not walking around. They are on their backs." Moreover, the virus is not all that easy to pass along. Unlike the most highly contagious illnesses-tuberculosis or influenza, for example, Ebola can't be transmitted with a sneeze or cough. It's more like AIDS; direct contact with a victim's blood or other body fluids appears to be the only way to catch the virus. And contact with someone who's bleeding from every body opening is likely to be shunned in any case...
Brooks, "sick of...poems that cough lightly," said she considers now to be "the time for...stiff or viscous poems." One can find "bigness in a little haiku," she said...
Advances on some fronts are marred by setbacks on others. Lower cholesterol levels and better emergency care have cut death rates from heart disease and stroke. But scourges thought conquered, such as tuberculosis and whooping cough, are showing new virulence as microbes outwit antibiotics. And we are almost powerless against new killers like the AIDS virus...
...would rejoin our conversation as he slowly faded to sleep--it mattered not what hour of day it was. The ever-present pall of cigarette smoke in the room portended that his sleep would only come in short bursts; and how fitful it would be, a loud, methodical hacking cough spoiling both his rest and my conscience. Could I not somehow find a way to stop him poisoning himself? The distillery-sized cup of gin or vodka on the table also contributed to my unease, of course, but what could...